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Suppliers as Development Partners:
Opportunity or Obstacle?
If your
organization is like most, you’ve become more dependent than ever on
suppliers and/or partners. Unfortunately, most supply chains are broken.
Technology changes too fast, products are overly complex, demand is
uncertain, costs are increasing, trust is low, and bidding wars no
longer work.
What’s required is a new
strategy and collaboration that begins at the beginning – the front-end
of the design process – not downstream in manufacturing or logistics
when it may be too late.
To help you determine who to
work with -- and how -- Management Roundtable invites you to join key
industry leaders and experts in a groundbreaking forum,
Product Development and the Supply Chain: Better Flow from Design to
Customer, on September 13-15, 1999 in Austin, Texas. The
focus of this conference is on integrating product development with the
supply chain to achieve greater flexibility, profit margins, speed, and
customer satisfaction.
The intent is to create a
dialogue among all parties involved in the chain: customers, first tier
suppliers, second tier suppliers and so on, as well as engineering,
marketing, manufacturing, purchasing, and other members of the
development team. Strategy, technology, design, and collaboration are
the major themes to be explored. In a mix of sessions -- some
instructive, some provocative and some conversational – new ideas and
relationships will be fostered.
Click
here to download the conference brochure with full program details
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