CSCMP Annual Global Conference 2009
CSCMP Annual Global Conference 2009
Event Begins
Date
09.20.2009
Time
08:00 AM
Event Ends
Date
09.23.2009
Time
05:00 PM
The Annual Global Conference sessions and events were presented by industry experts, and were categorized into 20 Educational Tracks.
There were sessions in 20 different tracks that covered the latest, most important topics dealing with issues across all areas of the supply chain. Each track offered ideas and tools that coule be take back and implement.
Our track offers a series of sessions and speakers that address the dynamics of today’s economy.
The Value of Aligning the Supply Chain with Business Strategies
Supply chains operate best when closely aligned with enterprise business strategies. This track will address what is needed for supply chain professionals to better align their capabilities, organization, and actions with business strategies in order to create added value and facilitate profitable growth. Supply chain management has become part of the executive agenda. You can use this track’s enabling information to effectively help drive positive results and improvements.
Collaboration and Relationship Management: Keys to Successful Partnerships
By better understanding relationship creation and management between suppliers and customers, ideas and tools can be more easily created and become solutions that benefit all parties. This track is designed to create a forum for discussion and understanding of concepts and issues affecting a wide range of relationship types between suppliers and customers. Attendees will hear successful applications and become familiar with a range of application perspectives from transactional to collaborative situations. Take home some new ideas. Effective relationships can be a key to success.
Current Research and Surveys: Tools to Help You Remain Competitive
The information in these annual updates on global research and trends will help you remain competitive in the rapidly-changing business environment that requires an in-depth understanding of the challenges and events affecting your supply chain. Don’t miss these sessions.
Risk Management: Anticipating New Developments, Trends and Uncertainties
This track covers all aspects of safeguarding the supply chain through proactive risk management. Knowing how to anticipate developments, trends and uncertainties that can emerge at any point in the supply chain can be a critical success factor. Session take-aways will include: how to identify and anticipate trends and developments, how to identify uncertainties versus certainties, how to manage your supply chain partners’ dependency and collaboration, how to implement sustainable processes to ensure viability and how to balance strengths and weaknesses. The importance of understanding competitive edge via controlled risks will also be presented.
Sit with an Expert Sessions
Meet and talk about important supply chain topics with the profession’s most influential thought leaders.
The Business Value of Strategic Integration from Supplier to Customer
Supply chains have become more complex as business growth drives more tailored products into existing and emerging markets while higher customer service standards must be met. At the same time supply chains must meet financial objectives for total delivered cost, cash flow and fixed capital productivity. To meet these demanding changes and objectives, organizations must increase their alignment and integration of business processes and associated infrastructures with internal partners and their extended “customer to supplier” network. This network includes third party partners…3PL’s, contract manufacturers, design firms, etc. that extend globally as both sources and destinations of supply. The benefits from increased alignment and integration can be significant. Learn how it’s done and take that know how back to your supply chain to help improve the bottom line.
Supply Chain Innovation Award
Attend these sessions and hear innovative ideas, solutions, and results from leading practitioners. A panel of judges will review each presentation based on best practice initiatives. The first and second place winners will be announced at Wednesday’s Brunch & Closing Session and will take home the fifth annual Supply Chain Innovation Award presented by CSCMP and SupplyChainBrain magazine.
Supply Chain Leadership
Discuss the day’s most critical topics with your peers in one-hour long forums, led by a facilitator. Learn from the trials and successes of your colleagues.
Supply Chain Metrics Transformation: How Metrics Can Measure Process Performance
Supply chain metrics are good indicators of past performance and can show how well or how poorly a process performed but can they tell an organization why a process performed well or poorly? This track will take you to the next level by sharing research that shows how firms are linking supply chain process inputs to outputs to identify cause and effect.
Successful Talent Recruitment and Retention
Learn how to identify, attract, develop, and retain the talent capable of leading and managing increasingly complex supply chains. Various factors including globalization, low-cost-country sourcing, demands for new products and services, and outsourcing continue to drive supply chains to new levels of complexity.
Third Party Logistics: How to Use Economics and Trends to Create a Successful Business Strategy
In these challenging times, companies cannot sit back and play defense. To succeed, service providers and customers need to move to offense. Through the experience of the session speakers and case studies, attendees will learn to utilize supply chain economics and trends as an offensive strategy to reduce costs and time and serve customers better.
Transportation: The Critical Supply Chain Link in Challenging Times
Transportation remains the glue holding supply chains together in today’s economy. This track will help you understand the factors driving all modes of transportation and the future for those modes. Content will put you ahead of the trends and broaden your understanding of what’s influencing these critical links in the supply chain. With this knowledge you may also be able to better manage your transportation spend.
Warehousing Innovations
These “can’t miss” sessions will be held only on the final day of conference. Choose from four topics that have been specifically created with current information you won’t want to go home without.
Coca-Cola and representatives from other companies will share their successes and extensive involvement with CSCMP’s Supply Chain Management Process Standards. Coca-Cola is currently piloting their new audit tool based on the Standards prior to rolling it across all facilities. Learn why Coca-Cola selected the Standards as their basis and see examples of the tool they created and the improvements they are driving. The Standards are being updated with the help of Coca-Cola and other companies who will also share their work with session attendees. Leave these sessions with actual results, that when combined with the basic training on how to conduct your own audits, will become valuable tools you can use within your own organization.
A key to achieving success is understanding the elements and process of leadership. A first step in that learning journey is to understand and reach your leadership potential. This track will focus on leadership from an executive perspective and present ideas and tools the Millennium generation can use to achieve high performance.
CSCMP members from around the globe will share the newest innovations in warehousing including current cost saving construction techniques, handling and storage innovations, and new technologies. Hear real world examples of "green" operations and examine the costs and strategies of running ecologically friendly and transportation efficient facilities. One good idea put into practice could yield significant dollar dividends.