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1. Optimization Producer Perspective

   Steve Thomson General Manager Syar Concrete LLC
2. Vallejo Aggregate Quarry, Asphalt & Ready-Mix Plant
3. Syar Industries Company Info 70 Year Company-Family Business, Privately Held Headquarter in Napa, California Concrete/Asphalt/Aggregate Supplier 9 Ready-Mix Concrete Plants 5 Aggregate Quarries 10 Asphalt Plants Golf Course 400-acre vineyard Union Workforce Optimization Producer Perspective - Syar Concrete
4. Syar Concrete LLC Subsidiary of Syar Industries, Inc. 9 Ready-Mix Plants, 8 Locations East SF Bay Area to Sierra Nevada Foothills Includes Sacramento - Central Dispatch office 60 Rear-Discharge Mixers Central Dispatch 2 Order Takers/Schedulers 1 Shipper All orders managed and ticketed from this location. All plants and trucks are optimized Trimble GPS used for truck status updates Optimization Producer Perspective - Syar Concrete
5. Syar Concrete LLC Trucks are assigned to plants based on location of current business Current mix of business is 67% Commercial, 33% Residential One master union seniority list Two scheduling lists, east and west We realized the most significant positive impact to the bottom line was controlling our delivery cost from start-up to end-of-day This is what attracted us to optimization. Material cost savings were an added bonus. Optimizer required no organizational changes except significant retraining of people who have used Command’s product for years Optimization Producer Perspective - Syar Concrete
6. Syar Concrete LLC Implementation Challenges Very experienced dispatch/management group Optimization Compliance 2 Driver Scheduling Groups Previous version scheduling was by plant, not by workforce or groups Early Adopters of the product No significant challenges with Sales or Drivers Transparent to customers Enhanced service Optimization Producer Perspective - Syar Concrete
7. Syar Concrete LLC Sales volumes decreased 5% from 2009 to 2012 Optimization Producer Perspective - Syar Concrete
8. THANK YOU! Syar Concrete LLC Optimization Producer Perspective - Syar Concrete
9. Please Complete Your Evaluation Be sure to circle the session you are evaluating on the back of your card Optimization Track OPT-003 – Session Code “Optimization Producer Perspective” All breakout session materials can be accessed at:www.commandalkon.com/cc2013/update/index.htm Thank You! Optimization Producer Perspective - Dufferin Concrete, a division of Holcim (Canada) Inc.
10. Antitrust Statement It is vital that all Command Alkon meetings and activities be conducted in a manner consistent with full compliance to both the letter and spirit of the antitrust laws.                 Agreements among competitors that unreasonably restrain or limit competition are unlawful under the antitrust laws and violators are subject to criminal fines and incarceration, civil fines and private treble damage actions.  Examples of such illegal agreements by competitors are agreements to fix or stabilize prices, agreements to allocate territories or customers, and agreements to limit production or output.                  Accordingly, it is inherently risky and potentially improper for competitors to discuss at Command Alkon meetings or activities, or otherwise, the subjects of prices, terms and conditions of sale, markets, individual customers, individual company costs, and other elements or factors that may affect competition.                 It is important to bear in mind that those in attendance at Command Alkon meetings and activities may include competitors.  Any discussion of sensitive antitrust subjects with one’s competitors should be avoided at all times before, during, and after any Command Alkon meeting or activity.  If at any time during the course of any meeting or activity, the Command Alkon employees believe that a sensitive topic under the antitrust laws is being discussed, or is about to be discussed, they will so advise and halt further discussion.  Attendees at any meeting or activity should likewise not hesitate to voice any concerns the may have in this regard. ----------------------------- Canadian Competition Law Compliance Statement ----------------------------------- “As participants in this meeting, we must be mindful of the constraints of the Competition Act including, in particular, that it is illegal to enter agreements with competitors to: fix price; allocate sales, territories, customers or markets; or fix or control supply or output. Accordingly, there must be no discussion of agreements or actions that may restrain competition. This prohibition includes the exchange of information concerning individual company prices, costs, margins, sales and operating plans, market practices, or any other competitive aspect of a company's operation. Each participant is obligated to speak up immediately for the purpose of preventing any discussion falling outside these bounds.” Optimization Producer Perspective - Dufferin Concrete, a division of Holcim (Canada) Inc.