Logistics & Supply Chain Events

When: 07 December 2023, 17:00 - 18:30
Where: Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Briony Moller, Group Business Relationship Manager, Owens Group

This presentation will outline the current projects and initiatives currently being undertaken across the Owens Group, towards improving our sustainability and environmental impact. Over the past few months, Supply Chain is the key area where suppliers and customers are focusing their sustainability goals and looking for improvements which have a mutual benefit to all. The discussion will explore the limiting factors that we have encountered when looking into our sustainability both as a business but also within the wider network and infrastructure.

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Competencies:

• SUS1.1 Social, Economic and Environmental Resilience

When: 11 December 2023, 18:00 - 19:00
Where: Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Clare Bottle FCILT, CEO, UK Warehousing Association  

In 2024, the number of warehouses in the UK has never been higher, with large warehouse properties occupying over 600 million square feet.  High Street tasks such as picking & packing are being forced back up the supply chain by ecommerce, whilst quasi-manufacturing activities like assembling gift-packs or printing T-shirts are pushed downstream into the warehouse too.  Today’s warehouses are safer and more efficient than ever, meeting the needs of business customers across the UK and the world, fulfilling the desires of consumers from every walk of life and providing well-paid employment with opportunities to progress.  90 percent of people have never even considered a career in logistics, yet there are a million jobs in the UK’s warehouses.  They form the backbone of a vital logistics industry which generates £163 billion in gross value added to the economy.

In this context, the UK Warehousing Association has a commanding reputation.  It is the only trade body demonstrating how the essential warehousing sector underpins economic growth throughout the country: supporting Government’s commitment to levelling-up; adopting robotics & automation and harnessing sophisticated IT systems to improve productivity; creating social mobility by giving people access to work; reducing carbon footprints, by installing rooftop solar panels; and embracing the circular economy, as the hub of returns management, recycling, upcycling and repairs, to cut waste.

Marking UKWA’s 80th anniversary, 2024 The Year of Warehousing is a year-long campaign which will showcase the social and economic benefits of warehousing, introduce exciting new products – including the first ever recognised qualification for Warehouse Managers, jointly developed with CILT – and step up the support on offer for UKWA members with new business benefits and an excellent programme of events.  CEO Clare Bottle will even be visiting 80 warehouses, because 2024 The Year of Warehousing is about sharing best practice and building a powerful sense of community too.

The wonderful warehousing sector deserves to take pride in its achievements and gain wider recognition from government, the media and the general public.  Join this webinar to hear directly from UKWA’s CEO Clare Bottle, a longstanding Fellow of CILT and the Vice-Chair of our Women in Logistics forum, about what their campaign means for our sector and how CILT Members can get involved.


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Competency sets:

SC1.2 Warehousing and Inventory

When: 14 December 2023, 17:30 (for 18:00) - 20:00
Where: The London School of Economics and political Science, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ (nearest tube is Holborn)
Speakers:

• David Benford, Managing Director, Blackstage Forensics
• Jan Meyer, Chief Operating Officer, Freightsafe
• Sholto Millar, Head of Business Development, Freightsafe
• David J. Thompson | Investigator | Signum Services   
  

The annual CIPS/CILT supply chain risk event is back, after a two-year hiatus and attention turns to the human factor in supply chain risk management.

When it comes to supply chain security, people are often the weakest link. Businesses around the world lose £ billions to cyber and physical criminals every year, and a lot of that is down to the exploitation of human curiosity, credulity and complacency.

Criminals, that used to rely on phishing, hacking and weak security, now make use of stolen branding, legitimate-looking emails, fake websites and - increasingly - direct targeting of selected individual’s curiosity and credulity.

And while trucking has its own share of cyber-concerns, it’s the actions of its drivers (and inaction of governments) that contributes directly to supply chain risk and cargo theft.

Drivers face the road alone, often in harsh weather conditions, for weeks at a time, with the ever-present risk of hijacking and theft.

2022 ended with an average of nearly 20 cargo theft incidents per day in December in 28 countries across Europe, the Middle East & Africa, with product losses of more than £15 million in 31 days.

Despite the challenges our expert speakers will illuminate - using live examples - they will also outline the positive changes we can make and actions we can take to mitigate and maybe even eradicate cyber and driver supply chain risk in the future.

