Conference Day One: Monday 26th January 2009

09:00 Opening Remarks From Chairman:

Brigadier (R’td) Charlie Hobson
Former Director of Equipment Capability for Expeditionary Logistics and Support Operations
Ministry of Defence UK

09:10 Transformation Of Military Logistics - Challenges & Response

• Principal factors/change agents/ defining need for change in the character of military logistics
• Underpinning factors of the changing face of logistics
• Meeting the challenges
• Future plans

Major General Ulfat Hussain
Director General Supplies and Transport
Pakistan Army

09:50 Logistics Leadership: The Power Of The Past And The Game Plan Of Future Skirmishes And Engagements

• Soldier's mission critical training for logistics and leadership
• Transforming the fighting force into a strategic tool of war
• Effective use of resources in the theatre of war under TWIMP (Transport + Warehousing Inventory + IT + Material Handling and Packaging, Marking and Labeling)
• Learning means education and deployment of skills indicates less of teaching
• Wars are won in supply provisioning of right material at the right time
• Logistics and outsourcing: Agility case of managing food logistics

Prof Philbert Suresh
Faculty - Business Administration and Founder
GUST Logistics Forum

10:30 Officers Exchange: Exclusive One-To-One Networking

11:30 Steering Logistics Transformation To Achieve The Best Logistics Effect

• Executing Collective Responsibility for better logistics effects
• Enhancing the visibility of logistics requirements, processes and resources to better support the deployed commander
• Considering multinational logistics capabilities development as a complement to national capabilities

Bruno Cantin
Head of Defence Planning and Policy
NATO HQ

12:10 Exclusive KBR Session: Defence Logistics Challenges And Solutions

• Logistics Transformation - the skills required
• Ways to reduce the burden on expeditionary operations
• Reducing the whole-life cost of equipment support

Major General (Retired) Andrew Pringle
Vice President EMEA
Government and infrastructure, KBR

14:00 In Search Of Whole Of Life System Optimisation Within A System-Ofsystems Architecture For Defence Logistics: Latest Insights And Emerging Perspectives

• A detailed examination of emerging trends and perspectives on integrating legacy systems and the critical importance of LSI performance
• Common challenges to integration and the modular ‘plug-and-play’ architecture
• Shifts in thinking about contractual models: Whole of life models, life-cycle base, and changing the client-contractor-subcontractor relationships
• Impact of the DoD System-of-Systems guide on capability, projects and ILS

Professor David Dombkins
Deputy Chair
College of Complex Project Managers

14:40 Optimising Performance In Logistics And Supply Chains Through Real-Time Optimisation Technology

• A survey of recent advances in real-time optimisation technology for resource planning and scheduling
• The application of real-time optimisation technologies to a variety of large-scale military logistics and supply chain problems

Professor Lau Hoong Chuin
School of Information Systems
Singapore Management University

15:50 Performance Based Logistics (PBL) And Sustainment

• End-to-End supply chain improvement requires collaboration among stakeholders
• An integrated set of outcome-based performance metrics streamlines cross-organizational supply chain initiatives
• The challenge to military supply chains is “operationalizing” the logistics of Precision and Reliability through integration and unity, while maintaining and improving performance levels in a resourceconstrained environment

Michael E. Finley
Rear Admiral USN (retired), Partner
PRTM Aerospace and Defense

16:00 The Supply Chain Optimized: Operating In A Contingency Environment

This presentation discusses adaption of logistics peacetime operations principles and their application to contingency environments. Going through important themes Value, Readiness, Execution, and Innovative Solutions, Agility has put best practices to work with our customers to enhance their wartime Flexibility and Adaptability.

Tarek Al Mousa
Executive Regional Director
Agility Defense and Government Services

16:40 End Of Conference Day One

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