oracle value chain summit 2015

Oracle Value Chain Summit 2015 Enabling Agents of Change January 26 – 29, 2015 San Jose Convention Center San Jose, California

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ORACLE VALUE CHAIN SUMMIT 2015 – VALUE CHAIN PLANNING (VCP)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

How to Register & Special Offers 2 Value Chain Summit 2015 Overview and Speakers 3 Value Chain Planning Tracks 3 Value Chain Planning Highlights: Awards, Demos, Speakers & Sponsors 4 Value Chain Planning Conference Schedule 5 Value Chain Planning Session Details 8

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 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 Solution Area

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.

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.

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

SILVER

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

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.

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!

Value Chain Planning Excellence Award Demo Kiosks and Solution Pavilion

iPad stations Theater demos

Sponsors

Customer Speakers

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.

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.

GOLD EVENT

BRONZE

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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

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

Planning workshops and training classes.

Registration Required

3:00 – 5:30 PM Opening General Session

5:30 – 7:00 PM Welcome Reception

Tuesday, January 27, 2015


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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2:45 – 3:30 PM Networking Break in Solution Pavilion

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


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 Transformation to a more

effective Demand‐Driven

Organization

Differentiating the Service

Supply Chain using Oracle

VCP

How to evolve to Integrated

Business Planning process?

High‐Performance Value

Chain Planning and Analytics

2:30 – 3:15 PM Networking Break in Solution Pavilion

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Tuesday (12:45 p.m.–1:45)

Wednesday (12:45 p.m.–1:45)

VCP for High‐Tech including Communications

VCP for CG and Retail

VCP for Industrial Manufacturing

VCP for Healthcare and Lifesciences

VCP for Natural Resources including Oil & Gas

VCP for Process and Chemicals

VCP for Automotive

Integrated Business Planning / S&OP

VCP Upgrades

3:30 – 4:30 PM Optimizing Promotions and

Increasing Effectiveness of

Trade Spend with Oracle

Demantra Trade Promotions

Management

Increase Throughput and Cut

Costs with Better

Manufacturing Planning and

Scheduling

Integrated Business Planning:

visibility, finance and results

Demand‐Driven Procurement

and Replenishment:

Modernize to Thrive

4:30 PM Event Concludes

Thursday, January 29, 2015


9:00 – 5:00 PM Value Chain Planning Customer Advisory Board

Invited members of the Oracle VCP customer community will meet. Registration Required

Birds‐of‐a‐Feather: Lunch Tables

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Value Chain Planning Track Session Details

General Sessions

TIME TITLE ABSTRACT SPEAKERS

Tuesday

11:00 – 11:45 AM

Oracle Value Chain

Planning: Overview

and Product Strategy

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

enable a wide range of transformative business processes. Also learn

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.

Vikash Goyal, Sr. Director

VCP Strategy, Oracle

Tuesday

12:00 – 12:45 PM


Customer Panel:

Enabling Agents of

Change

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

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

planning solution enabling companies to develop profitable operating

plans, speed tactical decision making, and continuously monitor the

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

this customer panel discussion, learn best practices from supply chain

experts and how they drive business results and manage change.

Carlos Londono, Director,

Planning, Starbucks;

Randy Mandel, VP

Inventory Management

and Supply Chain

Strategy, McGraw‐Hill

Education

Kenny Paterson, Director

WW Sales Operations,

Western Digital

David Markwell, Manager

VCP Applications, Oracle

Wednesday

10:45 – 11:30 AM


Release 12.2.4 for

EBS and JDE

Customers

Learn about recent improvements made to Oracle Value Chain Planning

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

Chain Planning, Oracle Rapid Planning, Oracle Advanced Planning

Command Center, Oracle Inventory Optimization, and Oracle Production

Scheduling. This session emphasizes the new business processes and

industry capabilities in Release 12.2.4 and covers the benefits and

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.

Nathan Jorgenson, ERP +

Supply Chain, GE

Appliances

Roger Goossens, VP VCP

Product Development,

Oracle

Wednesday

11:45 – 12:30 PM

Value Chain Planning:

Empowering the

Modern Value Chain

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

who have effectively leveraged solutions and services from Oracle VCP

partners, Avata and Trinamix respectively to meet their specific business

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

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.

John Husemann, Director

of Operations, NTN

Hari Pudusseri, Sr.

