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Supply Chain Management

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:

Superior supply chain management is critical to organizational growth and profitability, especially in a world in which supply chains have become increasingly global, complex, time–sensitive, and risk sensitive. Smart enterprises understand that there's room for improvement when it comes to their supply chain operations. The keys are to define which processes need to be improved, align those improvements to strategic goals, and excel at execution.

Attend the 2009 Supply–Chain World Conference & Exposition and learn how some of the world's leading businesses developed and implemented innovative supply chain strategies — some with the help of the Supply–Chain Operations Reference model that have enabled them to substantially out–execute their competitors and achieve strong financial results year over year.

Take advantage of four content–rich educational tracks designed to help you.

Conference Educational Tracks

Supply–Chain World 2009 will address critical areas of supply chain management through four concurrent tracks.

Globalization and Standardization

For most organizations today, supply chain globalization at some level is a given, and achieving global supply chain excellence a necessity. This track will profile companies that have achieved world–class global supply chain performance by aligning business strategy with supply chain execution. For many of these companies standardizing business processes has been one way to simplify the complexity, knowledge sharing, teaming and performance measurement and risk management challenges assumed by extending the supply chain to the ends of the earth.

Sustainability and the Green Supply Chain

Environmental and corporate social responsibility are at or near the top of most company's agendas as it becomes increasingly clear that the cost of an enterprise's carbon footprint will be high both in terms of its overall financial performance and its global reputation. Hear what your peers are doing to: measure the environmental impact of their supply chain practices, identify and implement greening opportunities, improve waste management, reduce water or packaging usage, and comply with new environmental regulations and guidelines.

Convergence for Total Lifecycle Management Success

Organizations have successfully combined many concepts, resources, methods and tools for achieving superior enterprise performance. Hear how your peers have created integrated strategy, tactics and execution with not only SCOR, Lean, and Six–Sigma, but also with APICS and CSCMP bodies of knowledge, standards as diverse as ISO and Baldrige, and other approaches to supply chain optimization. Learn how to align these concepts, methods and tools, and create united teams, end–to–end processes, metrics, and best practices focused on achieving accelerated results with your supply chain.

The People Side of Supply Chains

As supply chains evolve so must the skills of the people who manage and run them. For individuals working in supply chain management, this means learning and understanding how to apply the most advanced tools, models, techniques, skills and behaviors required to be most effective in the job. For supply chain leaders it means defining the skill sets needed today (and those that will be needed tomorrow), and finding, training, and retaining the people who have them. This track will profile how successful supply chain organizations are developing supply chain resources, addressing the global skills shortage, empowering and engaging their people in the pursuit of supply chain excellence, and building cross–functional and cross–enterprise teams with the right skill sets to excel in the future.

Common tools for many of the companies presenting at Supply–Chain World 2009 are the SCOR, DCOR and CCOR process reference models. Today, hundreds of organizations are reaping the benefits of using the SCOR methodology, diagnostic and benchmarking tools to define supply chain needs, align processes with practices, and excel at supply chain execution. The conference will also feature opportunities for attendees to increase their understanding of and proficiency with SCOR as a foundation for achieving supply chain excellence.

Reference : http://www.supplychainworld.org/scw_overview.htm