Best Practices Chemicals

Digitally Transforming for a Profitable Future

The premier industry conference for organizations using SAP March 14-16, 2016, The Woodlands Waterway Marriott, Texas A collaboration between:

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Best Practices for Chemicals unites hundreds of business and IT leaders and professionals embracing innovative solutions and best-in-class strategies to improve overall business performance. The event showcases expert insights from thought-leaders and customer case studies on how to maximize existing investments and stay on the leading edge of the industry. Best Practices for Chemicals is the only industry conference aimed at organizations using SAP, where business, functional and technology professionals in every chemical industry segment converge. From the super majors to the specialty manufacturers, and from batch to commodity, this conference brings together senior leadership, decision-makers, business process owners, analysts, support teams and solution providers to one location for an experiential event built around interactive learning and peer collaboration. It is our pleasure to welcome you and your teams to this extraordinary event. We look forward to seeing you this March in Texas! 2

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Defining the opportunity of the digital transformation evolution Developing the business case for digitizing Harnessing the power of the fully integrated supply chain from procurement of raws to delivering a timely final product to the customer Accelerating workflows and speed of execution Linking the supply chain with manufacturing plans and forecasts Delivering real-time access to data to drive efficiency and profitability Enabling fast and mobile access to customer information Using SAP HANA and the Cloud to maximize the speed of transactions and unlock opportunities hiding in your data Realizing value from the scalability afforded by cloud systems

supply chain & logistics More than 60 industry leaders, professionals and experts representing over 45 super-major, mid-major and specialty chemical manufacturers, as well as industry experts from top solution providers collaborated, debated and provided targeted feedback to identify the most critical challenges facing the industry in 2016. Based on these discussions, we scoured North America and the globe for the best practices to respond to these challenges. The result - an agenda focused on the following topics providing solutions that have evidenced success and that are delivered by the community, for the community.

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Anticipating market changes and their affect on the supply chain Combating the challenges of single-source procurement Optimizing strategic sourcing and supplier management Leveraging the relationship between demand and supply sides Examining and leveraging intermediate and internal availabilities Maximizing the role of the omni-channel to achieve supply chain excellence Warehousing best practices and effective enterprise inventory optimization Global Trade Services and streamlining/automating processes Leveraging technology solutions like SAP Transportation Management to drive logistics efficiency and cut transportation costs Use of interactive modeling to develop more accurate and timely supply chain and logistics decisions #BP4Chem | www.bestpracticeconferences.com/chemicals

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data, analytics & reporting

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enhancing the user experience & mobility

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Increasing report development speed and user adoption of best practices Providing business intelligence solutions throughout the value chain to drive strategic and timely decision making Leveraging the power of SAP HANA and S/4HANA to drive real-time and comprehensive analytics Delivering maximum ROI through understanding when to use which tools and why Effective use of SAP BI, BusinessObjects and NetWeaver Suite Standardization of reporting and processes Utilizing reporting tools to better understand cost structures Minimizing disruption and confusion with rolebased views of information Developing and demonstrating robust reporting, dashboards and presentation mechanisms for leadership transparency Best practices in master data management and governance Aggregating and verifying data from across disparate systems and sources New data warehousing methods to drive data consolidation and availability

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Maximizing asset utilization Utilizing master data management tools to drive asset performance Leveraging the workforce and technology solutions to have a transparent view of asset health and performance Maintenance and reliability processes and associated technology to maximize asset availability and uptime

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Increasing control and visibility over financial operations and transactions Leveraging S/4HANA Simple Finance for unparalleled financial transparency and efficiency Utilizing Business Process Consolidation to improve performance and financial results Using SAP GRC to reduce financial risks throughout the value chain Increasing the speed and accuracy of accounts payables and receivables transactions Driving financial value from maintaining all financial data in a single global instance Transforming business performance through sales price and margin analysis Optimizing source-to-pay tools and processes Effective use of SAP FI/CO, BPC, Financial SCM and SPM

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Protecting Intellectual Property (IP) and proprietary information Optimizing role based access to data and information Protecting physical infrastructure access and automation of alerts Prioritizing your focus by understanding the cybersecurity threat landscape Combatting data and IP threats in a Global Shared Services consolidation Leveraging IT/OT convergence to harness organizational security

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Developing a sustainable continuous improvement culture Developing strong, efficient and wellcommunicated production, capacity and demand planning Critical metrics, KPIs and processes to drive greater operational excellence and throughput Reducing and eliminating waste and plant controllable production losses and costs Understanding maximum sustainable capacity Maximizing the value of sales and operations planning (S&OP) Mitigating EH&S and compliance risk through harnessing accurate master data Leveraging real-time and condition based data in manufacturing Using SAP PP, Mii, S&OP, EAM and the NetWeaver Suite to drive manufacturing excellence

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Developing the business case for usability enhancement Leveraging new technologies and offerings such as SAP Fiori and Screen Personas Understanding the necessity to simplify, and the influence on usability and adoption Combatting the effects of “The Consumerization of IT” in the workplace Developing stakeholders and building the team to support UI/UX enhancement Mobility solutions for the field salesforce Delivering mobile solutions in production environments Implications of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies Understanding the cost-benefit analysis of deploying mobile and UX initiatives

Enhancing basic and on-going technology and process training programs Developing and leveraging Business Relationship Managers Creating user networks and leveraging internal subject matter experts Developing robust initial and on-going training programs Creating greater synergies between technology and functions throughout the value chain How differences in technology and usability aptitude across generations affect the workplace Optimizing the sharing of knowledge across the value chain and across sites

