Call for participation: EGOV 2011 Workshop on IT Innovation for Management of Global Supply Chains

Date: August 29, 2011

Location:
Faculty of Policy, Management and Technology,
Delft University of Technology,
Jaffalaan 5,
2628 BX Delft

Workshop organizers:
Sietse Overbeek (TU Delft) (contact person)
Yao-Hua Tan (TU Delft)
Gerwin Zomer (TNO)

Related Web sites:
http://www.egov-conference.org/egov-2011/workshops/workshop-on-it-innovation-for-management-of-global-supply-chains
http://www.cassandra-project.eu

Registration details:
To register for the workshop it is required to pay a small fee to cover expenses such as coffee / tea and lunch and those who would like to join the workshop dinner in the evening should pay an additional amount to cover the dinner costs. There are two options. It is required to pay a fee of € 75,= if you participate in the workshop and also join the workshop dinner in the evening. In case you would only like to participate in the workshop a fee of € 25,= is required. The fee can be paid by bank transfer only. The bank account number that should be used for national bank transfers is 54.28.91.859 mentioning TU Delft. For international bank transfers the following SWIFT and IBAN codes should be used: SWIFT ABNANL2A and IBAN NL08ABNA0542891859. Deadline for registration is August 19, 2011.

About the workshop:
In global supply chains government supervision and enforcement authorities, such as customs, tax, police, and food safety inspection agencies, have to carry out inspections at the borders to make sure that these global supply chains become safer and more secure. However, these inspections often cause major interruptions and delays in these chains. Hence, both governments as well as businesses aim to make these inspections more efficient and less disruptive for the global supply chains, by simplifying and harmonizing cross-border control procedures. This simplification is known as Trade Facilitation. IT-innovation is a key enabler for trade facilitation, where paper-based procedures are replaced by electronic procedures. Recent developments in trade facilitation are Single Window and Coordinated Border Management.

Coordinated Border Management aims to improve the management of the large number of cross-border inspections by sometimes 10-20 different  government agencies within ports and
airports. Each of these authorities implement their own regulations, and typically require that businesses exchange data with them via their own IT applications. Hence, companies have to implement many different IT applications on top of their ERP system to exchange data with all these agencies.  Similar data with possible different structures and technology has to be submitted for each transaction to several government authorities with high costs for businesses as a consequence. On the other hand, businesses generate data within supply chains, both from a commercial view (e.g. purchase order, invoice etc.) between buyer and seller and from a logistics view (e.g. bill-of-lading etc.). A great opportunity for coordinated border management would be if these business data could be reused by government authorities for control purposes. Furthermore, many companies have implemented risk management systems for resilient and reliable supply chain management. These risk management systems could also be reused by inspection agencies to improve their particular risk analysis of global supply chains. In particular, data can be collected by these inspection agencies from enterprise IT systems by means of business intelligence to improve their risk analysis of global supply chains. On the European level, the European Commission introduced a Risk-Based Approach whereby member states are required to part at their borders global supply chains in safe ones (Green) and un-safe ones (Red), where the green chains benefit from more trade facilitation than the red ones.

To realize business data reusability by all government authorities when interacting with private enterprises the Single Window notion has been coined. Two main principles to improve the reusability of business data for governments are data-pulling and piggy-backing. Concerning the first principle, it is the objective of government authorities to extend the Single Window approach with information reuse between authorities based on one declaration by the business, preferably having access to the source data in the ERP system of the company. Applying the second principle is aimed at the alignment of control planning of different authorities as currently each inspection by regulatory institutions leads to additional handling, waiting times, and thus additional costs for private enterprises, whereas in many cases inspection agencies can piggy-back on the collection of data and risk analysis of other inspection agencies, and hence inspections can be bundled.

Programme:
9.00-9.15:         Welcome

9.15-10.00:        Keynote (government perspective by Frank Heijmann) + discussion

10.00-10.45:       Keynote (industry perspective by Paul Swaak) + discussion

11.00-11.30:       Smart Trade Logistics – Compliance as an Opportunity -            Gerwin Zomer

11.30-12.00:       Supply Chain Risk Analysis with Linked Open Data -                    Wout Hofman

12.00-12.30:       Coffee break

12.30-13.00:       A Web-Based Data Pipeline for Compliance in International Trade - Sietse Overbeek, Bram Klievink, David Hesketh, Frank Heijmann and Yao-Hua Tan

13.00-13.30:       e-Customs Study: Private Sector Views on Potential Benefits Further Electronic Customs Developments in Switzerland -  Mikael Granqvist and Juha Hintsa

13.30-14.30:       Lunch

14.30-15.15:       Keynote (trade associations perspective by Claudia Sijstermans) + discussion

15.15-15.45:       Recovery and Recycling of Containers in the Brewing Industry -   Mario Monsreal Barrera

15.45-16.15:       e-Government Controls in Service-Oriented Auditing Perspective: Beyond Single Window - Faiza Allah Bukhsh and Hans Weigand

16.15-16.45:       Coffee break

16.45-17.30:       Keynote (research perspective by Yao-hua Tan) + discussion

17.30-17.45:       Closing

18.30:             Workshop dinner

Programme Committee:
Frank Arendt, Inst. for Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL), Germany
Virginia Dignum, TU Delft, the Netherlands
Paul Grefen, TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Frank Heijmann, Dutch Customs, the Netherlands
David Hesketh, HM Revenue & Customs, United Kingdom
Jos van Hillegersberg, TU Twente, the Netherlands
Juha Hintsa, Cross-Border Research Association (CBRA), Switzerland
Wout Hofman, TNO, the Netherlands
Marijn Janssen, TU Delft, the Netherlands
Bram Klievink, TU Delft, the Netherlands
Fernando Liesa, Zaragoza Logisitics Center (ZLC), Spain
Mario Monsreal, Zaragoza Logisitics Center (ZLC), Spain
Stefano Persi, Atos, Spain
Godfried Smit, Dutch Shippers Association (EVO), the Netherlands
Paul Swaak, Portbase, the Netherlands
Albert Veenstra, TNO, the Netherlands
Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

For further information contact Sietse Overbeek (S.J.Overbeek@tudelft.nl)