Footage from this year’s DIALOG user conference is now available in interactive format (video with slides embedded). There were many lively sessions covering topics as diverse as BPM, lean manufacturing, SOA and Web 2.0. There are numerous customer testimonials from the likes of eBay, Swiss Medical, Travelocity and CheckFree.
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In what I think was probably my favorite session of the day, Anna Ross from New Zealand’s Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd. provided an excellent overview of her company’s operations and the many supply chain issues, challenges, and risks that Fonterra faces every day when competing in global markets.
True to the title of her presentation, Anna began with a quite extraordinary list of facts about her employer. Her first slide,…
In this session, Filippo Focacci, product marketing manager for ILOG’s Supply Chain Management (SCM) product line, presented ILOG Plant PowerOps (PPO) and how it was used to radically improve production planning and scheduling in Danone’s dairy manufacturing plants around the world.
PPO is ILOG’s new integrated planning and scheduling solution for the manufacturing process industry, specifically optimized for fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), pharmaceutical, and chemical processing applications.
The models…
In this session, Andrew Reese hosted a discussion with Rob Wehrman from 3M, Anna Ross from Fonterra and Derek Nelson and David Simchi-Levi from ILOG. The session explored strategies for handling complex supply chain networks and touched on challenges like green logistics, risk management and rising transportation costs.
The session provided real insight into the complexity inherent in manufacturing and shipping on a global scale. Below are a few snippets…
Moderator:
Steve Nunez (SN), product reviews contributor, InfoWorld
Panel:
Maura Cole (MC), Business System Specialist, aigdirect.com
Darren Koch (DK), Senior Manager, Revenue Management, Hotwire
James Taylor (JT), author of “Smart (Enough) Systems”
The session started with questions from Steve:
SN: How do you work with linking your business processes to rules?
MC: We work with Excel to test the rules. This is a fully manual process, although we can move to production quickly.…
Martin Brotschul, senior manager, Supply Chain Strategy Practice, Accenture
In this talk, Martin focussed on the impact of climate change on supply chain business models.
Customers are stepping up to environmental responsibility and demanding sustainability from the supply chain that produces the goods they use. The push has come from Europe but the US is catching up. Many companies are interested in instituting change before legislation is imposed upon them. Companies…
In this session, Bob Bixby, ILOG Chief Science Officer, discussed how optimization has become a key component in addressing common business and manufacturing problems today. He explained what has and hasn’t changed in approaches to optimization over the many years that he has been in the business.
Bob used IBM’s East Fishkill 300mm semiconductor wafer manufacturing plant as an example to explain the benefits that optimization and automated scheduling can…
David Simchi-Levi, MIT professor and co-founder of LogicTools, a division of ILOG
In this talk, David concentrated on the major trade-off facing supply chain operators - that between increasing plant capacity without increasing risk.
Redundancy
It’s difficult to build a forecast to build in risk. One way is to go through scenario (what-if) analysis. The problem here is that it can be difficult to predict every possible scenario and to determine which…
Jon Ferraiolo works for IBM but works more or less full time heading up the OpenAjax Alliance. Ajax is the power behind mashups, and because mashups take components from different suppliers, interoperability, and therefore the work of the OpenAjax Alliance, is critical.
IBM quickly recognized the importance of defining an agile, open source industry group to defined standards for the industry.
The key concepts behind Web 2.0 are community, collaboration,…
Sandy Carter, vice president, SOA and WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing for IBM
Sandy Carter is responsible for driving IBM’s cross-company, worldwide SOA marketing initiatives. She is considered an expert in the SOA field and is author of The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0.
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