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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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Welcome Day Panel: Inflation Impacts on Procurement and Sourcing
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Welcome Day Panel: Inflation Impacts on Procurement and Sourcing

How are organizations of different sizes and footprints dealing with the impacts of inflation on their procurement operations?
Taking lessons learned from past economic downcycles and applying them to today’s business landscape
Sharing the pain points and easing burdens: The power of rebalancing long-standing business relationships have fallen out of equity to strike new mutually beneficial arrangements
Exploring lean methodology and other solutions that can reduce costs and do more with less in difficult times

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How to Win through Delivering Value Transformation on Indirect Spend
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How to Win through Delivering Value Transformation on Indirect Spend

Jenny Harris is an experienced Procurement leader with a proven track record of driving strategic sourcing and supply chain optimization across global markets. Currently serving as Chief Procurement Officer at Duracell Inc., overseeing procurement sourcing strategies and function leadership since April 2023. Prior to this role, held pivotal positions at Procter & Gamble for 20 years, with the most recent being Senior Director of Purchases for Fabric & Home Care. A diverse and versatile set of leadership experience across multiple functions (commercial brand building, sales, and procurement) and various geographies (NA and Asia Pacific). With a career spanning 20 years at Procter & Gamble and ongoing leadership at Duracell, I bring deep expertise in procurement and strategic sourcing, coupled with a strong business acumen. I have experience in leading functional and organizational transformations, all underscored by a commitment to enhancing organizational performance and driving value.

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Ensuring a Balanced and Successful Business Transformation
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Ensuring a Balanced and Successful Business Transformation

—Natasha GurevichFormer Chief Global Procurement OfficerNike Natasha is a Procurement, Sourcing and Supply Chain professional with 25 years of experience across multiple industries.  Her career spans from beginning as a temporary employee at The Gap in 1999 to becoming the CPO of Nike in 2021.  In the Procurement field, she is known as a transformation expert, enhancing the commercial value and improving the financial standing of the companies she serves. Among her teammates, she is known as caring and mindful, a leader with integrity, intention and authenticity. Natasha has been driving tangible, measurable results for Fortune 200 companies by designing processes that bring…

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Danielle Hansen of JBT: Risk Mitigation in Sourcing, and Advice for Tomorrow’s Supply Chain Top Talent
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Danielle Hansen of JBT: Risk Mitigation in Sourcing, and Advice for Tomorrow’s Supply Chain Top Talent

At the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Danielle Hansen, a vice president with JBT and adjunct professor at the university of St. Thomas, to speak about a wide range of issues, ideas, challenges, and opportunities facing supply chain leaders today, and also how the next generation of supply chain workers and leaders will be a huge part of addressing ever item we discussed and more.

Beginning with her own work on risk management in sourcing and procurement, and then expanding outwards along touch points relevant to her experience as a lecturer, teacher, and industry expert on contract negotiations, and then speaking to the big picture ideas of who the next generation of supply chain leaders will be, where they are coming from, and how we can support them to grow into the key people businesses will need them to be, this is a terrific conversation about what matters to supply chain executives now and for many years still to come. Give it a listen!

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Building Sustainability into Our Company from Procurement to Processes to Final Purchase of Our Product
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Building Sustainability into Our Company from Procurement to Processes to Final Purchase of Our Product

Fernando Hernandez is vice president of Supplier Performance for Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) in the Global Supply Chain and Integration organization.  Named to this position in April 2023, Fernando leads a multi-disciplined organization responsible for proactively managing the quality and health BDS’s global network of suppliers.  He is responsible for ensuring supplier adherence to delivering the highest quality products and services to BDS customers in compliance with customer requirements and Boeing’s rigorous Quality Management System. As part of this role, Fernando oversees policymaking, advanced quality planning, supplier surveillance and performance, source inspection and ongoing continuous improvement efforts across the supply chain.

Fernando began his career at Boeing as a part of the Boeing Business Intern Program. He has worked for The Boeing Company for more than 20 years and his career has spanned numerous supply chain and operational responsibilities across Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Boeing Global Services and Enterprise Services.

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Embracing Turbulent Times as a Catalyst for Procurement Transformation
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Embracing Turbulent Times as a Catalyst for Procurement Transformation

Dawn Green is the North America Procurement Vice President for Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management and digital automation. She leads a team of highly dynamic and experienced professionals, supporting revenue of $6.4B in the North America region year to date. Her focus includes raw materials, fabricated components, and electronics across 35 factories. With her ability to embrace change and resilience, she has led the Procurement transformation during a tough Supply Chain crisis, supporting Schneider Electric to not only stay ahead of competitors, but also achieve 15% organic growth in the first half of 2023. Prior to this, she was the Procurement and Supply Chain Vice President at ARRIS.

