1. business and industrial
2. business operations
3. management
4. supply chain management

Programme
(NB - dates and venues may be subject to change)
Sunday 31 May
from 12:00
Registration is open and attendees are warmly invited to collect all documents and materials for the conference ahead. Come and meet the Upavon and SAPICS teams who will be your point of reference for all enquiries throughout the conference. For those
delegates not able to arrive before 19:00 don't worry! Registration will be open again on Monday morning from 07:00 - plenty of time to do the admin then! However, all delegates wanting to attend a workshop on this afternoon or the Africa Cafe must be
sure to register and re-confirm your place on the workshop of your choice before 14:00 - please don't be late for the workshops or your place may be in jeopardy!
Workshop 1 - Supply Chain
Leadership – the key to
operational excellence
Joe Walden CPIM, CFPIM,
Lecturer at University of Kansas,
USA
Workshop 2 - Overcoming
infrastructure challenges in supply
chains in Africa
Beverley Kujawa-Waugh Associate
Professor in Supply Chain
Management, University of South
Africa, RSA
Hannie Badenhorst-Weiss Professor
in the Department of Business
Management, University of South
Africa, RSA
Workshop 3 - Career Clinic :
Assessing the Vitals of your Supply
Chain Career
Chantal Kading, Managing Director
at The People Shop, RSA
Workshop 4 - Reverse the Virus
Outbreak!
Derek Rynhoud CDDP, Technical
Consultant at Pathfinder Logistic
Solutions, RSA
Vincent van der Riet, Technical
Director at Pathfinder Logistic
Solutions, RSA
Workshop 5 - Supply Chain
Analytics for the Discrete &
Process Industries
David Hinchman CPIM,
Manager JD-QPS & Order
Fulfillment Integration John
Deere & Co, USA
Alan Milliken CPIM, CIRM,
CFPIM, CSCP, CPF, CSOP,
Senior Manager Supply
Chain Capability at BASF,
USA
Workshop 6 - The Need for
Leadership – it’s not so new but
it is so true
David Manning, Senior Partner
at Delos Partnership Limited, UK
Workshop 7 - Mindfulness to
becoming a Successful Supply Chain
Manager
Brian Atwater PhD, CPIM, Jonah,
Professor of Operations
Management, Indiana University
Southeast, USA and Paul Pittman
CFPIM, CSCP, APICS Master
Instructor, Jonah, PhD, Professor of
Operations Management, USA
Workshop 8 - Overcoming the 10
major problems of ERP
Keith Launchbury CFPIM, CIRM,
CSCP, President of Keith Launchbury
and Associates, USA
Workshop 9 - Advancing
Strategic Sourcing: Local,
Regional or Global Sourcing
Charlie Villaseñor CSCP,
Chairman and CEO at
Procurement and Supply
Institute of Asia, Phillipines
Workshop 10 - Dude,
where’s my stuff?
…..because using open,
global standards are now
table stakes for survival in
supply chains!
Gary Hartley, General
Manager Sector
Development at GS1 New
Zealand Inc., New Zealand
14:00 - 17:30
How RISK could ‘Flatline’ the Pulse of your Supply Chain - The Africa Café – Inspired by the globally successful APICS World Café. A highly interactive discussion group
15:00 - 17:30 session - Supply Chain Risk is a hidden liability for many organisations. These days asking a seemingly casual question such as “How’s the weather?” can have more worrying
connotations. Many companies are having to take measures to anticipate potential natural disasters. It’s not just natural disaster affecting businesses, supplier and service
Is this your first SAPICS Conference? If so then this session is a must. Join experienced and committed SAPICS conference attendees who have attended many
conferences over the years. They will explain to you how to get the best from your experience over the next two days. Learn the tricks of maximising your attendance,
17:30 - 18:00 how to plan and how to network to maximum benefit. It's a valuable half hour session which you wont regret. The best part of all is that you get to meet other first
time attendees right from the outset so you will have people to share your conference experience with!
