Oracle Value Chain Summit 2015

January 26 – 29, 2015 San Jose Convention Center San Jose, California

Oracle Value Chain Summit 2015

Enabling Agents of Change

Value Chain Planning

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

How to Register & Special Offers Value Chain Summit 2015 Overview and Speakers Value Chain Planning Tracks Value Chain Planning Highlights: Awards, Demos, Speakers & Sponsors Value Chain Planning Conference Schedule Value Chain Planning Session Details

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How to Register & Special Offers Visit www.oraclevaluechainsummit.com/register to register. Register early for your whole team to take advantage of limited time offers and group discounts.

Attendee Registration Rates All Oracle Value Chain Summit attendees can take advantage of the following rates:  $795 Pre‐Registration: December 1–January 23  $895 Onsite Registration: January 26–January 28

Group Discount Offers Buy four passes and get one pass free! Or buy ten and get four free! All paid registrants must be registered, paid in full, and be from the same company to qualify for the free passes. Please email the Oracle Value Chain Summit Registration team at [email protected] and provide the name and company of the completed unique registrations to receive your free passes. The deadline to take advantage of this offer is 5:00 p.m. PT January 23, 2015.

Contact Us Send questions about the Value Chain Planning Solution Area at the Oracle Value Chain Summit to [email protected].

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Oracle Value Chain Summit 2015 Overview This unparalleled experience will provide you with the knowledge to drive innovation and maximize revenue as an agent of change in your organization. Choose from more than 200 sessions covering: Value Chain Planning, Product Value Chain (PLM), Procurement, Maintenance, Manufacturing, Value Chain Execution and Cross Value Chain. Value Chain Planning Solution Area Includes four session tracks, workshops, solution demonstrations and industry breakouts:  Track: Demand and Trade Promotions Management Learn how to sense demand, improve forecast accuracy, plan new product launches, and respond to changing market conditions. For CPG companies, find out how you can plan trade promotions which optimize revenue and profits, while at the same time synchronizing trade plans with demand plans.  Track: Supply Chain Agility Attend the sessions in this track to learn about best practices in supply chain agility. Learn how to make your supply chain more responsive in the face of increased demand volatility and for better customer service while minimizing risk and cost.  Track: Integrated Business Planning In today’s complex and data‐driven business world, firms are synchronizing planning across the enterprise to improve organizational alignment and financial performance. Learn how Oracle customers are using IBP to improve visibility and align strategic planning and operational planning with financial planning to develop and execute a strategy to meet business goals.  Track: New Thinking and Solutions In this track learn how Value Chain Planning together with emerging technologies, new planning paradigms and cross‐functional solutions are helping businesses explore new opportunities, deliver new experiences and transform ways to create value.  Birds of a Feather Industry Breakouts for VCP During lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday, attendees will have the option of meeting with VCP users from their own industry.

Oracle Value Chain Summit 2015 in San Jose will gather nearly 2,000 product and supply chain professionals.

Featured Speakers Steve Young NFL Legend & HGGC Co‐Founder Andrew Winston Co‐author of Green to Gold and author of The Big Pivot Sean D. Tucker Aerobatic Pilot, Team Oracle

Value Chain Planning Speakers Include: Barrick Gold Abercrombie & Fitch Emerson Electric SONY Playstation Starbucks and nearly 30 more!


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The exclusive event where you can choose from 24 Oracle Value Chain Planning sessions with 30+ VCP customer speakers, 6 VCP demo booths, Theater Demo presentations, Training Classes, and a Customer Advisory Board Value Chain Planning Excellence Award During a conference general session, one customer will be awarded with the 2015 Excellence in Value Chain Management: Value Chain Planning. This prestigious award is bestowed upon customers who exhibit outstanding use of Oracle Value Chain Planning solutions. iPad stations Take a self‐guided tour through our solutions in the iPad stations, located in the Value Chain Planning area of the Solution Pavilion. Browse overviews, infographics, customer testimonials, demos, and more. Sponsors EVENT GOLD SILVER PLATINUM

Demo Kiosks and Solution Pavilion Visit the demo kiosks for a one‐on‐one view of our solutions. Are you interested in seeing how planners can quickly respond to changes with Rapid Planning? Would you like to see how Demantra can improve your demand management and trade optimization? This is place for you!