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Increasing margins in each transaction Leveraging the cloud for unrivaled sales and customer engagement Developing discipline in pricing management Responding dynamically to cost fluctuations and market conditions Ensuring customer compliance with negotiated pricing Increasing the accuracy of pricing models and developing new pricing opportunities Effective use of SAP SD, CRM, S&OP and JAM Support

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Arrival Day - Monday, March 14

Conference Day two - Wednesday, March 16

3:00 PM

Onsite Check-in & Registration Opens

4:30 PM

Jumpstart: The Only Thing to Fear is Fear Itself: Embracing Change & Seizing the Opportunity of the Digital Transformation Keith Sturgill - VP & CIO, Eastman Chemical Jumpstart: Coming Home Safe Every Night: Risk, Safety & a Responsible Work Culture Fred Delahunty - Globally Regarded Safety Culture Expert

6:00 PM

Welcome Reception

8:00 AM

Morning Refreshments & Exhibition Viewing

9:15 AM

Keynote: You’ve Been Hacked: How To Protect Your Company, Your Employees & Your Shareholders Mark Weatherford - SVP & Chief Cybersecurity Strategist, vArmour; First Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity, Department of Homeland Security, USA

10:00 AM

Keynote Panel: Technology is Just Part of It! Leaders of People, Business Process, Supply Chains & Strategic Directions… Meet Today’s CIO Keith Sturgill - VP & CIO, Eastman Chemical Maria Womersley - VP & CIO, Huntsman Corporation Laura Tibodeau - CIO, Americas Styrenics

10:45 AM

Morning Refrshment Break & Exhibition Viewing

Conference Day one - Tuesday, March 15 7:00 AM

Morning Refreshments & Exhibition Viewing

8:15 AM

Conference Welcome & Opening Address

8:30 AM

Keynote: The American Chemistry Council: Innovating for a More Sustainable Future Calvin Dooley - President & CEO, American Chemistry Council

9:15 AM

Keynote: Innovating Digital Transformations in the Chemicals Industry – Reimagine Everything! Peter Maier - General Manager Energy & Resources Industries, SAP Don Mahoney - Vice President & Global Head of Chemicals, SAP

10:00 AM

Morning Refreshment Break & Exhibition Viewing

Supply Chain

Technology Driven Business Value

Customer Centricity

Manufacturing, EH&S & Compliance

Supply Chain SAP Roadmap & Content Briefing SAP & Industry Experts

Technology Driven Business Value SAP Roadmap & Content Briefing SAP & Industry Experts

Manufacturing, EH&S & Compliance SAP Roadmap & Content Briefing SAP & Industry Experts

Data, Analytics & Reporting SAP Roadmap & Content Briefing SAP & Industry Experts

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Transforming Traditional Supply Chains to Digital Supply Chains Enabled by IoT & Leveraging Buy-in from all Trading Groups Jeffrey Tazelaar - Global Visibility Leader, Supply Chain Center of Excellence, The Dow Chemical Company

The Road Ahead: How to Transform Your Business with SAP S/4HANA Dr. Uwe Grigoleit - Global VP, Head of Business Development S/4HANA, SAP

The Continued Drive of Getting the Most Value from the SAP Mii Execution System at Celanese Seane Vicknair - Manufacturing IT, Celanese

Aligning Allocation Methodology & Introducing a Common Reporting Platform with SAP BI Ulrik De Wachter - Business Systems Manager EMEA, Business Process Improvement, Global Information Technology, Buckman International

Enterprise Labeling in SAP Across a Global Supply Chain Robert Sacks - SAP Integration Specialist, Givaudan

User Experience Driven Mobility Solutions! Lessons Learned in Deploying Fiori Apps Gopi Nidjelli - SAP Technical Developer, LyondellBasell

A Case Study: Optimizing SAP EH&S Management for Enhanced Regulatory Compliance Jennifer Randall - Product Regulatory Specialist, Momentive Performance Materials

Save Yourself From Wasting $1 Million a Year on Unnecessary Spare Parts With Better Data Mansour Siddiqui - Section Head, SAP Competency Center, IT Planning & Control, TASNEE (National Industrialization Company) Laxmi Prasad Manchikalapudi Principal, Utopia

SAP Screen Personas: User Cockpits for Chemical Manufacturing Jim Walters - Senior Technical Operations Manager, SAP Center of Excellence, Axiall Corporation Gus Spivak - Technical Director, PwC

Industry 4.0 in the Chemicals Industry Frank Platt - Senior Director, Line of Business Manufacturing, SAP

Enhancing Performance & Reducing Costs with Strategic Business Intelligence Chris Stevenson - Director Global Business Analytics, Huntsman Corporation Ed Delussey - Managing Director for Digital in Chemicals & Natural Resources, Accenture

12:00 PM

12:40 PM

Lunch & Exhibition Viewing

2:00 PM

Digitization Reinventing the Extended Supply Chain Sandy Markin - Senior Director, Supply Chain Solutions, SAP

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Managing the Complexities of Inventory in Chemical Supply Chain Paul Lord - Research Director, Gartner

Training Development & Maintenance: a Sustainable Mechanism Dipto Chakraborty - Manager, Learning Systems & Processes, Holcim Shared Services (Canada) Inc.

