Supply chain summit: Aberdeen Group and Supply-Chain Council announce strategic partnership
SCC founder joins ranks with leading industry executives to present The Supply Chain Management Summit.
Staff -- Modern Materials Handling, 3/25/2009
Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company, announces its partnership with the Supply-Chain Council (SCC) in support of Aberdeen’s 2009 Supply Chain Management (SCM) Summit April 2-3, 2009 in San Francisco. The Supply-Chain Council is a global non-profit consortium whose methodology, diagnostic and benchmarking tools help nearly 1,000 organizations make dramatic and rapid improvements in supply chain processes.
In support of the Council’s mission to continuously improve supply chain processes, Aberdeen’s 2009 Supply Chain Management (SCM) Summit will convene supply chain leaders from around the globe to share insights, discuss strategies and engage with peers surrounding key challenges facing the supply chain today.
“Supply chains have become increasingly complex and time-sensitive, and leading supply chain executives recognize the importance of benchmarking their SCM best practices against those of their peers,” says Joseph Francis, SCC executive director. “The Supply-Chain Council values our opportunity to work with Aberdeen in support of this goal and in support of their Supply Chain Management Summit.”
One of the SCC founders and renowned supply chain expert Richard Sherman will deliver a presentation on Keeping SCOR with the Supply Chain as part of the event.
Other confirmed Summit presenters include:
• Cisco Systems - Angel Mendez, senior vice president customer, value chain management
• Coca-Cola North America - Thomas Blackstock, former vice president, supply chain
operations
• Intel - Stuart Pann, vice president, sales/marketing, general manager, business management group
• Mutual Distributing Company - Jim Staton, vice president, information technology
• General William "Gus" Pagonis, Retired US Army General, business leadership author, lecturer
• BD - Larry P. Smith, vice president, global supply chain
• USS-POSCO Industries - Michael Obermire, global supply chain management head
• New York & Company - Sherwin Socaransky, vice president, information technology
• Hästens Sängar - Dominic Luzi, chief information officer
• Land O’ Lakes - Susan Grelling, vice president, commodities and risk
• Bayer Healthcare - Thomas Panzer, vice president global supply chain
• Swarovski - Robert Grant, vice president, supply chain/inventory management
• Disney - David Steele, sr. director, supply chain, operations and technology
• Sara Lee - Bill Nienburg, vice president, sales and operations planning
• GSGM Inc- Paul Macler, founder and president
• Celestica - Harvinder Sembhi, vice president supply base solutions
• Advance Auto Parts – Kevin Quinn, vice president, treasurer; Navdeep Gupta, director, treasury
• Papa John’s Food Service – Susan Kinder, director, supply chain systems
• H-E-B – Carlos Garza, vice president, supply chain; Mike DeNisio, director, supply chain
• Del Monte Foods – Bill Pollard, vice president, customer service and transportation
• Dimension Data – Michael Brown, managing director
“The goals of Aberdeen and the Supply-Chain Council are well aligned. Aberdeen is the leading fact-based research firm covering the Supply Chain space and SCC is the leading consortium of industry leading firms for benchmarking key performance metrics. The Supply Chain Summit offers a great platform for this collaboration which will continue into the rest of the year and beyond through various research initiatives and projects,” says Nari Viswanathan, vice president/principal analyst of the supply chain management practice, Aberdeen Group.
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