05 mai 2009
World Expo 2010 Logistics Seminar
It is forecasted that the Shanghai Expo will attract 70 million visitors, with an average of 400,000 people visiting the 3.28-square-kilometer park each day, suggesting a heavy burden for transportation and logistics in the city.
The reconstruction of terminals and runways at Shanghai’s Hongqiao and Pudong airports is underway and, when completed, the two airports will be able to collectively handle more than 80 million passengers a year, twice the previous volume. The pace of construction and expansion of large transport nodes like the Hongqiao Transport Hub, which links together land and air transport, and the Shanghai Railway Station has also accelerated.
Whether or not Shanghai's urban transport and logistics can meet the demands of the World Expo will be a key factor in the Expo's success.
Due to popular demand, the Council will organize a special seminar on June 25 in Shanghai focusing on the logistics aspects of the Shanghai World Expo 2010.
Speakers from the organization committee, the logistics service providers and other key aspects have been invited. The sessions will provide some lessons learned from the Olympics and give some "insights" of what foreign companies can expect in term of logistics, warehousing, distribution and transportation, food safety, cold chain, import & customs regulations before and during the expo.
By attending this seminar, participants will be able to:
- UNDERSTAND the latest blueprint and plans around the World Expo
- RECEIVE strategic insight, tools and advices to strengthen your Shanghai distribution
- IDENTIFY opportunities from the latest regulatory changes around the Expo
- EVALUATE new logistics solutions, tools and services available at the Expo
- NETWORK with industry peers in an intimate gathering of senior level supply chain & logistics executives.
Who should attend?
- Senior Managers in Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation, Distribution and Warehousing
- Manufacturers, Retailers, Wholesalers involved in distributing products in Shanghai
- Logistics Service Providers involved in intra-province and intra-city logistics and distribution
- anybody interested to hear the latest develpments around the Expo.
Source: Global Supply Chain Coucil
2nd Supply Chain Risk China Summit
Understanding & Managing Your Supply Chain Risks in, to and from China
Commodity prices fluctuations, currency exchange rates, supplier financial stability, products recalls, strikes, natural disasters, internet cuts can all knock out your supply chains. Those are the potential hazards that companies face today, and anyone of them can put their business survival at risk.
In fact, studies show that 1/3 of companies that experience disruption of supply suffer loss of business, lower stock returns and damage to their brand. Procurement and sourcing executives are on the front line in the struggle to identify the specific supply-chain risks their companies face and plan mitigation strategies.
Risk management has now emerged as a critical discipline due to the business need for global sourcing strategies, increasingly complex contract manufacturing relationships, and the greater number of natural and political events that can disrupt the supply chain. So it's no surprise that supply chain risk management is becoming an increasingly important part of many manufacturers and retailers operations, particularly with China.
Organized by Asia's leading supply chain organization, the 2nd Supply Chain Risk Summit, to be held on June 17, 2009 in Shanghai will gather leading experts and Fortune 500 executives to discuss and share through panel discussions and interactive debates the most pressing challenges faced by today's companies operating in China.
Key issues to be discussed: - Identifying the key risks across the supply chain
- Aligning risk management with your China supply chain
- Establishing a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) for China
- Cope with fluctuations in commodities and exchange rates
- Evaluating the financial stress of your China supplier base
- Impact of the slowdown on supplier relationships
- Risk mitigation and contract manufacturing
- Suppliers reputation and risk management
- How to minimize risks in products recalls?
- Weatherproof your supply chain against acts of nature
- Securing IT systems to defuse supply chain risks
- Manage risks inherent to China exchange rate policies, change of customs rules, tax refund
This summit will provide a key opportunity for industry, procurement practitioners and leading experts to discuss the issues, the solutions and approaches to manage your most important supply-chain riskss in China.
Who Will Attend?
- Senior Managers in Supply Chain, Procurement, Sourcing in China
- Senior management executives from manufacturing and retailing companies
- Consultants, lawyers, and solutions providers specialized in risk assessment and management
For more info: http://www.supplychains.com/en/cev/436
18 mars 2008
Supply Chain Innovation Forum, Apr. 23, Shanghai
Many of today's leading companies still support 20th century operations in an era of 21st century processes.
