Antwerp, Belgium (Nasdaq) 10 December 2011

Supply chain leaders are identified and discussed in the following catalysts for growth:

? Supply chain resilience of the delegates agreed that if the companies offer the flexibility of the green supply chain processes, they will drive down costs – and vice versa. Data transparency and horizontal cooperation are also important factors in improving the resilience of the supply chain. Delegates predicted that the re-use, reverse supply chains and two-way supply chains extremely important for the future .????

???? CFO of the supply chain, and between separate the critical functions of supply chain management and the company’s finance department. There was a general feeling that the business in order to strengthen relations and increased empathy between departments about the daily challenges. The fact that very few financial people will attend the conference, the lack of integration.

???? S & OP best practices panel discussion on Sales and Operations Planning (S & OP) showed that there was still rising mountains, only 5 percent of the company, claiming a solid, well-structured S & OP process have set up. The delegates approved the merits of implementing powers transferred to the formal S & OP process, but not yet the confidence forecast accuracy.

???? Sustainability The delegates discussed the importance of sustainable supply chains together, how to achieve the best. Most agreed that sustainability is not usually an option in these days, but the company expects. Since it is likely that more durability legislation on the horizon, were the people that now is the time to start planning. Although the cost of resistance by dropping all the time, the company will defer taking action because of economic uncertainty in the euro area and beyond.

? Horizontal cooperation representatives held different views about the extent to which they would collaborate with trading partners. The most commonly accepted practice of co-operation with partners in the joint purchase of suppliers in the ground in order to achieve economies of scale. Representatives of view is shared by logistic processes were more complicated scenario. Trucks can, for example, be de-branded. Many feel that this is done under duress, when profit margins are down and rising operating costs. The delegations agreed that the key for better horizontal co-operation to improve confidence.

???? Getting to understand the edge in the emerging countries, the cultural and political situation in all emerging markets were as of paramount importance in addition to a thorough market analysis to see. Companies need to analyze a variety of local issues in detail, including the need to possibly create a tailor-made products and sizes on the market. Representatives resoundingly agreed that the biggest risk of the business is growing [in emerging markets].

After the conference, Mr. Hugh Williams said: I am encouraged that the debate out of the supply chain to maintain the operation is seen as a catalyst for growth shifted. The delegates have shared many concrete examples of real progress and plans for a number of areas of cooperation sustainability. But we have still much to do in practice and the integration of more than one point, especially financial. I am excited to see how this develops over the course of the year and we hope to welcome more economic leadership of the conference next year may.

by Hugh Williams

CEO

Hughenden

Hugh.Williams (at) Hughenden (dot) net

+44 (0) 1494 535 649

http://www.hughendenconsulting.com

Katharine O’Reilly

Director

eyefortransport

koreilly (at) EFT (dot) com

: +44 (0) 207 375 7207

ww.eft.com

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