10:00 AM — 12:30 PM
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Technology Forum: Preparing The Port of Los Angeles-GE Transportation Information Portal for Prime Time
Location: Hyatt Regency Long Beach, Beacon Ballroom
Technology providers offer dozens of products to digitize supply chain functions, potentially relieving BCOs, carriers and freight intermediaries from the burden of transmitting multiple copies of paper documents. The digital products provide cargo booking and visibility, transportation management solutions, processing of Customs documentation, inventory management, shipment arrival forecasting, and enhanced asset utilization. The shipment information needed to make these decisions is available two to three weeks before the vessel reaches a US port, but because so many international relationships are siloed, much of the data isn’t shared among supply chain partners until the cargo is discharged from the vessel at a US port. The Port of Los Angeles and GE Transportation have developed an information portal that they tested in 2017 at a marine terminal, with noticeable success, and the portal will expand portwide this year. Could this be the single, secure port information portal the industry is looking for to shorten the international supply chain and slash logistics costs? How will dozens of existing technology products plug into this so-called system of systems? In a series of structured discussions focusing on cargo visibility, electronic communication, forecasting, and inventory management, representatives of the port, GE Transportation and technology companies will update beneficial cargo owners on what to expect as the port information portal is prepared for prime time. |
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— Session Chair —
Bill Mongelluzzo Senior Editor, JOC, Maritime & Trade, IHS Markit
— Panelists —
Gene Seroka Executive Director, Port of Los Angeles
Jennifer Schopfer Vice President, Transport Logistics, GE Transportation Digital Solutions
Deborah Ryan Vice President, Global Transportation and Logistics, Ascena Retail Group
Weston LaBar Founding Partner, PEAR Strategies, and Executive Director, Harbor Trucking Association
Dr. Noel Hacegaba Managing Director, Commercial Operations, and Chief Commercial Officer, Port of Long Beach
Shankar Sengupta Vice President, Engineering and Transport Logistics, GE Transportation
James Swanston Founder and CEO, Voyage Control
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