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AI’s Place in the Future of the Food and Beverage Industry’s Supply Chain and Manufacturing Operations — A Conversation with Jeremy Tancredi and Randal Kenworthy of West Monroe
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AI’s Place in the Future of the Food and Beverage Industry’s Supply Chain and Manufacturing Operations — A Conversation with Jeremy Tancredi and Randal Kenworthy of West Monroe

At the 2024 edition of the North American Food Manufacturing Summit series we sat down with Jeremy Tancredi and Randal Kenworthy of West Monroe to explore how data and AI are reshaping the food and beverage industry, especially in regards to supply chain and manufacturing operations. What should food manufacturers know about harnessing data for greater efficiency and performance improvements? What are the real-world examples and use cases already available that illustrate successful data-driven transformations? For companies that are still preparing themselves to embrace AI, what are the big questions they need to ask about themselves and their operations? What will getting started look like, and what are the risks of being behind the curve? For all this and more, give this episode a listen!

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Panel: Harmonizing Quality and Safety Excellence Across the Food Ecosystem: Perspectives from Retail, Foodservice, Restaurants & Manufacturers
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Panel: Harmonizing Quality and Safety Excellence Across the Food Ecosystem: Perspectives from Retail, Foodservice, Restaurants & Manufacturers

Overview of the current industry of food quality, regulatory and safety ecosystem and the interplay and evolution of regulatory frameworks, and consumers wants and needs
The alignment of quality standards and the strategies employed to ensure consistent quality standards across various in house and purchase brands
Exploring how to work closely with external suppliers to align their practices with our company’s stringent quality requirements
Examining the role of technology, collaboration and education in the quality assurance and food safety systems of the future

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Achieving Digital Transformation in Manufacturing Supply Chains
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Achieving Digital Transformation in Manufacturing Supply Chains

Sasha R. Pailet Koff is the Senior Vice President of Digital Supply Chain at Dell Technologies. In this role, Sasha leads the Data, Analytics and Automation organization within Dell’s Global Operations and Supply Chain business. The teams under Sasha are focused on enabling Dell’s Supply Chain to make better decisions through predictive analytics, streamlining business processes to drive productivity through automation, and enabling full data transparency across the organization with the aim of establishing the industry-leading autonomous supply chain.

Sasha has over two decades of experience spanning a series of leadership positions helping organizations solve complex business challenges. Prior to joining Dell in 2022, Sasha spent 20 years with Johnson & Johnson, most recently serving as Vice President of Supply Chain Technology for Consumer Health. In this role, she led all supply chain technology activities for data science, planning, procurement, quality, manufacturing, delivery, and cybersecurity. Before Johnson & Johnson, she worked with Rohm & Haas (now Dow), Accenture, and at the White House.

Sasha is a purpose-driven leader who invests in the career development of her teams and is known for her strong cross-functional partnership in delivering business outcomes in service to external customers. She holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from The George Washington University, an MBA from Columbia University, and professional designations of CPA, CGMA, and PMP.

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Becky Crane of General Mills — A Bright Future for Supply Chain and Manufacturing Careers
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Becky Crane of General Mills — A Bright Future for Supply Chain and Manufacturing Careers

At the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Becky Crane, General Mills’ Vice President of Manufacturing & Engineering, to talk about how industry leaders are working to make careers in their manufacturing and supply chain organizations attractive to the next generation, especially in light of how people are thinking differently about their worklife-balance, goals, and expectations. Being an employer of choice is important, but how does a large manufacturing organization like General Mills find the right balance between being a great place to work and making sure the work gets done? In this interview, Becky talks about General Mills’ experience to date and the lessons learned she wants to share with other manufacturers and supply chain professionals to make sure they are making opportunities for their people to learn, grow, and make choices that benefit both themselves and their employers. For all this and more, give this episode a listen!

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Integrating Customer Centricity and Innovative Technology into a Forward-Looking Manufacturing & Compliance Strategy
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Integrating Customer Centricity and Innovative Technology into a Forward-Looking Manufacturing & Compliance Strategy

Anil Sawant is Senior Vice President, Global Quality Compliance at Merck. He is a healthcare Executive with over 35 years of operations experience in Quality Operations, Ethics & Compliance, Research Integrity and Auditing functions. A strategic thinker experienced in development and deployment of management controls, governance processes, and quality and compliance systems in diverse business environments and cultures. Anil leads groups managing branded and generic products, small molecules, vaccines, bio-pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer products. He was part of the teams that commercialized the first antibody-drug conjugate product and first photoactive drug. Expertise in interpretation of GMPs, GLPs, and GCPs. Good understanding of SOX, Anti-Kickback, Anti-Trust, Privacy and FCPA. Skilled crisis manager and pragmatic thinker with excellent understanding of regulatory requirements, global pharmaceutical supply chain and R&D operations. Extensive experience in resolving compliance matters with US FDA and international regulatory agencies. Subject matter expert in pharmaceutical microbiology and aseptic processing.

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Alarm Management and What Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Need to Know — A Conversation with Michael Andrews of Applied Materials
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Alarm Management and What Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Need to Know — A Conversation with Michael Andrews of Applied Materials

At the 2024 edition of the Pharma Manufacturing World Summit held earlier this month in Boston, we spoke with Michael Andrews, the Global Product Manager | SmartFactory Rx® of Applied Materials, to talk about an important issue facing pharmaceutical manufacturers and how the experience of the semiconductor industry can help: Alarm Management.

