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November 8th-9th, 2011

NAW Billion Dollar Company Operations Roundtable

Agenda

November 8th, 2011
Day 1
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Reception

Come prepared to meet and mingle with your fellow participants from the largest firms in the industry.
 

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Welcome Dinner

November 9th, 2011
Day 2
7:00 AM - 7:55 AM

Breakfast

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Presentation - "The Future of The Workforce"

Presenters
  • Irina Konstantinovsky
    Director, Chicago Reward, Talent and Communication Line of Business Leader, Towers Watson
  • Lori Wisper
    Senior Consultant, Towers Watson

Towers Watson will lead a discussion on trends in HR programs with a specific focus on compensation and engagement. As part of the discussion, Towers Watson will lead an interactive portion focused on your HR issues and providing practical take-aways for improving engagement.

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Break

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM

Presentation & Discussion - "The Future of The Workforce Part 2"

Presenters
  • Irina Konstantinovsky
    Director, Chicago Reward, Talent and Communication Line of Business Leader, Towers Watson
  • Lori Wisper
    Senior Consultant, Towers Watson

Lori and Irina will continue their presentation on HR Issues.

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentation & Discussion - "Continuous Improvement - Lean"

Paul D. Brooks
Sales Director, Unipart Logistics

Large Wholesalers and Distributors are now considering how do they take advantage of best practice Lean tools and techniques to focus on customer service and reduce waste (cost) in their outbound and reverse flows, while at the same time delivering increased flexibility (smaller more frequent orders and batch sizes of one).

Paul will share the remarkable story of The Unipart Group (Unipart) which has long been recognized as a pioneer in engaging people in continuous improvement the result of which has been a sustainable route to operational excellence.

Some of the questions covered in Paul’s paper and follow up discussion will be:

• Effective movement of inventory between company locations / distribution centers
• Facility Operations: layout / slotting / racking. Shift dynamics - start-up & breaks
• Production wait time - pickers waiting on replenishment, etc. Inc distribution
• More for less with lower inventories, shorter customer order cycles and smaller orders
• Increasing SKU’s and batch sizes of one - truly compatible?
• How to identify ROI to justify investment in technology
• How to identify and prioritize opportunities.
 

12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

Lunch

12:50 PM - 1:00 PM

Break

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Open Discussion

This free form session has been left as an open forum for each participant to bring any issue they would like the group to collectively chime in on. A complete networking opportunity

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Group discussion to set agenda for next meeting, which is scheduled for April 24-25, 2012

2:30 PM

Adjourn