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"Excellent conference. Speakers presented real-time concepts and
philosophies."
Safir
Adeni
Corporate Director of Supply Chain Management
York International
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 Background
Efficient
and well-designed supply chains are integral in the race to get new,
customized products to market faster. Companies with virtual supply
chains significantly outpace most vertically integrated companies with
their ability to substantially cut costs and respond to changing markets
and products with speed and agility. By the same token, well-designed
products are critical to supply chain effectiveness.
Industry leaders are discovering that
collaborative product design is increasingly more attainable with the
arrival of web-enabled collaboration tools. You will hear keynote
speaker, Corey Billington of
Hewlett-Packard and Michael
Pizinger from DELL Computer describe the benefits of their
respective supply chain technology advancements and the impact on market
value.
Developing flexible and value-added supplier
partnerships is a key ingredient for achieving successful collaborative
product design and rapid cost effective new product launch capability.
Hear industry practitioners provide hands-on explanations of successful
implementation processes for increasing and fostering
communication/collaboration amongst engineering and purchasing. The
paybacks gained by companies investing wisely in lean supplier training
combined with early supplier integration will become vividly apparent. |
