Logistics-On-The-Lake - Niagara invites business leaders of 21st Century

The event takes place between August 10 and 17, 2002 and will focus on Canadian Perspective on Logistics and Supply Chain Management. The venue of this seven-day seminar will be the Niagara College (www.niagarac.on.ca). It combines learning logistics in fun-filled and innovative manner that will build lasting relationship among people and countries.

The seminar sessions will relate to global logistics in an interdependent world, intermodal transportation, technology and systems affecting a supply chain, electronic documentation, customer service, hands-on SCM software, warehousing and facilities management, air logistics, customs administration of Harmonized System of Classification of Goods and so on.

The unique aspects of the seminar are navigating the Welland Canal to see how the business logistics facilitates trade in Canada and the rest of the world; a field trip to the wine growing region, a first hand experience of automated warehousing facility of leading automakers; tasting what is best in the game of golf and all other social activities geared up to provide the motivation and learning in Canadian Niagara so different.

Crossing borders presents a supply chain with a variety of trade barriers to international business: tariffs, non-tariff barriers, exchange rates and differences in product requirements consumer tastes and business practices. Borders also present some direct obstacles to movement of goods: differences in transportation services and transport regulation, telecommunication and institutions such as public warehousing, wholesalers and distributors. All these leave a residual effect on the supply chain: product differences that result in high inventories, allowance for differences in business practice, transportation differences because differences in investment in public highways and other infrastructures or need to overcome changes in the relationships of currency exchange rates. So the participants will learn all this in a condensed but high-powered seminar that will transform the outlook of any logistics manager in the Arab world. The major change is that they will now move toward a global perspective, combining rationalized production located around the world with a quest for global markets. It would then be easier to reason why Dubai plays an important role as trading hub in the region and host unique events and world conferences like IMF 2003.