Theater demos Stop by the big screen in the Value Chain Planning section of the Solution Pavilion for regularly scheduled, in‐depth demos of valuable use cases, and more.

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Customer Speakers

We will welcome over 30 Value Chain Planning customer presenters, including:


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Demand and Trade Promotions Management

Supply Chain Agility

Integrated Business Planning

New Thinking and Solutions

Monday, January 26, 2015 TIME

TITLE & DESCRIPTION

TBD

Oracle Value Chain Planning Training Sessions and Workshops

Registration Required

Before the conference officially begins at 3:00 p.m., plan to arrive early for the Value Chain Planning workshops and training classes.

3:00 – 5:30 PM

Opening General Session

5:30 – 7:00 PM

Welcome Reception

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

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TITLE & DESCRIPTION

7:00 – 8:00 AM

Breakfast in Solution Pavilion

8:00 – 10:00 AM

General Session

10:00 – 11:00 AM

Networking Break in Solution Pavilion

11:00 – 11:45 AM

Solution Area General Session: Value Chain Planning Oracle Value Chain Planning: Overview and Product Strategy | Vikash Goyal, Sr. Director VCP Product Strategy, Oracle

12:00 – 12:45 PM

Solution Area General Session: Value Chain Planning Value Chain Planning Customer Panel: Enabling Agents of Change | Carlos Londono, Director, Planning, Starbucks Randy Mandel, VP Inventory Management and Supply Chain Strategy, McGraw‐Hill Education David Markwell, Manager VCP Applications, Oracle

12:45 – 1:30 PM

Lunch Featuring VCP roundtable discussions and theater demos

1:45 – 2:45 PM

Customer Panel: Best Practices in Demand Management

Achieving Perfect Order Fulfillment

The Fast Track to IBP in the Real World of Complex Organizations

Improve Asset Uptime and Reduce Maintenance Costs with VCP Asset Maintenance Planning


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Demand and Trade Promotions Management




2:45 – 3:30 PM


3:45 – 4:45 PM

Maximize your Demantra Investment by Taking Full Advantage of Advanced Capabilities

Control your Value Chain with Early Warning and Optimal Response

Customer Panel: Best Practices in Integrated Business Planning

Accelerate Business‐to‐ Consumer Response with Oracle Value Chain Planning

5:00 – 6:00 PM

High Performance Demand Sensing and Demand Management

Customer Panel: Best Practices in Supply Chain Planning

Strategic and Tactical Supply Planning and Value Chain Optimization

Improve Visibility, Delivery, Profits in Project‐Driven Supply Chain

6:00 – 7:00 PM

Break

7:00 – 10:00 PM

Customer Appreciation Party

Wednesday, January 28, 2015 TIME

TITLE & DESCRIPTION

7:00 – 8:00 AM

Breakfast in Solution Pavilion

8:00 – 10:30 AM

General Session

10:30 – 10:45 AM

Networking Break

10:45 – 11:30 AM

Solution Area General Session: Value Chain Planning Value Chain Planning Release 12.2.4 for EBS and JDE Customers | Roger Goossens, VP VCP Product Development, Oracle; Nathan Jorgenson, ERP + Supply Chain, GE Appliances

11:40 – 12:25 PM

Solution Area General Session: Value Chain Planning Value Chain Planning: Empowering the Modern Value Chain | John Husemann, Director of Operations, NTN

Hari Pudusseri, Sr. Manager IT, Facebook, Duane Hardacre, Managing Partner, Avata

12:30 – 1:15 PM

Lunch

Featuring VCP roundtable discussions and theater demos

1:30 – 2:30 PM

2:30 – 3:15 PM

Transformation to a more

Differentiating the Service

How to evolve to Integrated

High‐Performance Value

effective Demand‐Driven

Supply Chain using Oracle

Business Planning process?

