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The Importance of Resilient Global Supply Chains
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The Importance of Resilient Global Supply Chains

Erika joined H&M in 2022 as the Global Head Supply Chain Strategy & Design and most recently as VP Global Supply Planning after 25 years at Procter & Gamble. Throughout her career in supply chain, Erika has held roles spanning across the globe, including Mexico, Central America, United Kingdom, Ireland and Sweden and from retail logistics, supply planning, to global strategy and innovation. She has a proven record in leading cross-functional transformations and leveraging technology to drive cost, sales, cash improvement and environmental impact. Erika is a creative leader with a multicultural toolkit to empower teams and organization to deliver sustainable and innovative performance.

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A Speaker Roundtable from NASCES24 — A Supply Chain Conversation with SAP, General Mills, Google, and Walmart
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A Speaker Roundtable from NASCES24 — A Supply Chain Conversation with SAP, General Mills, Google, and Walmart

For this special episode of Executive Platforms’ BluEPrint Podcast series we had some of the top speakers from the 2024 edition of the long-running and successful North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series sit down and speak to the challenges and opportunities submitted by attendees of the event as they filled out their delegate profiles, weighted by popularity.

With topics ranging from controlling costs, procurement and sourcing, digital transformation and AI, forecasting and S&OP, to managing growth and capacity in a changing business landscape while working to be an employer of choice in the battle for Top Talent, and much more, this wide-ranging conversation will see four senior executives from four very different companies speaking to the issues, ideas, innovations, and inspirations that matter to all of them as prompted by their peers. It is a fantastic deep dive into what is most relevant to supply chain organizations today. Give it a listen!

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A Speaker Roundtable from NASCES24 — A Supply Chain Conversation Among Senior Executives on the Issues and Ideas that Matter Most
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A Speaker Roundtable from NASCES24 — A Supply Chain Conversation Among Senior Executives on the Issues and Ideas that Matter Most

At the 2024 edition of the long-running and successful North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with some of our speakers and delegates to record a special episode of Executive Platforms’ BluEPrint Podcast series reviewing the top-of-mind issues and ideas of supply chain executives today as chosen by the NASCES24 attendees, weighted by popularity.

With topics ranging from controlling costs, procurement and sourcing, digital transformation and AI, forecasting and S&OP, to managing growth and capacity in a changing business landscape while working to be an employer of choice in the battle for Top Talent, and much more, this is a conversation that should be of interest to every supply chain professional working today. Give it a listen!

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Fireside Chat: The Intersection between Sourcing and Supply Chain
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Fireside Chat: The Intersection between Sourcing and Supply Chain

As the Vice President of Surety of Supply and Sourcing Innovation, Kyle Carlyle leads a team dedicated to strengthening the resilience of Walmart’s supply chain and improving access to key product categories and creating strong relationships with our suppliers. His team transforms the company’s global sourcing practices and has introduced innovative approaches and strategic partnerships, having conducted pilots with innovative companies in a variety of industries including unspun, Agritask, and many more.

With nine years of experience at Walmart, Kyle began his career in merchandising logistics and has held roles with increasing responsibilities such as supply chain optimization and network design and strategy. Prior to joining Walmart, Kyle also held various positions at JB Hunt Transport Services, Inc.

Kyle earned his Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Kansas State University. Outside of work, he is actively involved in the Cancer Challenge as a member of its board of directors. Kyle and his wife are proud parents to three young children.

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How Consumer Views on Convenience have Evolved and are Dictating the Future of Fulfillment
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How Consumer Views on Convenience have Evolved and are Dictating the Future of Fulfillment

Rajnish Kapur serves as senior vice president and chief sourcing and supply chain officer, leading a team of over 9,000 people located throughout the U.S., U.K. and Asia. In this role, he is responsible for delivering the owned brand portfolios of Walgreens, Boots and No7 Beauty Company as well as the retail supply chain and inventory management for Walgreens. Rajnish and his team play a vital role in bringing joy to patients and shoppers all over the world through quality, trustworthy and value-rooted products that are widely accessible.

Before joining WBA, Rajnish served as managing director of Wilko Asia. He also served as vice president and managing director at Walmart, leading the global home and hardline categories. Rajnish has worked with blue chip companies for over 25 years and aside from various leadership roles has led startups, business transformation, mergers and acquisitions.

Rajnish holds an MBA in finance and marketing from the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India, and has extensive experience in leading large global and diverse teams across the world, most notably in South Africa, India, America, China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; he thrives on the challenges of the future.

