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The April conference will be updated by the 14th
October 2004 Global Supply Chain, RFID & GTIN Standards
conference II in Toronto when speakers will address the following:
Any questions? email
or call Alwyn Mitchell, Conference Organizer, at 416-756-1461
Our
thanks to over 150 senior executives from almost 100 companies who
attended
in April 2004.
April 2004 Conference Presentations at
Global Supply Chain, RFID & GTIN Standards© conference
Wednesday, 14th April, Metro Toronto Convention
Centre, Canada
Huge changes are underway to revolutionize
the way in which trading partners identify and track products across
the global supply chain. This process includes new smart
RFID technologies that will power supply chains and new global
compliance standards which must be met by 1st January 2005 - Sunrise
2005 - the 'Y2K of Global Supply Chain Management'.
Conference Objectives: To understand all of the
business and information systems implications of the new GTIN
Standard and the need to be compliant by the 1st January 2005
deadline, especially with regard to going forward with RFID projects.
This conference addresses the needs of global supply
chain trading partners and clearly spells out if, when and how they
must act to achieve greater supply chain efficiencies and avoid
trading problems and business penalties.
ATTENTION: Retailers, Distributors,
Manufacturers and others...
This one-day conference will
enable you to gain a clear idea of how these changes will affect your
organization so it is important that management attend from all
departments likely to be affected. Also, you will understand what
actions are necessary for you to take to prepare for Sunrise 2005.
There will be ample opportunities to speak with the experts and
also to ask
them questions (written or verbal) during the concluding panel session.
7:45 - 8:30 am
Registration & Badge Pick-up
8:30 am What's
happening in our Global Business World?
Stuart Pothan, Conference Chairman
What is GTIN (Global Trade Item Number) / GDS (Global
Data Synchronisation) / Super-Barcodes and "Sunrise 2005"?
How does it affect RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) projects and
where do EPC's (Electronic Product Codes) fit in? In short, how will
these changes affect your organization?
Understand the integration and definition of the new
trading standards (from North America and Europe) and the need to
implement the use of the new GTIN 14-digit standard for global item
identification and data synchronization by the agreed date of 1st
January 2005 - before moving forward with RFID projects. Be
aware of the risks and the benefits to meeting or not meeting these
standards which affect your organization, your trading partner
organizations and the way that you will do business with these organizations.
Stuart Pothan is Conference Chairman and also sits
on the Advisory Board for this conference. Stuart brings a
significant amount of relevant industry and technology management
experience to this role and has held positions with General Motors,
Indal, Unisys and Oracle.
View Powerpoint Presentation
9:00 Development of Global Trading Standards:
Nigel Wood, Director, Industry Relations,
Electronic Commerce Council of Canada
Hear how the adoption of these global trading
standards is globally encouraged and supported by relevant industry
organizations in Canada to ensure these standards are implemented in
a Global Product Registry for all distributor's, retailer's and
supplier's unique item information.
A recognized expert on EDI and Electronic Commerce,
Nigel has participated in the development of Implementation
Guidelines for the Automotive Industry Association, the Food and Drug
Industry, and the Industrial/Commercial sector. Formerly Executive
Director of CommerceNet Canada, and Vice President of Technology at
the EDI Council of Canada, Nigel currently serves on a number of
North American e-commerce standards committees and works with the
grocery retail, foodservice and healthcare industries in promoting
efficient supply chain initiatives.
View Powerpoint Presentation.
9:40 GTIN and its Effects on Global Supply Chain Optimization
Brian Sterling, Vice President & General
Manager, RCM Technologies Canada Corp
North American retailers are now demanding their
suppliers prepare for global data synchronization. GDS is
increasingly becoming a key component of the cost of doing business -
and common standards for bar code data form the foundation of
successful data synchronization. How can your organization use this
opportunity to derive business benefits in supply chain efficiencies
by complying with global standards?
Brian Sterling joined RCM Technologies in 2002 and
is responsible for all aspects of the Canadian operations of this
North American IT consulting firm. He serves as executive sponsor of
their North American SAP Solution Center and RCM Canada’s bar
code remediation business.
View Presentation
(.pdf)
View ROB-TV Interview
(January 2004)
10:10 Morning Break
10:30 Infrastructure
Issues and Standards for RFID/GTIN Deployment:
Peter Winer, Senior
Partner, Big Chief Partners
This year many organizations are moving from
evaluating the business case for RFID and GTIN to starting plans for
full scale deployment. Groups planning deployment face a wide array
of choices including competing standards, emerging applications and
product offerings from startups and established vendors. Making the
wrong choices can increase costs, create delays and force adoption of
technologies that may not remain compatible long enough to deliver
adequate return on investment.