She is an accomplished global procurement and supply chain management business leader with a record for driving business growth and operational efficiency. Her engineering background brings a unique value to product manufacturing and supplier negotiations. She has a proven ability to link data analytics with strategic thinking to advise company leaders on the long-term impact of actions and her voice is one of trust.

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Sustainability in Procurement
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Sustainability in Procurement

Melani Wilson Smith is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MDWSCo, an advisory and impact investment organization based in the United States. After nearly 30 years in industry, Melani founded MDWSCo to offer businesses Supply Chain, Procurement and Operations expertise and to help them scale for value delivery.

Prior to founding MDWSCo, Melani was the Chief Procurement Officer for PepsiCo. Melani led global procurement teams across PepsiCo to deliver supply assurance and productivity, grow supplier relationships and to build strategic capabilities, helping to drive PepsiCo’s growth.

Throughout her career, Melani has held roles of increasing responsibility including Procurement, Supply Chain and Operations teams across the consumer products and pharmaceuticals industries with Novo Nordisk, Mondelēz International, Merck & Co., Pfizer and Procter & Gamble. Melani has worked in the US and Europe and is recognized as a thought leader in organization and culture transformation.

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The Speaker Roundtable from NASCES23 —A Conversation About Supply Chain Issues and Ideas
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The Speaker Roundtable from NASCES23 —A Conversation About Supply Chain Issues and Ideas

For this special episode of Executive Platforms’ bluEPrint Podcast series we had some of the top speakers from the 2023 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 Digital Transformation and AI, to Forecasting and S&OP, to Procurement, Inventory, Talent, Labor, and more this wide-ranging conversation will see four senior supply chain 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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Improving Forecasting and S&OP — A Conversation with Alex Kahsar of ifm Supply Chain
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Improving Forecasting and S&OP — A Conversation with Alex Kahsar of ifm Supply Chain

At the 2023 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Alex Kahsar of ifm Supply Chain to talk about one of the biggest issues supply chain leaders are struggling with right now: Something has happened to forecasting and S&OP accuracy in the post-pandemic business landscape. The tried, tested, and true best practices built up over years are not producing numbers that can be relied upon. How can any company do its best work building upon a fuzzy foundation? At the end of the day, Sales and Operational Planning and Sales and Operational Execution can only work with the numbers they are given, and too often either demand is not being met and money is being left on the table, or too much supply is being carried as inventory. Fortunately, technology and subject matter experts are keeping on top of the changing business realities, and there is a real opportunity for supply chain organizations to upgrade, retool, and rebuild their forecasting capabilities to create numbers that can be acted on with confidence. Give this episode a listen!

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Procurement of the Future: Partnering with our Suppliers
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Procurement of the Future: Partnering with our Suppliers

Bart Jongen has extensive, end-to-end Supply Chain & Procurement experience that includes S&OP, Operational Supply Chain Management, Logistics (W&D), Procurement (Direct & Indirect), Program & Project Management, Cost Management, Change Management and Digital Implementations for 30 years within the Consumer Products, Medical Devises and Services, Lighting Solutions, Airline Maintenance, Indoor Climate Solutions, Wind Energy, Manufacturing, 3/4PL and Advisory sectors

He specializes in Change Management, Supply Chain Transformations, Project & Program Management (ERP & Advanced Planning), Cost Management, Supply Chain Excellence, Process Improvements, Network Optimization, Insourcing, Outsourcing, Supply Chain Organizational Design and Capabilities , Customer Collaboration, Supplier Relationship Management, Contract Management, Procurement, Sourcing as well as Mergers & Acquisitions

Before joining Volvo Cars early 2023, Mr. Jongen worked for global organizations such as Philips, IMI, Air France-KLM, Vestas, LM Wind Power & Gartner acting at executive level in strategic design, deployment and operating optimized supply chain & procurement solutions.

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Winning the Game in a Crowded Marketplace: The Supply Chain as a Competitive Advantage
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Winning the Game in a Crowded Marketplace: The Supply Chain as a Competitive Advantage

Consumer demand for transparency is changing the game for the supply chain How your supply chain can help you define and own your space A case study in superior consumer experience — Lauren Walker Chief Supply Chain Officer Young Living Essential Oils Lauren Walker Chief Supply Chain Officer | Young Living Essential Oils Lauren oversees global manufacturing, warehousing and fulfillment operations to ensure that Young Living’s 3,500 team members and 6 million members in 133 countries receive a steady stream of high-quality products. She also implements sourcing guidelines for the company’s Seed to Seal® program to ensure that essential oils…

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