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An Electronic Supply Chain: Will Payments Follow?

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The Chicago Fed hosted its fourth payments conference entitled, An Electronic Supply Chain: Will Payments Follow?, May 26–27, 2004. Conference speakers were payment industry leaders who provided an insider's perspective on the necessary success factors for electronic supply chain and epayments integration.

The conference addressed questions such as: B2B payments: Who wins and who loses? What is the value proposition for corporate trading partners? Are incentives aligned for existing payment networks to provide B2B solutions? Are financial institutions proactive or reactive to B2B solutions? Why are certain industries adopting B2B payments while others wait?

05/26/04
10:30 AM
Registration and Continental Breakfast
11:45 AM
Lunch and Welcome

Speakers

Tom Ciesielski,  Vice President,  Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Cathryn Gregg,  Partner,  Treasury Strategies, Inc.

1:30 PM
Breawk
1:45 PM
Banks and Nonbanks in the B2B Payments Space

  • 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?

Moderator

Cathryn Gregg,  Partner,  Treasury Strategies, Inc.

Speakers

Nick Alex,  Senior Vice President,  Bank of America Corporation

Tom Dean,  President,  Medical Banking Exchange (MBEXX)

Perrin Gunduy,  Director,  First Data Corporation

Rick Langer,  Senior Vice President,  US Bank PowerTrack

Rob Martens,  Vice President,  Key Bank

3:30 PM
Break
4:00 PM
Corporates' Perspective

  • 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?

Moderator

Peter Burns,  Vice President,  Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Speakers

Rebecca Jacoby,  Vice President,  Cisco Systems

Mary Bravo,  Treasury Manager,  GLS/Composites One

Kathy Crawford,  President of Local Broadcast,  Mindshare

5:30 PM
Reception
05/19/05
7:30 AM
Continental Breakfast
8:15 AM
Keynote Address

Speaker

James Lyon,  First Vice President and Chief Operating Officer,  Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

8:45 AM
Solution Providers' Perspective

  • 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?

Moderator

Jeetu Patel,  Executive Vice President,  Doculabs, Inc.

Speakers

Richard Winston,  Partner,  Accenture

Tasos Tsolakis,  Senior Vice President,  Global eXchange Services

Jerry Ulrich,  Chief Financial Officer,  Xign

Richard Babb,  Senior Consultant,  VECTOR SGI, Inc.

10:30 AM
Break
10:45 AM
Networks' Perspective

  • 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?

Moderator

Avivah Litan,  Vice President,  Gartner Financial Services

Speakers

Kent Dolby,  Chief Executive Officer,  Elernica

Alistair Duncan,  Senior Vice President,  Visa International

George Thomas,  President and Chief Executive Officer,  Electronic Payments Network

12:15 PM
Break
12:35 PM
Industry Case Study and Lunch

 

Speakers

Greg Perman,  Manager of Accounting Services,  John Deere Credit

William Lyne,  First Vice President,  Bank One Corporation

2:00 PM
Closing Remarks

Background Information

Event Information
Date
05/26/04 - 05/27/04
Location
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
230 South LaSalle Street
Chicago, IL 60605-1413
Schedule
Th 8:30 a.m. - 5:15 p.m. F 7:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.