Celebrate the opening of the 2015 exhibition at SAPICS 2015! The varied and many exhibitors have gone to tremendous efforts to ensure that their exhibition stand will entice you to find out more about their products and services. Don't disappoint them
18:00 - 20:30 and maximise the opportunity to network and learn. While doing so you will be offered a satisfying evening meal accompanied by complimentary drinks (local and selected wines, beers and soft drinks). The combination of good food, good company and
entertainment will guarantee and evening you will enjoy. The evening ends at a reasonable hour to ensure you get a good night's rest in preparation for hard work ahead!
For full programme details please click on each presentation in the table. All other conference detail, including the speaker information can be found
on the SAPICS 2015 Conference Website at www.conference.sapics.org or telephone +27 11 (0) 23 6701
Monday 1 June
07:00
Registration is open for those people unable to attend Sunday to collect their conference documentation before the start of 2 days of hard w
Ballroom North
Ballroom South
Pilanesberg B
Pilanesberg A
Eland
Leopard
Lynx
Eagle
08:00 - 08:15 Official Conference Opening by the SAPICS President
BEYOND THE NOISE: The Unfolding South African Political Landscape
08:15 - 09:05 2015 – 2025 - Justice Malala, Award-winning journalist, television host,
political commentator and columnist, RSA
09:10 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
Building your Personal Brand Equity - Temitope Ogunfayo, CPIM,
The Power of Decoupling - Chad
Supply Network Operations Group Manager at Procter & Gamble Egypt Smith CDDP, Partner at Demand
Driven Institute, USA
Overcoming the Catch 22 of
S&OP Implementation - Joe
Shedlawski, S&OP Coach,
R.A.Stahl Company, USA
If you are not able to attend the Sunday evening networking event in the Superbowl now is your chance to meet up with everyone in one place at the same time! Mingle with fellow conference goers, catch up on what you might have missed the day before
hand or in previous sessions. Interact with the exhibitors and be sure to enter the exciting competitions that these committed organisations have put together for your delight!
Transforming Big Data into
Supply Chain Analytics - Alan
Milliken CPIM, CIRM, CFPIM,
CSCP, CPF, Senior. Manager.
Supply Chain Capability
10:30 - 11:20
Development at BASF, USA
Buying into Competitiveness for
SMEs: A case study from the United
Nations/World Trade Organization –
International Trade Centre on an
effective Modular Learning System
in Supply Chain Management Charlie Villaseñor CSCP, Chairman
and CEO at Procurement and Supply
Institute Asia, Phillipines
Culture Eats Strategy … and
How to Deal with It - Steven
Melnyk CSCP, CFPIM, Ph.D,
Professor of Operations and
11:30 - 12:20 Supply Chain Management at
Michigan State University, USA
Demand Driven MRP in action – An
inside look at 3 Case Studies - Erik
Bush CDDP, Chief Executive Officer,
Programme Director at Demand
Driven Technologies, USA
S&OP/IBP – The power of an
organization that beats with
one heart - Monika Wates
CSCP, S&OP Manager at
Goodyear Tyre and Rubber, RSA
Demand Driven MRP and the
Journey Towards Supply Chain
Maturity
Steven Montgomery CSCP, General
Manager: Logistics at ABE
Construction Chemicals, RSA and
Kien Leong CPIM, CDDP, Partner at
Production-Scheduling.com, UK
Formalized Sales and
Operations Planning (S&OP) –
KFC Case Study - Elizbe Rohde,
Supply Chain Manager at YUM!
