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This is an outstanding opportunity for experienced professionals with oversight responsibilities for business travel and meeting spend within supply management operations. The conference will focus on the challenges associated with the complex task of managing travel and meetings – the largest category of indirect spend. As more and more companies place their travel and meetings operations with their supply management organization, it’s important that the professionals charged with directing travel and meeting spend policy decisions have the tools necessary to advance their company’s capabilities in this area. This conference will help meet that need.

This 2-day interactive workshop on Advanced Procurement Negotiations is designed for senior-level supply chain professionals who desire to expand their effectiveness and learn new techniques to improve on their Planning, Preparation, and Execution activities related to high-dollar negotiations with suppliers. Consisting of in-depth explorations into supply chain subjects and addressing key supply chain issues inherent in Asia and other areas around the globe, the workshop will empower delegates to leverage on their negotiating competencies to achieve superior results through a combination of innovative instruction, role-playing exercises and “best practice” techniques used by leading organisations.

Approach your negotiations with confidence to attain sustainable “value for money”! If you strive to establish a leading position and long-term supplier relationships that bring maximum results and minimum hassle, you cannot afford to miss this must-attend workshop!

For more details, contact Ms Lorraine Tiang @ lorraine@conferences.com.sg or (65) 6372 2201

The travel spend category is not only one plagued with
emotional attachments to users but one which is also subject to the expert opinions of business travellers whose due to the wide usage of the services. A balancing act is sometimes the task demanded of sourcing and procurement executives as they strive to minimise cost and maximize productivity of this business process.
This session offers opportunities to compare both the common and unique characteristics between travel and other categories of indirect spend, and advise the approaches to effective management.

The conference theme, "Strategic Travel Supply Management: Moving Business Forward", presents a wide range of presentations, discussions, perspectives and published studies invaluable to senior sourcing and procurement executives.

Companies have tried a myriad of strategies in an attempt to lower costs associated with the procurement process of non-core services. Can Indirect Procurement Outsourcing (IPO) deliver to corporations the substantial cost reductions opportunities it seeks and the potential of extracting competitive advantages from one such category, Business Travel? This session delves into questions surrounding which parts of the travel spend are best suited for an IPO strategy, the considerations in the decision process, the appropriate KPIs to ascertain success and unique challenges the Asia-Pacific region presents this concept?

The conference theme, "Strategic Travel Supply Management: Moving Business Forward", presents a wide range of presentations, discussions, perspectives and published studies invaluable to senior sourcing and procurement executives.

For many companies, travel is not only a significant budgetary component, but is a major portion of their "carbon footprint." This session identifies common sourcing practices by companies that lead in changing the way they purchase services and incorporate sustainable processes into their business travel supply chain. These changes, in return, can generate significant cost savings and service improvements. The presentations and discussions provide insights, outlooks and solutions on goal setting, travel services RFPs
incorporating green metrics, vendor analysis and contracting process.

The conference theme, "Strategic Travel Supply Management: Moving Business Forward", presents a wide range of presentations, discussions, perspectives and published studies invaluable to senior sourcing and procurement executives.

American Conference Institute's Managing Legal Risks in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Outsourcing brings together government officials, in-house counsel from major pharmaceutical companies, and expert outside counsel who will guide you through the painstaking but necessary process of ensuring that your contracts are drafted, negotiated, and executed in the most favorable and protective manner.

Global Distribution Strategies 2008 – Asia Pacific will address all the main issues which shippers and logistics companies face in the region. Combining presentations from exceptional speakers from blue chip companies and organisations such as the World Economic Forum and the United Nations with those of Ti's own analysts, the conference will provide delegates with an in-sight into all the key markets.

Questions to be addressed at the conference include:

How do some of the world's largest manufacturers and retailers organise their physical distribution network?
Where are the 'hotspots' for distribution centre clusters?
What are the key drivers in the organisation of supply chains?
How do distribution strategies vary by industry sector?
How are strategies dependent on product attributes and upstream/ downstream dynamics?
How has the expansion of the regional free trade areas impacted on distribution strategies?
What are the latest trends in Asia, Europe and the Americas?
What is the role of property development companies?
Why are port-centric and intermodal strategies so important?
How progressed are RFID strategies?
How are supply chain visibility technologies affecting physical distribution?
What have been some of the worst distribution disasters?

For more information please contact Mike Nordmann on mnordmann@transportintelligence.com or Sarah Smith on ssmith@transportintelligence.com or alternatively call on +44(0)1666 511880.

eXample Consulting Group is conducting an immensely practical LEAN SIX SIGMA BLACK BELT TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION public workshop at BANGALORE, India on 25, 26, 27 JULY and 2, 3 AUGUST 2008 (Fri-Sun, Sat-Sun). This is an OPEN program.

SIX SIGMA FOCUS
Six Sigma enables organizations to drive business growth and profitability with breakthrough performance improvements in customer satisfaction, operations, quality and service excellence, time to market, business and operational risks, asset and resource productivity and business cost structure. It enables professionals to acquire structured performance improvement competencies and realize accelerated career growth prospects in India and globally.

Professionals (Indian, NRI or Foreign Nationals – Individual or Company sponsored) with 2+ years work experience in any industry or domain with Six Sigma Green Belt qualifications can enroll and benefit.

This program also offers an option for participants to acquire INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATION from eXample USA

For updated program schedules, brochure and registration details,

- Visit http://www.examplecg.com/services/lean_sixsigma.htm (or)
- E-mail to sixsigma-at-examplecg.com (or)
- Call/SMS Mr. Sethu (+91-99862 73363 / +91- 80 - 4128 1482)

Register early as there are limited seats!!

For Corporate/Alliance enquiries, reach us at sixsigma-at-examplecg.com.

eXample Consulting Group
www.examplecg.com

Whether you are in logistics, supply chain, customer support, warranty or aftermarket services – chances are you are a part of the reverse logistics chain. Do you realise how much of your company's profit is being lost to inefficiencies in these processes?

Associated costs of returns can run as much as 10-20% of total operational expenses
If you could reduce that expense by even 1% wouldn’t you try?

Join us at Reverse Logistics & Returns Management Asia 2008 (25 - 26 March 2008, Singapore ) as industry thought leaders share how they have managed to keep product returns and reverse logistics costs down. Hear from leading organisations such as Hewlett Packard, Nokia, Skillweb, The Reverse Logistics Association, Motorola and many more discuss ways to:

- Identify goals and objectives for handling returns

- Evaluate new ways to streamline operations, drive profits and delight customers

- Review green reverse logistics and environmental product return’s management

- Understand how extended warranty management can add to your bottom line

Save the dates or reserve your place now by going to the Reverse Logistics & Returns Management Asia 2008 website!