As companies become increasing global and more dependent on external partners, the supply chain plays a greater and greater role in their innovation strategy. As a result, companies need to not only consider how an innovation will affect the delivery of goods and services but also look at their supply chain operations with fresh eyes and a China focus.
As China's market matures with higher cost and increasing competition, companies will need to innovate in their supply chain models, put their processes together to better coordinate planning and execution and embrace more technology-focused, cross-enterprise business process management. In China, few companies have an efficient and integrated end-end supply chain and little has changed for the past few years. Isn't success basically a matter of excelling at design, manufacturing, procurement, and logistics and then synchronizing all these supply chain activities together? Not anymore.
Produced by Asia's leading professional organization, the Global Supply Chain Council, the Supply Chain Innovation Forum, on April 23 in Shanghai, will take a first look at the companies that are driving innovative supply chain models from, to or within China.
If you are interested in this event, please see this link for details and registration Supply Chain Innovation Forum
28 juin 2007
Role & Importance of Packaging in Your Supply Chain
Packaging is an integral
part of the goods supply chain. It protects goods from damage, allows
efficient distribution, informs the consumer and helps to promote goods
in a competitive marketplace.
The definition of packaging is “a
coordinated system of preparing goods for safe, efficient and
cost-effective transport, distribution, storage, retailing, consumption
and recovery, reuse or disposal combined with maximising consumer
value, sales and hence profit”.
Packaging is not only a box or a bag
The
retail industry is a driving force in packaging material selections and
packaging designs used in supply chains. It pays much attention to the
consumer package, as well as the transport package as they both are
important to ensure product quality and low cost distribution. The
automotive industry is also considered a driving force in packaging
development. Here, the transport package is the main interest as it
will facilitate the transport, handling and storage of components
bought all over the world and brought to the car assembly line.
It is obvious in both the
retail environment and automotive environment that excellence cannot be
achieved 
in packaging selection if the designer or design team does not
know the following: what is required to effectively and efficiently
distribute the products; what products require to survive the supply
chain; what materials can be used in the package; the converting
possibilities available to transform the materials into useful
packages; the packing conditions available. The designer/the design
team also needs to have knowledge of logistics, sales methods and
consumer demands as well as manufacturing demands.
If you and your company
are involved in the physical distribution of products as a
manufacturer, carrier, packaging supplier or testing laboratory, you
should not miss this seminar.
This is the first time
that a seminar in China address the various aspects of packaging and
its increasing role of in the global supply chain. This event will
provide you the latest techniques, ideas and innovations in the field
of packaging and you'll have opportunities to discuss critical issues
that will help you gain ideas and solutions you need to succeed in your
business in China.
Seminar Objectives
The
objective of this event is to provide an overview of current and
emerging form of packaging and related services, trends and
opportunities along with examples of recent projects of packaging
optimization the supply chain.
Who Should Attend
The
event is designed for all decision makers in the supply chain including
buyers, material managers, warehousing, distribution, logistics and
packaging managers.
Source: CSCC
19 avril 2007
Logistic China 2008 in June
The international trade fair for transport, logistics and telematics
in Asia will take place at the Shanghai New International Expo Center
(SNIEC) in China from June 17 to June 19.
Following its success in 2006, transport logistic China is being held for the third time in Shanghai.
As the country that handles the largest volume of freight in the
world, China is a key factor for success in the transport and logistics
industry. Hence the exhibition and hence the venue. Additionally the
2008 Air Cargo China Conference and show section will deal with
another, desperately important, part of logistics. So it is all about
international networking in the transport and logistics sector with new
technologies on display.
Additional information is available at Logistic China.
