Issue Seminar

Conference being promoted in partnereship with

2008 AAFA INTERNATIONAL SOURCING,

CUSTOMS & LOGISTICS INTEGRATION CONFERENCE

“Breaking Down the Walls”

April 16-18, 2008

Renaissance Worthington Hotel

Fort Worth, Texas

Wednesday, April 16

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Registration, refreshments and exhibits

2:00pm – 5:30pm

2:00pm- 2:05pm – Welcome Remarks by Bryan Wolfe, Sr. Director, International Trade & Logistics, Dan River, Inc.

2:05pm – 3:15pm

Keynote: Creating a Competitive Advantage for your International Enterprise

Tom Travis, Managing Partner, Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A

3:15pm – 4:15pm

Customs & Trade Session: Issues Facing Apparel and Footwear Importers

Given the plethora of Global, regional, and bilateral preferential trade programs, trade remedies, supply chain security issues, and customs’ modernization efforts over the past five years, the burden on the importer to successfully navigate their way through this ever-changing maze is more challenging than ever. This discussion will provide a review of the evolution of customs/trade compliance and supply chain security activities from the perspective of apparel and footwear importers, including indications of the current trends and predictions for future importer obligations we all need to be aware of.

Moderator: Steve Lamar, Executive Vice President, AAFA

Panelists:

Jerry Cook, Vice President, Government & Trade Relations, Hanesbrands, Inc.

Patrick Fox, Director of Customs Compliance, VF Outdoor, Inc.

4:15pm – 4:30pm

Break

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Logistics Infrastructure Challenge in the U.S.

This discussion will provide an analysis, from the perspective of a global logistics service provider, on the decline of the U.S. / Global transportation infrastructure – port congestion, rail limited capacity, congested highways – due to import traffic growth and the impact on overall performance of global supply chains.

George H. Hearn, Vice President/Managing Director U.S. South Region, APL

6:00pm

Welcome Reception-Networking Opportunities/Exhibits, Sponsored by TradeCard

Thursday, April 17

7:00am – 7:55am

Registration, Continental Breakfast and Exhibits, Sponsored by QuestaWeb, Inc.

7:55am – 10:00am

8:00am – 9:00am

Keynote: " Three Words " that will Focus Your Supply Chain Initiatives

Phil Poel, Senior V.P., Global Operations, Wolverine World Wide

9:05am – 10:05am

Glass Tube Supply Chain Session

Today, the demand for greater visibility in the supply chain is becoming a necessary element in the way a company does business, approaches and implements its sourcing and supply chain methodologies, and meets that demands of its customers while maintaining accountability. In this session we will examine the “Glass Tube Supply Chain” or the need for transparent information. Panelists from retail, manufacturing and the vendor communities will share how they have reduced production cycle times, developed systems to gain access to information faster, and increased accuracy creating a fluid and transparent supply chain.

Moderator:

Craig Cohen, V.P., Demand & Supply Planning, LaCrosse Footwear, Inc.

Panelists:

Kurt Cavano, Chairman & CEO, TradeCard

Susan Olivier, Director Business Applications, Cycle Time Reduction, JCPenney

10:00am – 10:20am

Coffee Break, Sponsored by Bureau Veritas

10:20am – 11:15am

Panel Discussion: All Morning speakers

11:15am - 11:30am

BNSF Intermodal Outlook

Transportation capacity and infrastructure is a growing concern. Hear the latest outlook for 2008 rail capacity, including the future of freight mobility and infrastructure development.

George Duggan, VP of Domestic Intermodal Marketing, BNSF

11:30am – 12:45pm

Lunch, Sponsored by Maersk

1:00pm

Bus departs for BNSF Railway Alliance & Networking Operations Center Tour

BNSF Railway headquartered in Ft. Worth, Texas is one of the four remaining transcontinental railroads and one of the largest railroad networks in North American. With globalization, the transcontinental railroads are a key component in the containerization of the Pacific Rim with the BNSF Railway moving more intermodal traffic than any other rail system in the world

1:20pm – 4:30pm

BNSF Tours

BNSF’s corporate headquarters houses one of the world’s most extensive Pacific Northwest and Native American art collections of any major US corporation. In addition to viewing these impressive works of art, participants will tour the BNSF Network Operations Center. The Network Operations Center (NOC) is the largest and most technologically advanced control center of its kind in the industry. In the NOC, dispatchers, locomotive distributors, and other decision-makers coordinate the movement of rail shipments throughout the BNSF’s rail network which covers 28 states in the western two-thirds of the US plus two Canadian provinces over 32,000 route miles.

The Alliance intermodal facility is their 5^th largest intermodal hub handling 1800 trucks and 17 trains per day equating to 566,000 lifts in 2007. Participants will see various aspects of intermodal hub operations including the processing of container and trailers at checkpoint & the loading and unloading of trains using overhead gantry cranes.

4:30pm

Buses return to hotel

6:00pm – 7:00pm

Unwind/Networking Reception, Sponsored by GT Nexus

Dinner on your own

Friday, April 18

7:00am – 7:45am

Registration, Continental Breakfast and Exhibits, Sponsored by YKK

7:45am – 9:00am

Sourcing Session Part 1: New Dimensions In Global Sourcing: Challenges & Pitfalls

In a world of global trade that is constantly evolving, an off-shore sourcing strategy is not as simple as selecting the country with the lowest production costs. That is not longer good enough, as virtually every company is operating in a complex, multifaceted global supply chain. Join this panel to discuss some of the challenging forces – globalization, a changing competitive landscape due to mergers and acquisitions, changing consumer expectations, free trade agreements, shortening of product life cycles, product variety, rising energy costs, environmental requirements, increased congestion at ports, and the impact of potential natural disasters and terrorism.

Moderator:
Rafael Hernandez, VP, Supply Chain Logistics, Haggar Clothing Co.

Panelists:

Terry Lay, CEO, Haggar Clothing Co.

Art Croci, President Global Operations Group, Wolverine World Wide, Inc.

9:05am – 10:20am

Sourcing Session Part 2: Sustainability

While sustainability is difficult to define, it has been a corporate buzzword for at least two decades. Climate change, an increasingly stringent regulatory environment, and added stakeholder pressures are driving the apparel and footwear industries to step up their thinking about creating sustainable supply chains. Join our panelists as they discuss how your company can benefit by turning environmental challenges into strategic opportunities.

Moderator:

Rick Horwitch, VP-Solutions Business Development, Bureau Veritas

Panelists:

Kim Brandner - Sr. Mgr, Sustainable Textiles/Apparel

Sandra Fallgatter, Manager of Private Brand Compliance, JCPenney

Marci Zaroff, Founder & President, Under the Canopy

10:20am – 10:40am

Coffee Break

10:40am – 11:25am

Roundtable Discussions- 3 Concurrent Breakouts

After two days of discussions on the seminar topics--and with the challenge to “Break Down the Walls” issued to all conference attendees--the moderators will lead candid, focused roundtable discussions about the key concepts presented, address questions and concerns submitted by attendees prior to the conference, and determine how leveraging what we learned can benefit our businesses.

Sourcing/Sustainability

Moderator:

Rick Horwitch, VP-Solutions Business Development, Bureau Veritas

Customs/Trade/Supply Chain Security

Moderator:

Bryan Wolfe Sr. Director, International Trade & Logistics, Dan River, Inc.

Transportation/Logistics

Moderators:

Jack Dos Santos, Vertical Market Leader for Apparel, A.N. Deringer, Inc.

11:25am – 11:45am

Reconvene, Round Table Reports & Conference Wrap-Up and Adjournment