Improving the Manufacturing Analytical Self Service User Experience with SAP HANA & Lumira Sal Denova - IT, Business Intelligence, Albemarle Corporation Mark Albers - VP, Hitachi

SAP Data Center Migration to Cloud Hosting Madhu Bangalore - Senior Manager, Celanese

3:30 PM

Managing SAP Fundamentals to Facilitate the Expanding Supply Chain & Company Growth Doug Doughty - CIO, PLZ Aeroscience Corp. Jeff Devine - Partner, Reveal

How Pacific Drilling Simplified the SAP User Experience to Delight its Users Yoram Borodaty - IT Director, Enterprise Applications, Pacific Drilling

Managing Risks with SAP Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Solutions Gretchen Lindquist - Senior SAP Security Analyst, Chevron Phillips Chemical Co.

Ashland Launches Digital Transformation by Global Data Governance DJ Williams - Director of Global Procurement, Ashland Specialty Chemicals Will Crump - President & CEO, DATUM

4:10 PM

Afternoon Refreshment Break & Exhibition Viewing

5:00 PM

Keynote: Return With Honor: The True Story of an American Hero Captain Scott O’Grady - American War Hero & F-16 Fighter Pilot, U.S. Air Force (rtd.)

5:45 PM

Evening Reception

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Finance & Accounting

Evolving to Meet Industry Demands

11:45 AM

Customer Centricity SAP Roadmap & Content Briefing SAP & Industry Experts

Procurement & Logistics SAP Roadmap & Content Briefing SAP & Industry Experts

Finance & Accounting SAP Roadmap & Content Briefing SAP & Industry Experts

Evolving to Meet Industry Demands SAP Roadmap & Content Briefing SAP & Industry Experts

12:00 PM

ECHO: Energizing Customers for Huntsman Online Business Francesco Regali - Global IT Director, Business Development, Huntsman Corporation

It Takes Two: Combining Process & Tools Bill Abernathy - Head of Logistics Excellence, Bayer Cropscience

How Textile, Rubber & Chemical Company (TRCC) Transformed Decision Making & All of its Financial Processes with SAP S/4HANA Simple Finance Bo Coppinger - IT Director, Textile, Rubber & Chemical Company Christian Baessler - HANA Practice Lead, Enowa

Digital Transformation in the Chemical Industry Matthias Nachmann - agIT lead, BASF

12:45 PM

Automating Your Product Safety Processes with SAP Solutions to Reduce Costs & Help Ensure Compliance: Options & Approaches Shelly Livermore - Product Safety & Regulatory Compliance Global Improvement Leader, Dow Corning Corporation

Next Gen: Supply Chain Execution with SAP TM/EWM 9.3 Virender Singh - Senior Manager & Solution Architect, Sigma Aldrich Corp

Cytec: Sharing Success Story of Source To Pay Life Cycle Dashboard Kathleen Scagliotti - Manager, Cytec Industries

Opportunities for Integrating IT New Product Innovations in the Digital World Brian Carr - Senior Director, Collaboration & Technology, GOJO Brian Everett - Industry Solution Principal, iTelligence, Inc.

1:25 PM

Lunch & Exhibition Viewing

2:30 PM

Building a Value & Profit Culture: Linking Customer Loyalty, Price & Cost Joanne Smith - Author & President, Price to Profits & Former Corporate Marketing & Pricing Director, DuPont

Using Supply Chain Collaboration to Drive Visibility into Supply Vasee Rayan - Vice President of Solutions Management, SAP

Leveraging an Acquisition as an Opportunity: Creating a Single Global Instance for Unparalleled Financial Insights Devang Goradia - ERP Director, Lion Copolymer (Vinmar Group) Frank Schraepen - Solution Director, NTT Data

Opportunities for Integrating IT & OT with SAP HANA & the OSIsoft PI System Craig Harclerode - Industry Principal for Oil & Gas, Downstream/ PetroChemical, OSIsoft John Harrison - Senior Solution Specialist, Chemicals IBU, SAP

3:15 PM

Exception-Based Customer Service from Order to Invoice with SAP Event Management at Colgate-Palmolive Joseph Jeffs - Manager, GD Supply Chain, Colgate Palmolive Company

International Trade Compliance for Chemical Companies Kevin Riddell - International Logistics Manager, Tremco Incorporated

Optimizing Costs & Cash Flows in a Post-Divestiture Environment Cory Heiden - Director, Enterprise Solutions, Chemtura Corporation Subhash Dhulekar - Senior Director, HCL

Security Convergence: Linking Physical, Logical & Operational Security Amit Bhardwaj - CISO, The Clorox Company

4:00-4:30 PM

Closing Address & Farewell Reception

Data, Analytics & Reporting

11:00 AM

Procurement & Logistics

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The Best Practices for Chemicals conference is just that—a conference where business and technology leaders and professionals converge to discuss common challenges and share best practices solutions. More than a “sit and listen” event, attendees will enjoy over 40 value driving presentations, plus seven inspiring keynote addresses and a variety of interactive sessions covering innovative ways to combat the challenges your organization faces every day.