Restaurants International, RSA
Supply Chain in our Every
Day Life – Back to Basics
Onicca Mailula, Materials
Manager, Tongaat Hulett
Starch, RSA
Feeling hungry? Need an opportunity to absorb all you have heard in the presentations thus far? Now's the perfect chance to do so. Good food, company and conversation await in the Superbowl with the exhibtors and fellow conference attendees. Visit
12:20 - 13:30 the stands and enter the competitions, meet up with people you have been wanting to see during the year but not had the time, use the conference app (instructions on the voucher in your badge holder) to set up meetings during breaks, or simply sit and
enjoy a good meal amongst the friends of your supply chain community.
Keep Calm and Identify,
Capture, Share - Gary Hartley
M.Supply Chain Logistics
Management, General Manager
13:30 - 14:20 Sector Development at GS1 New
Zealand
supplychainforesight 2015:
Embracing change for a sustainable
future
Mark Cleeve-Edwards, Senior
Marketing Manager at Barloworld
Logistics, RSA
Demand Driven MRP - A Case
Study - Laurent Vigouroux CSCP,
CDDP, Vice President Quality at
Bernard Controls, France
Component Inventory Reduction
in a Mid-Sized Beauty Company
James Fusco CPIM, Manager:
Materials Management &
Strategic Accounts at Perricone
MD Cosmeceuticals, USA
Meet the International
Speaker - Temitope
Ogunfayo
Smart Supply Chains: Blood on a
Returnable Basis
Ravi Reddy, Bachelors in
Biochemicals, MBA, Chief
Operations Officer at South
African National Blood Service
14:30 - 15:00
and Eddie Fourie, BEng, MBA,
General Manager at Trenstar,
RSA
Case Study : Applying Inventory
Management Principles to Ordinary
Schools - Can It Work? - Joyce Lewis,
MAEd, CPIM, CSCP, C.P.M. President,
APICS Los Angeles Chapter, USA
Planning critical slow and nonmoving items within an African
Mining and MRO context - Riaan
Burger CSCP, Solutions Architect,
Barloworld Logistics, RSA
Taking Action to Build
Consensus and Resolve Conflict
Dave Hinchman CPIM, Manager,
JD-QPS and OF Integration,
Enterprise Strategic Quality at
Deere & Company, USA
How to optimize stock and Meet the International
service level in a small but Speaker - Alan Milliken
complex market; A case
study of a dairy product
manufacturer in Mauritius Thierry Boullé, Managing
Director, Simera Ltd,
Mauritius
Workshop 11 - 20 Steps to
Improve Productivity in
Your Warehouse
Martin Bailey PREng,
MscEng, Chairman at
Industrial Logistics Systems,
RSA - concludes at 17:30
Workshop 12 - How to
Implement Executive Sales
and Operations Planning Joe Shedlawski CPIM, S&OP
Coach at R.A. Stahl Comany,
USA -concludes at 17:30
15:00 - 15:30
Enjoy a break in the Superbowl with the exhibitors and fellow conference attendees. This is another exceptional opportunity to network, share ideas and generally get the most out of spending time with your peers. Tea and Coffee will be available to keep
you going until evening drinks and supper later in the day.
Abe Eshkenazi, CSCP, CPA, CAE,
CEO at APICS, USA
15:30 - 16:20
Joe Walden CFPIM, Senior
Lecturer, University of Kansas,
USA
16:30 - 17:20
Extreme Makeover: How a leading
IT company transformed its value
chain in 12 months - Maha
Muzumdar, Vice President, Oracle
Corporation, USA
Operating Models for Africa Julian Tasker, Director, EMEIA
Supply Chain Strategy, UK and
Wayne Whiffler, Executive Director
at EY, RSA
The impact of bilateral China –
Africa trade growth on African
SupplyCchains: Getting Your
Business Ready
Jacques Marais, Chief Operating
Officer at Beijing Axis, China
Future Technology for Supply
Chain Asset Management: 3D,
Robots, Drones? - Brian Hodges,
Product Strategist at Fulcrum.Net,
USA
Meet the International
speaker - Chad Smith
Why are South African
Manufacturing Companies not
Exploiting the Local
Advantages? - Dawid Janse van
Rensburg, Managing Director at
Cargo Solutions, RSA
workshop continues
Understanding and improving
The Logistics Barometer –
the Pulse of your Supply Chain - what is driving South
African logistics costs? Lloyd Snowden, Managing
Zane Simpson, Researcher
Partner at Oliver Wight, UK
at Stellenbosch University,
RSA
Workshop continues
Meet the International
Speakers - Lauren Vigouroux
and Thierry Boulle
Celebrate the end of the day with drinks and delicious snacks with the exhibitors and fellow conference attendees in the Superbowl. Here's another opportunity to network, enter competitions and enjoy discussing the
17:20 - 20:00 presentations of the day. The evening is planned to end at a reasonable time to enable you to enjoy the entertainment and, should you wish, take advantage of a meal at one of the many restaurants at Sun City or simply get an
early night in preparation for an early start the next day.
