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EnglishPress Release from March 26, 2007
The program of the conferences and exhibition is ready!
The 3-day program of the EASTLOG Forum will offer a wide range of conferences and workshops, as well as a specialized exhibition with additional presentations and seminars, excursions to important logistic centers, and 6th Logistic Business Mixer.
Conferences and workshops
The first two days of the forum, dedicated primarily to conferences and workshops, will especially focus on the case studies of successful projects realized in various logistic branches and industrial and business fields in the Central Europe. The forum will invite a lot of experts and important European presenters. The ceremonial opening of the program will be held by Petr Šlegr, the Deputy Minister of Transport. The first day will feature presentations of Petr Kunc, Distribution Manager of Nestlé Česko, Egil Møller Nielsen, Senior Director of Logistics Europe & Asia at the LEGO Company, Ferdinand Hlobil, the partner of Cushman & Wakefield, etc. The topics will include e.g. the performance measurement of the logistic service providers, automation of the logistics-related cost control, legal issues in logistics or panel discussion of the road toll. The second day will be dominated by four workshops, presented e.g. by Andreas Windischbauer of the Austrian company Dr. Franz Feurstein Gesellschaft, Milan Thorovský of Continental Automotive Systems, or Katarína Koržová of GEFCO Slovakia. The morning part of the program will offer the workshops aimed at the industrial logistics (such as the case study focused on the pre-production logistics at Lucas Varity or the complex solution of the automated high bay warehousing at the Feurstein production plant in Austria) and new IT solutions in logistics (e.g. the panel discussion of the EDI communication or the case study of the on-line warehousing system of ACCOM Czech). The afternoon workshops will focus on the transport solutions and cooperation (such as the case study aimed at the optimization of the in-house transport at IVECO Czech Republic, or the panel discussion of the supply chain relations between transport agents and customers) and the optimization of the logistic costs (the case study of the optimization of package flow at PSA Trnava, or the implementation of the transport solution SAP-CarLo at Bork).
Visit to logistic centers
It has already become tradition that the third and last day of the EASTLOG forum features the visits to important logistic centers where the visitors will be presented the latest operational systems and trends in warehousing, production and distribution. This year, the centers to visit include the TESCO distribution center in Postřižín, the central warehouse of dm – drogerie markt in Jihlava, the logistic area Jipocar Transport & Logistic in Jihlava or the logistic center Maersk Logistics (FOXCONN) in Pardubice.
Specialized exhibition with the support program
An integral part of the program of the EASTLOG forum is the specialized exhibition attended by 60 exhibitors, including important players at the Czech and international logistics market – logistic service providers, transport agents, shippers, IT suppliers, rack system providers etc. Also the rich support program, accessible for all visitors, has already become tradition. A series of seminars “Logistics Providers Forum”, presented by the selected exhibitors, is prepared, as well as the “Austrian Day”, aimed at the Czech-Austrian cooperation and organized by GEFCO, or the CCV Company’s seminar focused on the warehousing control. All visitors can use the wireless internet connection via the WiFi hotspot provided by Barco.
6th Logistic Business Mixer
The EASTLOG forum will also offer the VIP evening for the logistic experts – the Logistic Business Mixer. It will feature the entertaining program with games and competitions, live music, raffle and many other interesting things in the informal atmosphere of the modern luxurious showroom of the Kinnarps Company. The Logistic Business Mixer will be attended by 350 guests from the whole region of the Central Europe, which makes it the unique social event for professionals in logistics. The general partner of the business mixer is the Pinnacle Company, other partners are Oltis, ND Logistics CZ, CID International and Kinnarps.
Logistics HR Forum
The morning block will offer interesting seminars for selected secondary school and college students, as well as the discussion forum for HR managers and other experts in the HR issues in logistics. In the afternoon, the Job Opportunity Market is organized. It will offer HR professionals, managers, students and schools a unique opportunity to meet the current job offer and logistics training possibilities, or to build up the mutual cooperation. The partner of the HR Forum is the agency HR Logistic Support.
The EASTLOG forum is supported by many important companies involved in logistics and transport. The “golden sponsors” are GEFCO and BT Česká republika, the “silver sponsors” are DHS, CCV, BARCO, SAP, GS1 Czech Republic and Cushman & Wakefield.
10th EASTLOG Forum expects the participation of approximately 1,000 experts in logistics from all over the Central Europe.
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