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Optimizing Your Organization’s Regional, National, and International Footprints
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Optimizing Your Organization’s Regional, National, and International Footprints

Dean Krueger is an accomplished Procurement and Supply Chain professional with over 20 years’ progressive experience in the consumer packaged goods and retail industries.  His experience encompasses a proven cross functional track record for leading successful teams, network optimization and delivering sustainable results in demanding environments.    Dean is currently employed at Staples as Director Global Sourcing with direct team responsibility for the Supply Chain, Real Estate Facilities and Copy & Print buying categories across US and Canada.  Prior to his current role at Staples, he was Procurement Leader for the manufacturing equipment and supplies team at Kraft Foods Group, supporting…

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Building Your Brand: A Roadmap for a Senior Executive’s First 90 Days at a New Company
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Building Your Brand: A Roadmap for a Senior Executive’s First 90 Days at a New Company

Dan Key has a 26-year track record in leading operations, supply chain, distribution, procurement, product management, and general management of global businesses. Dan is currently the Senior Vice-President of Operations and Supply Chain at Axalta Coating Systems, a $4B paint and coating company serving the transportation and industrial component markets.  He manages 37 global sites with over 7,000 employees in 19 countries. Before joining Axalta, Dan was Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer at Sigma-Aldrich, where he led the charge in building a world-class global operation and supply chain function across 53 global locations supporting over 300,000 products to…

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Drones in the Supply Chain: A Game-Changing New Tool
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Drones in the Supply Chain: A Game-Changing New Tool

Matt Yearling has over 25 years of experience in developing and bringing to market world-class ERP, CRM, supply chain, mobile and security business solutions across the global SMB, enterprise, and public sector market segments. As CEO of PINC Solutions, he is overseeing the development and deployment of the next generation of yard management and shipment visibility solutions to the top commercial and industrial supply chains worldwide. Download PDF. Who is PINC and what solutions does it provide in the supply chain industry? We are the world’s #1 Yard Management System (YMS) provider. Founded in 2004, we serve all industry verticals with the leading…

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Reading List: Seven Books to Improve Yourself and Your Organization
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Reading List: Seven Books to Improve Yourself and Your Organization

While still in its early days, the EP Thought Leader Series has already spoken with David Barrett, Amir Ghannad, and Norbert Majerus about their ideas and insights into how leadership drives positive outcomes. While all of those interviews are well-worth a read, they are each just a piece of a larger conversation: How do books about business help businesses succeed? I have had the great good fortune to speak with a number of industry leaders about their working lives, and one of the common threads that connects these men and women together is a love of learning and sharing with…

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Why are Manufacturers Moving to the Cloud?
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Why are Manufacturers Moving to the Cloud?

Jon Chorley is Group Vice President of Product Strategy for Oracle’s Supply Chain Management Applications and leads the team responsible for driving the business requirements and product roadmaps for these applications. These solutions include product lifecycle management, asset lifecycle management, value chain planning and order fulfillment. Mr. Chorley is also the Chief Sustainability Officer for Oracle Corporation. In this role, Jon drives and coordinates all initiatives, both internal and external, related to environmental sustainability. This responsibility covers all areas from IT infrastructure, business operation, and corporate reporting and risk management. Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help…

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