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The Fresh Connection - The Ultimate Supply Chain Competition
  Final event
SCALA Consulting organised the UK final event of this competition for Thursday 8 July. Throughout the day, the finalists played the final 3 rounds of The Fresh Connection. At the end of the day, Cadbury UK - Purple Passion won the competition with an ROI of 57.8% to become the first ever UK Supply Chain Champions!

The ranking for the top 6 teams was as follows:
   
Ranking  Team
ROI (%)
1  Cadbury UK - Purple Passion 57.8
2  Heinz 39.8
3  Swisslog UK Ltd 35.5
4  E2Open - Tooty Fruity 25.1
5  Seven Collaborative Solutions 19.6
6  E2Open - Team 1 19.5
  Date and Location
 
The final event and conference was held on Thursday 8 July at Wroxall Abbey, Warwickshire
  Speakers
 
Peter Surtees, European Supply Chain Director at Kimberly-Clark spoke on
"Collaboration across the Supply Chain".

Ed Luttrell, MD of Blue Bamboo Consulting spoke on "An Introduction to Neuro-Lingustic Programming (NLP) and What It Can do for You"

If you ever want more than just a compromise, or become a more effective communicator, If you want to have better leadership & influencing skills, then NLP can get better results for you, your customers and your teams. It's a way of understanding how and why people do what they do. Ed's talk introduced listeners to NLP and left them with practical tools to use in multiple contexts, in work and beyond.

Ed Luttrall is one of the UK's leading exponents of NLP and proved to be a very entertaining speaker!
  Timetable
Event Time Activity
Fresh
Connection
Final Event		 09:30 Guests arrive
10:30 Preparatory instructions and introduction to Final Event by SCALA
11:00 Round 8
12:30 Lunch and round 8 results
13:15 Round 9
14:45 Guest presentations, round 9 results and round 10 presentation
preparations
16:30 Finalists present (3 to 6 presentation) - 15 mins each with audience voting
SCALA 2010
Annual Debate		 17:30 Pimms and networking on lawn
18:45 Fresh Connection Awards Ceremony
19:00 SCALA 2010 Anual Debate : introduction
19:15 Guest speakers
20:15 Audience Questions / discussion
21:00 Supper and networking
  Goals
 
1. To combine professional forces among supply chain professionals in order to put the content of our field in     better perspective with regard to the whole industry
2. To create an opportunity in which supply chain professionals will be able to strengthen or expand their     networks with their clients
3. To give players better insight into the teamwork which is required to make real, tangible improvements in     the supply chain with the aid of such a management simulation.
   
SCALA Logistics Debate 2010 - 8th July
  SCALA ANNUAL LOGISTICS DEBATE 8 JULY 2010 CAN SUPPLY CHAIN COLLABORATION IMPROVE ON SHELF AVAILABILITY?
SCALA Logistics Debate 2010Some of the leading names in UK supply chain and logistics gathered at the SCALA Annual Logistics Debate at Wroxall Abbey, Warwick with the agenda to discuss "Can Supply Chain Collaboration Improve On Shelf Availability?"

The hugely enjoyable debate, was chaired by David Grahamslaw, vice chair for CILT West Midlands and National Business Development Manager at TNT Fashion with an expert panel comprising: Duncan Lowe, Supply Chain Director for PepsiCo; Keith Newton, Customer Logistics Director for Cadbury; Neil Ashworth, Supply Chain Director for Tesco.com and John Potter, Senior Partner at SCALA.

After initial cases being put forward by the speakers the debate was thrown open, some lively exchanges ensued, with the issue of trust between retailer and manufacturer being raised repeatedly.

The question of implants at retail sites was also raised again and again with many participants convinced they were the most effective method of improving relationships and developing greater understanding of customer operations and strategy.

In addition the need for incentivised relationships with 3PLs was another area lacking in the current supply chain industry, with greater opportunities to seek mutual benefits yet to be embraced by many.

The SCALA Annual Logistics Debate, attended by over 150 delegates, was supported by the CILT UK, sponsored by AEB Advanced Global Trade Solutions, Slimstock and BiS Henderson and CDC Software Solutions.
CDC Software AEB The Charted Institute of Logistics and Transport(UK)
BIS Headerson Slimstock  
   
FMCG Supply Chain 'Best Practice' Benchmarking 2010
Last year's Supply Chain Performance Benchmarking, for many of the major brand grocery suppliers, proved a huge success with very positive feedback - particularly with the sharing of Supply Chain Best Practice, introduced for the first time.

For 2010 we already have additional companies wishing to participate.

For more information on this and future SCALA Benchmarking projects please get in touch.