2 Day Conference: 29 - 30 April 2009
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Day One: Wednesday 29 April 2009 |
| 0900 |
CHAIRS OPENING REMARKS |
Chair: Paul Smith, Carbon Footprinting and Labelling Project Leader, LRQA
Assessing The Opportunities For Saving Money & Gaining
Resource Efficiencies From Carbon Reduction & Sustainable
Development In The Supply Chain |
KEYNOTE PANEL:
LINKING SUSTAINABILITY TO THE FINANCIALS
| 0910 |
Measuring The Value Of Your Carbon Footprint & Environmental Programme To Distinguish Between A High Value & Soft Initiative |
- Demonstrating the cost benefits of a supply chain sustainability programme in an economic downturn
- Linking supply chain sustainability projects to the financials
- Identifying which initiatives deliver cost benefits & efficiency gains
- Understanding the capital appraisal process on new carbon projects
- 4 Mini Case Studies: Comparing investment models and capital appraisal projects for specific FMCG supply chain initiatives including:
- Farming and agricultural raw material supplier
- Packaging supplier
- Energy/utility supplier
- Food and drink manufacturer
- Calculating ROI on carbon savings, waste reductions packaging, carbon labelling driving value in sales etc
- How a standard accounting approach incorporates
- Carbon and energy costs
- Opportunity costs
- Risks of not taking action
- Various intangibles including customer expectation and positive impact on brand value
- Justifying projects that do not deliver immediate payback
- Leveraging benefits including Enhanced Capital Allowance
Ton van Lier, European Vice President, Operations and Chief Financial Officer, The Timberland Company
Jim Hanna, Director of Environmental Affairs, Starbucks Coffee Company
John Wild, VP Strategy & Sustainability, Morphy Richards
| 0940 |
Extended Questions & Discussion Session |
PANEL SESSION
| 0955 |
Evaluating The Relevance Of Sustainability In An Economic Downturn - Understanding Future Policy And Funding Opportunities For U.K, EU And Globally |
- Gaining clarity on the implications of the forthcoming legislation
- Understanding the latest proposals including PAS 2050, environmental permits, recycling, waste and packaging obligations
- Analysing how carbon regulation will develop in different parts of the world over the next few years
- Evaluating sustainable supply chains with emphasis on supplier engagement in the public procurement
- Evaluating the recent developments in agricultural policy
- How will this impact your organisation?
- How will this impact the suppliers?
- What exactly are the proposed incentives?
- What initiatives is the government looking at?
- Understanding the future for funding environmental projects
- Are there any projected constraints that the financial sector will put on lending money for sustainability projects?
- Analysing the criteria for loans and incentives for environmental initiatives
- How might budgeting for sustainability projects be presented and measured
Dr Kay Williams, Team Leader, Sustainable Product Standards And Product Carbon Footprinting, Defra
Pauline Smith, Water Resources Government and Liaison Manager, Environment Agency
Benjamin Gannon, Executive Director - Government Affairs & Policy Europe, Johnson & Johnson
Paul Pritchard, Head of Corporate Responsibility, Royal Sun Alliance
Sujata Lamba, Head of the Global Linkages Unit - Corporate Advice Department, World Bank
| 1035 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 1050 |
Morning Refreshments Served In The Exhibition Area |
| Comparing The Costs Of Implementing Different Approaches & Standards |
STANDARDS PANEL & EXTENDED DISCUSSION SESSION
| 1120 |
Translating General Principles From Different Methodologies To Determine A Common, Cost Effective Approach |
- Presenting 4 mini case studies dedicated towards comparing and contrasting leading methodologies
- Where next for standards?
- Benefits of a standardised approach – pros and cons of integrating all the relevant life cycle environmental impacts into an overall approach including
- Carbon, GHG, water, biodiversity, non renewable energy)
- Why waste vital resources on delivering varied product sustainability index for different customer - driving standards harmonisation in the supply chain
- What are the most relevant environmental considerations that should be part of such an index?
- Working towards a common cost effective and simplified methodology
- How will it be measured?