This presentation will offer an overview of this
complex landscape and describe the most important issues in RFID and
GTIN supply chain deployments. Prominent standards will be described
including those emerging from the RFID-focused industry as well as
the established Enterprise Software and Networking industries. The
relative pros and cons of each group of standards will be weighed.
The presentation will also survey some of the key players staking a
claim to this new solution space, describing the unique benefits of
their products and solutions. Finally, a set of concrete
recommendations and resources will be provided to help deploying
companies move forward more efficiently.
Big Chief Partners offers strategic advice,
research and software development for organizations that want to
capitalize on RFID technology. Since early 2001, Big Chief Partners
has been developing the WebLink system with Philips Semiconductors.
Clients include technology providers, deploying customers and venture
investors. Formerly Vice President at Symantec, Peter Winer is a
partner at Big Chief Partners. In this role, he manages software
development projects and advises companies and venture investors.
View Presentation
(.pdf)
11:10 UCCNet, RFID and
the new Global Supply Chain Paradigm:
Phil Friedman, Vice-President Consumer and Process
Industries, Oracle Corporation
UCCNet and RFID will drive the new supply chain
paradigm. These two key emerging and mandated technologies will
significantly impact every relationship across the CPG supply chain.
Manufacturers need to understand how companies such as Target and
Wal-Mart have redefined how they plan to do business in the next decade.
This session is hosted by Phil Friedman,
Vice-president Consumer Products for the Oracle Corporation and a
25-year veteran of the CPG industry. He will focus on the new supply
chain model and specifially RFID. It will look at how to master the
implications and move the manufacturers view from a cost to be
incurred to an opportunity for top line growth and significant bottom
line improvement.
11:50 RFID, EPC, GTIN and Your Infrastructure:
David Meany, Retail Advisor, Cisco Systems Internet
Business Solutions Group
Understand the implications of supporting RFID, EPC,
and GTIN on current systems infrastructures. Make sure you are ready
to enable the identification of product and retrieve the information
you need about it in a real time world.
David Meany is an executive advisor in Cisco's
Internet Business Solutions Group Retail Practice. David's
experiences as a Senior Retail Information Technology Executive
include CIO at Just for Feet, CIO at Bruno's Supermarkets, and Vice
President of Fujitsu Consulting Services for the Americas. His
overall experience spans Retail, Government, Health Care,
Transportation, Training, and Computer Services industries. For the
last 12 months, David has lead the development of Cisco's RFID
business strategy working with customers and Cisco business units to
define solutions and corresponding markets for Cisco's network products.
View Powerpoint Presentation
12:30 Lunch and Networking
Theme: "Let's Get In Sync,
partners" - 'HUBS and SPOKES working together'
Major retailers ("Hubs") invite their
suppliers ("Spokes") to attend this lunch and networking
session to communicate their own specific timetables and plans for
GTIN compliance, as well as their expectations and requirements for
their suppliers' synchronised compliance. Delegates may also visit sponsors displays.
1:45 Connecting the RFID Network
Dean Prevost, Executive Vice President &
President IT Services, Allstream Corporation Canada
All factors, including regulatory and peer to peer
governance, point to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) as being
the next technology to heavily impact all points along supply chain.
Retail, shipping, logistics and manufacturing organizations will
recognize the value this technology promises for their businesses.
Where will the benefits be for your organization? Will
it be the supply chain efficiencies, the improved tracking of
genealogy or the optimization of internal processes? Using references
to a real world customer example, this session will discuss the
requirements for developing and implementing an RFID solution, and
how organizations can extract value from it.
Dean Prevost is Executive Vice President and
President, IT Services of Allstream, a
leading supplier of products and services that enable connectivity
and information flow. Dean holds a
Bachelor of Commerce in Finance from the
University of Calgary with distinction and a Masters of Business
Administration from Harvard Business School.
View Powerpoint Presentation
2:30 "Making It Happen": An Update Report
on 'End-Users' Progress
Hear how organizations from a variety of sectors,
currently involved in projects to change their systems and processes
and integrate with existing systems, are progressing to meet GTIN
compliance standards before they move towards RFID deployment. Find
out about the "people who are doing it, or have done it - already".
View Peter Winer's Presentation
1 (.pdf)
View Brian Sterling's Presentation
2 (.pdf)
3:15 Afternoon Break
3:30 - 4:30 GTIN / RFID Solutions Providers -
concluding Panel and Q & A session
Following a summary of the conference solutions
discussed, this lively plenary-panel session will provide conference
delegates with the opportunity to put their questions to
representatives from all conference sponsors providing GTIN and RFID solutions.
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