CVCR Spring 2009 Symposium

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Creating Supply Chain Value in Challenging Times:
Lessons from Industry Leaders

May 20-21, 2009
Rauch Business Center, 621 Taylor Street, Bethlehem, PA
Lehigh University

Co-Sponsored by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)

Special thanks to our corporate sponsors:

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Speakers and Abstracts

Bob Boucher (VP Global Customer Service and Logistics, Colgate-Palmolive), Future Supply Chain 2016 at Colgate-Palmolive

Adapting from the Global Commerce Initiative/Capgemini publication Future Supply Chain 2016, this speaker will share valuable insights regarding how future supply chains will be structured. Expanding on these findings, you will learn what one of the world's most recognized consumer products companies is doing during these difficult economic times to enhance supply chain value by creating an integrated lean supply chain that improves on-shelf product availability, reduces supply chain costs, and improves financial performance.

Steve Hensler (General Manager, Global Supply Chain, Air Products), Supply Chain Responses to Rapid Reductions in Demand

When demand volume crashes down and future volumes are difficult to predict, effective rapid supply chain responses are necessary to minimize financial fallout. A high baseline of common knowledge and efficient communications and IT systems are prerequisite to such responses. In Air Products' merchant industrial gases business, such responses are connected and coordinated world-wide. This presentation will discuss some key elements of the supply chain that enables such response.

Caldwell Hart (Director, Supply Chain Management, Dresser-Rand), Turning Risk into Advantage

Troubling times bring into focus complex issues and challenges that require an organization's resolve and discipline. Over the past three years, Dresser-Rand's Supply Chain Management team focused its strategy around people, process, and technology--not just price--in order to position itself to deliver competitive advantage in any scenario. This transformation is based on a balanced strategy with key drivers such as lean, supplier relationships, supplier risk, total cost consciousness, measurement, technology, and employee excellence.

Pete Ruggiero (Vice President, Global Operations, Crayola), Supply Chain as a Competitive Advantage in the Consumer Products Industry

Operating in the consumer products sector brings high expectations from all business stakeholders. Customer performance metrics require consistent profit margins and inventory turns, an environmental sustainability message, and unique product offerings. Consumers expect to be delighted by innovative products that have consistent quality and product safety performance at a fair price. Shareholders demand sustainable, profitable growth, tightly managed assets, and ever-improving cash flows. Succeeding in this environment, amidst volatile commodity and currency shifts and evolving product safety regulations, brings many challenges to supply chain leadership. This talk will provide insights into how leadership at Crayola has embraced these requirements to make its supply chain a strategic competitive advantage.

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