Background
If
your livelihood depends on getting high-quality products in the
hands of customers swiftly and profitably, you can ill afford an
unreliable supply chain. Supply chains are tough to control even in
the best of times – how do you manage the unpredictability,
increased risk, and cost hurdles of today?
- How do you mitigate
supplier/customer risk and quickly qualify new suppliers?
- How do you design in flexibility
to give you more options?
- How do you reduce design
complexity and reuse technologies/modules across product
families?
- How do you make sure your supply
base adheres to the same quality standards and practices as you?
- How do you keep inventory to a
minimum and improve cash flow – yet have parts available when
needed?
To provide you with proven
strategies from industry leaders who have an-swered these questions,
Management Roundtable will be holding its fourth annual Product
Development and the Supply Chain Conference on March 4 – 6,
2002 in Dallas, Texas. The theme is
Ensuring Quality, Controlling Costs.
By participating, you will learn how
Sun Microsystems’ massive A&Q (Availability and Quality)
program boosts its efforts as a mission-critical supplier of systems
and services, how Delphi
Automotive simultaneously improves product quality and
company cash flow by extending Lean principles throughout the
enterprise, how Texas
Instruments uses a comprehensive supplier performance
measurement process for better, faster qualifying decisions, how
Pitney Bowes reuses technologies and links incentive systems
to product profitability, how
IBM reduces complexity and simplifies part number
management, and more.
Two "shirtsleeve"
pre-conference work-shops offer the opportunity to create a
comprehensive cost/quality action plan – the first workshop teaches
Value Stream Mapping, a technique based on the Toyota Production
System for creating high performance from the whole value stream.
The other will delve into the integration of Lean and Six Sigma
throughout the supply chain. Overall, this
event will give you a set of strategies, tools, methods, metrics and
solid examples to help you proactively rethink and protect one of
the most critical variables in product development – your supply
chain.
Who Should Attend
This conference will be of
most value to Directors, VPs, and Managers
of:
Engineering
Product Development
Supply Chain
Management
Supplier Development
Quality
Operations
Procurement
Sourcing
Team members and
partnering organizations are highly encouraged to attend together to
obtain maximum benefit. Special team rates are available - see "fees,
hotel and travel" for details.
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