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Norshipping, June 9 2005
Ship Operator - Supply Schedule Contacts
CONFERENCES 2nd November TankerOperator - Operations DS - Communications Ship Operator - Supply
CONFERENCES 3rd November Ship Operator - Emissions DS - Maintenance DS - Ports IT
at Europort '05 About our conferences at
Norshipping, June 9 2005
Ship Operator - Supply Schedule Contacts
CONFERENCES 2nd November TankerOperator - Operations DS - Communications Ship Operator - Supply
CONFERENCES 3rd November Ship Operator - Emissions DS - Maintenance DS - Ports IT
Second generation electronic purchasing / optimising ship supply
This conference has been cancelled due to lower than anticipated delegate support
=== This one day conference is for shipping companies, suppliers and IT companies wishing to learn more about the latest and planned future developments in electronic purchasing, including for large suppliers such as Unitor and small independent suppliers.
At this stage most shipowners and suppliers are aware of the potential benefits of electronic purchasing - some are starting to dip their toe in and others are going full ahead.
There have been some pitfalls identified to date, in particular how suppliers are often required to log into many websites, and the software makes it so easy to submit RFQs to suppliers, that many suppliers do not bother to give their best quote to shipowners they are not accustomed to winning business from.
Some of the companies in the lead are identifying ways to find more efficiencies, for example buying ship supplies on subscription or long term contracts, or passing responsibility for keeping ships stocked with regularly used items onto the vendor.
This conference will review the development to date and anticipated future developments, and how more efficiencies can be gained.
Unitor will be explaining its new IT strategies for the first time, after its acquisition by Wilh Wilhelmsen Group.
The conference will address the complex issues of improving data quality and catalogues between shipowners and suppliers.
This is the first conference ever held specifically about electronic purchasing, and it is held in one of the world centres for ship supply, Rotterdam. If you are interested in the evolution of electronic purchasing, or believe electronic purchasing systems could do more to help your business, or interested in learning what is happening to other companies in the field, then come along.
Chairman: Paul Ashton, managing director, SpecTec UK
9.30 Bart van Doorn, procurement manager, Vroon. Review of what has happened in the last 10 years - what we see as an owner as possibilities for the future with the aid of the internet, for managing orders, linking to suppliers and logistics
Vroon operates and manages a diverse fleet of about 80 vessels, including reefer vessels, livestock carriers, offshore support vessels, dry cargo ships, container carriers, tankers and car carriers. Mr van Doorn won the prize for the most innovative idea at the ShipServ user conference, for subscription ship supplies.
10.00 Knut Abrahamsen, senior vice president, business process and IT, Wilhelmsen Maritime Services. Unitor's view on optimising ship supply.
Mr Abrahamsen was previously chief financial officer and chief of staff with Unitor. He has a Master of Management Degree from Norwegian School of Management. Wilhelmsen Management Services includes Unitor, the world's largest ship supplier; Barber, one of the world's largest shipmanagers company; and Barwil, one of the world's largest ship agency groups.
10.30 BREAK
11.00 Mats Ottoson, business development, market unit marine and diesel, Alfa Laval How can shipowners and IT intermediaries improve purchasing efficiency? A supplier's perspective on the second generation of electronic purchasing.
11.30 Arto Keskinen, Wartsila. Wartsila's perspective on electronic purchasing.
12.00 PANEL DISCUSSION - How can shipowners, suppliers and intermediaries make it easier to form long term frame agreements? How much can seafarers be brought into the purchasing process with prices already agreed in advance, and what are the benefits of this?
12.30 LUNCH
1.30 ShipServ (speaker name not yet confirmed)- dealing with multiple suppliers as easy as dealing with one supplier
2.00 Rune Rassmussen, chairman, Marine Transaction Services Real value from e-business - industrial ownership,- e-business hubs working together, -product contract hosting
Marine Transaction Services is a maritime electronic purchasing system which is part of Wilhelmsen Maritime Services. Companies transacting over MTS include Unitor, Alfa Laval, Jotun, Helman WorldWide Logistics, RCCL and Jo Tankers.
2.30 Terry Kearney, managing director, SeaSupplier. When to do long term contracting and when to purchase ship supplies as individual transactions - assessing the quality of your purchasing using software tools
3.00 Torben Brammer, managing director, VisionPeople. Issues for ship supplies who have to work with different electronic purchasing systems used by shipping companies - a multitude of systems, catalogues, e-commerce platforms - issues with connecting with shipowner's IT systems - how to respond to request for quotes automatically
Torben Brammer is CEO of ShipCentric, A Microsoft Gold certified partner which develops the Navision supplier software for ship suppliers, based in Denmark.