Chain Planning and Analytics

Organization

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Demand and Trade Promotions Management 3:30 – 4:30 PM




Optimizing Promotions and

Increase Throughput and Cut

Integrated Business Planning:

Demand‐Driven Procurement

Increasing Effectiveness of

Costs with Better

visibility, finance and results

and Replenishment:

Trade Spend with Oracle

Manufacturing Planning and

Demantra Trade Promotions

Scheduling

Modernize to Thrive

Management 4:30 PM

Event Concludes

Thursday, January 29, 2015 TIME

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9:00 – 5:00 PM

Value Chain Planning Customer Advisory Board

Registration Required

Invited members of the Oracle VCP customer community will meet.

Birds‐of‐a‐Feather: Lunch Tables

Tuesday Wednesday (12:45 p.m.–1:45) (12:45 p.m.–1:45)

VCP for High‐Tech including Communications

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VCP for CG and Retail

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VCP for Industrial Manufacturing

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VCP for Healthcare and Lifesciences

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VCP for Natural Resources including Oil & Gas VCP for Process and Chemicals

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VCP for Automotive Integrated Business Planning / S&OP VCP Upgrades

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Value Chain Planning Track Session Details General Sessions TIME

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SPEAKERS

Tuesday

Oracle Value Chain

Attend this session to get an overview of Oracle's planning solutions that

Vikash Goyal, Sr. Director

11:00 – 11:45 AM

Planning: Overview

enable a wide range of transformative business processes. Also learn

VCP Strategy, Oracle

and Product Strategy

about new market trends, which are driving product strategy and the

roadmap for Oracle Value Chain Planning. This session will also provide an overview of conference sessions and activities related to Oracle Value Chain Planning. Tuesday


Many companies have realized that it's not enough anymore to simply

Carlos Londono, Director,

12:00 – 12:45 PM

Customer Panel:

Oracle Value Chain Planning (VCP) delivers a best‐in‐class, complete

Planning, Starbucks;

Enabling Agents of

planning solution enabling companies to develop profitable operating

Randy Mandel, VP

Change

plans, speed tactical decision making, and continuously monitor the

Inventory Management

impact of those decisions on revenues, costs, and operational metrics. In

and Supply Chain

this customer panel discussion, learn best practices from supply chain

Strategy, McGraw‐Hill

experts and how they drive business results and manage change.

Education Kenny Paterson, Director WW Sales Operations, Western Digital David Markwell, Manager VCP Applications, Oracle

Wednesday


Learn about recent improvements made to Oracle Value Chain Planning

10:45 – 11:30 AM

Release 12.2.4 for

(VCP) applications such as Oracle Demantra, Oracle Advanced Supply

Supply Chain, GE

EBS and JDE

Chain Planning, Oracle Rapid Planning, Oracle Advanced Planning

Appliances

Customers

Command Center, Oracle Inventory Optimization, and Oracle Production

Roger Goossens, VP VCP

Scheduling. This session emphasizes the new business processes and

Product Development,

industry capabilities in Release 12.2.4 and covers the benefits and

Oracle

Nathan Jorgenson, ERP +

considerations for upgrading to this release. Also hear directly from customers about their experiences of upgrading to latest 12.2.x release of Demantra and Value Chain Planning. Wednesday

Value Chain Planning:

In this session, hear from two companies, NTN Bearings and Facebook

John Husemann, Director

11:45 – 12:30 PM

Empowering the

who have effectively leveraged solutions and services from Oracle VCP

of Operations, NTN

Modern Value Chain

partners, Avata and Trinamix respectively to meet their specific business

Hari Pudusseri, Sr.

needs. NTN Bearing has leveraged Demantra in the Avata Business Cloud

Manager IT, Facebook

to drive business transformation through better demand management. Facebook created a Demantra based sox compliant, centralized procurement planning process for their servers and high valued assets to support more than a billion users.

