Billy Duty

Director, Supply Chain Center of Excellence
Momentive

Billy is an accomplished supply chain executive skilled in establishing and operating diverse organizations. Strong results oriented leadership that is customer focused and business driven. His strengths are in all aspects of supply chain with vast knowledge of best practice and proven ability to deliver results with inventory optimization, planning, S&OP, customer service, forecasting, project management, and systems implementations in a complex global environment. Billy has extensive experience leading international and multifunctional teams. Adept in working with all levels of the organization and across varied business areas, he brings proven methods of improvement and solutions to supply chain problems.

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22nd April - Driving Value Throughout the Business

Tuesday, October 4th, 2016

11:30 DRILL-DOWN ROUNDTABLES

These informal subject-specific roundtables give you a unique opportunity to drill down into the details of an issue by probing the knowledge and expertise of industry market leaders. Each roundtable is limited to 10 people for maximum interaction and is designed for you to meet like-minded peers and source practical solutions collaboratively.

Roundtable 1:
How to collaborate with procurement to leverage knowledge and buying power

Christopher Spahn, Senior Project Manager & PMO Lead Group Procurement Services, Clariant

Roundtable 2:
How to manage the impact of M&A activity on your supply chain

Tobias Zahlmann, Head of Supply Chain Management, BU Keltan Elastomers, Lanxess

Roundtable 3:
Leveraging internal collaboration between customer facing functions and supply chain to achieve accurate customer segmentation

Martin Croissant, Global Supply Chain Director, The Dow Chemical Company

Roundtable 4:
How does implementing LEAN have an impact on the supply chain: which LEAN elements have the biggest impact and which planning strategies, policies and practices do these LEAN elements impact most

Jaap Mendel, Operations and Supply Chain Director, Axalta Coating Systems

Roundtable 5:

How to attract and retain the right talent to your supply chain

Folkert Tjebbes, Director Materials Management & Planning EMEA, Univar

Roundtable 6:
Integrating your supply chain operations in a post-merger environment

Fabrice Schneider, Head of S&OP and Supply Chain Strategy, Merck Millipore

Roundtable 7:
The paradigm of insourcing vs. outsourcing: what should you consider?

Henning Schussmüller, Senior Manager Supply Chain and Logistics, Sumitomo Chemical Europe

Roundtable 8:
How to manage long distance, multi-modal supply chains in a green environment

Peter van Weeghal, Regional Head of Supply Chain, Europe , Arizona Chemical

Roundtable 9:
Inventory optimisation facilitation – defining the optimal stock policy solution

Billy Duty, Director, Supply Chain Center of Excellence, Momentive

Roundtable 10:
What is the impact of a sudden reduction of supplier capacity on your customer demand?

Joris D'hondt, Global Supply Chain Project Manager, Eastman Chemical

Roundtable 11:
How to monitor transport performance to improve the customer experience?

Peter Buysse, EMEA SC Improvement Lead, Customer Care, Monsanto

15:00 CASE STUDY REVOLUTION: Developing a concrete action plan to improve internal stakeholder management

In this innovative and interactive format, spend 20 minutes hearing a best practice case study before being challenged to find solutions to some of the most prevalent challenges in the chemical supply chain industry. Engage in small interactive roundtable discussions before each group presents its conclusions back to the audience. Take away different approaches to key challenges from your fellow industry peers.

Discussion points:

How to harmonise complex internal stakeholder groups to catalyse supply chain integrity
How to enhance supply chain sustainability through engagement with internal stakeholders How can you align effective stakeholder management with corporate social responsibility and sustainable development policies
How to effectively manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders to move towards a common set of shared drivers and goals

23rd April - Business Excellence Through Continuous Improvement

Friday, November 4th, 2016

15:25 DRILL-DOWN ROUNDTABLES

Roundtable 1:
How to overcome the challenges faced with integration applications into legacy systems

Martin Croissant, Global Supply Chain Director, The Dow Chemical Company

Roundtable 2:
What are the technology enablers to bring the evolution of supply chain forward

Thomas Foerster, VP Supply Chain Operations Europe, BASF

Roundtable 3:
Harnessing the influence of supply chain to break down internal silos

Hans-Robert Schmidt, Vice President - Head of Global Logistics Management, Lanxess

Roundtable 4:
Prioritise improvements in demand planning to support strategic change

Ralph van Weerdenburg, Senior Manager Supply Chain Planning & Optimization, SABIC

Roundtable 5:
Omni-channel demand planning and reconciliation of real time changes

Filip Buytaert, EMEA Demand Manager, Axalta Coatings Systems

Roundtable 6:
What implications will the inability to manage big data have on planning cycles?

Billy Duty, Director, Supply Chain Center of Excellence, Momentive

Roundtable 7:
How to achieve ‘end to end’ supply chain visibility – where to start and what’s the value?

Raf Van Aggelpoel, EMEA SC Improvement and Analytics Lead, Monsanto