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Fireside Chat: Rising to the Challenge of New Supply Chain Business Realities
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Fireside Chat: Rising to the Challenge of New Supply Chain Business Realities

September 21, 2023

Mario Rivera is CVS Health’s SVP and Chief Supply Chain & Logistics Officer. He is responsible for developing and executing the company’s strategy to transform their supply chain network to become America’s premier health and wellness destination. He leads teams in transportation & logistics, distribution center operations, inventory management, omnichannel fulfillment, and network strategy & engineering.

Mario has more than two decades of experience in roles of increasing responsibility, primarily within the Healthcare industry – from MedTech to Life Sciences to Retail/Pharmacy. He has extensive leadership expertise driving business transformation globally including in the U.S., Latin America, Asia and Europe.

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Next Level Continuous Improvement with a New Approach to Industrial Machine Learning
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Next Level Continuous Improvement with a New Approach to Industrial Machine Learning

May 6, 2022

Learn how industrial companies are avoiding the roadblocks to quickly deploying successful AI/machine learning and finding valuable new insights from their existing systems and data, as-is, with no prep required Hear how continuous improvement is supercharged with the power of machine learning to constantly monitor for new opportunities and ensure sustainable benefits Find out about a low touch, low risk way to quickly discover the available business value from industrial machine learning for your operations — Paul Boris President and COO Praemo Starting his career in operations and engineering at companies including GM, Paul recognized the opportunities to drive performance…

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Panel: The Supply Chain of the Future and Behaviors that Drives Excellence
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Panel: The Supply Chain of the Future and Behaviors that Drives Excellence

October 29, 2020

Compensation plans that foster innovation and continuous process improvement Performance metrics that incentivize collaboration and build a culture of systemic thinking Operating Efficiency: Designing shared priorities and objectives into cross-functional decision-making — Moderator： Shay Scott Executive Director, Global Supply Chain Institute University of Tennessee Shay Scott, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Global Supply Chain Institute (GSCI) at The University of Tennessee (UT). Ranked as a top program globally, UT’s GSCI exists to shape and influence the practice of SCM by serving as a global hub for leading companies, researchers, practitioners and students. He also serves as Professor of Practice…

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Panel: Cost Reduction Through Margin Improvement and Waste Elimination

October 11, 2019

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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Building a CI Culture in LEGO
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Building a CI Culture in LEGO

June 20, 2018

Business Services Organization – A new adventure Joining the LEGO Family – onboarding and developing Building our BSO Management System – Cascaded Strategy & Accountability Continuously Improving – The LEGO way… — Peter Evans LCI Director LEGO Peter Evans was born in 1955. He joined the LEGO in February 2016 The early part of his career was in Finance in various industries, including Defence, Financial Services and Telecommunications. Peter worked for GE Capital throughout the 90’s including spells in Manchester, Brussels, Shannon (Eire) and Connecticut in various Quality Leadership roles From 2000 to 2013 he worked in Telecoms in the…

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Effective Change Management Demands Evolution, Not Revolution
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Effective Change Management Demands Evolution, Not Revolution

July 26, 2016

Keith Price has over 40 years of experience in industry with more than two decades of that in senior leadership positions in large international companies. He is an expert on building and implementing lean and quality management programs that work over the long term. His key insight? Change management is about evolution, not revolution. He now works with small and mid-sized companies to equip them with the tools and techniques to turn their strategies into implemented operational plans that yield business results. Download PDF. In your experience working with a lot of different companies, it seems so many programs and…

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