Tuesday 2 June 2015
Ballroom North
Ballroom South
Pilanesberg B
Pilanesberg A
Myths, Misconceptions &
Absurdities: Misadventures in
the World of Supply Chain
Management - Steven Melnyk
CSCP, CFPIM, PhD, Professor of
Operations and Supply Chain
Management at Michigan State
08:30 - 09:20
University, USA and Colin Seftel
CSCP, CFPIM, Trainer &
Consultant at PSQ, RSA
The pulse of Africa’s healthcare
supply chains benefit from South
African expertise - Gavin Pearson,
Director International Operations at
Imperial Health Sciences, RSA
Applying Polarity Management to
Supply Chains - Brian Atwater PhD,
CPIM, Jonah, Professor of
Operations Management and Paul
Pittman CFPIM, CSCP, APICS Master
Instructor, Jonah, PhD, Professor of
Operations Management, Indiana
University Southeast, USA
The Real World Lessons that
they do not teach you at
Business School - Keith
09:30 - 10:20 Launchbury CFPIM, CIRM, CSCP,
President of Keith Launchbury &
Associates, USA
Returnable transit packaging – A
European view on the challenges
and benefits for FMCG
Joe Kelly, General Manager at KHartwell, Finland
Forecasting lessons from FMCG
What it takes to keep on
aisles - Thinus Hermann
Winning / Working together to
Managing Director at Barnton, RSA win the next race - Mark
Whitehead Senior Manager
Distribution and Logistics at Nike
Africa, RSA
The Pulse of Public Healthcare
Supply Chain in Africa: Changing the
paradigm of decision making in the
Public Health Supply Chain – A Case
Study
Philip Lule, Principal MIS Advisor,
John Snow Incorporated, RSA and
Trevor Lambiotte, Business Unit
Manager at Resolve Solution
Partners, RSA
The Journey to Central Distribution
– A case study on Shoprite - The
Last 20 years
Gary Benatar, Managing Director,
Industrial Logistics Systems and One
Touch Retail Solutions BSc End, GDE
(WITS), PCMH (USA) RSA
Eland
Leopard
Modern Ports & Global
Meet the International
Supply Chain Optimization - Speaker - Gary Hartley
Obiora Madu Chief
Executive Officer,
Programme Director at
Multimix Academy, Nigeria
10:20 - 10:50
10:50 - 11:40
The Evolution of Integrated
Supply Chains into Global
Operating Models - Brad
Householder, Principal, Advisory
Operations Practice, PwC, USA
Ending Childhood Hunger, What
We Can Do and How We Can Do
It!
