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Few Remaining Seats Still Available - Register today to attend FMS' Customer Conference 2006 in Minneapolis MN on February 22-23, 2006. Get the Details Here!
Topic: FMS Customer Conference 2006 - Knowledge & Innovation
Date: 2/16/2006
Company: Feed Management Systems
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If you have not registered yet to attend Feed Management Systems Customer Conference 2006, we invite you to consider attending this exciting industry event and call today... only a few seats are still available!
This premier learning and networking event is designed for all our feed solution customers to gain maximum benefits from your FMS solutions, network and learn from other industry users, provide feedback and have a great time in the process.
This event will provide several opportunities for broadening your knowledge, skills and expertise. We’ll have dialogues about your business, and our sessions will offer practical solutions for tackling the real-world issues that our customers face.
An Exciting Line-Up of Industry Speakers
FMS is excited to announce confirmation of several speakers that you will not want to miss!
• Jim Moseley, former Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, USDA
• Dr. Keith C. Behnke, Professor of Feed Science, Dept of Grain Science and Industry, Kansas State University
• Vickey Feaster, Manufacturing Industry Account Manager, Microsoft
• Bill Mead, Director of North America Consulting Services - Cargill Animal Nutrition
• Doug Lueders, Supervisor Commercial Feed Unit, MN Department of Agriculture
• Don Root, Beta Raven, who was instrumental in writing the Safe Feed Safe Food program
• Beth Hayden, Process Verified Program Manager, USDA Federal Grain Inspection Service
• Gary DeLong, Novecta
• Geoff Smith, Don’s Farm Supply
• Chad Niswonger, Microsoft Solution Specialist, Microsoft Dynamics GP
• Ray Damphousse, Business Development Manager, Encore Business Solutions
• FMS team members: Bob Luedtke, Craig German, Duey Yliniemi, Byron Phillips, Keith Zbasnik, Mark Jewell, Rich Reynertson, Russ Bussman, Sheila Moore, Tony Ptacek
Agenda, Session Descriptions and Registration forms are availalbe!
Current Customers may access them on the Customer website under Customer Documents, or send an email to Teresa Clark. You can email your request to tclark@feedsys.com
Register Today – Space is Limited!
Here is a chance to get away from the daily routine, renew your knowledge, and make an investment in the future of your feed business. This premier learning and networking event is designed for all our feed solution customers to gain maximum benefits from their FMS solutions, We look forward to having interactive dialogues about what is happening in the feed industry and how technology can be a catalyst for change.This event will provide opportunities to network and learn from other industry peers, provide feedback and have a great time in the process.. Register today to join us!
The Value:
• Understand where technology is going and how you can better leverage your investments to solve business problems and create business value
• Gain insight into the future of the industry and your feed solution
• Discover tip and tricks for obtaining valuable time and money
saving benefits from your system – allowing you to grow your
business with your customers
• Improve your performance to drive profits and efficiencies
• Share knowledge, discuss challenges, solutions and ideas,
and network with others in your industry
• Benefit from interaction with peers, FMS team members and
industry experts in both structured and informal settings
Who Should Attend:
• Executives
• Plant and Production Manager
• Nutritionists
• Quality Assurance staff
• Sales and Consulting staff
• Pricing and Purchasing staff
• IT Staff
A Special Invitation:
One of the ways we can strengthen our mutual innovation for your business is by learning from each other. I personally would like to invite you to join us at our first North American Customer Conference.
I hope that you will attend and that through this event, you will gain valuable knowledge and leave with practical ways to innovate in 2006.
Rich Reynertson, CEO
Agenda:
Feed Management Systems’ Customer Conference 2006 provides an exceptional agenda of various speakers, detailed product demonstrations and in-depth learning sessions. We will offer tracks of learning around the leadership, feed manufacturing and formulation needs of your business. Ultimately, you can build additional skills and knowledge that enhance your solution and business productivity –allowing you to innovate your
business into the future.
Sessions:
Our goal is to provide valuable sessions on topics that are important to your business. We will discuss how software and technology can be leveraged to increase your knowledge and productivity. Get ready for a forum to share best practices and ideas for success. Our sessions will be delivered by FMS solution experts, customers, industry experts and government guest speakers.
GENERAL SESSIONS DESCRIPTIONS:
Feed Management Systems Keynote – Knowledge and Innovation
Join us as we will share our insight on the feed industry and how FMS will continue to influence and educate the role technology can play in benefiting the industry and your specific business. We will be announcing new service programs, along with our technology strategy and product roadmaps for all our solutions. Our objective is to share our plans, gain your insight and feedback on how we can continue to work together for the future
Industry Leaders Panel – “Industry Insights”
Global and national trends in the grain and feed industry affect feed manufactureres in many ways. Join us as FMS welcomes Jim Moseley as our keynote speaker and facilitator for this session. Jim would like the opportunity to share his industry views with you and facilitate a dialogue with you about industry responses to these trends and the impact trends have at the local level, along with how feed manufacturers can stay competitive in an environment of change and transition using technology. We hope that you will come prepared for this open dialogue and will share your questions, thoughts and ideas in this interactive session.