This event will be of interest to anyone who works in supply chain, logistics, freight and procurement; as a practitioner, carrier or customer. It will be of particular interest to managers with security and risk responsibility and will be valuable to students seeking topical industry issues and leading-edge thinking.


Speakers


David Benford | Managing Director | Blackstage Forensics

When non-social data is combined with social media intelligence, it offers a powerful weapon for criminals to use against an individual, their family, their employer and colleagues. Blackstage Forensics conducts open source online investigations, digital safeguarding of individuals at risk and specialised training.


David works with high-profile individuals, the sport, music, film and TV broadcast industries. He is well known for his specialist work with the defence, law enforcement and diplomatic sectors, is a visiting professional fellow at the School of Law at the University of Derby and lectures on Operational Security at the College of Policing. 


Jan Meyer | Chief Operating Officer | Freightsafe and Sholto Millar | Head of Business Development | Freightsafe

There are 22 million trucks in the world, that are mandated by law to park every day, but the global shortage of parking spaces is contributing to the loss of £ billions every year through theft. Freight Safe deliver secure parking solutions that are simple, swift and scalable.


Sholto is a graduate of the University of Exeter, where he began conducting a report into the supply and demand gaps of the truck parking industry. Sholto’s research introduced him to Freight Safe and, in his current role, to build a network of secure parking areas across Europe. Joining Sholto is Freightsafe’s COO, Jan, who joined the project in 2022 with experience across the Consulting, Aviation and Logistics sectors.

David J. Thompson | Investigator | Signum Services

TT Club is the leading mutual insurance provider to the international transport and logistics industry. Signum Services is the Club’s in-house maritime crime investigation department. Its expert investigators are former senior police officers, and they conduct criminal investigations worldwide.

This is a joint event with Freight Forwarding Forum and London Region.

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Competency sets:

•  DT1.3 Data Governance – Legal, Social and Ethical
  

•  EQ2.1 Risk Identification, Reduction and Safety Management
  

When: 10 January 2024, 18:00 - 20:00
Where: Greyfriars Centre, Friar Street, Reading, Berkshire. RG1 1EH or Zoom option
Speaker: Graham Ryan, COO and Partner, CGAExperience

“Balancing a business imperative to cut costs with the need to treat customers with empathy”
Rising costs and economic uncertainty are forcing organisations to reduce costs, cut services and prioritise business interests. But treating customers with empathy must be a strong counterbalance to short term business needs. We will consider some of the challenges we observe in the sectors we work in and share some of the tools we deploy to help clients fully empathise with their customers to get the balance right.”
Graham Ryan is Chief Commercial Officer and Partner at CGA, a leading specialist in Customer Experience Consulting.



Graham has been working with CGA since 2009 delivering successful national and international projects for blue-chip clients in the rail, automotive, mobile network, financial services, professional services, and public sectors. His landmark projects for CGA include Renault, Coca-Cola and ALJ. 

Graham came to CGA after a long and illustrious career at top global brands, including FMCG giant SG Johnson, Bosch Powertools, and London-listed technology group NXT Plc. In his work with CGA and his roles before that, Graham has delivering exceptional customer experiences in an array of markets, including the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Hong Kong and the US.

His ethos is to build immersive and high-quality relationships, and he believes that deep partnerships, characterised by mutual respect and trust, deliver the best outcomes for our clients and for their customers. The work Graham does creates a customer experience roadmap that is both easy to relate to and embrace.

Future events in this series will look at staff engagement and retention, including ‘authenticity’ as a key ingredient.

The Thames Valley Group are always keen to enjoy a relaxed informal environment in their events by continuing the conversation & discussion afterwards to the pub opposite after the presentation as normal. 


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Competency sets:

• LE2.1 Customer Service and Relationship Management
• LE2.2 Marketing and Market Principles

When: 22 January 2024, 19:30 - 20:30
Where: Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Caroline Jackson, National Logistics Manager, LF&E Refrigerated Transport

Falling into Logistics: finding your way in a stereotyped profession.          