3.30 PANEL DISCUSSION - Scaling up vendor managed inventory to larger items - how can this be achieved and what value will be added?
This conference has been cancelled due to lower than anticipated delegate support
=== This one day conference is for shipping companies, suppliers and IT companies wishing to learn more about the latest and planned future developments in electronic purchasing, including for large suppliers such as Unitor and small independent suppliers.
At this stage most shipowners and suppliers are aware of the potential benefits of electronic purchasing - some are starting to dip their toe in and others are going full ahead.
There have been some pitfalls identified to date, in particular how suppliers are often required to log into many websites, and the software makes it so easy to submit RFQs to suppliers, that many suppliers do not bother to give their best quote to shipowners they are not accustomed to winning business from.
Some of the companies in the lead are identifying ways to find more efficiencies, for example buying ship supplies on subscription or long term contracts, or passing responsibility for keeping ships stocked with regularly used items onto the vendor.
This conference will review the development to date and anticipated future developments, and how more efficiencies can be gained.
Unitor will be explaining its new IT strategies for the first time, after its acquisition by Wilh Wilhelmsen Group.
The conference will address the complex issues of improving data quality and catalogues between shipowners and suppliers.
This is the first conference ever held specifically about electronic purchasing, and it is held in one of the world centres for ship supply, Rotterdam. If you are interested in the evolution of electronic purchasing, or believe electronic purchasing systems could do more to help your business, or interested in learning what is happening to other companies in the field, then come along.
Chairman: Paul Ashton, managing director, SpecTec UK
9.30 Bart van Doorn, procurement manager, Vroon. Review of what has happened in the last 10 years - what we see as an owner as possibilities for the future with the aid of the internet, for managing orders, linking to suppliers and logistics
Vroon operates and manages a diverse fleet of about 80 vessels, including reefer vessels, livestock carriers, offshore support vessels, dry cargo ships, container carriers, tankers and car carriers. Mr van Doorn won the prize for the most innovative idea at the ShipServ user conference, for subscription ship supplies.
10.00 Knut Abrahamsen, senior vice president, business process and IT, Wilhelmsen Maritime Services. Unitor's view on optimising ship supply.
Mr Abrahamsen was previously chief financial officer and chief of staff with Unitor. He has a Master of Management Degree from Norwegian School of Management. Wilhelmsen Management Services includes Unitor, the world's largest ship supplier; Barber, one of the world's largest shipmanagers company; and Barwil, one of the world's largest ship agency groups.
10.30 BREAK
11.00 Mats Ottoson, business development, market unit marine and diesel, Alfa Laval How can shipowners and IT intermediaries improve purchasing efficiency? A supplier's perspective on the second generation of electronic purchasing.
11.30 Arto Keskinen, Wartsila. Wartsila's perspective on electronic purchasing.
12.00 PANEL DISCUSSION - How can shipowners, suppliers and intermediaries make it easier to form long term frame agreements? How much can seafarers be brought into the purchasing process with prices already agreed in advance, and what are the benefits of this?
12.30 LUNCH
1.30 ShipServ (speaker name not yet confirmed)- dealing with multiple suppliers as easy as dealing with one supplier
2.00 Rune Rassmussen, chairman, Marine Transaction Services Real value from e-business - industrial ownership,- e-business hubs working together, -product contract hosting
Marine Transaction Services is a maritime electronic purchasing system which is part of Wilhelmsen Maritime Services. Companies transacting over MTS include Unitor, Alfa Laval, Jotun, Helman WorldWide Logistics, RCCL and Jo Tankers.
2.30 Terry Kearney, managing director, SeaSupplier. When to do long term contracting and when to purchase ship supplies as individual transactions - assessing the quality of your purchasing using software tools
3.00 Torben Brammer, managing director, VisionPeople. Issues for ship supplies who have to work with different electronic purchasing systems used by shipping companies - a multitude of systems, catalogues, e-commerce platforms - issues with connecting with shipowner's IT systems - how to respond to request for quotes automatically
Torben Brammer is CEO of ShipCentric, A Microsoft Gold certified partner which develops the Navision supplier software for ship suppliers, based in Denmark.
3.30 PANEL DISCUSSION - Scaling up vendor managed inventory to larger items - how can this be achieved and what value will be added?