Technology Built for Your Manufacturing Business - Microsoft
This session will provide you further insight into the evolutin of technolgy and how you can leverage Microsoft’s technology platform to revolutionize your business. Gain an understanding of Microsoft’s commitment to the Manufacturing industry and their vision to accelerate customer’s insight into their business and empower their innovation by delivering solutions that enable manufacturer’s ability to achieve peak performance. Join Vickey Feaster, Microsoft’s Manufacturing Industry Account Manager, for this insightful keynote.
FEED MANUFACTURING TRACK:
In Control and In Compliance - Understanding Requirements and Solutions
Feed manufacturers face unique needs due to the nature of their products and requirements for FDA regulation compliance. Yet your organization must also apply efficient business processes in order to compete effectively and be successful. Find out how you can gain control by understanding how the new rules interact with other feed industry certifications. Joining us for this discussion will be Doug Lueders, Supervisor Commercial Feed Unit, MN Department of Agriculture and Don Root, Beta Raven, who was instrumental in writing the Safe Feed Safe Food program. We'll discuss current and expected requirements for compliance and bioterrorism regulations and best practices you should follow, and we'll demonstrate how the Feed Mill Manager solution can get you in control.
Reporting: Getting The Information You Need from Your Feed Mill Manager Solution
Your business solution is only as good as the information you can get out of it. Attend this session to get an overview of the various reporting tools available with Feed Mill Manager and Microsoft Dynamics-GP. Come prepared to discuss what type of data your mill needs and why, and we’ll discuss how you can access that data and create and modify the reports you need. We’ll cover tools available to you such as SQL Reporting Services, Report Writer, Smart Lists, and FRx. We want you to walk away with a better handle on reporting so you have the information, when you need it, to make informed business decisions.
Integrated Innovation - Linking your Feed Mill Manager to Complimentary Applications
Learn how Integrated Innovation can make you and your company more productive and decrease costs. This session will review how you can integrate the FMS suite of Windows products to each other, and to other common applications like: Microsoft Office, MapPoint, Excel (SmartLists, CSV), Labeling, Formulation, ERP systems, and Batching Systems. We guarantee you will take home a new insight on the solution you own today, how you can reduce your customer service costs, and how it will immediately provide you more operational control.
Gain More Business by Leveraging Customer Service Tools
The FMS suite of products includes many customer service oriented functions to provide cost effective services to your customers. Topics will include internet ordering of feed, customer sales contracts, customer owned inventory, and tracking of feed budgets for your producers. Find out how leveraging this technology can help you acquire new customers, ensure customer satisfaction and drive revenue.
Supply Chain Management - Best Practices for Inventory Management
You've purchased Inventory Control but still don't have a good handle on your inventory or perhaps are not using the module to its fullest potential for your success. This session provides both fundamental and advanced concepts and methods to help decrease your costs by gaining control of your inventory, managing your purchasing, maintaining profit margins and accessing information with tools like Business Portal. We'll share best practices on how to set up and use Item Resource Planning, Purchase Contracts, Purchase Orders, Drop Ships, Landed Cost, Ingredient Forecasting, and Costing
Maximizing the Order Entry Process
Time and money are valuable to your business. Learn how you can maximize the order entry process by getting the most benefit from our Feed Mill Manager solution. We'll walk you through the benefits of features such as Pricing at Order Entry, Recurring Orders, Customer Order Sheets, Order Import - External Orders, Automating Production Interface, Load-outs, Freight Management and more!
Pricing Tips & Tricks
Do your order entry and invoicing personnel have to remember too much? Does it take a long time for new personnel to be able to enter and price orders? This session explores how you can automate most - if not all - of your pricing...even your special pricing. We'll review all the pricing capabilities of Feed Mill Manager, including a few new features. Topics will include managing price levels, weekly pricing processes, currency pricing, distance based pricing, Price and Cost Worksheets and transferring price and costs to other systems. This is a session you don't want to miss!
Breakthrough Innovations in Microsoft Dynamics™ GP V 9.0
Learn about the new enhancements to Microsoft Dynamics™ GP Version 9.0 and how they will shape how you do everyday business processes! Release 9.0 reflects the goal of providing the business management system that users said they wanted, one that is familiar to your staff, fits with your system, fuels business productivity, enables confident decision making. This release marks the first wave delivery of Project Green, and reflects a vision of providing customers with a line of integrated, adaptable financial, human resource and supply chain management solutions that work like and with familiar Microsoft software. Come and learn how this solution is designed to help you work smarter - not harder, for business success. Delivering on breakthrough innovation with 170 new enhancements, we'll cover the most important enhancements that relate to your feed business. Topics will include user experience, role-based home pages, My Reports, Inventory, Purchase Order Processing, Sales Order Processing, GL/AR/AP and integration to Office.
FORMULATION & NUTRITION TRACK:
Tag & Label Management for the Feed Industry
Labeling of feed products has become increasingly complex due to increasing regulations and varieties of by-products coming into use in animal feeds. We'll discuss how you can meet these demands today and into the future. We'll cover everything from Feed Tags, archiving, enhanced prescription setup, integration drug verification, printed bar codes, non-medicated nutrients from Compendium, template wizards and more. You'll learn how to take advantage of labeling from any of the FMS products.
