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Predict. Optimise. Grow.

On March 5, join the world's leading authorities in supply chain optimisation, corporate transformation, change management and operations research as they share best practices and success at OPTIMUS 2015 Melbourne.

Venue

RMIT University Storey Hall

Storey Hall today has an appearance and functions as excitingly diverse as its history. Built by the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society as a meeting hall in 1887, the building was an important symbol of social and political protest.

Storey Hall has today found new life as a major architectural site of the city, and as a significant contributor to the arts and exhibiting calendar. A glance at its past shows that Storey Hall has, throughout its long colourful history, been a part of the life of Melbourne.

Agenda

Network with other supply chain professionals and learn how they saved on their operational costs in this information-packed afternoon.

Please find the agenda for OPTIMUS 2015 Melbourne below.

12:00 pm
Welcome Lunch and Networking
12:45 pm
Event Opening
Richard Simpson, Managing Director, ORTEC Australia & New Zealand
12:50 pm
Global vision
Georgios Sarigiannidis, Director Operations, ORTEC
1:10 pm
Big Data Analytics - How to get started?
Michael van Duijn, CEO, ORTEC Consulting Group
1:30 pm
Break
1:40 pm
Innovations in the Australian Retail market - Exceeding customer expectations and creating value in the Supply Chain through business process optimisation and technology
Craig Wickham, General Manager - Distribution, Coles Supermarkets
2:10 pm
Engaging a digital generation
Tim Mundy, Director of Strategy, Digital Affair
2:30 pm
Afternoon Tea - Networking, demo stations and partner stations
3:00 pm
Welcome Back
Richard Simpson, Managing Director, ORTEC Australia & New Zealand
3:05 pm
Coca-Cola Amatil's journey in navigating the complex trade-offs between Customer Satisfaction, Employee Satisfaction, and Cost of Service
Andrew Hurba, National Systems and Process Manager, Coca-Cola Amatil
3:25 pm
The future of advanced planning software according to ORTEC
Wouter Luijten, Chief Product Officer, ORTEC
3:45 pm
Break
3:55 pm
Change management. A presentation about lessons learnt while implementing advanced optimisation solutions for PUD operations
Peter McAllister, Program Manager, Toll Group
4:15 pm
Implementation of Planning Systems and taking the end users on the change journey.
George Gioras, Manager Transport Analytics and Planning Capabilities, Linfox
4:35 pm
Recent advancements in routing optimisation - bridging the gap
Oscar Verzaal, Chief Architect, ORTEC
Daniel Dam, Product manager Vehicle Routing & Dispatch, ORTEC
4:55 pm
Wrap Up
5:05 pm
Networking Drinks - Networking, demo stations and partner stations
6:30 pm
Rooftop Experience

Speakers

Hear from leading professionals in supply chain management, predictive commerce, and big data all in once place.

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  • Tim Mundy
    Tim Mundy
    Director of Strategy, Digital Affair
    Engaging a digital generation

    Tim will highlight the importance of preparing the workplace for a generation of digitally native employees that will soon enter the job market. Focusing on the impact that social media has already had in a relatively short period of time, and the impending expectations of the next generation worker.

    About Tim Mundy

    Digital Affair's founder Tim Mundy is considered a thought leader and industry influencer across Australian and global recruitment markets. He has turned around the Employment Branding & Recruitment functions of National & Global Brands.

    Early in his career Tim gained extensive experience as an Executive Search Consultant recruiting for brands such as Telstra, Origin Energy, AGL and Monsanto to name a few, before moving client side several years ago and achieving great success as a creative marketer at Crown Resorts and Telstra.

    Today, Digital Affair is the first full service Employment Branding, Talent Acquisition & Training consultancy of its kind. Partnered with the industry's best practitioners to bring strategy to life, as a Founder and Director Tim's role is about working with clients to set a pace for innovation that puts their employment brands ahead of the game.

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  • By incorporating flexibility into the scheduling process, especially with the way calls are 'committed' to the tech, CCA has been able to successfully customise call allocation to allow for the wide range of service models throughout Australia and New Zealand. In addition, this same mechanism can be used to moderate the impact of change to the technicians.

    About Andrew Hurba

    Currently, Andrew is the National Systems and Process Manager from Coca-Cola Amatil. A role he has been performing for the last 7 years. During this time he has been involved with multiple SAP implementations and enhancements, the design and implementation of an intelligent equipment ordering tool and recently the migration to a fully automatic scheduling system with OSP as well as a Syclo field service mobility implementation to support OSP. Previous to this Andrew has performed a number of different roles in CCA including State Equipment Services and Vending Market Manager and Warehouse Manager.