The stereotypical Logistics world is often seen as middle-aged men, trucks, vans and trains moving things around the country. This is increasingly changing with more and more young people finding their way into this fast paced and dynamic job market and an ever-increasing number of females joining the profession. My talk tells my story as a young female professional, how I fell into the logistics world, the challenges as a young, female professional, as well as the wider challenges and what we can all do to help overcome these and turn them into industry opportunities. 



Caroline originally started in retail management with Sainsburys after university for her Masters before joining Calor Gas on their graduate training scheme back in 2017. Progressing quickly through the ranks with various project roles she became the transport planning Supervisor before becoming the Dispatch shift lead & then being promoted to Dispatch Manager. Since May 2023 Caroline has been National Logistics Manager with LF&E refrigerated transport a progressive and growing specialist refrigerated transport company.

In her career Caroline has attained her CPC Transport Manager in National Road Haulage, IOSH, Green Belt Lean 6 Sigma & CPIM Part 1. Caroline is extremely passionate about the industry, leadership, young people and women in logistics.

Caroline has achieved a lot in her career so far and was highlighted as one of the industry’s 35 under 35 in 2022, so expect more from her over the coming years.

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Competency sets:

• LE1.1 Leadership, Organisational Culture and Change Management

Ensuring your Digital Journey is Future-Fit

Recent news in Manchester heralding bus reform was welcomed by commuters hoping for better services and cheaper fares. While a significant moment for public transport, we continue to see dynamic change in the wider Transport sector in general. Ridership behaviours are shifting, revenue models through local authorities are evolving and the concept of integrated travel is coming in. Passenger needs in terms of convenience, affordability, availability, safety and security remain, with sustainability the new addition.
 
Join us and your senior leader peers from the Travel and Transport industry in Finance, Operations, Sales and Marketing, and HR to hear from industry thought leaders on key trends, discuss customer challenges and learn how technology including cloud, AI and IoT can help organisations remain competitive and enable a rich customer experience

When: 25 January 2024, 10:00 - 14:00
Where: Oracle, 5th Floor The Helicon, One South Place, London. EC2M 2RB

Agenda:

• 09.30 – 10.00 Registration
• 10.00 – 10.05  Welcome and intro
• 10.05 – 10.50  Industry trends – panel with Austin Birks & counterparts in Rail/Aviation/Maritime
• 10.50 – 11.20 Customer case study: Mark Anderson, Customer and Commercial Director at Go-Ahead – moderated by Tim Deakin, Editor RouteOne
• 11.20 – 11.40 Coffee break
• 11.40 – 12.10 Customer challenges and potential solutions
• 12.10 – 12.50 Sector-specific peer-to-peer roundtables
• 12.50 – 2.00  Networking lunch and close

Mark Anderson, Customer and Commercial Director at Go-Ahead

Mark Anderson is Customer and Commercial Director at global passenger transport operator Go-Ahead Group, with a remit spanning marketing, communications, customer experience, sustainability and innovation across bus and rail companies on three continents. 

He has worked within Go-Ahead for nine years, having joined as Head of Marketing in the Rail Division and spent time on secondment to Japan and Norway before taking a role as part of the group’s leadership team. 
He works across diverse strategic areas from climate change and future mobility to capturing the voice of the customer and his initiatives have included leading the Billion Journey Project, one of the UKs largest transport innovation programmes. He is a non-executive director of Go To Places, a not-for-profit body in the tourism sector. 

Prior to entering the transport industry, he worked in the retail, leisure and hospitality industries including holding senior roles at LEGOLAND Windsor and at Warwick Castle. He is passionate about developing growth strategies aligned to customer insight and challenging the status quo to deliver elevated customer experiences.  

Austin Birks , Chairman, Bus & Coach Forum, CILT

Austin Birks started his career in November 1983 when he joined the National Bus Company Senior Management Training scheme, he was part of a management buy-out at the age of 26, and went on to become one of the earliest members of First Group, after various management roles including Depot Manager, Commercial Manager, and other senior management roles within First Bus group, he moved onto a group-wide recruitment position.

In 2003,  when appointed Senior Manager Strategic Recruitment  for First Group PLC, he started a recruitment project in Poland to recruit bus drivers to work for First Bus in the UK. This involved teaching the drivers English and building a bespoke boot camp with 3 UK buses based in Poland, eventually more than 3,000 employees were recruited to join First. In 2006 the project was adopted as Best Practise across the EU, and Austin was given a special award by the EU, in recognition of the Innovation.