Duane Hardacre, Managing Partner, Avata Amit Sharma, Director, Trinamix


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Track: Demand and Trade Promotions Management TIME

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SPEAKERS

Tuesday 1:45 – 2:45

Customer Panel: Best

This session will highlight key Demand Management processes that have

Anil Johnson, Helen of

Practices in Demand

helped companies predict demand more accurately, improve their response

PM

Troy

Management

to changes in demand, and improve their operations overall. You will hear

Alluri Raju, Polycom

from customers how they have improved their sales forecasting, forecast

Rich Barboza, Keysight

collaboration, and new product introduction processes using Oracle’s

Technologies

Demantra Demand Management. There will be ample opportunity for the

Colin McComb, Oracle

audience to ask our panelists how their businesses improved fill rates, product mix, and other key performance indicators.

Tuesday

Maximize your

In this session learn how today’s leading companies are going beyond basic

Dariusz Piatkowski, Global

3:45 – 4:45

Demantra Investment

demand planning by using advanced capabilities in Demantra. Hear directly

Process Mgr, Meritor

PM

by Taking Full

from experts how to best leverage Demantra features to support complex business requirements and extreme scale.

Nadav Zivelin, Product

Advantage of Advanced Capabilities

Management, Oracle Ron Arar, Value Chain Development, Oracle

Tuesday

High Performance

Companies are looking to sense demand closer to their end customers,

Sree Vaidyanathan, Senior

5:00 – 6:00

Demand Sensing and

using more granular demand and market data. Hear how the high

Director, Sony Computer

PM

Demand Management

performance offered by Demantra, Oracle Engineered Systems, and In‐

Entertainment America

Memory Consumption‐Driven Planning enable companies to use such data

Bart Feldman, VP,

and become more responsive to customer demand and changing market conditions.

Demantra Development Oracle

Wednesday

Transformation to a

While the need to become a demand‐driven organization is well established,

Deborah Cirrincione,

1:30 – 2:30

more effective

the transformation required to accomplish this is less understood. In this

Director Initiative Delivery,

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Demand‐Driven Organization

session, you'll hear from companies which have successfully enabled a more

NBTY

effective demand‐driven organization. Hear how NBTY, a global omni‐

Chris Vennefron, Business

channel business with characteristics of both a CPG and a Life Sciences

Forecasting, Abercrombie

company, is transforming their organization using Oracle Demantra and

& Fitch

Advanced Planning Command Center. Also learn how Abercrombie & Fitch,

Jamie Gallagher, Sales

the global apparel retailer, is using Oracle Demantra and Exadata to forecast across their multiple channels and move to advanced store‐level forecasting.

Consulting Manager,

Oracle

Wednesday

Optimizing

Today’s consumer‐centric organizations struggle to predict and maximize

Sue Streff, Project

3:30 – 4:30

Promotions and

the effectiveness of trade promotions. Oracle’s Demantra Predictive Trade

Manager / Business

PM

Increasing

Planning, Trade Promotion Optimization, and Deduction and Settlement

Analyst, Michael Foods

Effectiveness of Trade

Management products offer a foundational trade promotion management

Evelyn Eng, Director ‐

Spend with Oracle

solution with advanced analytics capabilities. At the same time, the solution

Process Improvement,

Demantra Trade

enables integration of the trade promotion process with demand planning,

Darigold

Promotions Management

supply planning, and S&OP processes. Learn more about the solution and the latest enhancements, including the all new Trade Promotion Reporting capability in Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center.

