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Keynote PresentationsWe are pleased to announce our keynote speakers for the event:
Major Rolf Zimmerman Rolf
is a consultant with SMS Management and Technology. He is presently
working on ICT projects for Vic Government. He has recently participated
in a Lean process review for KAZ managed Services. Previously, he worked
within the Defence Material Organisation (DMO) in the engineering,
medical, clothing and foodstuffs commodity management areas.
Within DMO he provided project engineering assistance to a supply
chain RFID implementation. He also provided technical regulatory support and supply
chain systems advice for commodity groups within DMO. Key
professional outcomes include: Conduct
of a SCOR (Supply Chain Operations Reference Model) based configuration
review of key Defence supply chains. This has identified a number of
deficiencies and extant best practices, which included the efficiencies
from centralised commodity management, direct delivery contracts and
vendor held stocking arrangements. Project
manager of the Defence Pharmaceutical Supply System. This has developed
into a web based stock control and e-Commerce engine using open industry
and IT standards. One of the surviving achievements from the NOIE funded
Pharmaceutical electronic Commerce and Communication (PeCC) project. Has
since been the basis for the Turkish National medical products catalogue
and is still the best-of-breed operational medical product catalogue for
e-medical records and ordering. Other
related activities: Lecture
at Latrobe University, Graduate Management School (GSM), in Management
Information Systems. Presentation Outline: DoD trades
electronically with industry using open ecommerce standards: Open
standard internet based purchase order from DoD to industry Headquartered at
Victoria Barracks and commanded by Col Alan Beasley, the Department of
Defence Joint Material Agency (DoD JMA) operates a number of managed
fleets consisting of many thousands of “off the shelf” consumer
items; foods, spare parts, apparel, medical, dental, pharmaceutical
products, all of which are purchased from commercial industry. In 1998, within Project
electronic Commerce and Communiction (PeCC), the JMA began the ground
work for business to business ecommerce, targeting best practice supply
chain processes using open standards. Why open standards? The Australian business
community is made up of only a few large buyers, but many thousands of
small suppliers (SMEs). It is common for an SME to supply to 8 or more
market sectors; major department store retailers, grocers, discount
chains, pharmacies, hospitals and government agencies such as the JMA.
The adoption of open standards by customers, allows suppliers to trade
electronically across this disparate marketspace. The JMA is a customer
of vision. Using open standards is paramount in enabling JMA to trade
electronically with its enormous number of suppliers. PILS for data integrityIn 1999 the JMA
selected a specialist application developer, Ocean Group to jointly
develop an integrated dispensary/inventory/supply managements system,
now known as the Pharmaceutical Integrated Logistics System (PILS). PILS is being used to
support the provision of medical and pharmacy services to Defence
personnel, control inventory and purchase electronically with suppliers,
notably Faulding Healthcare. Having proven of immense benefit to the
medical fleet branch, the PILS tool and model is now positioned for use
by other fleet operations. Lessons and standards developed in the health
sector are being replicated for Textiles Clothing and Footwear (TCF)
which encompasses Defence uniforms (smartTEN project). A fundamental
deliverable of PILS is master data integrity. JMA Systems Specialist,
Gary Farmer, says that without a reliable product database, electronic
commerce is nearly impossible to manage. “When we started down this
path with PeCC, we had a database of over 60, 000 entries which far
exceeded our contracted product range. Clearly a “cleansing” process
was needed” said Farmer. Using both automated
and manual verification by pharmacists and the Surgeon General, the JMA
refined the database from “over 60, 000 poorly maintained entries to a
core 16, 000 currently contracted and traded items. “This tedious yet
critical process resulted in the JMA operating a product file using the
global EAN numbering standard as the product key, a key enabler for
ecommerce procurement transactions to be processed reliably” said
Farmer. The challenge of
keeping the PILS database “clean” and up to date remains. To this
end, Ocean is working closely with EAN Australia and Faulding Healthcare
to pilot EANnet, an industry based data catalogue and synchronisation
service. EANnet allows suppliers to publish product master data once and
then auto broadcasts selected data to trading partners, thus keeping
customers’ internal databases synchronised with suppliers, in
readiness for subsequent ecommerce transactions. PILS pops a Purchase OrderIn October 2001, the
PILS project created a landmark in healthcare supply chain management
when the pharmacy at Vic Barracks sent an electronic purchase order over
the internet, to Faulding. “Faulding, has been developing systems and
methods that closely mirror the proven pathway of the retail industry,
said XX”. However, this was no
ordinary purchase order. It was a precursor to what will become the
Australian Healthcare Standard Purchase Order to be published by
Standards Australia in the latter half of 2002. And importantly, DoD
considers the internet a cost effective conduit for b2b ecommerce
messaging. According to Pat
Gallagher (PeCC) this milestone is one tiny step on a path that will see
Australia at the forefront as users of global standards as the
foundation for effective ecommerce practice. Under leadership from
government and industry programs, the work of Standards Australia will
deliver 16 open standard ecommerce trading documents for health this
year. “The electronic
purchase order was the first in millions of transactions such as
shipping notices, invoices, remittance advices, that will be routinely
exchanged throughout healthcare supply chains over the coming years”
said Gallagher. The last word is from
Colonel Beasely “implementing standards is hard but fundamental work.
The DoD is proud of its leading role with industry partners. JMA is an
agency within this large Commonwealth Department that is leading with
policy and by example, to accelerate efficiency and best practice in the
healthcare (and other) sectors of the economy. Other military
organisations around the world are progressing similarly, taking
advantage of the join work between EAN International and NATO on the
linking of Nato Stock Numbers to EAN numbers. The example being set by the JMA is in line with many sectors of Australia’s national economy; those mentioned as well as office products, furniture, electrical appliances, horticulture, automotive after market, and even steel manufacturing. The grocery industry will soon be joined by other industries, under the momentum generated by the leadership of customers such as the JMA.
A number of sessions in the conference will be devoted to the presentation of peer reviewed papers. |
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