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Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is organising Logistics 2003 - the 4th edition of India's biennial event on Logistics & Supply Chain Management at Chennai between October 8 to 12, 2003. As many as 95 companies would be participating in this logistics summit.

The 2-day Logistics Summit will be inaugurated by C. Vidyasagar Rao, Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, Government of India on October 8, 2003. Dr. Ramesh Chandra, Secretary, Empowered Committee on VAT, Ministry of Finance, Government of India will deliver the special address at the inaugural session of the Logistics Summit.

Announcing this at a media briefing, N. Kumar, Chairman, CII National Council on Logistics & past President, CII said that at Logistics 2003, CII will be releasing a white paper on logistics, prepared by Prof. G. Raghuram, IIM - Ahmedabad & Prof. Janat Shah, IIM - Bangalore. A theme paper prepared by Prof. N. Viswanadham, Deputy Executive Director, The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific, Singapore, will also be released, said Kumar.

Kumar said that the white paper on logistics titled "Roadmap for Logistics Excellence: Need to Break the Unholy Equilibrium" provides a roadmap for India to move towards logistics excellence. The paper would give an assessment of the overall performance of logistics in India and provide a framework that seeks to explain the current status and prescribe an actor-wise action agenda as the roadmap towards logistics excellence, said Kumar.

The Theme Paper on Logistics 2003 would address the state of the Indian Industry, emerging logistics trends and opportunities, opportunities for innovative logistics services in India and also addresses the development strategy for Indian logistics through a Cluster approach.

Logistics Summit - 2 day National Conference on Logistics & SCM.

'The Logistics Summit' - 2 Day National Conference on Logistics & SCM on October 8 to 9, 2003 at Chennai will focus on SCM. The Supply Chain is evolving as the most significant value driver for companies to derive a competitive advantage. The Logistics Summit will focus on this key value driver - SCM.

Prominent speakers at Logistics Summit include Cyrus Guzder, Chairman & Managing Director, AFL Pvt. Ltd., D. K. Mittal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, Govt. of India; P. R. V. Ramanan, Member, CBEC; J. Miebach, Chairman, Miebach Logistics; Prof. G. Raghuram, Professor, Public System Group & Prof Janat Shah, Professor, Production & Operations Management, IIM, Ahmedabad; R. Srinivasan, Senior Director - Indian Operations, Manhattan Associates; Lim Ghee Ann, General Manager - Logistics & SCM, Sony Corporation, China; Prof. N. Viswanadham, Deputy Executive Director, The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific; Jimmy Khoo, Regional Director (Logistics), HP Asia Pacific; K. B. Nagaraju, Country Director (Logistics), HP India; Chris Callen, Country Manager, DHL; Anshuman Singh, Head - Logistics & Supply Chain, Pantaloon Retail India Ltd., Markus A Muecke, Managing Director, Panalpina Worldwide Transport India; John Farrel, Director - Logistics, DHL Asia Pacific.

Logistics 2003 will have a significant international presence & participation.

• Singapore Cluster Value Add Logistics Mission - Logistics companies from Singapore will visit Logistics 2003, to explore opportunities in cluster logistics outsourcing; forge business alliances & collaborations with Indian logistics companies.

• Sri Lanka Logistics Team - Freight forwarders, clearing & forwarding agents from Sri Lanka are participating at Logistics 2003, to explore opportunities for tying up with Indian logistics, shipping and transportation companies.

Around 450 Logistics/SCM professionals from all over India are expected to participate at the 2-Day Logistics Summit.

Logistics 2003 also features the launch of the CII Institute of Logistics' Online Journal- www.ciilogistics.com

Logistics 2003 Exhibition

The 4-day exhibition will showcase a broad spectrum of services, equipments, products & solutions in logistics, supply chain, transportation, material handling, storage, warehousing, IT, inventory management, etc., across the entire value chain to offer productivity, efficiency solutions across the multiple dimensions of customer service, costs, profits and speed, which will give organisations the competitive edge.

Exhibition highlights:

• End to end logistics & supply chain solutions from logistics service providers.

• Comprehensive shipping & transportation solutions.

• Inventory management solutions.

• Material handling (in - plant & both) storage solutions.

• 3PL, logistics outsourcing & comprehensive logistics solutions.

• Live demonstrations of storage, warehousing & material handling equipments.

• IT & logistics technologies for SCM.

• Tracking solutions.

Prominent exhibitors at Logistics 2003 include Safexpress, DHL Worldwide Express, Mieback Logistics, Exel India, Southern Railway, Chennai Port Trust, Ennore Port Trust Chennai Container Terminal, Godrej & Boyce, Jungheinrich, Maersk India Limited, TNT Logistics India, Emirates Skycargo, Air India, Sembcorp Logistics, AFL Private Limited, APL Logistics India, Cargo Service Center, Jebel Ali Free Zone Authority, Manhattan Associates, MobiApps.

Confederation of Indian Industry

Southern Regional Headquarters
35/1, Abhiramapuram 3rd Street,
Alwarpet,
Chennai 600 018.
Tel: 2466 0291/2466 0570/2466 0773/2466 1311
Fax: 91-044-2466 0312
Email: cii.south@ciionline.org
Website: www.ciionline.org

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