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  • George Gioras
    George Gioras
    Manager Transport Analytics and Planning Capabilities, Linfox
    Implementation of Planning Systems and taking the end users on the change journey.

    About George Gioras

    George Gioras has over 20 years of experience in Supply Chain and Sales Customer Service. He currently manages a team of Supply Chain Analysts and Project Leaders at Linfox and has worked with route optimisation software and tools for over 10 years.

    George has experience in Manufacturing, Warehousing, Distribution, Finance, Sales, Commercial Analysis, Sales Territory Planning, Transport Planning and currently works for Linfox (currently 1 and a half years). Before that George worked for Coca-Cola Amatil (17 years).

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  • Richard Simpson
    Richard Simpson
    Managing Director, ORTEC Australia & New Zealand
    Event Opening

    About Richard Simpson

    Richard was instrumental in setting up ORTEC in ANZ in 2010 and has been a Managing Director of the ORTEC operation downunder since 2010.

    In 2014 Richard was based in the Netherlands as ORTEC's interim Chief Products Officer, but has now returned to his home in New Zealand (a home he sees infrequently as he travels Australia for business).

    Before joining ORTEC Richard held senior Product organisation and pre-sales positions in several enterprise software vendors; Infor, SSA Global, Arzoon. Richard also spent three years managing DHL eCommerce platforms in the USA.

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  • Georgios Sarigiannidis
    Georgios Sarigiannidis
    Director Operations, ORTEC
    Global vision

    'Optimize the World': what does this really mean for ORTEC, our customers and the world around us? ORTEC in the supply chain, business innovation and the environment."

    About Georgios Sarigiannidis

    Co-director of the Global Business Development (GBD). GBD consists of ORTEC's offices in UK & Ireland, Nordic, Italy, Central & Eastern Europe, Australia & New Zealand, and Latin America, as well as all global partners' and products' activities in countries where ORTEC does not have a local establishment.

    After studying classical music in Athens (Greece) and a tour of duty in the Greek Special Forces, he studied applied mathematics and optimization in Delft (The Netherlands). Georgios has, for more than 10 years, been active in the field of consultancy services to Logistics and Supply Chain Management operations all around the world. He joined ORTEC in 2006.

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  • Michael Van Duijn
    Michael van Duijn
    CEO, ORTEC Consulting Group
    Big Data Analytics - How to get started?

    About Michael van Duijn

    Started at ORTEC in 1994. Founder and managing partner of ORTEC USA (2000-2007). Previously board responsible for sales & business strategy (2008-2011) and Logistics Products in Western Europe (2011-2013).

    Currently responsible for Consulting activities within the ORTEC group. Supervisory board member of Museum Gouda. Master's degree in Operations Research at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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  • Wouter Luijten
    Wouter Luijten
    Chief Product Officer, ORTEC
    The future of advanced planning software according to ORTEC

    Data is changing the world. How does this affect the roadmap of advanced planning and scheduling solutions?

    About Wouter Luijten

    Master in Management Econometrics and Operations Research at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Joint ORTEC in 1995 and became one of the founding fathers of ORTEC's Workforce Scheduling solutions. Now leading the product management team and responsible for all functions in research and development.

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  • Optimisation is in our DNA. In too many cases, scientific breakthroughs in operations research have little relevance to everyday life. Learn how we bridge this gap: our new routing optimizer delivers high quality solutions for real-life operational scheduling challenges, using the latest insights of the scientific community.

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  • Optimisation is in our DNA. In too many cases, scientific breakthroughs in operations research have little relevance to everyday life. Learn how we bridge this gap: our new routing optimizer delivers high quality solutions for real-life operational scheduling challenges, using the latest insights of the scientific community.

    About Daniel Dam

    As product manager, Daniel is globally responsible for the ORTEC routing solutions. These solutions have successfully been applied in various industries in over 70 different countries. Daniel holds a Master of Science in Econometrics & Operations Research.

    In his 14 years with ORTEC, Daniel has worked as a solution specialist; designing, building and implementing optimization solutions in various industries. As a product manager his main focus is to translate the latest industry trends into easy-to-use and hard-to-beat scheduling solutions, as well as setting the pace for strategic innovation initiatives and operations research excellence.

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