Join us for an exclusive interview with Susan Johnson the EVP of Global Connections and Supply Chain at AT&T. In this session, Susan will dive deep into supply chain and sourcing strategies. As well as technology tools that have helped manage their supply chain and the learnings from COVID-19.

Join us for an Executive Interview with the Vice President of Procurement at the Discovery Channel! We will discuss the ins and outs of having a successful supplier partnership and how to build those relationships.
Key Takeaways: Why is it important to have strong relationships with suppliers?
How do you build relationships with suppliers from the onset?
How do you fix broken supplier relationships?
How do you start off training professionals new to the industry in supplier relationship management?
What has been your greatest learning from supplier relationship management over the years?

The CPO Digital Cockpit: How Artificial Intelligent Machine Learning Super Dashboards will transform the CPO’s office into the CPO Digital Cockpit; Cockpit designed to boost you with super Awareness of the total global supply chain. It delivers daily instructions to problem-solve immediate issues you didn’t know existed and pro-actively step you through problem-solving future issues before it is too late. Cockpit is armed with computerized algorithms programmed by the most seasoned and elite global procurement professionals. Global Procurement Best Practices plugged into the Cockpit to guide you with solutions to achieve Excellence in Global Sourcing by Breaking the Spend Code and the Supply Chain Bottleneck. Are you facing Spend Categories and Supply Bottlenecks you can’t break?

Join us for an Executive Interview with the Chief Procurement Officer at Bombardier. Join us for a discussion on the best strategic sourcing practices that Bombardier has in place. We will also be discussing how COVID has affected their supply chain and the different processes that have been put in place to ensure a successful and effective outcome.

Join us for Executive Interview with Allison Corry the Assistant Vice President of Procurement at Intermountain Healthcare. She will be discussing everything you need to know about creating a strategic partnership. Along with how COVID has impacted their supplier partnerships and how Intermountain Healthcare is working through these challenges.

Join us for an exectuive interview with the Senior Director, Global Sourcing at John Wiley & Sons. We will be discussing the ins and outs of building strategic partnerships!

The End-to-End cycle of managing capital involves Planning, Procuring, Managing, and Disposing of Capital Assets. Often, these four processes are completed disparately and are without a data-driven approach or business process. Knowing and understanding what exists in your current capital inventory allows you to analyze, evaluate, and plan for what will be needed in the future. Supply Chains that have visibility can take a long term approach to sourcing capital that extracts maximum buying power for an organization. Physical tracking of assets creates real time information to manage inventory changes. A strong disposition strategy is crucial to ensure that the health system is getting the full value available on their assets externally, or properly disposing of those assets as needed.

Three years ago, the WE RISE initiative was conceived and launched to develop strategies and support systems to improve gender diversity at Director level and higher in the Coca Cola NA Supply Chain Organization. At the start of the journey, 35% of Managers in SC at entry and mid levels of the org were women, but at Director and higher levels, that number dropped to 18%. The WE RISE journey placed a high level of focus on both attracting and promoting Women in Supply Chain. Three years later, the numbers are much different. I will share more details of this journey, and its results.

It has been well established that building strategic supplier partnerships can have many advantages associated with cost reduction and business efficiency. However, purpose-driven organizations like The YMCA of Greater Toronto can also use partnerships with key suppliers to achieve other objectives, such as alignment with core values, community service delivery and emergency support in times of crisis (such as a global pandemic).

Organizational design, effective processes and performance management tools can transform the procurement function from transactional to strategic organization. In this presentation, we will analyze several best-in-class procurement organizational structures. We will explore how to design and implement the most effective structure, create and upgrade processes and performance management tools that complement and enhance the structure in order to build a capable and world class procurement organization.

To successfully drive change requires a unifying vision and an engaging methodology. Join this session to learn how to engage stakeholders and team members in creating a vision and a methodology to strategically transform your organization. A methodical, proven approach will be described, including examples, timing, and a sustainable process to drive your transformation

In an increasingly competitive environment, how do you boost your team’s productivity while retaining top talent? In this presentation we will explore how to align at multiple levels to improve your team’s engagement, efficiency, and outcomes.