Outside of work, you’ll find Rajnish engrossed in cricket, his favorite sport, and following the progress of his two sons who aspire to play professionally.

Walgreens is included in the U. S. segment of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., and based in Deerfield, Ill.

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Collaborative Forecasting: Best Practices for Better Business Outcomes
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Collaborative Forecasting: Best Practices for Better Business Outcomes

Diane Sherwood is a dynamic leader with a distinguished career spanning over two decades in merchandising, inventory operations, demand planning, and omni-channel management. Currently serving as SVP of Global Services at Algo, Diane is known for her strategic vision and ability to drive high-performing teams toward exceptional results. Her experience includes leading transformational initiatives, optimizing operational efficiency, and fostering a customer-centric approach in diverse settings, from her executive roles at CarParts.com and ThreeFiveOne to her extensive tenure at Best Buy. Diane’s commitment to innovation, collaboration, and strategic growth has made her a respected leader in her field, poised to make impactful decisions that elevate service standards and business outcomes.

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Sharper Forecasts and Streamlined Inventories: Harnessing AI in Specialty Bolt & Screw’s Supply Chain Transformation
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Sharper Forecasts and Streamlined Inventories: Harnessing AI in Specialty Bolt & Screw’s Supply Chain Transformation

This session will explore how Specialty Bolt & Screw (SBS) wanted to improve their forecasting, distribution, production and purchase planning and how they successfully now balance its global supply chain with weeks long supply lead times, with short delivery lead times of 2 to 3 hours from receiving the order, through their efficient inventory management practice. Hear best practices and insights around how to gain:
Sharper Forecasts: By improving demand predictions, you can not only greatly optimize inventory levels, you can save big on working capital
Streamlined Operations: Reduce manual workloads using AI and machine learning, leading to freed up planners’ time, boosting market responsiveness and productivity
Smart Inventory Management: By replacing manual checks of inventory with automated safety stock and item classification, you’ll gain flexibility and more accurate inventory management

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Building Responsiveness for Growth
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Building Responsiveness for Growth

Anup Dutt is the VP Technical Director Consumer & Professional Product Divisions at L’Oreal. Anup is an accomplished Industrial Operations Director with extensive experience in leading development and launch of greenfield manufacturing sites, managing consolidation, and transforming existing operations. He has a proven track record of driving business continuity in response to major external and internal events.

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Importance of Driving a Sustainable Cash Culture
FINANCE, VIDEO, FINANCE

Importance of Driving a Sustainable Cash Culture

Amy Ellixson is currently Head of Cash Flow Generation. In this role, Amy serves as a critical member of the Global Finance Leadership Team and together with the business is creating a best-in-class value creation culture that unlocks capital from the business allowing for reinvestment in innovation for the future. She is leading a team to improve strong free cash flow generation to support operating needs, M&A activity, dividend increases, and share repurchase programs. This team is also creating agility to promote strategic business decisions and fund growth to better support the communities we serve.

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Navigating Market Uncertainty with AI and Data-Driven Forecasting
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Navigating Market Uncertainty with AI and Data-Driven Forecasting

Danielle Marceau is a Principal Economist & Senior Director, Analytics at Prevedere. Danielle has an extensive background in modeling, forecasting, research and development, and sharing her industry expertise on economics, leading indicators, and predictive analytics. Her role at Prevedere includes guiding the company’s macroeconomic outlook as well as driving research & development around advanced analytics. Her expertise helps business leaders navigate their company’s future opportunities and risks through econometric modeling and leading indicator analysis. Before her role at Prevedere, Danielle was a senior economist at ITR Economics and received her M.S. in Applied Economics from Southern New Hampshire University.

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Forecast Healthcare Costs Accurately Using Cutting-Edge Technology!
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Forecast Healthcare Costs Accurately Using Cutting-Edge Technology!

For more than 25 years, Marybeth Gray has worked on behalf of employers across the country to reduce the cost of healthcare and improve quality. Marybeth was recognized as a 2023 Top Women Leaders in Pennsylvania, and she was also awarded as Employee Benefit News’ 2017 Most Influential Women in Benefit Advising: 30 leaders whose unique client management strategies, innovative data manipulation and other industry-leading skills are transforming the field. She has also been featured on the 2019 Marquis Whos’ Who Lifetime Achievement. Marquis Who’s Who identifies and endeavors to profile the leaders of American Society; those men and women who are influencing their nation’s development and influencing the people of today in their industry.