In most manufacturing facilities, an alert, an alarm, a warning, or a notice is going off somewhere every few seconds. Different machines inform different operators of different data. Very few manufacturers have a clear overview of what is being flagged everywhere at any one time, and the human operators who work with their systems day in and day out quickly learn to ignore some alarms while perhaps putting too much time and attention into monitoring others. Would it not be to everyone’s advantage to have an overarching system that brings all alarms up to the same level of visibility and then helps human operators recognize which ones to focus on at any one time? As luck would have it, the ever-evolving semiconductor manufacturing space has already created a system that operates in an even more fast-paced and exacting manufacturing environment than the one most pharmaceutical companies operate in, and Applied Materials is helping taking the hard-won lessons of Alarm Management from that industry and bringing it to the tightly regulated, patient-focused, quality-centric pharmaceutical manufacturing space. For every pharmaceutical executive who worries things are getting missed in their manufacturing facilities, give this episode a listen!

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The Speaker Roundtable from NAMES24 —A Conversation About Manufacturing Issues and Ideas
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The Speaker Roundtable from NAMES24 —A Conversation About Manufacturing Issues and Ideas

For this special episode of Executive Platforms’ bluEPrint Podcast series we had some of the top speakers from the 2024 edition of the North American Manufacturing Excellence 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 workforce development, training, and optimization, through to Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement, to Digital Transformation, Change Management, automation, AI, controlling costs, and much more, this wide-ranging conversation will see five senior executives 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 manufacturing executives today. Give it a listen!

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Fireside Chat: Building Next-Generation Operations Management for a New World
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Fireside Chat: Building Next-Generation Operations Management for a New World

Magdi Batato has extensive experience in the manufacturing and technical area, combined with business experience in both developed and emerging markets. He is working to make Nestlé’s supply chain and production better and more sustainable, day by day. Magdi is passionate about sustainability and quality. In addition, he has a strong drive for societal engagement and an interest in a diverse and inclusive workplace.

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Toyota’s Virtual Plant Tour & Digital Engineering Tools
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Toyota’s Virtual Plant Tour & Digital Engineering Tools

Trever is an Executive in Toyota’s North America Production Engineering Division responsible for Digital Systems. This includes Engineering Systems supporting Factory Digital Twin, Regional Manufacturing Business Systems Product Owner, Production Engineering Process Kaizen App Development, and Operational Technologies supporting Industry 4.0. During this interactive presentation, audience members can get a behind the scenes look at Toyota’s North American Production Plants. Trever will lead an interactive plant tour via a VR Headset and engaging audience members as they watch the 360-degree process live on screen.

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Fireside Chat: Advancing the Production System
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Fireside Chat: Advancing the Production System

Paisley Matthews is the Vice President of Manufacturing and Safety for Boeing Defense, Space and Security and a member of the Boeing Manufacturing Operations Council. In these roles, she is responsible for ensuring the Defense, Space & Security production system consistently operates in an integrated, lean and effective manner. In this session, Paisley will discuss integrating data visualization tools for better process visibility, as well as implementing Six Sigma methodologies to reduce defects, enhance product quality, and optimize processes for consistent outputs.

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Fireside Chat: The Transformational Journey to Building Resilient Supply Chains
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Fireside Chat: The Transformational Journey to Building Resilient Supply Chains

Marsha McIntosh-Hamilton is the President of North America Supply at Diageo, a global leader in beverage alcohol. Diageo has an outstanding collection of more than 200 brands, including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit, Smirnoff, Cîroc, Ketel One, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness. In this session, Marsha will discuss shifting to a ‘one business’ mindset for a true demand-supply integration. As well as building resiliency and agility across supply networks should be a priority for organizations

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The Impact of Digitalization on the Shop Floor
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The Impact of Digitalization on the Shop Floor

As Chief Supply Chain Officer for Kimberly-Clark, Tamera Fenske has global responsibility for the company’s procurement, manufacturing, logistics, transportation, safety and sustainability organizations, as well as the company’s Global Nonwovens division. In this session, Tamera will discuss how Factory of the Future strategies impact the bottom line. As well as Advanced Process Control applications that reduce variability, improve quality, and increase throughput.

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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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Panel: Plant/Shopfloor Optimization- Elevating Safety, Automation, Staffing and Process Systems
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Panel: Plant/Shopfloor Optimization- Elevating Safety, Automation, Staffing and Process Systems

At NAMES24 we recorded a panel discussion on plant and shopfloor optimization on elevating safety, automation, staffing, and process systems.

From increasing production, assets capacity and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards, to integrating real time production visibility on the shop floor and balance KPIs, give this one a listen!

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Panel: Supporting the Women Who Make Our Manufacturing Organizations Work
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Panel: Supporting the Women Who Make Our Manufacturing Organizations Work

At NAMES24 we recorded a panel discussing the women who make manufacturing organizations work.

Discussing, debating, comparing, and contrasting options in the New Normal of Work when we talk about working caregivers, employee mental health programs, work-life balance, flexibility and moving away from one-size-fits-all thinking, maternity leave, post-maternity leave reintegration, and more.

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Revolutionizing Production: The Power of Manufacturing Automation
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Revolutionizing Production: The Power of Manufacturing Automation

Kurt Schoenegge is the Senior Director of Assembly and Technology for the Global Manufacturing Engineering Team at Cummins Inc.  Kurt is responsible for Standardizing the Design of the Processes, Equipment,  and Documents to improve safety, increase quality, reduce lead-times and improve profitability.  Kurt’s Team leads the integration of Automation and Digital Analyze Lead Design for the global network.

Kurt has 29 years of experience at Cummins Inc, from Advance Design, Program Leadership and a variety of roles within Supply Chain.  Kurt also has 5 years of experience at Kohler and Franklin Power Products.   Kurt graduated from University of Michigan in 1990 with a BSME.   He also holds a MBA from Ball State University.

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