Mike Liebson, Director VCP Product Strategy, Oracle


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Track: Supply Chain Agility TIME

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ABSTRACT

SPEAKERS

Tuesday

Achieving

In today's competitive marketplace, companies need to meet or exceed their

Jonathan Lund, Emerson

1:45 – 2:45

Perfect Order Fulfillment

customer expectations in terms of accurate and on‐time order fulfillment. This

Process Management ‐

case study will present how Emerson, a Fortune 200 conglomerate achieved

Rosemount Division

perfect order fulfillment using Oracle solutions. Key transformation strategies and solution capabilities will be discussed.

Kiran Gayakwad,

PM

Emerson Electric Pradeep Balebail, Product Strategy Director, Oracle

Tuesday

Control your

Demand and supply volatility and unforeseen market events require companies to

Greg Crunkilton,

3:45 – 4:45

Value Chain with

be able to adapt quickly to provide the best service at the lowest cost. Learn how

Manager, Planning and

PM

Early Warning

to use targeted analytics to harness the avalanche of data in today's global supply

Logistics, Panasonic

and Optimal Response

chains to identify issues before they turn into problems. See how near real‐time

Avionics

simulation can find quick solutions to respond to sudden order changes, product

Scott Malcolm, Senior

and component quality issues, supplier capacity issues, and requests to pull in

Director, Oracle

demand for profit. Hear how to use collaboration tools to quickly change plans and operations.

Tuesday

Customer Panel:

5:00 – 6:00

Best Practices in

variety of industries but all use the deep functionality available in Oracle Value

PM

Supply Chain Planning

Chain Planning (VCP) to address their challenges and to make more profitable

This session features customers who face different business challenges across a

tactical planning decisions. You'll learn how Oracle VCP applications enabled these customers to meet unique challenges such as planning “hockey stick” demand, handling customer‐ and country‐specific requirements, synchronizing buy‐side logistics considerations and more.

Wednesday

Differentiating

This session discusses new areas where you can make selling and delivering service

1:30 – 2:30

the Service

parts a strategic differentiator through a comprehensive platform that helps

PM

Supply Chain using Oracle VCP

improve margins and customer satisfaction. Learn how Oracle Sun uses Oracle

Service Part Planning and Oracle Advanced Analytics to predict spare parts demand and the contracts at risk of cancellation. Also hear how Teradata achieved economies of scale, reduced risks, decreased costs, sped up time to market, and improved customer service response times for more than 6,000 mission critical service parts .

Wednesday

Increase

3:30 – 4:30

Throughput and

plant resources, reduce inventory, increase resource utilization, and improve shop

PM

Cut Costs with

floor performance for both process and discrete industries. Oracle Advanced

Better

Supply Chain Planning combined with Oracle Production Scheduling coupled with

Manufacturing

increased shop floor visibility from manufacturing systems, will allow you to achieve improvements in manufacturing cost and efficiency.

Planning and Scheduling

This presentation will show how you can increase the throughput of bottlenecked

Joao Pizani, Senior Manager, Global SC, Meritor Nathan Doelling, Supply Chain Analyst, Texas Instruments Angeles Mira, Business Solutions Manager, Keysight Technologies Ryan Sumrak, Sales Consulting Team Leader, Oracle Todd Bollenbacher, VP Supply Chain, Terradata Moshin Lee, Sr. Director, Value Chain Planning Product Management, Oracle Vinay Deshmukh, Senior Director, Oracle Sun

Amanda McKenzie, Materials Manager, Elkay Daniel Vrána, Director Solution Architect, Ferring International Center S.A. Alex Kim, Senior Manager, Value Chain Planning, Oracle

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Tuesday

The Fast Track to IBP

The joint presentation by GE Power & Water and Oliver Wight covers the overall

1:45 – 2:45

in the Real World of approach being employed to ensure GE Power & Water's Integrated Business Complex Organizations Planning (IBP) implementations truly achieve integration between People &

PM

SPEAKERS Eric Ensminger, CIO Global Supply Chain, GE Distributed Power

Behaviors, Best Practice Business Processes, and Oracle’s Value Chain Planning

Terry Johnson, Principal

applications. Attendees will gain valuable perspective on how GE Power & Water

Consultant, Oliver Wight

working with Oliver Wight and other Oracle Partners is striving to ensure the overall design effort concludes in a highly effective design that can be leveraged.

