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Tuesday, 3 April 2012, 8:30 - 9:30
Insights from Deployment and Sustainability
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Donald Wirth |
Biography
Donald D. Wirth is vice president - Global Operations, Corporate Supply Chains. He joined DuPont as a project manager in 1981 in Sydney, Australia.
He then held plant and site manager roles in Explosives and Imaging. In 1989, he was appointed general manager - Operations for DuPont Australia. In 1992, he was transferred to Singapore as operations director - Agriculture Products. In 1999, he moved to the United States as Six Sigma Champion for the Agriculture Enterprise. In 2001, he was appointed global operations director - DuPont Crop Protection. In 2006 he was named as vice president - Operations, Agriculture & Nutrition. In July 2007 he was named vice president of Global Operations - Excellence, Center of Competency to lead implementation of the DuPont Production System. He was named to his current position in October 2009.
Prior to joining DuPont, Mr. Wirth worked with W.E.B Consulting from 1975-1981 as a consulting Engineer and associate. He received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of New South Wales in 1974.
Wednesday, 4 April 2012, 8:15 - 9:00
Making Supply Chain Management Truly Strategic: A Blueprint for Action
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Dr. Steven A. Melnyk |
Overview
There is a real sea change taking place now—a transition from the tactical to the strategic supply chain—from a supply chain that is strategically decoupled/price driven to a supply chain that is strategically coupled/value driven. While we have identified critical elements to this sea change, what is lacking is a unified structure that facilitates this transition. This presentation lays out such a structure and path. It identifies the key elements of this framework—the critical customer, the value proposition, system capabilities. It describes the process—one that begins by identifying the critical outcome, the important outcomes, and necessary outcomes (in the 1-2-3 ratio). Once the critical outcome is identified, the framework focuses on ascertaining those attributes that are associated with this outcome. These attributes are restated into conditions necessary to support these attributes, tasks, and finally metrics. As the presentation will show, the result is a process that ensures that the supply chain is designed to support the strategic outcomes desired by top management. This process is illustrated by examples taken from practice.
Biography
Steven A. Melnyk is Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management (Ph.D. - The Ivey School, University of Western Ontario, 1981) at Michigan State University. He has co-authored 14 books on operations and supply chain management. His research interests include supply chain management and design, metrics/system measurement, responsiveness of supply chains, supply chain design, and Environmentally Responsible Manufacturing (ERM). Dr. Melnyk is an active researcher whose articles have appeared in over 75 international and national refereed journals. Dr. Melnyk sits on the editorial review board for Production and Inventory Management, the Journal of Supply Chain Management, the Journal of Business Logistics, the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management (where he is co-author for North America), and the International Journal of Production Research. Dr. Melnyk is known for his ability to bridge the gap between the academic and practitioner worlds. He has spoken extensively nationally and internationally at meetings of organizations such as ISM, APICS, Supply Chain Council, SAPICS, InterLog, General Services Administration, National Defense Industry Association, Decisions Sciences Institute, Production and Operations Management Society, and North American Research Symposium.