Claire Bloom CIRM, Executive
Director of End 68 Hours of
Hunger, USA
Lynx
Worskhop 13 - Creating
Alignment in Supply Chain
Management
Hans Kremer CPIM, CIRM,
CSCP Partner, Fresh
Connection, Netherlands finishes at 12:20 -
I want it all - gimme the B-BBEE
Scorecard training points
Charles Dey, Consultant –
Occupationally Directed
Education Training &
Development
Tholsia Naidoo - Managing
Director, Institute for Quality
Dave Walls - Broad-Based Black
Economic Empowerment Skills
Development Specialist
The Chefs of Training Strategy
Meet the international
Speaker - Charlie Villasenor
Eagle
Worskhop 14 - Run a
Simulation of a Supply Chain
Planning System Using
DDMRP
Kien Leong CDDP, CPIM,
Production Scheduling.com
finishes at 12:20
Supply Chain Transformation –
A Mahindra S.A. Case Study Keith Horn, Business
11:50 - 12:20 Development Executive at Savino
Del Bene, RSA and Niël Cronje,
Managing Director at Insync
Solutions, RSA
Improving production and supply
chain performance: case studies
from EY/P&G and client
partnerships Richard Goussard
Operations Excellence Leader at EY,
RSA
Reducing the cost to serve through
strategic supply chain modelling:
An African perspective - Kirk Nash,
Supply Chain Manager at Aspen
Pharmacare, RSA
Public / Private Partnerships –
Providing a Lifeline for Learners
Gill Jones Director Client
Solutions, UTi, RSA
Data Visualization –
Meet the international
- Monitoring Your Supply
Speaker - Joyce Lewis
Chain's Pulse - Hannari van
Gend, Inventory
Optimization Systems
Manager at UTi, RSA
Ensure you attend lunch as prizes will be drawn and you will have the final chance to enter the competitions which will be drawn at the close of the exhibition later in the afternoon. Enjoy another lunch but for those of you staying on for the gala dinner,
12:20 - 13:30 please be sure not to eat too much as a delicious meal awaits you later this evening!
13:30 - 14:20
14:30 - 15:20
15:20 - 15:40
Talent Management: Establishing
a Pipeline of SCM Professionals
Brian J. Gibson, Ph.D., Wilson
Family Professor of Supply Chain
Management, Auburn University,
Auburn, Alabama USA
Panel Session -Women in Supply
Chain Management around the
world facilitated by Joyce Lewis
MAEd, CPIM, CSCP, CPM,
President at APICS Los Angeles
Chapter, USA
To Be the Best Me I Can Be Nicholas Serra , RSA
Food Waste in Africa - an
interactive discussion facilitated
by Hermann Haupt, Senior
Director : Country GM, SubSahara Africa, South Africa
Round Table Discussion:
Meet the international
Best Practices in Supply
speaker - Joe Kelly
Chain Management
Education - An Information
Exchange for Educators Joe Walden CFPIM, Senior
Lecturer, University of
Kansas, USA
Workshop 15 - Lego
Business Play – Breaking
down Barriers and Building
Understanding
Matt Suttner, Director Sly
Media, RSA and Kristy
Suttner-Stride Director
Chrysallis, RSA - Finishes at
17:30 -
Supply Chain Risk by
Becoming Demand Driven
Chad Smith CDDP, Partner at
Demand Driven Institute, USA Finishes at 17:30 - NB - this
workshop is also the the start
of a 2 day option that forms
the Certified Demand Driven
Workshop taking place 2 days
Meet the international
speaker - Keith Launchbury
Summary & Official Close of the formal conference proceedings by the SAPICS President
Prize Giving and close of the exhibition at SAPICS 2015 - You have to be IN IT TO WIN IT!! Make sure you are in the Superbowl for the exciting prize draws to win the prizes generously on offer by the exhibitors! This final exciting chance to visit the exhibition stands
you haven't had the chance to see, meet the people you haven't had the time to meet and possibly win a prize! Surely an opportunity too good to miss?
Time to Enjoy Yourself!! Pre Dinner drinks will be served in the Pilanesberg Room before the Gala dinner begins! SAPICS invites you to enjoy and evening of good food, entertainment and fabulous music. This is a perfect way to end SAPICS 2015 and we are
19:00 - 00:00
confident you will agree!
15:40 - 16:30