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Calvin Dooley

President & CEO

American Chemistry Council

The American Chemistry Council: Innovating for a More Sustainable Future Join Calvin Dooley, for an exciting kick off to your conference experience. Representing chemical manufacturers throughout the U.S., the American Chemistry Council (ACC) is America’s oldest trade association of its kind, representing companies engaged in the business of chemistry— an innovative, $801 billion enterprise that is helping solve the biggest challenges facing our nation and the world. Since joining ACC in 2008, Calvin has enhanced member value and strengthened the competitive position of U.S. chemical manufacturers by advocating for a business and regulatory climate that drives innovation, supports job growth and enhances safety. Prior to joining ACC, Calvin served as President and CEO of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and President and CEO of the Food Products Association (FPA). In Congress, Calvin represented the 20th District of California as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 2004. Calvin served on the House Agriculture Committee, as well as the House Resources Committee. Calvin was honored by the Washington International Trade Foundation with its prestigious Distinguished Service Award. Congressional Quarterly named Calvin one of the House’s most influential “Power Players,” in recognition of the breadth and effectiveness of his leadership in Congress.

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Mark Weatherford SVP & Chief Cybersecurity Strategist, vArmour; First Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity (fmr.) Department of Homeland Security, USA

You’ve Been Hacked: How To Protect Your Company, Your Employees & Your Shareholders What is more important than protecting the lives and safety of your employees and customers? Nothing! In the blink of an eye nefarious internal and external bad actors can undermine the safety of your operations and infrastructure. Couple a life/safety threat with the financials risks and exposure resulting from your data and information falling into the wrong hands and you now have uncovered the number one most critical challenge keeping leaders and technologists up at night. Join, globally acclaimed cybersecurity expert, Mark Weatherford for a keynote address you will never forget and your business can’t afford to. Mark will detail the partnership between the private and public sectors and specifically will focus on the convergence of IT and OT, the Internet of Things, how to thwart internal and external intrusions and the latest in advancements designed to keep people safe and company data and intellectual property in the right hands! Mark is the Senior Vice President and Chief Cybersecurity Strategist at vArmour and has more than 20 years of security operations leadership and executive-level policy experience in some of the largest and most critical public and private sector organizations in the world. A short list of Mark’s incredible past positions and accolades include: the first Deputy UnderSecretary for Cybersecurity, Department of Homeland Security, USA; Vice President and Chief Security Officer at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC); California’s and Colorado’s First Chief Information Security Officer, Distinguished Fellow at the Poneman Institute and Principal, The Chertoff Group.

Innovating Digital Transformations in the Chemicals Industry – Reimagine Everything! Today’s chemical industry leaders are faced with many challenges. How do we quickly integrate acquisitions to release promised synergies and on-board new revenue sources quickly? How do we reduce complexity, integrate across silos and streamline workflows across our entire global value chain? How do we resist commoditization by embedding ourselves more intimately within our customers’ innovation and operations cycles? How do we rapidly enter, differentiate and win in new markets? Tackling these challenges requires more than doing what’s always been done – only better, faster, cheaper and smarter. It requires a re-imagining of entire business models, business processes and the very nature of work itself. SAP’s approach to enabling this Digital Transformation is to provide the digital-ready platform, the high-performance applications and the connected business networks necessary to rapidly and securely execute new business models, extend value chains and engage with customers, employees and partners like never before. Join SAP’s global chemicals industry leader, Don Mahoney, and SAP’s General Manager of all Energy and Natural Resources Industries, Peter Maier, as they share how SAP is leading the charge to help companies across the globe prepare for innovative digital transformations.

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General Manager Energy & Resources Industries

Don Mahoney Vice President & Global Head of Chemicals

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Keith Sturgill

VP & CIO

Eastman Chemical

Maria Womersley

VP & CIO

Keynote Panel: Technology is Just Part of It! Leaders of People, Business Process, Supply Chains & Strategic Directions… Meet Today’s CIO The CIO of 2016 is far more than the technology leader of years past. Combatting company-destroying cybersecurity threats, navigating the complexities of mergers and acquisitions and enabling the strategic forecasting of customer sales and availabilities of raw materials, today’s CIO is a renaissance leader inexorably partnered with the business. Join celebrated and progressive CIO’s Keith Sturgill of Eastman Chemical, Maria Womersley of Huntsman Corporation and Laura Tibodeau of Americas Styrenics, as they collaboratively discuss how they are leveraging the digital transformation to maximize efficiency, profitability and position their organizations as industry leaders. Topics of Discussion Include:

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Laura Tibodeau CIO

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Developing, empowering and leveraging human capital

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Return With Honor: The True Story of an American Hero An Air Force fighter pilot, Captain Scott O’Grady was shot down over Bosnia while helping to enforce the NATO no-fly zone in his F-16. Alone, facing death, capture and the elements, he discovered within himself the spirit to go on, relying on the skills learned during a lifetime of preparing for the unthinkable. Managing beyond odds to survive six days in hostile territory, Captain O’Grady was eventually rescued by U.S. Marines and safely transported home to his family, friends and a nation still in awe of his heroism. From Captain O’Grady’s compelling life-and-death story, audiences learn how to adapt, change and succeed even under the most daunting and trying of circumstances. Even while isolated behind enemy lines, he remained a member of a carefully drilled team. Similar to the fortitude and determination embodied by Captain O’Grady, those throughout the chemical industry need to remain nimble and opportunistic to leverage quickly evolving technologies and rapidly changing industry conditions. Captain O’Grady details the preparation, teamwork and leadership responsible for his survival and for his dramatic rescue by the U.S. Marines; qualities that are crucial to success in every facet of business and life. The ingenuity and fortitude that kept him alive in hostile territory for six days will inspire you and your team to reach your own groundbreaking achievements!