- How will the different environmental elements be weighted?
Anabel Drese, CSR Director Europe, The Timberland Company
Andrew Jenkins, Sustainable Development Manager – Products, Boots Group Plc
Dave Challis, Environment Manager, Kimberly-Clark Europe
Gary Marshall, Group Environment Adviser, Polestar Group
| 1200 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 1215 – 1300 |
FACILITATED SYNDICATE GROUPS ON STANDARDS
Identifying Common Principles On Standards Formulation From The Following Supply Chains |
| Group 1 |
Agricultural Raw Materials |
| Group 2 |
Packaging Supply Chain |
| Group 3 |
Global Distribution & Logistics |
| Group 4 |
Global Social Compliance |
| Group 5 |
Energy & Utilities Including Renewable Energy Sources |
| 1300 |
Lunch and Refreshments In The Exhibition Networking Area |
ACTION POINT SESSION – STANDARDS FORMULATION
| 1400 |
What We Are Looking For From The Environmental Footprint Of A Product? Formulating Common Standards For Reaching Through The Supply Chain |
- Evaluating key learnings on standards
- Defining the key principles
- Developing metrics for overall product categories
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RETAIL CASE STUDY
WHERE ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES TO SAVE MONEY?
| 1430 |
Ensuring That You Focus On The Most Important Areas - Identifying Strategically Critical Areas In The Retail Supply Chain Where Businesses Protect/Create Value |
- Evaluating the overall approach
- Analysing the commercial viability
- Understanding the cost savings of joint industrial collaboration
- Transferring cost benefits to your own organisation
- Evaluating the different options for engaging with in a joint effort on sustainability (including in business critical situations)
- Best practices for implementing reduction strategies including
- Primary data collection
- Getting the suppliers on board
- Setting objectives
- Best practices including delivering common methodologies and checklists
- Collaborative communication
- Monitoring
- Scaling up from pilot projects
- Scaling up pilot projects
- Working with suppliers to reduce their footprint including collecting data and setting objectives
- Practical ways to minimise operational costs
Jim Hanna, Director of Environmental Affairs, Starbucks Coffee Company
| 1450 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 1500 |
Best Practises – The New Trends Of Carbon Management: Supply Chain Management At The Forefront Of The Global GHG Emissions Assessment |
GHG emission management in action: Case studies of pioneering global companies
- Direct emissions assessment (scope 1)
- Indirect emissions assessment (scope 2-3)
- New global industry wide initiatives to integrate the supply chain
Julien Picaud, Product Manager, ENABLON
| 1520 |
Questions & Discussion |
| Appraising The Triple Bottom Line Benefits Of Collaborating With Suppliers Both Upstream And Downstream |
CASE STUDY A:
| 1525 |
Appraising The Benefits Of Collaborating With Raw Material Suppliers, Manufacturers In China, Logistics Suppliers And Retailers In U.K |
- Taking a structured approach
- Analysing the business case
- Understanding the cost savings of joint industrial collaboration
- Successfully communicating the win-win situation – Cost benefits for all parties
- Transferring cost benefits to your own organisation
- Collecting data
- Best practices including delivering common methodologies and checklists
- Scaling up pilot projects
- Minimising implementation costs
John Wild, VP Strategy & Sustainability, Morphy Richards
| 1545 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 1550 |
Coffee and Refreshments in the Exhibition Area |
CASE STUDY B
SUPPLY CHAIN CARBON & BEYOND - LOWER YOUR COSTS, RISKS, WASTE AND EMISSIONS WHILST IMPROVING YOUR SERVICE
| 1620 |
Developing & Implementing A Total Supply Chain Sustainability Action Plan To Deliver Major Business Impacts & Lasting Business Value |
- What defines Total Supply Chain Sustainability and why is it necessary?