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AI-First Demand Forecasting: Leveraging Human Insight with AI-Driven Planning
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AI-First Demand Forecasting: Leveraging Human Insight with AI-Driven Planning

Sulaiman Panjwani is the Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Logility. With close to 10 years in Supply Chain across many roles including procurement, supply chain and product marketing, he possesses a deep understanding of the intricate nuances of supply chain management. Sulaiman enjoys translating complex technical solutions into compelling value proposition and leverages his expertise to bridge the gap between technology and customer needs.

Joe Slater has been with Logility for 8 years and got his start as an implementor of their Inventory and Constrained Supply Planning capabilities working with a variety of clients across a broad range of industries like Food & Beverage, Life Sciences, Retail & Apparel, Consumer Durable Goods, and more. For the past several years he’s brought that deep domain expertise to the presales team working with prospective and existing clients to understand their business challenges and align them to capability in Logility’s end-to-end digital supply chain planning platform.

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Fireside Chat: How Meta Used Algo’s AI Platform to Master CPFR and Demand Planning
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Fireside Chat: How Meta Used Algo’s AI Platform to Master CPFR and Demand Planning

Throughout her career, Amy Cooper has been at the forefront of supply chain data and technology, selling for Dun & Bradstreet when they launched their supplier scoring solutions and part of the team that launched Gartner for Supply Chain. Featured as a guest on various supply chain technology podcasts, Amy has supported multiple Fortune 500 companies in their quest to optimize operations and drive innovation. She is the Algo Global Account Director for Microsoft, leading the global CPFR program for XBox and Surface devices. In addition to her role in sales, Amy is deeply involved with Algo’s AI development roadmap and focused on co-creating cutting edge technology solutions that drive continuous improvement for her customers.

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Graco’s Supply Chain Journey: Driving Global Inventory Performance
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Graco’s Supply Chain Journey: Driving Global Inventory Performance

Bernie has over 20 years of business experience in Manufacturing, Purchasing, Distribution Operations, ERP implementations (Oracle), and would be described as a team leader. I carry strong oral and written communication skills, along with strong system proficiency. He also has close to two decades of progressive and diverse experience in Procurement, Inventory, Supply Chain, Logistics, and Production Control Management. With a high energy level focused on continuous improvement, he is willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish a mission, and carry a strong commitment for success.

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Using Connected Planning to Meet Complex Supply Chain Challenges with Speed and Resilience
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Using Connected Planning to Meet Complex Supply Chain Challenges with Speed and Resilience

Eric Lange brings 31 years of experience in Supply Chain Management, primarily in Forecasting, Demand Management, Inventory & Production Planning, as well as IBP/S&OP leadership roles. After 22 years of being a supply chain practitioner, he wanted to help as many corporation discover and benefit from true planning solution that is for the modern world and to help transform supply chains to handle today’s speed of business and change. This led Eric to Anaplan.

Today, Eric has been with Anaplan for 7.5 years in a few Supply Chain roles, including Customer Success and Product Marketing. Most of the time at Anaplan, Eric has been a Principal Solutions Consultant. In this role, Eric has helped many customers understand the full potential of connected planning with Anaplan to drive accuracy and confidence in Supply Chain Planning, as well as achieve tremendous results and value.

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Making AI-Powered Forecasts Useful to Supply Chains
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Making AI-Powered Forecasts Useful to Supply Chains

Polly is the VP of Industry Outreach and Thought Leadership at Kinaxis, a supply chain planning and analytics software company. Previously, she was Director of Analytical Consulting Services at the University of North Carolina Health Care System and worked in various roles at SAS, in Advanced Analytics R&D, as Director of the SAS Global Academic Program, and in Alliances. She has an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also received her BA in Political Science as a Morehead Scholar. She has been very active in INFORMS (the leading professional society for operations research and analytics) and co-founded the third chapter of Women in Machine Learning and Data Science (now more than 60 chapters worldwide).

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Get Your Data AI-Ready to Supercharge Your Planning and Retail Execution
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Get Your Data AI-Ready to Supercharge Your Planning and Retail Execution

Nick Ciminillo is the Vice President of Solutions Engineering at Alloy.ai. With over two decades of experience in technology and solution engineering, Nick spends most of his day working with our prospective customers understanding their challenges and pain points while demonstrating how the Alloy solution can be used to maximize business value.

Nick holds an MBA from Franklin University and has Supply Chain experience working with companies such as Oracle, Kinaxis and Relex.

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