Manager IT, Facebook

Duane Hardacre,

Managing Partner, Avata

Amit Sharma, Director,

Trinamix

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Track: Demand and Trade Promotions Management


Tuesday

1:45 – 2:45

PM

Customer Panel: Best

Practices in Demand

Management

This session will highlight key Demand Management processes that have

helped companies predict demand more accurately, improve their response

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

from customers how they have improved their sales forecasting, forecast

collaboration, and new product introduction processes using Oracle’s

Demantra Demand Management. There will be ample opportunity for the

audience to ask our panelists how their businesses improved fill rates,

product mix, and other key performance indicators.

Anil Johnson, Helen of

Troy

Alluri Raju, Polycom

Rich Barboza, Keysight

Technologies

Colin McComb, Oracle

Tuesday

3:45 – 4:45

PM

Maximize your

Demantra Investment

by Taking Full

Advantage of

Advanced Capabilities

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

demand planning by using advanced capabilities in Demantra. Hear directly

from experts how to best leverage Demantra features to support complex

business requirements and extreme scale.

Dariusz Piatkowski, Global

Process Mgr, Meritor

Nadav Zivelin, Product

Management, Oracle

Ron Arar, Value Chain

Development, Oracle

Tuesday

5:00 – 6:00

PM

High Performance

Demand Sensing and

Demand Management

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

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

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

Memory Consumption‐Driven Planning enable companies to use such data

and become more responsive to customer demand and changing market

conditions.

Sree Vaidyanathan, Senior

Director, Sony Computer

Entertainment America

Bart Feldman, VP, Demantra Development

Oracle

Wednesday

1:30 – 2:30

PM

Transformation to a

more effective

Demand‐Driven

Organization

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

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

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

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

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

company, is transforming their organization using Oracle Demantra and

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

the global apparel retailer, is using Oracle Demantra and Exadata to forecast

across their multiple channels and move to advanced store‐level forecasting.

Deborah Cirrincione,

Director Initiative Delivery,

NBTY

Chris Vennefron, Business

Forecasting, Abercrombie

& Fitch

Jamie Gallagher, Sales

Consulting Manager,

Oracle

Wednesday

3:30 – 4:30

PM

Optimizing

Promotions and

Increasing

Effectiveness of Trade

Spend with Oracle

Demantra Trade

Promotions

Management

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

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

Planning, Trade Promotion Optimization, and Deduction and Settlement

Management products offer a foundational trade promotion management

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

enables integration of the trade promotion process with demand planning,

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.

Sue Streff, Project

Manager / Business

Analyst, Michael Foods

Evelyn Eng, Director ‐

Process Improvement,

Darigold

Mike Liebson, Director

VCP Product Strategy,

Oracle

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Track: Supply Chain Agility


Tuesday

1:45 – 2:45

PM

Achieving

Perfect Order

Fulfillment

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

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

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

perfect order fulfillment using Oracle solutions. Key transformation strategies and

solution capabilities will be discussed.

Jonathan Lund, Emerson

Process Management ‐

Rosemount Division

Kiran Gayakwad,

Emerson Electric

Pradeep Balebail, Product

Strategy Director, Oracle

Tuesday

3:45 – 4:45

PM

Control your

Value Chain with

Early Warning

and Optimal

Response

Demand and supply volatility and unforeseen market events require companies to

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

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

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

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

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

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

operations.

Greg Crunkilton,

Manager, Planning and

Logistics, Panasonic

Avionics

Scott Malcolm, Senior

Director, Oracle

Tuesday

5:00 – 6:00

PM

Customer Panel:

Best Practices in

Supply Chain

Planning

This session features customers who face different business challenges across a

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

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

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.

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

Wednesday

1:30 – 2:30

PM

Differentiating

the Service

Supply Chain

using Oracle VCP

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

parts a strategic differentiator through a comprehensive platform that helps

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 .

Todd Bollenbacher, VP Supply Chain, Terradata

Moshin Lee, Sr. Director, Value Chain Planning Product Management, Oracle

Vinay Deshmukh, Senior Director, Oracle Sun

Wednesday

3:30 – 4:30

PM

Increase

Throughput and

Cut Costs with

Better

Manufacturing

Planning and

Scheduling

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

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

floor performance for both process and discrete industries. Oracle Advanced

Supply Chain Planning combined with Oracle Production Scheduling coupled with

increased shop floor visibility from manufacturing systems, will allow you to

achieve improvements in manufacturing cost and efficiency.

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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Track: Integrated Business Planning


Tuesday

1:45 – 2:45

PM

The Fast Track to IBP

in the Real World of

Complex Organizations

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

approach being employed to ensure GE Power & Water's Integrated Business

Planning (IBP) implementations truly achieve integration between People &

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

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

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.