- How to assess opportunities in your end-to-end supply chain - upstream and downstream
- Prioritising and implementing a Sustainability Action Plan
- How Total Supply Chain Sustainability supports your CSR reporting and enhances profitability and brand value
Chris Stanley, Director, Weir Total Supply Chain Sustainability
| 1640 |
Questions & Discussion |
CASE STUDY C
| 1645 |
Practical Tips On Developing Collaborative Relationships In The Supply Chain To Realise Both Financial And Environmental Benefits |
- Overall strategy and set up: critical to success
- Working with suppliers for mutual benefit: Tools and relationships
- Moving towards sustainable packaging: materials, trade offs, measures, benefits
- Practical actions taken: successes and opportunities for improvement
- Small steps and big leaps: both are important
- Balancing sustainability and commercial requirements
Tom Berry, Sustainability Manager, Innocent Drinks
| 1705 |
Questions & Discussion |
| Implementing Practical Strategies For Minimising Waste By Deriving Optimum Value From Raw Materials/Resources And Utilities |
CASE STUDY A:
SPENDING LESS MONEY ON RESOURCES!
| 1710 |
Developing Carbon Management Through The Supply Chain - From Sourcing To Communicating |
- Practical tips on tackling correct data
- Evaluating the data to understand what the business and environmental benefits will be –
- Capital cost justification vs environmental impacts
- Whole life costing methods
- Developing effective supply chain partnerships
- Pinpointing how collaboration is being successfully executed
- Safeguarding your business through a greater ability to predict potential raw materials shortages
- Successfully communicating the win-win situation – Cost benefits for suppliers to be growing more efficiently
- Not just science – the importance of communicating benefits to consumers – making sustainability commercially viable
- Quick win strategies to successful consumer communication
Gary Marshall, Group Environment Adviser, Polestar Group
CASE STUDY B:
| 1730 |
Working With Suppliers To Maximise Energy And Waste Efficiencies |
- Evaluating the overall approach
- Targeting gains - Evaluating the data to understand what the business and environmental benefits will be –
- Capital cost justification vs environmental impacts
- Whole life costing methods
- Tactics for understanding and acting on broader opportunities across the supply chain
- Pinpointing how collaboration is being successfully executed
Liz Cross, Head Of CSR Strategy & Policy For Procurement, BT Group Plc
CASE STUDY C:
| 1750 |
Practical Tips On Minimising Waste And Energy Across The Supply Chain |
- Analysing over all approach
- Practical tips on tackling correct data
- Exploring ways to improve environmental performance further in compliance with partners and business strategies
- Developing effective supply chain partnerships
- Pinpointing how collaboration is being successfully executed
- Establishing effective methods of working together towards a common objective
Anabel Drese, CSR Director Europe, The Timberland Company
| 1810 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 1825 |
Chairman’s Closing Remarks followed by Evening Drinks Reception |
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Day Two: Thursday 30 April 2009 |
| 0900 |
CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS |
Chair: Deborah Evans, Head of Corporate Reporting and Assurance, LRQA
| Successfully Managing Sustainability Across Aspects That Are Challenging To Control |
Each case study will outline best practices approaches and demonstrate how optimising each segment of the supply chain translates to financial and economic savings. These sessions are divided into three broad segments – retail, consumer goods brands and suppliers of raw materials, resources and utilities.
