Events for 2014

Oliver Wight sponsors a number of forums and summits across Europe, along with a number of our own events  focused on current business issues including supply chain optimization and integrated business planning (IBP), as well as providing good networking opportunities. Below are the forthcoming events for 2014.

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Advancing S&OP to Integrated Business Planning

03-05 February 2014
Radisson Blu Hotel, Amsterdam

The Supply Chain Forum

04 March 2014
Whittlebury Hall, UK

Oracle Value Chain Summit

18 -19 March 2014
Amsterdam

SAPICS Annual Conference

01 - 03 June 2014
Sun City, Johannesburg, South Africa

Supply Chain and Logistics Summit

16 -18 June 2014
Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, Barcelona

The Supply Chain Forum

21 October 2014
Eastwood Hall, UK

The Oliver Wight Conference

18 -19 November 2014
Sheraton Brussels Airport Hotel, Brussels

Oliver Wight Conference 19-20 November

Oliver Wight is delighted to announce the Inaugural Oliver Wight Annual Conference.

The Conference is being held at The Sheraton Brussels Airport Hotel, on Tuesday and Wednesday 19th and 20th November 2013, and with the hotel located virtually door to door with the airport and minutes away by train and road travel, it is a great location to attend what will be a great event.

We are obviously planning an agenda that is not only interesting, but also informative and challenging.

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SAPICS 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibition

 

02 June 2013 - 04 June 2013 

For the third year running Oliver Wight was the Gold Sponsor of the Annual SAPICS Conference and Exhibition which took place on Sunday 2nd - Tuesday 4th June 2013 in Sun City, Johannesburg.

Knowing and Controlling your Demand in an Integrated Supply Chain

Lloyd Snowden

Monte Maritz

Managing Partner, Lloyd Snowden, hosted an interactive workshop on Sunday afternoon, along with his colleague, Monte Martiz.  Delegates heared leading edge thinking about Demand Management and understood the difference between Demand Planning and Demand Control.  The 3 hour interactive session provided the opportunity to listen to other company challenges and successes.




SAPICS 2013 - Event Images

Oliver Wight Event with Oracle Tomorrow 6th June 2013, UK

Get more value from your value chain with Integrated Business Planning
Find the path to unlocking your company’s financial potentialThursday 6th June 2013 at Oracle, Blythe Valley Park, Solihull, United Kingdom

Workshop Overview and Agenda
Oracle and Oliver Wight invite you to join us to learn more about Integrated Business Planning and how this highly effective process can be used to unlock your company's full financial potential. Companies successfully implementing Integrated Business Planning have realized the following improvements by having an effective, integrated business management process in place for aligning and realigning their strategic, business and operational objectives and core processes across all functions in their organizations:

• Reducing working capital by 25% 
• Increased forecast accuracy by 25% 
• Increased on-time delivery by 10-50% 
• Reducing obsolete inventory by 50% 
• Increased sales revenue by 15% 
• Increased productivity by 30% 
• Understanding the financial impacts of business scenarios that Integrated Business Planning delivers
  
  

This week's event! Integrated Business Planning Innovation Summit

Integrated Business Planning Innovation Summit

25 April 2013 - 26 April 2013 

Oliver Wight is delighted to be returning as Gold Sponsor to the Integrated Business Planning Innovation Summit. 

 

Managing Uncertainty with Integrated Business Planning

Oliver Wight workshop presented by Andrew Purton, Managing Partner - Oliver Wight EAME LLP.

Andrew Purton

Debbie Bowen-Heaton

The last five years have seen businesses having to deal with unparalleled levels of uncertainty. The debate continues - when will we come out of recession, and how quickly? The view of many organisations still seems to be that S&OP only "works" in a stable environment and so devote a large amount of time to working around the process. In this session, Andrew will demonstrate how Integrated Business Planning is the key to helping organisations deal effectively with uncertainty and make timely decisions in order to secure a profitable future.

