6th Annual Conference on Supply Chain Management

Registration Opens and Refreshments are Served

Opening Remarks from Conference Chair

Keynote Supply Chain Adaptation: Necessity to Transform for Long-Term and Sustainable Changes

• Gain an in-depth understanding of the urgency to adapt
• to weakening market conditions
• Explore how market volatility is providing businesses with the opportunity to optimize their supply chain in unprecedented ways
• How to balance quality of products and services while still maintaining operational excellence

panel Innovating for Operational Excellence: Cross-Sector Strategies and Best Practices in the Supply Chain

Hear directly from cross-industry thought-leaders who are innovating their supply chain processes for optimal cost-efficiency:

• Learn how new ideas and different perspectives can reinvigorate struggling supply chain practices
• Discover real challenges in supply chains and see the evidence behind strategic internal shifts and returns on investment
• Uncover transferable core lessons, principles, and best practices 
• Explore the challenges and outcomes you can expect before implementing new supply chain management initiatives

Legal and Operational Strategies to Reduce Cost in Your Supply Chain

• Reducing cost through reducing supply chain conflict (What do supply chain partners typically fight about? How can you take these issues off the table at the outset of the relationship?)
• Reducing cost by aligning your supply chain relationships with your corporate goals such as sustainability, risk reduction, and transparency

Networking Refreshment Break

Panel External Collaboration and Partnering with Suppliers and Competitors

• How to enable integrations with suppliers, third-party providers, customers and other stakeholders
• Discover how collaboration with competitors and suppliers can reduce the cost of doing business on both sides
• How to be more productive through exploiting collective resources and working together through strategic alliances
• Balance risk and efficiency when sourcing

Panel Standardization and Modularization for Proven Productivity

• Dive into practical solutions on what and how to standardize or modularize to achieve cost savings in procurement, installation and field service
• Identify productivity and efficiency gains throughout project that can be gained by standardized, modularized or configured product design

Networking Luncheon for Delegates and Speakers

PanelRenegotiation and Beyond: Managing Vendor/Client Relationships

• Contract management strategies in times of weakening markets
• Learn best practices for developing and maintaining long-term, collaborative supplier relations to secure successful contract fulfillment
• How to cultivate a positive and productive relationship with suppliers through renegotiation
• How do you manage ongoing vendor relationships when contract and price renegotiation is no longer an option?

Leveraging Practical Technology for Prime Cost Savings

• Learn how to balance financial and supply chain oversight with the need to get the job done efficiently in the field
• Address the need to have visibility and control of decisions made in the field, in order to better manage costs and risk
• Share critical data across teams, departments and the entire organization to save admin time and minimize human errors
• Collect, analyze and share vendor performance data to ensure you get the best vendors for the best value
• Enable improved control of the numerous smaller transactions that, when aggregated, can have a substantial impact on your company’s bottom line

Networking Refreshment Break

Strategies for Transprotation Planning and Optimization of the Supply Chain

• Understand the importance of cost efficient logistics management as a crucial point of competitive differentiation
• Explore challenges and best practices in transporting both the
  input of materials and delivery of finished products

PanelLemons to Lemonade: Capitalizing on the Downturn with Strategic Supply Chain Action

• How do you take advantage of the weakened market?
• Identify pockets of growth within the supply chain to seize opportunities and capitalize for future business development.
• Balance opportunity with risk to spend money in strategic areas while prices are down.

Closing Remarks from Conference Chair Conference Concludes