Logistics Manager Conference

Mike will share with delegates how customer satisfaction can be increased and product miles can be reduced when the proper systems are in place with some real world examples of despatch from store, click & collect and cross border fulfilment implementations.

Mike Thom, Prism DM

Peter is responsible for Kimberly-Clark's physical logistics operations, sales and operations planning, customer service and demand planning of organisations in Western & Central Europe, and leads the Order to Cash and Forecast to Stock process streams. Peter has pioneered effective collaboration between CPG companies for many years, and unlike those who have simply talked about it, he has successfully led large scale collaboration projects with Unilever and Kellogg's - where major infrastructure investments including design and build of combined/multi user warehousing projects and shared distribution fleets.

The big supply chain challenges of the next decade – volatility, complexity and global shifts.
Coping with the ‘New Normal’ – key supply chain themes
How the game has changed in the last 10 years
Supply chain at the heart of business strategy
Key capabilities for the next decade to 2020

Professor Alan Braithwaite, Chairman, LCP Consulting and Visiting Professor, Cranfield School of Management

With the UK pharma industry being described as “the jewel in the crown”, and increasing numbers of major multiples specifying that logistics providers hold the BRC Storage & Distribution Standard, these accreditations are highly valued prizes.

Gill Cox, from the PMN Group, will discuss how you can take your business to the next level - facilitating contracts with major multiples and medicinal suppliers - by achieving these standards.

The basic requirements of both Standards will be presented; and the synergies between them explained.

Gill Cox, Quality and Technical Director, PMN Group

Ruth Waring FCILT combines her role as a full time transport consultant with running the successful networking organisation Women in Logistics UK, which she set up in 2008; the group now has over 2600 members. Ruth is a self-taught networking expert, having decided to use this route to promote her business when she went self-employed 10 years ago. She now successfully uses networking and social media to generate all her new sales leads. In this presentation Ruth shares her to tips for networking success amongst fellow logisticians; she will demonstrate how you need to have a strategy, explain where and when to network and of course, with whom.

Ruth Waring FCILT Managing Director Labyrinth Logistics Consulting Ltd