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Monday - March 4
Pre-conference Workshops
7:00–8:00	Continental Breakfast & Registration
8:00–12:00	AM Half-Day Workshop Value Stream Mapping Your Supply Chain: Seeing Waste and Doing Something About It Instructor: Ed Constantine, Simpler, Inc.
12:00–1:00	Lunch
1:00–5:00	PM Half-Day Workshop Attacking Waste and Variability in the Supply Chain: Lean Six Sigma Process Instructor: J. Cooper Crouse, The George Group
Tuesday - March 5
Main Conference - Day One
7:00–8:00	Continental Breakfast & Registration
8:00–8:15	Welcoming Remarks Management Roundtable
8:15–9:30	INDUSTRY KEYNOTE: Rearchitecting the Supply Chain for Speed, Quality and Cost Reduction Kurt Doelling VP for Worldwide Operations Strategy and Priority Programs Sun Microsystems
Reducing Design Complexity
9:30–10:30	Case Study: Optimizing Common Components for Increased Speed and Profitability Denis Stemmle, Pitney Bowes Corporation
10:30–11:00	Refreshment Break
11:00–12:00	Case Study: The IBM Common Building Block Initiative James E. Dickerson, IBM
12:00–1:30	Luncheon Breakout Session: *Getting Ahead of the Cost Commitment Curve with your Supply Chain* Mark Sampson, EDS, PLM Solutions
Maintaining Quality Suppliers
1:30–2:30	Case Study: Measuring Supplier Performance Jerry Swan, Texas Instruments
2:30-3:30	Case Study: Managing the Impact on Quality when Third Parties Represent / Support Your Product Bill Neill, Hewlett-Packard
3:30–4:00	Refreshment Break
Extending Lean, Six Sigma and other Quality Improvement Programs to Your Suppliers
4:00–5:00	Case Study: Raytheon Six Sigma with Suppliers Collin Reeves and Bill Russell, Raytheon
5:15–6:30	Networking Reception
Wednesday - March 6
Main Conference - Day Two
7:30–8:30	Continental Breakfast
Extending Lean, Six Sigma and other Quality Improvement Programs to Your Suppliers
8:30–9:45	INDUSTRY KEYNOTE: Delphi's Lean Enterprise: Enhancing Speed & Quality Throughout the Value Stream Mark C. Lorenz VP, Operations & Logistics Delphi Automotive Systems
9:45–10:00	Refreshment Break
10:00–11:00	Case Study: Power Lean - Seamless Integration of Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma James Illing Director of Lean Enterprise & Billy Singleton, Principal Engineer, Rockwell Automation Power Systems
11:00–12:00	Case Study: Applying Design-to-Cost with Your Suppliers Fred Ade, VP North America Manufacturing for Construction Equipment, CNH
12:00–1:00	Luncheon
1:00–2:00	Case Study: Value Stream Analysis Tools for Product Development and the Supply Chain Adi Choudri, Aerojet
2:00-3:00	*Critical Supplier Partnership Program* Jeff Pierson, Sr. Manager, Global Supplier Quality, DELL Computer and Tom Mast, Principal, Product Development Process Group
3:00-3:30	Conference Wrap-Up