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Keynote Speakers

Thomas Davenport, Ph.D., Voted the third leading business-strategy analyst (just behind Peter Drucker and Tom Friedman) in Optimize Magazine, Davenport is a world–renowned thought-leader who has helped hundreds of companies revitalize their management practices. For this year's keynote, he will focus more on process reengineering and how this ties into this year's theme of Define. Align. Excel.

Steven A. Melnyk, Ph.D., As Professor of Operations Management at Michigan State University's Eli Broad school, Dr. Melnyk specializes in environmentally responsible manufacturing, process management, performance measurement and metrics, supply chain management, and time-based competition. His keynote — To Define, Align, and Excel, You Must Have the "Right" Supply Chain: Building a Supply Chain to Better Serve the Critical Customer, Better Support Corporate Objectives and to Differentiate the Firm in the Marketplace — draws heavily on his research for a truly actionable focus.

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Supply Chain Management: Define. Align. Excel.

Leading organizations recognize that supply chains are critical to growth and profitability, especially in a world in which supply chains have become increasingly global, complex, time-sensitive, and laden with uncertainty and risk, especially financial and liquidity issues. In other words, smart enterprises understand that superior supply chain management can make them, and ineffective supply chain management can break them.

In most companies, there's room for improvement when it comes to supply chain operations. The keys are to define which processes need to be improved, align those improvements to strategic goals, and excel at execution.

The event brings together the people who deliver and create value in the supply chain — especially those accountable for supply chain results — to learn the latest trends and research, network, and discover critical strategies for supply–chain management through four concurrent tracks:

In lively sessions, experts from leading companies will explore how they have reduced supply-chain costs by tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, substantially accelerated cycle times, and dramatically increased market share by boosting customer satisfaction — especially through implementations of the Supply–Chain Operations Reference model (SCOR®).

Attendees include forward–looking business leaders and managers, such as C–level executives, presidents, vice presidents, and supply chain specialists, as well as representatives from academia, analyst organizations, and government.

Supply–Chain World North America is sponsored by the Supply–Chain Council, an independent member–supported consortium dedicated to improving supply chain management practices within and between interested parties across the extended supply chain.

NEW! Spanish–language presentations

The Council's Latin America Chapter has created a Spanish–language track for this year's conference. Speakers from throughout South and Central America, as well as Mexico will be presenting in Spanish. This track will take place only on Monday, March 16, 2009 and will be another option during the breakout sessions following the opening keynote. Speakers will talk on one of the four track topics above and attendees will have the option to register for a single day if only wishing to attend this one–day track in the conference. ¡En Español!

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