Eric Ensminger, CIO Global

Supply Chain, GE

Distributed Power

Terry Johnson, Principal

Consultant, Oliver Wight

Tuesday

3:45 – 4:45

PM

Customer Panel: Best

Practices in Integrated

Business Planning

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

how best to implement best practices and to avoid mistakes. Successful IBP

implementations provide senior leadership teams with a regular and routine review

of how core processes are synchronized and aligned to meet the financial

expectations of the future with visibility and understanding of key decisions needed

to achieve the long term goals. Attend this session to hear Oracle customers discuss

their IBP implementations and plans. .

Vedavathi Konduru, VCP IT Manager, Cabot Microelectronics

Hernán González Sánchez, Supply Chain Planning Director, Herdez

Mike Johnston, ERP IT Track Lead, Cummins

Gerald O'Sullivan, Regional Sales Manager, Oracle

Tuesday

5:00 – 6:00

PM

Strategic and Tactical

Supply Planning and

Value Chain

Optimization

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

number of interlocking choices in developing and deploying a supply plan. Questions

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

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

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

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

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.

Don Kellenberger, Senior

Architect, Supply Chain,

General Electric Health

Care

Richard Herrin, Director,

Georgia Gulf Corp

Scott Malcolm, Senior

Director, Oracle

Wednesday

1:30 – 2:30

PM

How to evolve to an

Integrated Business

Planning process?

Once organizations have laid the foundation for S&OP and gained acceptance within

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

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

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.

Vikash Goyal, Sr. Director

VCP Product Strategy,

Oracle

Wednesday

3:30 – 4:30

PM

Integrated Business

Planning: Visibility,

Finance, and Results

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

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

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

Using Oracle EBS, Value Chain Planning ‐‐ including Oracle Demantra ‐‐ and Hyperion,

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.

Nitin Gaglani, Director

Applications, Natus Medical

Paul Homchick, Director

Product Marketing, Oracle

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Tuesday

1:45 – 2:45

PM

Improve Asset

Uptime and

Reduce

Maintenance

Costs with VCP

Asset

Maintenance

Planning

Project‐based operations typically suffer from limited visibility between the

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

inventory requirements, reduce resource utilization, cause project cost overruns

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

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

Value Chain Planning with Oracle Primavera can overcome these challenges by

matching the material schedule with the project schedule to reduce supply

disruption and project delay.

Kevin Gates, Manager,

Operational Excellence,

Barrick Gold

Bala Subramanian, Product

Management Director,

Oracle

Tuesday

3:45 – 4:45

PM

Accelerate

Business‐to‐

Consumer

Response with

Oracle Value

Chain Planning

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

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

chains, private label retailers and communications service providers. These

companies need to deliver a differentiated consumer experience through multiple

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

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

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

channel fulfillment.

Kalyan Adavi, Director IT

Supply Chain and

Distribution, Bare

Ecsentuals

Rebecca Livingston, Sr

Director Supply Chain

Optimization, Snyder's

Lance

Matt Johnson, Senior

Director, Product Strategy,

Oracle

Tuesday

5:00 – 6:00

PM

Improve

Visibility,

Delivery, Profits

in Project‐Driven

Supply Chain

Project‐based operations typically suffer from limited visibility between the

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

inventory requirements, reduce resource utilization, cause project cost overruns

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

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

Value Chain Planning with Oracle Primavera can overcome these challenges by

matching the material schedule with the project schedule to reduce supply

disruption and project delay.

Raju Penmetsa, Program

Manager ‐ Business

Solutions, GE Distributed

Power

Joe Fornadel, VCP Solution

Strategist, Oracle

Bala Subramanian, Product

Management Director,

Oracle

Wednesday

1:30 – 2:30

PM

High‐

Performance

Value Chain

Planning and

Analytics

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

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

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

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

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

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

Black Belt, Cummins –

RMEP

Sushant Sawant, Practice

Director, KPIT

Vijay Pillarisetti, Director,

Product Management,

Value Chain Planning,

Oracle

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Wednesday

3:30 – 4:30

PM

Demand‐Driven

Procurement

and

Replenishment:

Modernize to

Thrive

Distributors and retailers are striving to improve inventory profitability and

customer satisfaction by optimizing their supply chain process and using value

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

replenishment planning and allows buyers and inventory analysts to forecast

demand across multiple channels, optimize inventory and streamline purchasing

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

leading distributor that has transformed to a demand‐driven and customer‐

centric lean supply chain.

Mark Meisels, Director

Supply Chain, Global

Industrial/ Division of

Systemax

Kiran Saindane, Principal

Product Strategy Manager,

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.

Contact Us

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

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