Captain Scott O’Grady

American War Hero & F-16 Fighter Pilot U.S. Air Force (rtd.)

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jumpstart session Keith Sturgill VP & CIO, Eastman Chemical

Jumpstart your Best Practices for Chemicals conference experience on Monday evening from 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM with two unforgettable keynote addresses.

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The Only Thing to Fear is Fear Itself: Embracing Change & Seizing the Opportunity of the Digital Transformation The chemicals industry is advancing at light speed and it takes a near demi-god to keep up with it! Change isn’t always easy and without very strategic plans, clear communication, a transparent roadmap and the cultural support of all employees, the shop floor to the top floor, most change will be destined to fail. Join renowned Chief Information Officer, Keith Sturgill of Eastman Chemical, for this can’t miss kick off to your conference experience. Keith will share how Eastman and others are embracing the advancements being put forth by technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) and how they are seizing opportunities that are rapidly emerging from an industry that is rapidly digitizing. From developing an optimized supply chain, to enabling real-time transparency from when raws are procured, through the production process to when they are purchased and then ultimately delivered to the customer. Hear how for the first time in the industry’s history, leaders and management from every function in the business can accurately in real-time pivot and make efficient and profitable decisions to propel the company. According to Keith, it’s not about technology, it’s about business value – technology is just there to support!

Fred Delahunty Globally Regarded Safety Culture Expert

Coming Home Safe Every Night: Risk, Safety & a Responsible Work Culture What is the #1 focus of all site leaders and management? How do you begin most on-site and off-site briefings? What matters more than anything else? SAFETY. Discover the power of attitude and how to keep what’s most important at the top of your priority list! Join Fred Delahunty as he takes you on his journey from near death to learning that all dreams are possible! It’s a journey that shows how an accident can evolve, eventually happen, then the resulting consequences and the physical and psychological battle to live. His story demonstrates the importance of employee safety and consideration for others. See how Fred’s life could have changed after being involved in a devastating worksite explosion and how he fought to keep everything he had before that disaster. A former electrician at a New Zealand paper mill, Fred is an international motivational speaker and specialist in employee workplace safety, offering his story at conferences, universities and corporate lectures to inspire workers to changes their attitudes toward safety.

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Transforming Traditional Supply Chains to Digital Supply Chains Enabled by IoT & Leveraging Buy-in from all Trading Groups

Jeffrey Tazelaar

Global Visibility Leader, Supply Chain Center of Excellence, The Dow Chemical Company The global supply chain is a complex set of interactions and trade-offs between suppliers, manufacturing, warehousing, carriers, service providers and customers. Join Jeff Tazelaar in this session to learn how the Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming traditional supply chains into digital supply chains, driven by sensors indicating events in the network, not transactions, and how this transformational change will require a new set of solutions to marry transactional and event based data.

The 2016 speaker lineup represents the best and brightest practitioners from across all functions, roles and sub-segments of the chemical industry. This diverse mix of experts and thought-leaders were carefully chosen by the Conference Advisory Committee, based upon their bestin-class strategies for solving today’s most pressing business challenges. 18

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Digital Transformation in the Chemical Industry

Matthias Nachmann agIT Lead, BASF

Join Matthias Nachmann for an unrivaled look at how BASF is embracing the current digital transformation of the industry. Hear the steps they have taken to leverage new advancements and the steps that you can take immediately to drive value from the evolution.

Managing Risks with SAP Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Solutions

It Takes Two: Combining Process & Tools

Gretchen Lindquist

Head of Logistics Excellence, Bayer Cropscience

Senior SAP Security Analyst, Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. In this presentation, lessons learned from five GRC 10 projects will help you assess what’s in it for your organization, what to know before you get started, and what to do, and not do, to ensure that you get value from your GRC 10 implementation. The different challenges of migrating from GRC 5.3 or earlier versions versus a greenfield GRC implementation will also be discussed, as well as what comes next after your GRC 10 go live.

Bill Abernathy

Cross training and sharing of best practices are the keys to improving efficiency across a broad base of SAP users. Learn about the value of integrating a Key User Community into process design, development, training, implementation and support. Hear how Bayer is utilizing business teams to integrate business processes and reduce double work across organizations.

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ECHO: Energizing Customers for Huntsman Online Business

Francesco Regali

Global IT Director, Business Development, Huntsman Corporation Learn how Huntsman improved customer experience through an “extreme makeover” of its 15-year-old order entry tool into a user friendly, fast customer web channel for its Polyurethanes customers. Join Francesco Regali as he explores how ECHO, which supports various strategic initiatives such as supply chain segmentation and service alignment, built a web channel platform as a footprint for other divisions to join, following an “AGILE – LIKE” development life-cycle methodology fueled by Hybris.

Sal Denova

IT, Business Intelligence, Albemarle Corporation

Cory Heiden

Director, Enterprise Solutions, Chemtura Corporation

Senior Director, HCL

Optimizing Costs & Cash Flows in a Post-Divestiture Environment Listen in as Chemtura discusses divesture of two major business units, as part of their corporate transformation project that optimized costs and cash flows. They will discuss how they built a new application and infrastructure environment to perform SAP and Non-SAP carve outs separately and leveraged solution synchronization between the buyer’s IT landscape and the divested landscape supported by interface testing between the two environments.

