Professor David Simchi-Levi Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering MIT
With the economic recession in full swing, supply chain managers are facing a growing array of risks. Fluctuating transportation costs, high volatility in demand volume and mix, commodity price volatility, increase in labour costs. In such an environment this web seminar will focus on three dimensions: Cost, Cash and Service. That is, it is important to identify strategies to reduce cost and cut working capital (cash) while at the same time maintain or increase service levels.
Debra Hofman
Vice President, Supply Chain Top 25 AMR Research
Date: 3rd June 2009 | Time 15:00 CET
For the first time to an online audience, Debra Hofman, VP Supply Chain Top 25 at AMR Research, unveils and analyses the 2009 Supply Chain Top 25, highlighting those companies which have excelled in supply chain innovation and leadership within a challenging business environment.
An economic downturn usually leads to a major upheaval in an industry, challenging the prevalent standards and best practices, testing key organizational strategies and processes.
In the wake of shrinking consumption, slowing production and declining prices, companies need to assess their value chain to find ways to keep costs low, improve efficiencies and continue to innovate.
Yossi Sheffi
Professor of Engineering Systems, MIT
The ability to bounce back from unexpected supply chain disruptions is
the essence of “resilience”. Resilience can be achieved by building in redundancy
(e.g., in inventories, capacity, and suppliers), but such redundancies are expensive.
A more viable way of ensuring resilience is by building in flexibility
into the supply chain. The presentation will highlight the most effective ways of
developing resilient supply chains and will explore how they can be used for day-to-day
competitive advantage.
This webinar examines how to optimise your manufacturing operations,
improve quality standards and achieve continuous improvement throughout the
entire supply chain. Through the lens of manufacturing and operations, hear real
world cases studies and understand the benefits for your own organisation
Operate outside of the box. In today’s life sciences industry, operational excellence and
continuous improvement are key and quality does not stop at conformance to requirement
Riya Cao, Director of Life Sciences at QAD
Dr. Michael Grieves
Author and International PLM Expert
Virtual product data created during manufacturing can be used
to produce and insure that those products have real quality. In
addition, this product data, if collected and organised properly into
a virtual product, can turn supply chains into supply nets. In a
supply chain, only one participant at a time can have the physical
product. In a supply net, all participants can have the virtual
product information instantaneously and simultaneously. Learn about
the competitive advantage of real quality and how to turn supply
chains into supply nets.
Companies that want to thrive and not just survive during the
global recession need to know how to use Lean to increase sales
revenues, reduce operating costs and improve service to their
customers as only the fittest will survive! This webinar discusses
these issues and outlines the plans needed for survival.
K. Paul Hainsworth, BA, Chief Operating Officer, Lean
Horizons
Roger Burghall, MMBA, Managing Director and Partner
(EMEA region), Lean Horizons
As the global economic downturn intensifies its grip on the
manufacturing industry, it becomes critical for businesses to define
short, mid and long-term steps to maximising profitability and
freeing up working capital. Use this webinar to find out how.
Engelbert Wimmer, Head of Manufacturing Industries Practice, PA Consulting
During these uncertain times, it is vital that manufacturers
maintain total visibility into the manufacturing operation to stay
competitive and react to the new volatile environment. This webinar
features a case study from Carlsberg Breweries and an exclusive
executive overview the ATS MES End User Experiences Report 2009.