Tuesday

Customer Panel: Best

3:45 – 4:45

Practices in Integrated how best to implement best practices and to avoid mistakes. Successful IBP Business Planning implementations provide senior leadership teams with a regular and routine review

PM

As Integrated Business Planning continues to be adopted, companies are learning

of how core processes are synchronized and aligned to meet the financial expectations of the future with visibility and understanding of key decisions needed

Vedavathi Konduru, VCP IT Manager, Cabot Microelectronics Hernán González Sánchez, Supply Chain Planning Director, Herdez

to achieve the long term goals. Attend this session to hear Oracle customers discuss Mike Johnston, ERP IT Track their IBP implementations and plans. . Lead, Cummins Gerald O'Sullivan, Regional Sales Manager, Oracle Don Kellenberger, Senior

Tuesday

Strategic and Tactical

In today’s complex and global economic environment companies face a great

5:00 – 6:00

Supply Planning and

number of interlocking choices in developing and deploying a supply plan. Questions Architect, Supply Chain,

PM

Value Chain Optimization

include: where should I source from? How much should I make each month? How

General Electric Health

much inventory should I keep and where should I keep it? Do I have the necessary

Care

production capacity? How will logistics cost impact profitability? What level of

Richard Herrin, Director,

customer service can I guarantee? Companies can answer these questions modeling

Georgia Gulf Corp

their supply chains as a network and basing their decisions that are optimal for the entire network. Attend this session to hear how two global firms used Oracle VCP to optimize their value chains and make strategic decisions.

Scott Malcolm, Senior Director, Oracle

Wednesday How to evolve to an

Once organizations have laid the foundation for S&OP and gained acceptance within Vikash Goyal, Sr. Director

1:30 – 2:30

their organization, they can evolve to a best‐in‐class IBP process by leveraging supply VCP Product Strategy,

PM

Integrated Business Planning process?

chain collaboration, shaping demand and incorporating supply chain risk to improve

Oracle

supply chain responsiveness and build resiliency. Attend this session to hear Oracle's

suggestions for best making this journey. Also learn how to analyze, measure, and compare your S&OP management processes against the best practices as identified by industry research and surveys. Wednesday Integrated Business

As a leading medical service provider moves from multiple platforms to a single

Nitin Gaglani, Director

3:30 – 4:30

Oracle E‐Business Suite (EBS) platform, it is also leveraging opportunities to improve

Applications, Natus Medical

PM

Planning: Visibility, Finance, and Results

business processes and provide closed‐loop controls and visibility to management.

Paul Homchick, Director Using Oracle EBS, Value Chain Planning ‐‐ including Oracle Demantra ‐‐ and Hyperion, Product Marketing, Oracle the company was able to provide a closed‐loop system that provides management with the visibility and tools to meld operations and finance operations into a system of integrated business planning.


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Track: New Thinking and Solutions TIME

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SPEAKERS

Tuesday

Improve Asset

Project‐based operations typically suffer from limited visibility between the

Kevin Gates, Manager,

1:45 – 2:45

Uptime and

projects, supply chain and finance functions. These visibility gaps increase

Operational Excellence,

PM

Reduce

inventory requirements, reduce resource utilization, cause project cost overruns

Barrick Gold

Maintenance

and trigger late delivery penalties, leaving the CFO with no levers to manage cash

Bala Subramanian, Product

Costs with VCP

flow. Learn how a project‐driven supply chain solution that combines Oracle

Management Director,

Asset

Value Chain Planning with Oracle Primavera can overcome these challenges by

Oracle

Maintenance Planning

matching the material schedule with the project schedule to reduce supply disruption and project delay.