Mark Albers VP, Hitachi

Improving the Manufacturing Analytical Self Service User Experience with SAP HANA & Lumira Manufacturing users at Albemarle, from shop floor to top floor, were looking to improve their end-to-end analytical user experience by better leveraging all the manufacturing-relevant data in their organization to create new and meaningful insights utilizing self-service analytic tools. Learn how Albemarle is improving the Manufacturing Analytical Self Service User Experience using SAP technologies such as HANA, Fiori and Lumira as well as Hitachi’s innovative and advanced data, analytical and Cloud solutions environments.

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Subhash Dhulekar

Security Convergence: Linking Physical, Logical & Operational Security

Bo Coppinger

Amit Bhardwaj

How Textile, Rubber & Chemical Company (TRCC) Transformed Decision Making & All of its Financial Processes with SAP S/4HANA Simple Finance

CISO, The Clorox Company Join celebrated Chief Information Security Office for The Clorox Corporation for an exciting and revealing deep dive into the critical world of cybersecurity. Linking both internal data security to physical and logistical security driven by the convergence of IT/OT and the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), Amit Bhardwaj will detail the steps that you can take immediately to audit your security threat and thwart breaches both internally and externally.

Jim Walters

Gopi Nidjelli

SAP Screen Personas: User Cockpits for Chemical Manufacturing

SAP Technical Developer, LyondellBasell There are several approaches that can be followed when securely delivering the Fiori Apps to mobile devices. In this session, Gopi Nidjelli will discuss a creative alternate approach which can be used to achieve it. Hear an exciting success story on how to use Mobile Iron as an alternate approach to securely deliver these apps to the devices.

HANA Practice Lead, Enowa

Explore TRCC’s journey from a regular ERP 6.0 customer to becoming one of the first customers to install a roadmap and what was necessary to arrive at the targeted end-state. Attendees will take away an understanding of the key business drivers and how to leverage SAP support to arrive at real-time financial data.

User Experience Driven Mobility Solutions! Lessons Learned in Deploying Fiori Apps

Senior Technical Operations Manager, SAP Center of Excellence, Axiall Corporation

Christian Baessler

IT Director, Textile, Rubber & Chemical Company

Cytec: Sharing Success Story of Source to Pay Life Cycle Dashboard

Gus Spivak

Technical Director, PwC

Kathleen Scagliotti

Many business transformation initiatives do not succeed because users find it difficult to navigate the new processes and they often blame the SAP system. Learn how Axiall Chemicals provided a more user friendly way to execute their key processes by delivering a simplified user interface using SAP Screen Personas that group common required tasks and functions to meet the chemical manufacturing business needs. In the resulting solution, Axiall staff no longer had to remember t-codes and menu paths!

Manager, Cytec Industries Learn how Cytec improved their supply chain source to pay process and took advantage of vendor discount/payment terms, using BusinessObjects to create a powerful Source-To-Pay dashboard tool. This tool provides key information in a single place for procurement transactions and is scalable for other business processes.

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Aligning Allocation Methodology & Introducing a Common Reporting Platform with SAP BI

Ulrik De Wachter

Business Systems Manager EMEA, Business Process Improvement, Global Information Technology, Buckman International Learn how Buckman is aligning its worldwide operations on the same ERP and reporting platform to enable detailed worldwide reporting by customer, product and industry; optimize BI resources, both in hard/software as in headcount (IT, analysts) and set the stage for further standardization. Hear how they are leveraging interactive web based reports for real-time sales and accounts receivable visibility, reducing time to monthend close and how SAP’s PCM is utilizing real-time allocations to instantaneously calculate profitability.

A Case Study: Optimizing SAP EH&S Management for Enhanced Regulatory Compliance

Jennifer Randall

Product Regulatory Specialist, Momentive Performance Materials Leveraging regulatory content, tools and rules within the SAP Environment, Health and Safety Management (SAP EHS Management) system can help critical EH&S resources become an integral part of core processes such as product and formulation development, procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, sales and customer service. This valuable data can serve as the cornerstone of strategic initiatives and save time.

Managing the Complexities of Inventory in Chemical Supply Chain

Digitization Reinventing the Extended Supply Chain

Paul Lord

Senior Director, Supply Chain Solutions, SAP

Research Director, Gartner Join globally recognized supply chain expert Paul Lord of Gartner for a session that offers a framework for developing a comprehensive approach to both increased business performance and supply chain maturity. Leave with concrete and tangible answers to the following questions: What are the most common areas where companies struggle with inventory management? How do I take a sequenced approach to improving both operating capabilities and performance? What are the seven inventory truths that apply to every supply chain?

22 March 14-16, 2016

Sandy Markin

The Digital Economy will transform the way we live and work, how businesses are run and how society functions all in a time frame that is radically shorter than any other major economic transition in history. Over the past few years, networks have evolved that have connected individuals, groups and organizations. We started with “People Networks” like Facebook and LinkedIn, followed by “Business Networks” such as Ariba and now, the Internet of Things make these networks even more connected. Join Sandy Markin as he shares how leading companies are developing an environment in which they can manage information and processes simultaneously across the extended supply chain.

International Trade Compliance for Chemical Companies

Kevin Riddell

International Logistics Manager, Tremco Incorporated Join Kevin Riddell as he reviews critical international trade regulatory requirements and offers best practices for compliance. This presentation will discuss how Tremco uses SAP Global Trade System (GTS) to interpret general compliance requirements specifically for chemical companies and how GTS is the ideal tool for mitigating industry specific risks, eliminating the need for “knowledge specialists” and removing cost while protecting against penalties by automating compliance which can save over three million dollars on free trade agreements.

