Thursday September 11

1A Set the wheels in motion

There are many companies today that could get their wheels turning faster if they used the power of their supply chain and used their PipeChain tools in a more efficient way. If you’re already using VMI in PipeChain you can get wheels turning faster with surprisingly small resources. We’re talking about three wheels that spin around the user’s daily work, the internal production and delivery process and the external links to customers and suppliers.

Hard and fast methods are mixed with strategies to reap the rewards of the investment that’s already been made. As always, the goal is to reduce lead-times while mainaining or improving service levels.

Speaker: Anders Filmersson, PipeChain AB

1B The importance of parameter settings in PipeChain

PipeChain facilitates an extremely efficient supply chain with a minimal amount of work in updating parameters, while service levels remain high and stock optimal despite a change in flows. To ensure optimal effect to keep the right stock it is important to properly configure parameters regarding partnerships, flow behaviours and external events.
Different examples are highlighted to illustrate the effects of optimally configured parameters connected to different types of demand scenarios.

Speaker: Jonatan Manna, PipeChain AB

1C Case: Fully automated demand driven supply chain collaboration

Mekanotjänst Industrier is a modern industrial group consisting of four mechanical manufacturing companies and two companies manufacturing own products. Mekanotjänst delivers complete systems and components to leading global companies within Telecom and Electronics, Medical Technology and Industrial Manufacturing. In order to guarantee a rational use of knowledge and resources as well as an increased flexibility in production, Mekanotjänst has centralized a number of key functions such as Finance, Administration, Purchasing & Logistics, IT, Quality and Environment.

Mekanotjänst IT manager, Pär Åkerstöm shall present the result of a vision he helped to formulate, whereby each of the business units are centrally supported by a fully integrated and real time supply chain collaboration tool. Pär will describe how their PipeChain MultiSite solution is set-up to interface with each of the manufacturing sites’ ERP (Monitor). This platform not only provides real time visibility on the status of fulfillment of customer demands, but also automates and monitors the collaboration processes. Mekanotjänst currently manages a fully automated VMI process with a number of customers and as a next step shall extend the scope to automate the collaboration process also with suppliers.

Speaker: Pär Åkerström, IT Manager & Jörgen Robèrt, Purchasing and Logistics Manager at Mekanotjänst AB

2A Case: Interesting case from a PipeChain user

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2B Automate order to invoice using WebEDI

The requirements placed on companies for improved efficiency are increasing all the time. Competition is murderous at all levels – between companies, between value chains and between countries. This increased competition makes it even more important to cooperate in the network of companies that forms the value chain made up of your company and its trading partners. It’s not just about working towards optimisation in your own company, but about optimising the entire value chain.

During this session we will show how PipeChain’s tools make it possible to automate several business processes related to trade and logistics between your company and its suppliers in a very short time. Using PipeChains’ cost-effective standard services it is possible to reuse many of the EDI investments you made earlier and use them on a wide front towards many suppliers. Maximal supplier connection.

Speaker: Johan Lundblad, PipeChain AB

2C News and trends in EDI and B2B integration

• EDI in several links
• XML contra EDIFACT
• Safe and cheap communication over the Internet with OFTP2

Speaker: Mikael Carlsson, PipeChain AB

3A PipeChain 4.1

This session gives you an update of what's new in PipeChain 4.1 and what was new in PipeChain 4.0. Topics include the new PipeChain Analyzer implementation, the web shop, the SOAP client, new standard converters and much more.

Speaker: Jörgen Olofsson, PipeChain AB

3B PipeChain in Consumer Packaged Goods

To succeed in the fast moving consumer goods sector some of the key words are efficiency (speed/accuracy/cost), innovation, diversity and sustainability… all the way from the raw materials via manufacturing and packaging to finished goods on the retailer’s shelves, available for consumers to buy. The presentations below will give you an insight into the developments in matter of supply chain collaboration upstream between CPG Manufacturers and their Suppliers.

What is the role of GCI and the implication of the GUSI standard in the CPG sector
Since the last four years, important developments have taken place at a global level to identify and define the best way for CPG Manufacturers, their Suppliers and Service Providers to collaborate in an efficient way. These developments have resulted in the creation and adoption of standard ways of working and communicating called Global Upstream Supply Initiative or GUSI which is managed by the Global Commerce Initiative (GCI).

Speaker: Ruediger Hagedorn, Senior Business Consultant, GCI (Global Commerce Iniative)

Case: Smurfit Kappa Group fully integrated and automated PipeChain SMI in consumer goods
Smurfit Kappa Group, a leading European packaging supplier (and one of the main contributors to the GUSI) is a “veteran” of fully automated SMI implementations within the Consumer Packaged Goods.  Smurfit Kappa GmbH shall present two successful SMI implementation projects; with their customer Unilever (according to GUSI) and with their customer Molkerei Alois Müller GmbH & Co. KG. In each case they will share their experiences and their insight on what they believe are important aspects that ensure successful SMI implementations.

Speakers: Michaela Conrads, National eBusiness Project Manager Smurfit Kappa and Udo Balandis, IT Senior Consultant, BTIM Unternehmensberatung GmbH

3C Case: Planning customer order painting at Scania

Gerard Bannink shares his and Scania’s experiences from the “insourcing” of customer ordered component painting in large volumes.

The new Scania Meppel facility uses simple and reliable LEAN processes, methods and IT systems for production and logistics planning for large volumes at high pace.

Speaker: Gerard Bannink, Head of Logistics, Scania Production Meppel

4A PipeChain in the future

Give us your opinion on what is most important for you in future versions of PipeChain. What will make it easier to use, more profitable and more successful in your company?

Speaker: Jörgen Olofsson, PipeChain AB

4B Tips and tricks in PipeChain’s EDI solutions

• Surveillance and alarms
• Analysis of EDI messages
• Network installation
• Etc

Speaker: Mikael Carlsson, PipeChain AB

4C Upgrading Alliance

Does your company use the Alliance EDI system for external business EDI integration and logistics management? Do you need to evaluate which alternatives there are now Alliance will be phased out? This presentation describes the background, current situation and future of the Alliance system, and shows what alternatives are available to choose from.

Speaker: Johan Lundblad, PipeChain AB

Friday September 12

1A PipeChain Solution Seminar - PipeChains solutions for the most usual problem scenarios within Supply Chain

During the seminar, we will take up a number of problem scenarios within Supply Chain and describe how we have solved these together with our customers. We will also show some of the positive effects that have been achieved.

Examples of some of the scenarios we take up;
-How to increase service levels despite reduction of stocks (capital tied)?
-How to minimize non value added manual work?
-How to reduce lead times by increasing transparency of real demand?

Speaker: Steffen Abrahamsson, PipeChain AB

1B Product demonstrations: Inobiz, TWIM, WebEDI, VMI, WebShop

PipeChain will present and demonstrate its different products together with partners Inobiz and Encode. We will perform the demonstrations simultaneously and on several different occasions during the morning so you can participate in all the ones you want to.