Tuesday

Accelerate

Traditional retail is rapidly evolving into a wide variety of vertically integrated

3:45 – 4:45

Business‐to‐

business‐to‐consumer enterprises that include direct marketers, restaurant

Supply Chain and

PM

Consumer

chains, private label retailers and communications service providers. These

Distribution, Bare

Kalyan Adavi, Director IT

Response with

companies need to deliver a differentiated consumer experience through multiple

Ecsentuals

Oracle Value Chain Planning

sales channels. Join this session to learn how leading B2C companies use Oracle

Rebecca Livingston, Sr

Value Chain Planning applications to accelerate business‐to‐consumer response,

Director Supply Chain

addressing issues such as long‐tail assortments, micro‐merchandising and omni‐ channel fulfillment.

Optimization, Snyder's Lance Matt Johnson, Senior Director, Product Strategy, Oracle

Tuesday

Improve

Project‐based operations typically suffer from limited visibility between the

Raju Penmetsa, Program

5:00 – 6:00

Visibility,

projects, supply chain and finance functions. These visibility gaps increase

Manager ‐ Business

PM

Delivery, Profits

inventory requirements, reduce resource utilization, cause project cost overruns

Solutions, GE Distributed

in Project‐Driven Supply Chain

and trigger late delivery penalties, leaving the CFO with no levers to manage cash

Power

flow. Learn how a project‐driven supply chain solution that combines Oracle

Joe Fornadel, VCP Solution

Value Chain Planning with Oracle Primavera can overcome these challenges by

Strategist, Oracle

matching the material schedule with the project schedule to reduce supply disruption and project delay.

Management Director,

Bala Subramanian, Product Oracle

Wednesday

High‐

Oracle’s Value Chain Planning (VCP) analytics can immediately improve your

1:30 – 2:30

Performance

supply chain planning processes by providing 360‐degree visibility into business

Black Belt, Cummins –

PM

Value Chain

performance. Hear directly from a leading company about how it enabled supply

RMEP

Planning and Analytics

chain visibility, command and control into its decision‐making process. This

Sushant Sawant, Practice

session will focus on Oracle Advanced Planning Command Center and the value of

Director, KPIT

planning analytics on top of your existing VCP applications; the benefits of in‐ memory processing to enable a real‐time analysis paradigm; and recent enhancements made to address planners' high‐volume, detailed reporting needs.

Aravind Arumugam, 6 Sigma

Vijay Pillarisetti, Director, Product Management, Value Chain Planning, Oracle

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Wednesday

Demand‐Driven

Distributors and retailers are striving to improve inventory profitability and

Mark Meisels, Director

3:30 – 4:30

Procurement

customer satisfaction by optimizing their supply chain process and using value

Supply Chain, Global

PM

and

chain planning tools. In this session, learn how Oracle Demantra helps modernize

Industrial/ Division of

Replenishment:

replenishment planning and allows buyers and inventory analysts to forecast

Systemax

Modernize to Thrive

demand across multiple channels, optimize inventory and streamline purchasing

Kiran Saindane, Principal

requirements. Hear directly from Global Industrial, a Fortune 1000 company and

Product Strategy Manager,

leading distributor that has transformed to a demand‐driven and customer‐ centric lean supply chain.

Oracle Steve Durham, VCP, ASM, Oracle

How to Register & Special Offers Visit www.oraclevaluechainsummit.com/register to register. Register early or for your whole team to take advantage of limited time offers and group discounts.

Attendee Registration Rates All Oracle Value Chain Summit Attendees can take advantage of the following rates:  $795 Pre‐Registration: December 1–January 23  $895 Onsite Registration: January 26–January 28

Group Discount Offers Buy four passes and get one pass free! Or buy ten and get four free! All paid registrants must be registered, paid in full, and be from the same company to qualify for the free passes. Please email the Oracle Value Chain Summit Registration team at [email protected] and provide the name and company of the completed unique registrations to receive your free passes. The deadline to take advantage of this offer is 5:00 p.m. PT January 23, 2015.

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