Chris Stevenson

Director Global Business Analytics, Huntsman Corporation

Ed Delussey

Managing Director for Digital in Chemicals & Natural Resources, Accenture

Enhancing Performance & Reducing Costs with Strategic Business Intelligence

Next Gen: Supply Chain Execution with SAP TM/EWM 9.3

Virender Singh

Senior Manager & Solution Architect, Sigma Aldrich Corp

This session will discuss the first implementation of SAP BW on HANA in the chemicals industry in North America. Learn how the Huntsman Strategic Information System (HSIMS) project helped Huntsman create a common global source for mission critical information, eliminating multiple disconnected data sources with conflicting, outdated data and thousands of reports. Hear how they are leveraging analytical tools along with new data discovery and visualization tools, like Lumira, to establish a robust data foundation, how procurement can bring together business units, IT and the CPO office and the business drivers and benefits.

Join Virender Singh for this exciting case study on the best practices and template approach to implement SAP TM/EWM 9.3. Learn how Sigma Aldrich leveraged a single solution, SAP Extended Warehouse Management and Transportation Management, to standardize business processes in their global organization, optimize warehouse operations efficiency and improve handling of transportation across global plants.

Exception-Based Customer Service from Order to Invoice with SAP Event Management at Colgate-Palmolive

The Road Ahead: How to Transform Your Business with SAP S/4HANA

Jeff Devine

Joseph Jeffs

Global VP, Head of Business Development S/4HANA, SAP

Manager, GD Supply Chain, Colgate Palmolive Company Learn about Colgate-Palmolive’s integrated order-toinvoice process, including transportation management to provide a comprehensive picture of the entire sales order process. See how SAP Event Management’s tools can be used to model and monitor processes so that customer service personnel can easily identify and address potential issues.

Dr. Uwe Grigoleit

Join one of the worldwide leaders in the go-to-market of the revolutionary S/4HANA. Dr. Uwe Grigoleit was integrally involved in both the development and the roll-out of S/4HANA, the next-generation business suite designed to help you run simple in the digital economy. He will share exciting developments, review the S/4HANA roadmap and detail how this new suite, built on an advanced in-memory platform, offers a personalized user experience with SAP Fiori driving business value throughout the organization.

Doug Doughty

CIO, PLZ Aeroscience Corp.

Partner, Reveal

Managing SAP Fundamentals to Facilitate the Expanding Supply Chain & Company Growth PLZ has been growing and expanding their market share and understands the importance of having a solid technology foundation in place to do so. Being able to respond with agility to issues, daily challenges and strategy changes needs to be reflected in the system to ensure the business continues to flourish and grow. Join Doug Doughty and Jeff Devine to learn what PLZ is doing to achieve these objectives and the business value they are achieving as a result.

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SAP Data Center Migration to Cloud Hosting

Madhu Bangalore

Senior Manager, Celanese Learn how and why Celanese migrated its entire SAP data center to the IBM hosted cloud solution, which significantly lowered costs. Listen in as Madhu Bangalore describes the vendor selection process that ultimately enabled them to drill down to highestvalue and lowest-cost provider and how business relationship managers helped to bridge business value with technology.

Automating Your Product Safety Processes with SAP Solutions to Reduce Costs & Help Ensure Compliance: Options & Approaches

Shelly Livermore

Product Safety & Regulatory Compliance Global Improvement Leader, Dow Corning Corporation In today’s complex and rapidly changing regulatory landscape, companies need robust solutions to manage and ensure compliance for processes, such as product safety and the generation of safety data sheets (SDSs). In this session understand SAP’s on premise and cloud solution offerings that can help you reduce total cost and improve global quality and compliance. The solutions will be compared to describe the accompanying best practice customer business processes, focusing on roles and responsibilities and the resulting benefits.

24 March 14-16, 2016

Building a Value & Profit Culture: Linking Customer Loyalty, Price & Cost

Using Supply Chain Collaboration to Drive Visibility into Supply

Joanne Smith

Vice President of Solutions Management, SAP

Author & President, Price to Profits Former Corporate Marketing & Pricing Director, DuPont The CEO wants it all; higher prices, more growth, lower cost and lower inventory. This session covers approaches to simplify and integrate these seemingly competing goals to build a profit culture in the chemical industry. Listen in as Joanne Smith shares industrybased best practices for building passion, urgency and competencies for increased profitability including: how to gain leadership, marketing and sales support and which investments to make in data, systems and tools.

Frank Schraepen

Solution Director, SAP, NTT Data

Devang Goradia Not Pictured

ERP Director, Lion Copolymer (Vinmar Group)

Leveraging an Acquisition as an Opportunity: Creating a Single Global Instance for Unparalleled Financial Insights Learn how Lion Copolymer leveraged a recent acquisition to create a single SAP instance, standardize business processes and how they are utilizing the SAP Chemical Industry Solution and HANA for enhanced financial reporting and decision making. Key takeaways from this session include: new technologies use case involving HANA, Simple Finance reporting capabilities, HANA driven reports for optimized decision making, NTT DATA’s OneMethod tailored for a best practice implementation and effective change management for quick process adoption by employees.

