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WCO Education Series in Globalization and Interoperability |
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Initiative for Enhancing Visibility through Standards, Interoperatibility and Integration of Time Oriented Enterprises with Supply Chain Management |
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31 May to 02 June 2006 |
| Location: |
Brussels, Belgium |
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Venue: |
WCO Headquarters |
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The WCO is committed to provide leadership necessary to catalyse business process innovation to facilitate global trade operations and mechanisms to deal with security risks. The WCO Education Series in Globalisation and Interoperability (ESGI) is an integral component of that leadership initiative. This programme offers a credible mechanism to help transform the WCO vision into reality, albeit in part, by stimulating discourse that is a pre-requisite to planning and action. For the first 3-day session, the faculty includes:
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2006 May 31 - Sir Clive Granger, Nobel Prize in Economics 2003 and Professor of Economics at University of California
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2006 May 31 - Professor Louis Brennan B.E., M.Eng.Sc, M.Erg.S., MBA, Ph.D., Trinity College, Dublin
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2006 May 31 - Dr Joseph Salvo, GE Global Research
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2006 May 31 - Professor Janice Klein, Sloan School of Management, MIT
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2006 June 01 - Professor David Simchi-Levi, School of Engineering, MIT
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2006 June 02 - Mr Andy Mulholland, Global CTO, Capgemini & Fellow, British Computer Society
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2006 June 02 - Dr. Shoumen Palit Austin Datta, School of Engineering, MIT |
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Why ESGI: |
The content of this three-day programme may help you to improve business profitability through acquisition of knowledge and skills necessary to lead organizational change, better manage supply chain and improve systems integration. Hope you shall benefit from a truly remarkable learning opportunity for all those who are interested in business growth and innovation.
A mission of the WCO is to facilitate global trade between 169 member nations. Hence, it is imperative that the WCO continues to build and develop the ethical globalisation of business process innovation. Customs operations are essentially multi-faceted business processes that must interact with a plethora of systems (government, regulatory, logistics, value network). Risk increases with accumulating inefficiencies arising from lack of interoperability between systems and fuel the discontent from globalisation. To address this issue, the WCO is undertaking a renewed commitment to provide leadership necessary to catalyse business process innovation through exceptional educational liaison. The WCO Education Series in Globalization and Interoperability (ESGI) is designed to offer quality of content which will be exceptional in its erudition and credibility yet insightful and pragmatic, offering the attendees with strategic business value. |
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Background: |
The WCO is an unique organization with 169 Member nations involved in enforcing regulatory functions for business-to-business operations. The ability for governmental agencies (customs) to understand business process facilitation and the ability of businesses to view such agencies as facilitators rather than regulators may improve the value of the business-customs relationship. At present, global organizations such as the WCO are focused on standardization of cross-border goods handling frameworks and consequently are viewed (incorrectly) as compliance enforcement agencies by majority of businesses. Within this ambiguity of interaction lies a distinct opportunity for the WCO. It may grab the role of a credible source for innovation and education in business operational processes. Customs should be transformed into a business process management issue and thus viewed as an ’operation’ rather than regulatory compliance. |
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Objectives: |
WCO Education Series in Globalisation and Interoperability (ESGI) aims to utilize this business process management platform and perspective to present a broad spectrum view of the WCO as a business facilitator and “trusted advisor” to global businesses, especially the small and medium enterprises. The WCO ESGI program, therefore, will present a whole range of education to help mid-level and senior executives in businesses and government agencies to understand advances in core business processes and technology. For example, supply chain management must deal with customs issues if foreign sources are necessary to procure goods or if goods inventory in foreign lands are distributed over several countries in a geographic segment. Hence, it is not difficult to appreciate why inventory, procurement, manufacturing, distribution, warehousing, transportation and a variety of other processes in the supply chain or “value network” are closely connected to customs (yet businesses view their operational processes distinctly from customs management).
One objective of the WCO Education Series in Globalisation and Interoperability (ESGI) is to bridge that gap of understanding by offering recurring educational sessions that deal with most of the core business processes. Discussion of the WCO Standards and Frameworks will be included as segments of such educational offerings to present an integrated concept that upholds the activities of WCO as a global (non-commercially motivated) business facilitator. In addition to global business executives, senior management, consultants and trade association members, the WCO ESGI is a value-added service for the WCO member nations and affiliated governmental agencies who aim to offer professional staff improvement courses to improve or promote intelligent interoperable customs integration with enterprise decision systems. |
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