When designing business processes for supply chain, we often start by planning to implement best practices. What can be easily overlooked is the actual needs of the business, both now and in the future. Sometimes a less mature or simplified version of a best practice may be the right solution to achieve business excellence, with a roadmap for process maturity as the business changes. In this presentation I will discuss aligning best practices with business needs for Planning and Inventory based processes.

Join us for an Executive Interview with Randy Cooper, the Director of Transportation at Del Monte Foods, Inc. In this interview, Randy will discuss how your company can leverage technology to reduce cost, as well as how small to mid-size companies may tackle transportation cost reduction. Randy will also include what kind of partners help in managing cost and how to better manage third parties. You won’t want to miss this!

AB-InBev, the world’s largest beer brewer has been transforming their entire supply chain. Innovating through discovery, development, and scaling of technology has enabled AB-InBev Brewmasters to deliver fresh beer to markets across the globe keeping sustainability as a top priority.

Is your culture what you want it to be or what you have allowed it to become? If you’re not talking about it and working on it every day, chances are it’s the latter. At the foundation of any successful company is a strong culture, driven by the spirit of continuous improvement, and powered by passionate leaders. If you’re lacking any of those elements, you’re missing an opportunity to create lasting growth with your most important asset – your people. In this presentation, Brett Wood, the President & CEO of Toyota Material Handling North America, will provide leadership principles and practices that you can implement to create a culture of continuous improvement, and he will give tangible examples of Toyota’s Kaizen culture in action.

Join us for an Executive Interview with Troy Hicks the Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain at Herbalife Nutrition. Troy will be covering how Herbalife Nutrition’s supply chain has been so successful and how other companies can build a successful and resilient supply chain.

Join us for an Executive Interview with the Head of Strategic Programs at Intel. We will discuss the lessons learned throughout the pandemic and how Intel has overcome these challenges. Ravi Dosanjh will also be filling you in on the top 3 things companies need to consider in driving a better supply chain!

Join us for an Executive Interview with Andrew Laudato, the COO at Vitamin Shoppe. Andrew will be diving into why the Vitamin Shoppe has decided to implement the buy online, store ships method. Join us to learn how this method has been implemented, how it has affected Vitamin Shoppe and the best advice Andrew would give to other companies!

A rapidly growing list of factors — human/labor rights, sustainability, product safety — have increased the necessity for companies to create traceability and transparency throughout their supply chains. Yet the task of attaining supply chain visibility all the way back to the raw material is easier said than done. Mr. Herman will discuss the apparel and footwear industry journey towards supply chain visibility, including some of the drivers for, and the challenges to, traceability and transparency in supply chains as well as how some of those challenges have been overcome.

Join us for an Executive Interview with Jake Dean the Director of Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As the need for Supply Chain talent increase, Jake will be covering tactics on attracting young professionals, mistakes to avoid when recruiting new candidates, and how to structure an internship for new college talent.

Join us for an Executive Interrview with the Vice President of Operations and Supply Chain at TriMark USA. We will be discussing everything you need to know about operational metrics including which ones should be used and how to pick. Ayall Sagi will also explain to you how to use the data that comes from operational metrics. You don’t want to miss it!

Join us for an Executive Interview with the Head of Distribution Excellence at Bayer. We will be discussing the digitalization of logistics that Bayer has implemented along with the what processes are most important. As well as the challenges faced and how Bayer has overcame those challenges.

Join us for an Executive Interview with Mike Abrams, the Corporate Vice President, Global Distribution Operations at Future Electronics. We’re all aware of the challenges COVID-19 has presented. In this interview, Mike will be discussing the top challenges global Supply Chains are still facing and what the future of Supply Chains look like. Mike will also be covering what role automation plays in protecting global supply chains and how impactful on-shoring will be on supply chains and the labor market. You won’t want to miss this!

The COVID-19 pandemic forced rapid adoption of new e-commerce solutions for many customers. As the world pushes for a return to normalcy, some of the trends are here to stay. Namely: Grocery delivery. For retailers, that offers a broad assortment and serves many different customer needs, it’s important to be able to meet customers on their terms. However, a one-size-fits-all approach will rarely work – we must consider the end-to-end experience to build out a fulfillment network and digital capabilities that solve customer problems across the spectrum from planning a week out to need-it-now.