These will cover:
- Mapping across your value chain
- Analysing the business risks, opportunities and inefficiencies
- Drawing up and demonstrating the business plan
- Creating and transferring costs benefits in the supply chain
- Gaining efficiencies
- Prioritising which suppliers impact your ecological footprint
- Evaluating the different options for engaging with in a joint effort on sustainability (including in business critical situations)
- Best practices for implementing reduction strategies including
- Primary data collection
- Getting the suppliers on board
- Setting objectives
- Collaborative communication
- Monitoring
- Scaling up from pilot projects
- Minimising implementation costs
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DELIVERING ACTION POINTS
To help facilitate an understanding of key transferable principles along with the key rationales and nuances and how to apply these learnings to your sector, each section of the day features a facilitated pan audience discussion tailored to delivering action plans. |
| Sustainable Sourcing Of Raw Materials - Best Practice Strategies To Drive Up Efficiencies And Reduce Waste Upstream In The Supply Chain |
CASE STUDY A
AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
| 0915 |
Quick Win Strategies For Gaining Information At The Agricultural Level To Drive Up Efficiencies And Reduce Waste In The Supply Chain |
- Evaluating the relative importance of emissions from agriculture in the supply chain
- Understanding the risks and challenges associated with gathering primary data versus making assumptions
- How to collect relevant information on
- Energy use
- Water consumption
- Land fill
- Fertilizers and pesticides used
- Use of Genetically-modified (GM) food and crops
- Successfully communicating the win-win situation – Cost benefits for suppliers to be growing more efficiently
Bill Bartlett, Corporate Affairs Director, McCain Foods Ltd
CASE STUDY B
NON-AGRICULTURAL RAW MATERIALS
| 0935 |
Pioneering Sustainable Palm Kernel Oil in the Detergent Industry |
- Prioritising which suppliers impact your ecological footprint
- Drawing up and demonstrating the business plan
- Creating and transferring costs benefits in the supply chain
- Gaining efficiencies
- Evaluating renewable raw materials as a basis for detergent ingredients
- Making the choices – i.e food vs. fuel in vegetable oil market?
- Understanding sustainability in the palm oil industry
- Transferring cost benefits to your own organisation
- Sustainability certificates - A new way or dead end?
- Minimising implementation costs
Dr. Frank Roland Schroeder, Global Director Of Sustainability - Laundry & Home Care, Henkel
CASE STUDY C
| 0955 |
Learnings From The Frozen Foods Industry - Implementing Practical Strategies Whilst Communicating Benefits To Consumers To Gain Optimum Value From Raw Materials Including Agricultural Raw Materials, Fish & Meat |
- Knowing where most of your emissions lie – agricultural, dairy and meats
- Best practice implementation strategies including delivering common methodologies and checklists
- Implementing change and ensuring that suppliers match up to your values – how to become the first producer in Germany to focus on additive free foods
- Successfully communicating the win-win situation – Cost benefits for suppliers to be growing more efficiently
- Not just science – the importance of communicating benefits to consumers – making sustainability commercially viable
- Quick win strategies to successful consumer communication – making sure consumers understand
Felix Ahlers, Member Of Board – Sales & Marketing, Frosta AG
| 1015 |
Questions & Discussion |
CASE STUDY D
ENSURING YOUR AGRO BASED PROCESSED RAW MATERIAL SUPPLIERS WITH INDEPENDENT SUPPLY CHAINS ARE MAXIMISING VALUE
| 1035 |
Best Practice Approaches For Measuring Your Carbon & Ecological Footprints |
- Analysing the risks and opportunities
- Mapping across their value chains
- Best in class ways to ensuring quality and security whilst lowering price
- Evaluating innovative ways of cost effectively minimising waste ie alternative uses of unused parts of the crop and educating farmers to diversify crop
Jette Hansen, Environmental Manager - Corporate Sustainable Development, Danisco
| 1055 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 1105 |
Coffee and Refreshments in the Exhibition Area |
| 1135 |
FOCUSED PAN AUDIENCE DISCUSSION ON PRACTICAL TIPS FOR
ENHANCING COLLABORATION FOR SUSTAINABLE SOURCING |
Facilitated by Paul Smith, Carbon Footprint and Labelling Project Leader, LRQA
ACTION POINT SUMMARY
Creating Sustainability On Your Ground: Formulating a common thought process
- Evaluating key learnings
- Defining the key principles
- Developing metrics for raw materials
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| Evaluating The Benefits Of Working Together With Suppliers To Reduce Waste In Packaging |
CASE STUDY A
| 1205 |
Understanding The Perspective And Benefits For Brand Manufacturers |
- Evaluating the overall approach
- Understanding the trade offs and key impacts across the supply chain
- Is packaging a necessary evil?