Andrew will also be chairing day two of the summit. He will be joined across the two days by his colleague, Debbie Bowen-Heaton, Partner of Oliver Wight. Delegates will have opportunity to meet with Andrew and Debbie both at the stand and through scheduled 1-2-1 meetings. 


Event Photos

Andrew Purton talking to an attendee

Andrew Purton and Debbie Bowen-Heaton at the Oliver Wight stand

 

New Event Date added! 23 April 2013

JDA and Oliver Wight Integrated Business Planning Workshop - 23 April 2013

The ability to respond to changing market conditions is the key to business success. The Integrated Business Planning and S&OP Workshop will help you understand how to stay ahead of your competition.

Since 2007, businesses have experienced unprecedented levels of market volatility, and this volatility has led to wholesale adoption of Integrated Business Planning practices and S&OP processes. However, many companies are now concluding that management of such an important process is inefficient when relying on Excel, email and Powerpoint. JDA S&OP is designed to specifically address these requirements.
The workshop will enable you to:

• Understand how to manage the “gap” between the current plan and the annual operating plan.
  
• Analyse and view data through multiple lenses and to cope with a regional/global matrix process
• Administer the S&OP process itself using workflow, exceptions and audit trails
• Identify performance gaps early to ensure optimal profitability
• Learn how appropriate aggregation underpins the process of timely decision making
• Understand the importance of enabling accountability through transparent impact analysis and providing a “corporate memory”
• Support adoption through familiarity and ease of use
  

For further information and to register for the workshop click here

 

Event - Oliver Wight - Sponsoring the Supply Chain Forum

Oliver Wight are pleased to be sponsoring The Supply Chain Forum - an event providing senior industry professionals with access to new ideas, solutions and innovations to help take their departments and companies forward.

Lloyd Snowden, Managing Partner of Oliver Wight, will be hosting a series of one-to-one meetings throughout the day and during the evening events.  Lloyd will also be making a presentation, which will explore why achieving Supply Chain Excellence is now business critical.

Lloyd Snowden, Managing Partner of Oliver Wight, hosting breakfast table.

Opening address speaker -
Excellent talk on the economy saying it is all about confidence.
Things are not as black as they are being painted.

Upcoming Dates for your Diaries

Conferences/Seminars/Forums

Click links for more information.

The links will take you to the Oliver Wight EAME website.

The Supply Chain Forum

05 March 2013
Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire 

 Supply Chain Design and Optimization Webinar

11 April 2013
Global 

Integrated Business Planning Innovation Summit

25 April 2013
Jumeirah Carlton Tower, London, UK  

SAPICS 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibition

02 June 2013
Sun City, Johannesburg, South Africa

15th Annual Europe Supply Chain & Logistics Summit

25 June 2013
Berlin, Germany 

Sales and Operations Planning Innovation Summit

17 October 2013
Berlin, Germany 

Live from LogiCon

Great reception at LogiCon - 6th February 2012

Oliver Wight Partner, Kirsty Braines, presenting "Why Supply Chain Excellence is now Business Critical".

Oliver Wight are sponsors of LogiCon

www.wbresearch.com/logiconeurope

Oliver Wight at LogiCon 2013

 05 - 07 February 2013

 

 

This week Oliver Wight is sponsoring LogiCon - the Supply Chain Management Conference for Retail & FMCG.

Workshop: Wednesday 6th February, 09:45
Oliver Wight Partner, Kirsty Braines, will be presenting why Supply Chain Excellence is now Business Critical. Kirsty will explore end-to-end supply chain thinking with a clear focus on delivering supply chain excellence. The workshop will challenge you to think:

• Where are you taking your supply chain?
• Where do you best connect with your customers?

Kirsty will be joined by Andy Walker, Partner of Oliver Wight. Delegates can meet Kirsty and Andy at the stand, during networking breaks, and via scheduled 1-2-1 meetings.

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