Austin became chair of the Bus and Coach Forum of CILT in 2008, and is chair of Busmark, the CILT benchmarking club which today has 49 members and a combined fleet of 28,500 buses and coaches. In December 2022 CILT presented Austin with the Meritorious award for outstanding service to the Institute.

Austin is the CEO of the Veritahr Group Poland/UK, and is a non-executive director of uTrack Software Solutions, a multi award-winning cloud-based technology company serving the bus and coach sector worldwide. In his spare time, he is 6th dan black belt of Shotokan Karate and runs his own club, and is an enthusiastic cancer patient battling level 4A Bowel cancer having had almost 100 chemotherapy treatments.

Tim Deakin, Editor, Routeone

Tim is Editor of Routeone, the leading trade title for coach and bus. Having begun his career in the sector at 18 with bus operator First Potteries, he later spent almost 10 years in the road haulage industry before a period of study led to him becoming a journalist in 2013.

Tim has been Editor of Routeone in 2018 and has now spent almost 10 years with the publication. Ably assisted by a capable team, he has led the editorial transition of the title from one built largely around print into a multiformat outlet that maintains an ever-growing web presence. Tim also co-presents the annual Routeone Awards, which are widely recognised as the coach and bus industry’s Oscars.

Vikram Singla, Oracle

Vikram is digital transformation director and sustainability ambassador at Oracle, UK. He helps business leaders leverage technology and data to deliver meaningful outcomes for their organisations. He also serves on the board of CILT (Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport) – UK and is an advisory board member at Cranfield University’s supply chain management research centre.

He is currently responsible for defining and executing the go-to-market strategy for supply chain cloud solutions across all industries and manufacturing/asset-intensive sectors across all cloud applications, in the UK. He has over 25 years’ experience in the technology sector, including deploying business transformation programmes for Fortune 500 firms. 
Vikram has an MBA from Warwick Business School and graduated from IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Delhi, India. Beyond the day job, Vikram is a brand ambassador for Cancer Research, and loves music/sports.

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Competency sets:

• SUS1.1 Social, Economic and Environmental Resilience of the Supply Chain
• PAS1.1 Passenger Movement Principles
• PAS1.2 Modes, Modal Choice and Transport Integration
• PAS2.1 Passenger Movement Costing, Pricing, Obligations and Subsidies
• LE2.1 Customer Service and Relationship Management

When: 06 February 2024, 18:00- 19:00
Where: Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Graham Simpson, Conservative  MSP for Central Scotland

Graham Simpson is a British politician and former journalist who has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Central Scotland region since 2016. A member of the Scottish Conservatives, he served as Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity from 2020 to 2021. He was a councillor in South Lanarkshire Council between 2007 and 2017. Within Parliament, he is the Conservative Party Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Communities and Social Security and sits on the Local Government and Communities Committee. He is also the Deputy Convenor of the cross party group on Cycling, Walking and Buses, Deputy Convenor of the cross party groups on Life Sciences and Architecture and the Built Environment as well as a member of the Beer & Pubs and Housing cross party groups. Working with Transform Scotland, the Scottish campaign for a sustainable transport policy, he has chaired the Cross Party Group on Sustainable Transport. He is thus very well-placed to tell us how transport and logistics issues play out in the Holyrood context. 

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Competencies;

• TP2.1 Policy Planning for Transport
• SC1.1 Supply Chain Networks, Design and Optimisation

When: 17 April 2024, 18:15 - 20:00
Where:  On View Island, overlooking the turbine house - View Island, Caversham Weir, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 8BP. OS grid reference SU720741. 
Speaker: Emma Wells and Rupert Wilson, Volunteers at Reading Hydro

The Thames Valley Group are delighted to have secured a visit to Reading Hydro.

 

The Hydro is on the River Thames, which is part of the longest river in England, it has 45 locks, is home to over 25 species of fish, boasts three areas of outstanding natural beauty and it’s the only river in Europe to have a national trail follow its entire length. Originally used for transporting goods by river and links to the Kennet & Avon canal. In recent years the river in Reading is used for growing recreational uses & schemes such as Reading Hydro are an example of how we are using sustainability to provide energy solutions.



