An Electronic Supply Chain: Will Payments Follow?

May 26, 2004 to May 27, 2004
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
230 S. LaSalle Street
Chicago, IL 60604
Third Floor Conference Center
May 26, 2004 | May 27, 2004

May 26, 2004
10:30 a.m.		Registration
11:45 a.m.		Lunch and Opening Speakers Tom Ciesielski, Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Presentation (PDF, 234KB) Cathryn Gregg, Partner, Treasury Strategies, Inc.
1:30 p.m.		Break
1:45 p.m.		Banks and NonBanks in the B2B Payments Space Moderator Cathryn Gregg, Partner, Treasury Strategies, Inc. Presentation (PDF, 69KB) Nick Alex, Senior Vice President, Bank of America Corporation Presentation (PDF, 625KB) Tom Dean, President, Medical Banking Exchange (MBEXX) Presentation (PDF, 1804KB) Perrin Gunduy, Director, First Data Corporation Rick Langer, Senior Vice President, US Bank PowerTrack Presentation (PDF, 440KB) Rob Martens, Vice President, Key Bank
		Describe your current role in B2B electronic payments. How do you leverage your payment relationships to enhance supply chain processes? Does the migration to an electronic supply chain negatively impact current revenue streams? Are new entrants affecting the electronic B2B strategies of traditional providers? Does the consolidation of the financial services industry lead to greater standardization of payment processes?
3:30 p.m.		Break
4:00 p.m.		Corporates' Perspective Moderator Peter Burns, Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Presentation (PDF, 920KB) Rebecca Jacoby, Vice President, Cisco Systems Presentation (PDF, 57KB) Mary Bravo, Treasury Manager, GLS/Composites One Presentation (PDF, 606KB) Kathy Crawford, President of Local Broadcast, Mindshare
		How have you improved your supply chain, and what benefits have you experienced? What barriers remain to further improve your business flows? How integrated and electronic is the payments component within the overall exchange of information? What needs have solution-providers, banks and nonbanks not met yet?
5:30 p.m.		Reception
May 27, 2004
7:30 a.m.		Continental Breakfast
8:15 a.m.		Keynote Address Speech (PDF, 116KB) James Lyon, First Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
8:45 a.m.		Solution Providers' Perspective Moderator Jeetu Patel, Executive Vice President, Doculabs, Inc. Presentation (PDF, 569KB) Richard Winston Partner, Accenture Presentation (PDF, 1010KB) Tasos Tsolakis, Senior Vice President, Global eXchange Services Presentation (PDF, 901KB) Jerry Ulrich, Chief Financial Officer, Xign Presentation (PDF, 3791KB) Richard Babb, Senior Consultant, VECTOR SGI, Inc.
		What products/services do you offer to improve supply chain integration and payment processing? Are incentives properly aligned to promote adoption? If not, why? Does your product offer sufficient cost reductions by migrating to an electronic supply chain? Can EDI meet the needs of all your customers? Is EIPP a transitional product, or is it here to stay?
10:30 a.m.		Break
10:45 a.m.		Networks' Perspective Moderator Avivah Litan, Vice President, Gartner Financial Services Presentation (PDF, 418KB) Kent Dolby, Chief Executive Officer, Elernica Presentation (PDF, 287KB) Alistair Duncan, Senior Vice President, Visa International Presentation (PDF, 780KB) George Thomas, President and Chief Executive Officer, Electronic Payments Network
		What role does your network play in improving the business supply chain? Are incentives properly aligned for electronic supply chain and epayments integration to succeed? What future enhancements are you considering to improve the efficiency of the supply chain? What are the potential barriers to improving the efficiency of the supply chain? How is fraud impacting the growth of B2B electronic payments?
12:15 p.m.		Break
12:30 p.m.		Industry Case Study and Lunch Greg Perman, Manager of Accounting Services, John Deere Credit William Lyne, First Vice President, Bank One Corporation
2:00 p.m.		Closing Remarks