apics Celebrates 2010
 
  • Enjoy dinner, drinks and the company of colleagues and supply chain professionals
  • Meet, thank and congratulate apics’ students, graduates, members, supporters, committee members and supporting companies
  • Enjoy the didactic and thought-provoking insights of International guest speaker, Chuck Poirier, as he shares the ten traits that characterise leaders who are achieving greatness through supply chain efforts
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    apics NSW student awards sponsored by Demand   Management Systems
     


    Achieving Greatness through Supply Chain Efforts: Ten Traits for Leaders

    Extensive directed research and specific feedback from annual surveys among supply chain professionals has yielded sufficient data related to supply chain competence to describe just what has been happening around the world in terms of business performance improvement.  Progress across these competencies has provided information that separates the leaders from the followers and laggards.  Synthesizing the data into a specific set of ten traits that characterise the leaders provides the understanding of how to achieve greatness with a supply chain effort for any business in any industry. In this dinner presentation, Chuck shares: 
    • How lessons from lean manufacturing are being integrated into supply chain improvement efforts
    • How much financial improvement is possible through supply chain efforts
    • What distinguishes the leaders from followers and laggards
    • What specific traits the best supply chains pursue to assure their front running positions
    • How S&OP has become a renewed process for achieving greater correlation between actual demand and supply
    • Why people hold the secret to attaining best in class performance
    • What barriers need to be overcome to achieve a position of greatness in any industry
    • A framework for calibrating progress against the ten critical traits and developing a plan to gain parity and excel in areas important to a company and its markets.

    Dinner Presentation by Chuck Poirier

    Chuck Poirier leads the Advanced Supply Chain Institute (USA), and is a recognized authority on supply chain management, strategic leadership, supply chain training, e-business techniques and the collaborative use of technology around the world. He has excelled at developing leading-edge techniques that drive process improvements in major manufacturing and service firms, and his business models are in widespread use across a broad spectrum of industries and markets.  He is the author of 14 books, his most recent Diagnosing Greatness: Ten Traits of the Best supply Chains and The Wall Street Diet: Making Your Business Lean and Healthy.

    Prior to forming his own company, Poirier was a partner in the Strategic Services Group for Computer Sciences Corporation.  Before that, he worked in many executive management capacities for Packaging Corporation of America (PCA), a division of Tennecoand St. Regis Paper Company.  He holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial management from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. An international lecturer and author of more than 100 published articles and white papers, he is an adjunct professor at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.
     
    Fees
     
    Members and students:  $77-00 each
    More than two or book a table:  $66-00 each
    Non-members:  $99-00