Reading Hydro is a Community Benefit Society, a not-for-profit business. It was set up to design, finance, build and operate a hydropower scheme that generates renewable, low-carbon electricity from the power of the River Thames.

The scheme is beside Caversham weir in Reading. It generates electricity using two Archimedes screw turbines connected via gearboxes to electrical generators. Construction started in Autumn 2020, and the scheme was completed and commissioned in 2021. Electricity generation started in September 2021.



COMMUNITY
We are a community of people who share a common purpose – to create a locally-owned community asset, and generate renewable electricity to help tackle the climate crisis and ensure a more sustainable future for the people of Reading. When restrictions allow, we meet as members, volunteer our expertise and participate in local events to spread the word on clean, sustainable energy.

BUSINESS
Reading Hydro CBS is a cooperative business. We raised investment through community share offers. We earn income by selling the renewable electricity generated from the hydro scheme, and also from the feed-in-tariff (FIT). This will cover our operating costs, provide a modest return to investors, and gradually pay back their investment. As a Community Benefit Society, any surplus will then be paid back to the community in the form of grants.

TECHNOLOGY
We are a technology- and science-led society, supported by experts in a range of construction, power generation and sustainability fields. We provide open access data on the system performance, river flow and conditions.

EDUCATION
Reading Hydro wants to use our system to promote and share the benefits of renewable energy with the local community. We will be creating online education tools about hydro power and will host visits of local schools and others, for talks about clean energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and environmental conservation.

**Please note that this visit is limited to 16 visitors**

What the visit covers 
The visit can cover all the topics below - let us know if you have particular interests.
1. How Reading Hydro came into being, and how the hydro project was planned, financed and constructed
2. How the hydro turbines and electricity generation system work, estimated output, current performance as shown by live data on our website.
3. The cable to Thames Lido: why it was needed and how it was laid.
4. How Reading Hydro operates and maintains the hydro plant
5. The fish pass, why it was required, how it works, how it was constructed.
6. The murals on the turbine house.
7. Some aspects of the history and ecology of View Island.

**For safety and insurance reasons, groups are not allowed in the turbine house, but your hosts will explain what goes on inside, and there is a video on our website**

Health and safety:
You make this visit at your own risk. You are not covered by Reading Hydro’s public liability insurance, because you will walk only on public land (owned by Reading Borough Council or the Environment Agency and open to the public 24/7) throughout the visit. The hydro turbines, turbine house and fish pass can all be viewed from this land.  Your visit hosts will explain and point things out to you, but will not tell you what to do.  We ask all adult visitors to sign to confirm that they understand this.

We have undertaken a risk assessment for visits. We have identified the following risks associated with walking on the public land, and how they are mitigated. Your hosts will remind you of these at the start of the visit.

? Risk of falling into the water and drowning: you are advised to keep behind a fence, or well away from the unfenced edge of View Island. We take only a small number of people on each visit so that they can stay close to the host. Reading Hydro has provided a lifebelt near the site but, because it hangs next to the public footpath, we cannot guarantee that it won’t have been stolen
? Risk of slipping, tripping or falling: much of the route we suggest is on tarmac or concrete paths, but the paths on View Island are unmade. You are advised to wear sturdy footwear and keep a look-out for tree roots, brambles etc on the Island. The wooden footbridges onto View Island and across the entrance of the fish pass can be slippery.
? Risk of injury from bicycles or scooters: the path that leads over the weir is popular with cyclists and scooter users. We advise visitors to call out if they see a bicycle or scooter approaching.  We take only a small number of people on each visit so that they can stay close to the host.
? Risk of injury from dogs biting or jumping up: the paths and View Island are popular with dog walkers. We advise visitors to be alert.

**once delegates have booked to attend they will be sent a copy of this visit agreement issued by Reading Hydro, which unless is completed they cannot attend the visit**

As usual with Thames Valley Group events, afterwards attendees are warmly invited to continue the evening at the Three Guineas Public House outside Reading Station.

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Competencies:
SUS1.1 Social, Economic and Environmental Resilience of the Supply Chain