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Fireside Chat: Leveraging Our People, Our Processes, and Our Technologies to Govern a Networked Supply Chain
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Fireside Chat: Leveraging Our People, Our Processes, and Our Technologies to Govern a Networked Supply Chain

Building a platform that applies consistent assumptions to cross-functional decision-making Developing work systems that enable teams to innovate collaboratively Encouraging agility, flexibility, and adaptability across a network Learning from both successes and failures, and sharing those takeaways collectively Modernizing core processes to better model, analyze, and predict the impact of each decision — Mark Rahiya Chief Supply Chain, Technical, and Innovation Officer Coca-Cola North America Mark Rahiya is Chief of Supply Chain, Technical and Innovation for Coca-Cola North America. Rahiya, who first joined the company in 1997, has held several leadership roles in the U.S. and international markets. Before becoming…

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Building Upon a Legacy of Strong Stewardship
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Building Upon a Legacy of Strong Stewardship

Strategies in applying new and exciting trends to trusted legacy processes Sustainability and the bottom line: a commitment to food safety at each step Communicating with your consumers about quality and safety Techniques to keep your team engaged and get the buy-in you need — Mary Tarver VP, Quality, HSE & Sustainability Coca-Cola Mary O. Tarver is Vice President, Quality, Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability of Coca‐Cola North America. In her current role, she leads a team of Leaders with expertise in Quality, Safety, and Environment and sets strategic direction, leverage & establish global best practices, and continue developing a…

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Panel: What is the Best Way to Build Bridges Between Human Resources and the Rest of the Company?
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Panel: What is the Best Way to Build Bridges Between Human Resources and the Rest of the Company?

What does senior management and the workforce at large need and want from Human Resources? What does exceeding those expectations look like? Why do some employees and departments seek to limit engagement with Human Resources, and what motivates that reluctance and institutional inertia? Talking about how the soft skills of change management and effective communications are must-have competencies for HR executives Discussing ways to win hearts and minds throughout a company through championing successes, embracing the lessons learned from failures, a commitment to ongoing training and learning opportunities, and always creating a clear path forward for your workforce — Moderator:…

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Panel: Cost Reduction Through Margin Improvement and Waste Elimination

Why do so many OpEx initiatives fail to achieve their goals or lose all momentum soon after hitting their targets? How do you make margin improvement and waste elimination everyone’s job throughout an organization? Offering tactics and strategies to re-engage a workforce that has grown complacent and lost its culture of Continuous Improvement Discussing how new technologies fit into the larger conversation about how Lean Thinking is evolving Where do we want to be a decade from now, and what are we doing right now to get there? — Walter Charles Chief Procurement Officer Allergan Walter Charles is the SVP…

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Sustainable Business is Good Business – A Conversation with Michael Dickstein of Coca-Cola HBC
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Sustainable Business is Good Business – A Conversation with Michael Dickstein of Coca-Cola HBC

At the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit earlier this month in Chicago we spoke with Michael Dickstein, the Group Director Sustainability and Community for the Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company. Coca-Cola HBC is the winner of this year’s Sustainability Award at the EP Awards that took place at NASCES19. Michael shared some of his thoughts on the win, sustainability in general, and how other businesses can learn from Coca-Cola HBC’s experience. Michael invites anyone interested in picking his brain about sustainability to reach out to him via email or LinkedIn as mentioned in this video. Here also is his acceptance…

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Leadership and Food Safety: Let’s Talk About You For a Minute
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Leadership and Food Safety: Let’s Talk About You For a Minute

Understanding how your leadership impacts the day-to-day operations of your company: What are your really trying to accomplish in your programs and projects? Are you planning and communicating those goals to your leadership team and workforce effectively? Identifying what you need in terms of tools and culture change to achieve your objectives Using the soft skills of ‘people power’ to win hearts and minds Seeking out new ways to motivate and empower your team How does your role evolve as your forward-looking goals become reality? Cloeann Durham VP, Quality Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated — Cloeann is currently employed by Coca…

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Preparing Your Supply Chain Organization for Growth by M&A
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Preparing Your Supply Chain Organization for Growth by M&A

 Redefining fast by transforming how M&A and Supply Chain strategy are used to drive growth and new capabilities to respond to market trends A new standard of execution: Integrating new acquisitions into large, global organizations with quality and speed Managing the technical complexity of integration without disrupting KPIs driving operational performance Surfing the M&A Wave: How to Avoid a Wipeout The business world is witnessing a rash of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Aisha Steptoe, group director of system, transformation and operations with The Coca-Cola Company, explains the reasons behind the trend, and outlines some common mistakes that companies make…

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Augmented Reality on the Shop Floor
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Augmented Reality on the Shop Floor

How are new tools like augmented reality changing and improving the way we operate? What challenges have limited the scope of this sort of technology until recently, and what has changed? Working with industry partners and collaborators to develop in-house expertise to get the most out of these new capabilities Walking through real-world examples where augmented reality is the difference-maker driving improved performance in our operations Demonstrating the scalability of augmented reality on the shop floor: What can other organizations learn from our experience? — Derrick Register VP, Supply Chain Coca-Cola Refreshments Derrick is a highly motivated leader who believes…

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