Basic Formulation - Best Practices
We'll review how you should leverage the technology of our formulation solution to ensure you are creating the lowest cost solution for every single formula. We'll discuss best practices of business processes, how to get the most out of the features, and how to leverage the reporting capabilities. Discussion will also include topic areas such as parametics, cost analysis, archiving, ingredient combinations, formula spec combine, ingredient swing and setting up your formulation system for maximum effectiveness.
Production Formula Management
This session will cover the best practices and technology available to help you with production formula management. We'll spent time discussing the following processes: verification, weekly processes, batch optimization, automatic premix update, formula includes, ingredient linking, stored formula linking, batch control interfaces, accounting interfaces, import/export and feed pricing and quoting.
Emerging Technology in Feed Formulation Processing
Emerging feed processing technology is a reality and we will discuss the effects on animal nutrition, formulation and feed performance. We'll discuss how mills may have to change the practice of blending like ingredients in common storage to "identity preservation" storage and the possible implicatoins, as well as the feasibility of rations being reformulated nearly "on-line" to meet the exact nutrient requirements of the target animal with little or no waste in the form of expensive nutrient overages. Technology can influence formulation practices, especially how you do your purchasing. Learn how formulation can be an important decision-making tool for purchasing practices, to help reduce ingredient costs and increase profits. We'll showcase how multi-blending should be used, along with parametrics, production minimums, bin allocation, multi-plant, and multi-price practices. Joining us for this session is Dr. Keith Behnke of KSU.
Ration Balancer as Your Nutritional Sales Tool
Learn how to leverage feed ration balancer as a tool to increase your sales, keep customers happy and improve profitability - regardless of the size of customer your company serves. We'll showcase how customers are utilizing this tool today. Find out how you can leverage the functionality, communicate feeding programs, extend and deploy this multi-species modeling tool to produce feed programs targeted to your customers' specific needs.
Why Feed Processing and Ingredients Require More Lab Analysis and Reformulation
This session will discuss ways in which feed processing and feed formulation interact and how formulation can be managed relative to processing. You'll learn how feed performance is affected by proper or improper feed processing and how these interactions can dramatically affect the nutrient value of certain feeds to animals. Find out more about the concept, trends, advantages and limitations of on-target formulation accuracy through frequent ingredient analysis and frequent formulation. Overall, you will learn how you can become a better supplier for nutrition services to your customers. Dr. Leland McKinney, KSU will be our speaker for this session.
Formulation Roadmap - Brill Formulation 2.0
Want to learn about the highlights planned for Brill Formulation 2.0? Here's your chance to learn more about the exciting new features, functionality and user experience planned for this release. We'll outline our roadmap for the future, how we will leverage new technology and how you can provide interactive feedback.
LEADERSHIP TRACK:
Modeling for Excellence
For feed manufacturers, there is always pressure to run an efficient operation and control costs, while trying to ease margin pressures. The ability to truly understand your operations can be achieved by modeling, which allows you to compare pre-defined models with actual feed mill production data. Data actuals over a time period can then be compared against the model, allowing you to analyze specific areas for further improvement. Modeling is one component of benchmarking that can give feed mills competitive advantage. Join guest speaker, Bill Mead, Director of North America Consulting Services - Cargill Animal Nutrition, to learn more about how industry leaders have been using modeling for decades, what are the benefits, how to determine what to measure, and the various tools you can leverage.
How to Choose a Quality Management System
Feed manufacturers are subject to more compliance, regulation and quality assurance on their products then ever before. Quality Management Systems are one aspect that feed manufacturers can consider, but where do you start? Join this session and you will learn if QMS is right for your business. You will leave the session with an understanding of what is QMS and what are the choices, understand the pros and cons of a quality system, ideas on what it may take to start, the benefits and potential problems of a QMS, and a worksheet for figuring costs. You will also hear from a manager of a feed mill who has been through this process - allowing you to hear more about their lessons learned. Guest speakers ar Beth Hayden, Process Verified Program Manager, USDA Federal Grain Inspection Service; Gary DeLong of Novecta and Geoff Smith of Don's Farm Supply.
CONFERENCE FEES:
Feed Management Systems’ Customer Conference 2006 will inform, inspire and challenge you. You’ll want to make plans now to attend this event. See our Registration Form for details on how to register!
P.S. Everyone who attends will also have the chance to win
some valuable prizes!
****Early Bird Discount******
Per Person Fees in US$
Before January 27, 2006
One day pass $345
Two day pass $595
Send two or more people:
Two day pass $545
Per Person Fees in US$
After January 27, 2006
One day pass $395
Two day pass $695
Send two or more people:
Two day pass $645
Save $100 By Registering Now!
Space is Limited and Early Bird Savings End January 27, 2006
Contact FMS today for a registration form.
Call 763-560-8139 and ask for Teresa or email her your request at tclark@feedsys.com
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