| PANEL SESSIONS: Wednesday 29 September | | | | 08.00 Registration opens | | | | 09.30 - 10.30 Session 5 | |  Stream 1:
Finished vehicle logistics forum
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A) Cost-down through packaging and container management | | A morning dedicated to the logistics distribution. Carmakers in North America continue to suffer from railroad service issues out of Mexico, from truck capacity shortages and from port space constraints. Carmakers and transport providers across the modes, including ocean, will explore the challanges and highlight possible solutions. -
Robert Barnard
Department Manager, International and Domestic Vehicles Logistics
Mercedes-Benz -
Jeff Bullard
Director of Operations, Logistics
General Motors -
Ricky Coley
Manager, North American Vehicle Logistics
Ford Motor Company | | Sometimes neglected, packaging and container management are increasingly seen as a ‘‘goldmine’’ for cost and efficiency savings. This session will explore how carmakers, suppliers and specialist providers are finding ways of unearthing the savings. -
Bret Carlson
Director of Engineering Services
Orbis Corp.
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Jayson Pankin
New Venture Creation Specialist
Delphi Technologies, Inc.
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Steven Tripp
Senior Manager, Materials Handling Engineering
DaimlerChrysler Corporation -
Charlie Fischer (chair)
Director Business Development
Modern Engineering | | | | | | | 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break | sponsored by G-LOG | | | | | | 11.00 - 12.30 | | Stream 1: cont.
Finished vehicle logistics forum | | Stream 2:
B) Service parts | | -
Paul Carlton
President
Mitsui O.S.K. Bulk Shipping (USA) Inc.
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Christopher Connor
President of the Americas Region
Wallenius Wilhelmsen -
Jim Davis
President, CEO
AMPORTS, Inc. -
Bill Garrett
Automotive/Industrial Business Development
UPS Supply Chain Solutions -
William Kerrigan
Director
KGI, LLC -
Gregory Smith
Executive Director, Distribution & Logistics
Volkswagen of America -
Thomas Swennes
VP, Sales & Marketing
ICL Systems, Inc. -
Jim Terry
Senior Manager, Vehicle Logistics
DaimlerChrysler | | Carmakers are dropping the barriers inside and outside of their companies to open up new opportunities in aftermarket logistics. Inside, OEMs are increasingly looking at how inbound networks can be combined for both service parts and production parts. Outside, they drive to bring their networks together for mutual savings in optimized flows. -
Ron Huston
Distribution Operations Manager, Aftermarket Operations
Visteon Corporation -
Tony Minyon
National Logistics Manager
Toyota Motor Sales, USA -
Frederiek Toney
Director, Global Parts Supply & Logistics
Ford Customer Service Division -
David Vieira
Senior VP, Automotive for Customer Development
Exel
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Ronald West
General Director, Global Operations
General Motors Service & Parts Operations | | | | | 14.00 - 15.30 Session 6: Technology | | Visibility and execution systems are at the heart of the automotive industry's drive to create new value from optimizing networks and generating lower costs -
Debbie Hall
VP, Logistics Solutions
TNT Logistics North America -
Michael Silvio
Director, Supply Chain Management
Cooper-Standard Automotive -
Krish Srinivasan
Senior Manager, Strategic Services Division
Caterpillar Logistics Services -
Michael Trist
Vice President, Business Development, Automotive
Combinenet, Inc.
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James Tucker
Manager, Physical Logistics
BMW | | | | | | 15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break | sponsored by G-LOG | | | | | | 16.00 - 17.30 Session 7: Shipper round-table | | Special session to close the conference, bringing together top executives from carmakers and suppliers to develop some of the major emerging themes and answer delegate's questions. | | | | | 17.30 Close of Conference | | | | | |