- Saving on packaging for environmental benefit vs. losing out with product wastage
- Assessing different types of materials – most sustainable local products
- Evaluating the optimum packaging material for transporting
- Balancing the commercial and marketing needs of the retailers –they still want their product to look good
Dr. Gus Atri, Environmental Affairs Controller, Northern Foods
CASE STUDY B
| 1225 |
Understanding How The Packaging Industry Is Approaching Sustainability – Evaluating A Three Dimensional Approach |
- Examining the current legislative packaging obligations
- Analysing the commercial viability
- Evaluating different solutions and their impact
- Analysing product sustainability versus process sustainability
- Concrete examples on carbon footprint in particular along the packaging value chain
- Highlighting conditions to get reliable results – an in depth analysis of how Alcan’s has used it’s famous tool (ASSET) with their supply chain
Robert Broughton, Food Contact Manager - Europe, Alcan Packaging
| 1245 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 1300 |
Lunch and Refreshments In The Exhibition Networking Area |
CASE STUDY
INDUSTRY COLLABORATION - DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL
| 1400 |
Evaluating The Cost And Energy Savings Derived By Industry Collaboration With Transport & Logistical Suppliers To Develop An Efficient Distribution Mix For Global Supply Chains |
- Comparing and contrasting the costs and environmental impacts of various modes of transport including rail, shipping, aviation
- Understanding the repercussions of modal shift
- Principles for developing an optmised distribution mix
- Simple tools to reduce costs and carbon footprints such as partnering with organisations to synchronize distribution needs (i.e. another global player whose says we’ve got ships going half empty n from a quick conversation we suddenly realise that we can share transportation potentially)
Peter Ratcliff, General Manager, Supply Chain Development, Maersk Logistics
| 1420 |
Questions & Discussion |
| Working With Supply Chain Partners During Product Development - Redesigning Products With Renewable Materials |
CASE STUDY A
| 1430 |
Implementation Strategies For Maximising Resource Efficiency Through Design – Cannon’s 3R Design Standards |
- Developing a holistic strategy - 3R design standards including product recoverability at the time of design, the percentage of parts common to multiple products, and improve the ease of products disassembly
- Designing products to be more resource efficient
- Modifying processes to minimise waste
- Principles for developing products with multi-construction - balancing considerations of energy, water, and waste
- Encouraging collaboration upstream to ensure re-thinking of materials and processes
Kentaro Niwano, Senior Environment Officer, Canon Europe
CASE STUDY B
| 1450 |
Implementing Eco Design - From Overseas Sourcing To Product On The Shelves |
- Best practices for developing a holistic strategy to develop sustainable innovation products
- Designing products to be more resource efficient
- Modifying processes to minimise waste
- Principles for developing products with multi-construction - balancing considerations of energy, water, and waste
- Encouraging collaboration upstream to ensure re-thinking of materials and processes
- Ensuring that the materials you are using are more renewable, reusable and/or recyclable at the end of the product life
- Considering consumer demands – is it easily recyclable?