Vasee Rayan

As supply chains become more complex and dynamic, your ability to achieve the perfect order in direct and indirect materials procurement (receiving the right product, in the right place, at the right time and in the right quantity) depends on having the right tools and partners. You need to be able to collaborate across multiple processes, systems and geographies in realtime, and accurately track and assess trading partner performance, plus quickly identify and respond to shortages and other unplanned supply chain events. Join this session to learn how Ariba Network can help attain the perfect order by collaborating effectively with trading partners both inside and outside your enterprise.

DJ Williams

Director of Global Procurement, Ashland Specialty Chemicals

Enterprise Labelling in SAP Across a Global Supply Chain

Will Crump

President & CEO, DATUM

Ashland Launches Digital Transformation by Global Data Governance Join Ashland Specialty Chemical’s DJ Williams in this exciting presentation to learn how Ashland Specialty Chemicals quickly and efficiently adopted data as a corporate asset, leveraging a data governance pilot project for the vendor domain of their supply chain. Follow along on their journey to collect and define relevant data governance requirements and learn how they leveraged DATUM’s Information Value Management platform to create the governance framework, a scorecard and benchmarks and enterprise data governance rules and metrics to drive value and data and reporting accuracy.

Robert Sacks

SAP Integration Specialist, Givaudan Join Robert in this presentation to find out how Givaudan, a leader in the fragrance and flavor industry, is addressing global labeling challenges while maintaining compliance with dangerous goods regulations and GHS standards while using it’s SAP Competency center to manage SAP integration and global business processes across 52 sites worldwide.

How Pacific Drilling Simplified the SAP User Experience to Delight its Users

The Continued Drive of Getting the Most Value from the SAP Mii Execution System at Celanese

Craig Harclerode

Yoram Borodaty

Seane Vicknair

Pacific Drilling realized they had unique needs for enterprise applications. Applications need to work on a drilling platform in the middle of the ocean as well as in a downtown office. And, of course, they need to look great. Using a combination of SAP Screen Personas and SAP Fiori, Pacific Drilling was able to delight its users while improving performance. Join Yoram for an inspired presentation to hear how they were able to totally change the way their users interacted with their systems. Yoram Borodaty will share how they transformed the legacy SAP user experience to ensure the ROI of their technology investments through maximum user adoption and ease of use, greater input accuracy, as well as real-time, mobile access to information.

Learn how Celanese is driving full value from their Mii system by upgrading and standardizing all sites to the latest version. After 10 years of bringing 20+ sites and several business lines onto the corporate and global Mii execution system, different versions of Mii along with a patchwork of custom systems are still being used to bring data from the shop floor to SAP. Join Seane Vicknair to hear how they built a strong business case to fund this immense standardization effort and are driving excellence in manufacturing as a result.

Opportunities for Integrating IT & OT with SAP HANA & the OSIsoft PI System

IT Director, Enterprise Applications, Pacific Drilling

Manufacturing IT Leader, Celanese

Industry Principal for Oil & Gas, Downstream/ PetroChemical, OSIsoft

John Harrison

Senior Solution Specialist, Chemicals IBU, SAP

As pervasive sensor technologies, improved connectivity and expanding real-time analytical capabilities lower barriers to enabling digital business, many enterprises are focusing on strategies to capitalize on IT (Business Data) OT (Operational Data) convergence. This session will present a common technical infrastructure and how integrating the OSIsoft PI System with SAP HANA enables leadership teams to optimize processes, predict and respond to potential outages, and calculate enterprise KPIs to track how asset performance, process efficiency and quality affect revenue.

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Training Development & Maintenance: a Sustainable Mechanism

Dipto Chakraborty

Manager, Learning Systems & Processes, Holcim Shared Services (Canada) Inc. In this presentation, join Dipto Chakraborty to learn the best practices on how to cut training development time in half, by delivering “just-in-time” and “just enough” content with SAP WBP. Follow Holcim’s process for defining training objectives at a task level and connecting them to business results through desired behavior and how to develop content that is suitable for self-paced learning.

Brian Carr

Senior Director, Collaboration & Technology, GOJO

Mansour Siddiqui

Section Head, SAP Competency Center, IT Planning & Control, TASNEE (National Industrialization Company)

Principal, Utopia

Save Yourself From Wasting $1 Million a Year on Unnecessary Spare Parts With Better Data Are you like most companies spending over $1 million a year, 30% of your inventory, on spare parts you don’t need? Learn how Tasnee is using SAP® Master Data Governance software for their material master to provide insight to spare parts inventory and avoid compliance issues, enhance employee and operational efficiency by having the right information to stock the right part at the right time, and reduce excess spend and annual carrying costs associated with spare parts.

Brian Everett

Industry Solution Principal, iTelligence, Inc.

New Product Innovations in the Digital World In today’s digital world, companies must make intelligent decisions throughout the product development lifecycle, assuring that product formulation satisfies market requirements, meets regulatory requirements and offers the ability to analyze product success and future refinements. This presentation will demonstrate critical product lifecycle applications, including a customer testimonial on product lifecycle management functionality within SAP, for improved speed to market and better risk management and mitigation.

26 March 14-16, 2016

Laxmi Prasad Manchikalapudi

Industry 4.0 in the Chemicals Industry

Frank Platt

Senior Director, Line of Business Manufacturing, SAP Get insights on the SAP Manufacturing strategy that delivers Industry 4.0 capabilities to chemical manufacturers. Learn how digitization can drive a multitude of value streams through vertical integration, autonomous operations and analysis of big data. Explore scenarios that leverage the Industrial Internet of Things in manufacturing that creates a competitive advantage for responsive chemical companies.

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