Source: Open PR
02 avril 2007
Supply Chain Networking Mixer, Hong Kong
Fri 20-Apr-07 6:00 PM - to - Fri 20-Apr-07 8:00 PM AWST
Working in supply chain, sourcing, procurement or logistics in
Hong Kong and interested in supply chain management? Join the
first 2007 China Supply Chain Council Mixer in Hong Kong.
As part of the ongoing effort of CSCC to continually grow the awareness
around supply chain management in China, CSCC invite you and your guests
to join them for their first Networking Mixer in Hong Kong on April 20.
For more details, please see CSCC
25 mars 2007
RFID Conference
Show name: Asian International RFID Products & Technologies Applications Exhibition & Seminar (RFIDes)
Show Time: April 4-6, 2007
Show Place: Shanghai Everbright Convention and Exhibition Center (SECEC)
Show Tenet: RFID products and technologies applications and challenges in commerce and manufacture industires
Organizer: Unique Fair International Limited Pudong Int'l Exhibition Co., Ltd.
Association Organizers:
CIITA RFID China Alliance
Association for the Promotion of Japanese Investment in China
RFID Tribe
For more information, please see: Unique-Fair
23 mars 2007
China International Logistics Technology and Services Expo 2007
The China International Logistics Technology & Services Expo 2007 (also known as “Logistics World 2007 – Suzhou China”), is authorized by the Ministry of Science and Technology, P.R. China and organized by The Economic and Trade Commission of Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Science and Technology Department, Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Jiangsu Provincial Government and Suzhou Municipal Government, will be held during May 23 – 25, 2007 at Suzhou International Expo Center, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, PR China.
With Jiangsu Province’s continuous improving business environment, modern logistics industry has become a new development focal of Jiangsu Province from year 2000. According to the China Custom’s figure, Jiangsu’s total I/E value in year 2006 is the second highest in China, amounting to US$284 billion, which is 24.6% higher than the same period of previous year. Suzhou is chosen as the manufacturing base by a good number of Fortune 500 companies. She has firmly developed her leading position in the manufacturing of electronics and I.C.T. products, precision machines, light industry, food and pharmaceuticals. The presence of well-developed international logistics environment, abundant industrial resources, together with international operation system led by the local government have provided a favorable platform for the staging of Logistics World 2007 – Suzhou China.
More information: http://www.2456.com/eng/showsinfo/info/info1.asp?eid=3663&order=137
Source: Allconferences
China Airport Expansion & Investment 2007
2007 China Airport Expansion & Investment Outlook ¨C an IBG Company event ¨C will address such critical issues at the top of every airport executive's agenda. The event will be based in Shanghai, China during two days from April 12 to 13, the economy with the largest market potential in the world.
This conference will be an extremely unique meeting platform for leaders, specialists and decision-makers to reflect, exchange information, discuss and deliberate on opportunities and challenges confronting the airport expansion and investment in China. By the presence of senior government officials from CAAC and NDRC to address the latest regulatory issues on the development of China's airport industry and airport executives to share their successful experience in the past and latest strategies for the near future, you'll be equipped with best business strategies on how to truly benefit from the numerous opportunities in Chinese airport industry so as to expand your business and strengthen your growth in China.
More information, please see: IBG
Source: Allconferences
09 mars 2007
Logistics World 2007 Suzhou China
Event Times: Wed 23-May-07 8:30 AM to Fri 25-May-07 5:30 PM
With
the rapid development of China's economy and frequent exchange of
foreign trade, the Chinese logistics market is a faction thriving
scene. The total amount of China's social logistics reached 48
trillion, an increase of 25.4% in 2005. The registered logistics
enterprises amounted to 250 million. By 2010, the national railway line
will expand from the present 74,000 km to 100,000 km; the port's
handling capacity will be further expanded during the future five years.
Huge
market capacity is eye-catching. To speed up the process of global
logistics integration, to strengthen the international cooperation and
exchange of advanced logistics technology and service, to upgrade and
optimize China's logistics industry chain, “China International
Logistics Technology and Service Exhibition ”opens that creates a
harmonious and efficient logistics environment.
Please visit the website of the organiser:http://www.logisticsworld-expo.com