- Evaluating the cost benefits and environmental impacts of scaling up
Ben Earl, Social Responsibility Adviser – Climate Change, B&Q plc
| 1510 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 1525 |
Coffee and Refreshments in the Exhibition Area |
| 1555 – 1615 |
Facilitated Syndicate Groups On Developing Common Principles
For Catalyzing Collaboration In The Supply Chain For: |
| Group 1 |
Packaging |
| Group 2 |
Distribution - Transport & Logistics |
| Group 3 |
New Product Development |
ACTION POINT SUMMARY
Creating Sustainability On Your Ground: Formulating a common thought process
- Evaluating key learnings
- Defining the key principles
- Developing a strategy to
- Ensure financial and economic savings go hand in hand with environmental benefits
- Pinpointing where most difference can be made for you ie agriculture, packaging, distribution, NPD etc
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| 1615 |
Report Back From Syndicate Groups |
CASE STUDY
SPEND LESS MONEY THROUGH COLLABORATION - WATER FOOTPRINTING
| 1635 |
Collaborative Steps To Effectively Reduce Power Hungry Water Consumption Patterns Including Water Recycling Within A Factory Environment |
- Understanding the real cost and value of water- examining the link between water and energy usage
- Gathering operational data on water availability and quality
- Understanding which processes can be modified to reduce consumption while maintaining or increasing productivity
- Understanding what is considered as dirty water by regulation
- How to reduce the generation of wastewater – Developing waste minimization programs - increasing efficient cleaning processes, water reuse and awareness employee
- Implementing low cost primary and secondary waste water treatment
- Best practice on water recycling – how do you do it, how to overcome quality issues such as the build up of pesticides or heavy metals
- Understanding the costs and trade offs of water reuse
V. Gururajan, Group Head - Development & Projects, Branston Ltd
| 1655 |
Questions & Discussion |
CLOSING PANEL
THE COMMERCIAL REALITIES OF MAKING THIS HAPPEN ON A LARGE SCALE
| 1705 |
Connecting Pilot Projects And In-Depth Environmental Analysis To Business Strategies – Benefiting From Supply Chain Efficiencies, Acquiring Cost Savings & Scaling Up |
- Understanding how financial and economic savings go hand in hand with environmental benefits ie reducing resource intensity in a systematic way
- Pinpointing where a difference can be made
- Best practice approaches, learnings and key challenges for scaling up
- Mapping across value chains
- Methods for analysing and understanding risk and opportunity
- Seeking to engage business plan
- How to transfer cost benefits and efficiencies to your own business
- Scaling up pilot projects and integrating these initiatives to business strategies
Bill Bartlett, Corporate Affairs Director, McCain Foods Ltd
Liz Cross, Head Of CSR Strategy & Policy For Procurement, BT Group Plc
Kentaro Niwano, Senior Environment Officer, Canon Europe
Felix Ahlers, Member Of Board – Sales & Marketing, Frosta AG
| 1735 |
Chair’s Remarks And Close Of Conference |
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Pre Conference Workshops - Tuesday 28th April 2009
London Business Conferences is pleased to announce the two ground breaking pre-conference workshops that encourage actionability. . . More |
Ton van Lier, European
Vice President, Operations and Chief Financial Officer, The Timberland Company
Jim Hanna, Director of Environmental Affairs, Starbucks Coffee Company
Bill Bartlett, Corporate Affairs Director, McCain Foods Ltd
Dr. Frank Roland Schroeder, Global Director Of Sustainability - Laundry
& Home Care, Henkel
John Wild, VP Strategy & Sustainability, Morphy Richards
Benjamin Gannon, Executive Director - Government Affairs & Policy Europe, Johnson & Johnson
Felix Ahlers, Member Of Board – Sales & Marketing, Frosta AG
Clement Warther, Director Sustainability and Risk Control, Alcan Packaging
Anabel Drese, CSR
Director Europe, The Timberland Company
Kentaro Niwano, Senior Environment Officer, Canon Europe
Ben Earl, Social Responsibility Adviser – Climate Change, B&Q plc
V. Gururajan, Group Head - Development & Projects, Branston Ltd
Liz Cross, Head Of CSR Strategy & Policy For Procurement, BT Group Plc
Dr. Gus Atri, Environmental Affairs Controller, Northern Foods
Andrew Jenkins, Sustainable Development Manager – Products, Boots Group Plc
Dr Kay Williams, Team Leader, Sustainable
Product Standards And Product Carbon Footprinting, Defra
Jette Hansen, Environmental Manager - Corporate Sustainable Development, Danisco
Pauline Smith, Water Resources Government and Liaison Manager, Environment Agency
Senior Representative, Nestle Vevey
Paul Pritchard, Head of Corporate Responsibility, Royal Sun Alliance
Sujata Lamba, Head of the Global Linkages Unit - Corporate Advice Department, World Bank
Tom Berry, Sustainability Manager, Innocent Drinks
Dave Challis, Environment Manager, Kimberly-Clark Europe
Gary Marshall, Group Environment Adviser, Polestar Group
Stephen Weir, Director, WEIR-tscs
Julien Picaud, Product Manager, Enablon
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