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Quintiq World Tour: Paris

When: 5:00 - 8:30 pm, September 25, 2014

Where: Tour Montparnasse, Espace 56, 33 Avenue du Maine, Paris, France

Speakers:

Henri Beringer, Director, Quintiq France
Barbara Kux, Board member of executive and advisory councils for corporations across multiple industries
Stéphane Crosnier, Supply Chain & Operations Transformation Director, Accenture France
Thibaud Des Dorides, Project Manager, Radio France
Cathy Polge, Co-founder & Editor in Chief, Supply Chain Magazine

Who should attend

Decision makers, C-level executives in IT, operations, production, and finance

Event overview
The Paris segment of the World Tour offers a unique opportunity for participants to exchange ideas on efficient planning practices with top strategists and influential decision makers. Learn about the latest innovations, opportunities, and best practices in a variety of industries. Get answers to questions such as:

How do you make the best decisions with limited visibility over resources and operations?
Does planning only help with the execution of company strategy, or does it have a bigger role to play in shaping it?
How can operational performance and approaches like Lean Management be enhanced by efficient planning?
How much information do different departments have to share in order to maximize efficiency?
What are the risks and rewards of implementing a new planning solution?

The event will be conducted in French.

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Agenda

16:45		Registration
17:00		Is it possible to improve supply chain decision making? – Henri Beringer, Director, Quintiq France
17:10		Strategic business opportunities in a volatile industrial environment – Barbara Kux, Board member of executive and advisory councils for corporations across multiple industries
17:40		Dynamic operations: Planning and other levers to master the volatility of today’s operations – Stéphane Crosnier, Supply Chain & Operations Transformation Director, Accenture France
18:00		Case study: Resource optimization at France’s first radio network – Thibaud Des Dorides, Program Manager, Radio France group
18:20		Using “Big Calculations” to optimize business operations – Henri Beringer, Director, Quintiq France
18:40		Round table discussion led by Cathy Polge, Editor in Chief, Supply Chain Magazine
19:00		Closing speech – Henri Beringer, Director, Quintiq France
19:20		Cocktail reception

Venue

Tour Montparnasse, Espace 56
33 Avenue du Maine,
Paris, France
Tel: +33(0)1-45-38-70-54

Speakers

Henri Beringer is the Director of Quintiq France. Throughout his extensive career, Henri has held senior roles in technical, operations and business management in several fields including product lifecycle management and finance. He has also led R&D and IT optimization teams at IBM and Dassault Systèmes. He is a graduate of École Polytechnique holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence.
Barbara Kux sits on the boards of major corporations including Total, Henkel, Firmenich, and Umicore. In 2008, she became the first woman to join Siemens’ executive board and transformed the company’s supply chain with a procurement program that saw annual cost reductions in the billions. A member of the Davos Economic Forum circle ‘Global Leaders of Tomorrow’, Barbara has been named one of the most influential businesswomen in the world by Fortune magazine.
Stéphane Crosnier is a Managing Director in the Operations division of Accenture Strategy. He oversees Accenture France’s process and operation transformation activities. He also heads Accenture’s Operations consulting group where he works to define dynamic operations. Stéphane has over 20 years of consultancy experience and has supported many supply chain transformation projects, notably in manufacturing, high-tech and pharmaceutical industries. He holds degrees from École Centrale de Nantes and the ESSEC school of management.
Thibaud Des Dorides is the Program Manager at the Radio France group. He has spent much of his career leading and implementing human resource management programs at major corporations like Danone and Schneider Electric, and is an expert in complex HR processes like workforce planning. He’s also responsible for optimizing all media resources at Radio France.
Cathy Polge is the co-founder and Editor in Chief of Supply Chain Magazine. Before starting the magazine, she spent over 20 years in the supply chain industry as a logistics research manager at Bahlsen, and as an consultant analyst in supply chain management at CXP.