Official Sponsor of the 15th Annual European Supply Chain and Logistics Summit, Berlin

15th Annual Europe Supply Chain & Logistics Summit starts today: 25-27 June 2013

Oliver Wight is the Official Sponsor of the 15th Annual European Supply Chain and Logistics Summit in Berlin.

Interactive Workshop, Day 1 - Wednesday 26 June:

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Les Brookes, CEO
Oliver Wight EAME LLP

Design for success: How supply chain segmentation, collaboration and optimization can transform performance and value
Presented by: Les Brookes - CEO, Oliver Wight EAME LLP

Optimization of your supply chain is essential to successfully meet the needs of customers, efficiently and cost-effectively.  Varying demand for product, service levels and routes to market can be better served through market segmentation and a corresponding realignment of the supply chain.  Collaboration through mutual capability and integrated strengths, lends itself to continuous improvement in supply chain efficiency.  This workshop discusses how to design and optimise your supply chain structure to bring greater integration up and down the supply chain.

One-to-One meetings:

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Paul Archer, Partner

Jerry Shanahan, Partner

Across the two days, delegates will have opportunity to meet with Les and his colleagues, Paul Archer and Jerry Shanahan, partners of Oliver Wight.  For details on how to book a one-to-one meeting please contact veronica.lake@oliverwight-eame.com

We will be at stand 47 & 48 to answer any questions with regards to your Supply Chain and Logistics queries.

Oliver Wight EAME LLP at the SCL Europe 2013 event: 26 June

Les Brookes, Paul Archer and Jerry Shanahan
at the 15th Annual SCL Europe 2013, Berlin

Les Brookes and Jerry Shanahan one to one meetings
with the SCL Europe 2013 delegates

Les Brookes and Jerry Shanahan discussing
Supply Chain and Logists issues with delegates

Jerry Shanahan, hosting a discussion panel.

ITN Productions film Oliver Wight for new supply chain news channel

Business improvement specialists, Oliver Wight, have teamed up with ITN Productions to film a revealing documentary, ‘Turning Fortunes Around - uncovering the secrets of Supply Chain success’. 

The programme, produced for the Global Logistics and Transport News channel, a partnership between ITN Productions and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), aims to capture the current state of global supply chains and how to manage them.
Introducing the film, presenter Natasha Kaplinsky, explains that optimising the supply chain can bring down costs by half but as well as more accurate forecasting and reduced overstocking, a mind-set change is also required.


“The recent horse meat scandal brought the complexity of global supply chains and the difficulties of controlling them, sharply into focus,” says Oliver Wight consultant Liam Harrington, interviewed in the documentary. “The industry is dominated by the dogma of price, however the lowest price doesn’t actually mean lower costs and it can put reputation on the line when the price quest leads to a fragmented supply chain.”

The film includes interviews with Oliver Wight customers, furniture manufacturer the Quality Furniture Company, which says it owes its survival to supply chain improvements, and Inks manufacturer Akzo Nobel, which has achieved £1 million of savings in just nine months.
Oliver Wight consultant, Anne Marie Kilkenny, who also appears in the film, says, “The collaboration with ITN Productions and CILT is an excellent opportunity to tackle the impact of globalisation, transparency and the environment on the supply chain, and provide some insight in to how to create a more integrated, cost-efficient model.”

The channel will be regularly updated with stories on the latest innovation, thought leadership and best practice – providing an essential tool for professionals working in logistics, transport and supply chain.


Launched at the 2013 Annual Logistics Conference this month, the Oliver Wight documentary is hosted on ITN Productions’ Transport News Channel as part of its ‘Thought Leadership’ series. Watch it here.

Filming with supply chain optimisation experts Oliver Wight and ITN Productions - Behind the scenes

Filming with supply chain optimisation experts Oliver Wight and ITN Productions

 
Want to see a behind the scenes video of our filming for @itn & @ciltuk new global #logistics & #transport channel?

"Business improvement specialists, Oliver Wight, have teamed up with ITN, to film an exciting documentary uncovering the secrets of Supply Chain success. This 'behind the scenes' footage was shot on location at Oliver Wight customer, Quality Furniture Company (QFC)

The new ITN film is being produced for the Global Logistics and Transport news channel, a collaboration between ITN Productions and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT). The film aims to capture the current state of global supply chains and how to manage them."

Liam Harrington

Features Quality Furniture Company and Oliver Wight associate, Liam Harrington.

Welcome to the Team Dawn Dent!

New Associate - Dawn Dent

Oliver Wight EAME welcomes Dawn Dent to the associate team.

Dawn Dent

Dawn Dent

Dawn Dent has almost thirty years’ experience in supply chain, process and project management roles. She believes that customer focus and the effective management of people, products and processes are all key to the delivery of market leading results.

Dawn joined Oliver Wight from Caterpillar where she led the Class A and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) programs in the Industrial Power Systems Division and worked on a number of global ERP implementations.

Welcome to the team!

New Associate - Birgit Breitschuh 

Oliver Wight EAME welcomes Birgit Breitschuh to the associate team.

Birgit Breitschuh

Birgit Breitschuh

Birgit has broad business experience resulting from 10 years in Innovation and 8 years of Supply Chain management in major FMCG companies, namely Unilever, Kraft and Wrigley (Mars). Key to success for her is personal engagement at all levels of an organization. This requires for each employee to understand the company’s long-term ambition and the individual role in achieving it.

Live from LogiCon

Great reception at LogiCon - 6th February 2012

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