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Panel: Optimizing the Cloud Supply Chain: Insights on End-to-End Transformation from Microsoft, Behr Paint Company and CloudPaths
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Panel: Optimizing the Cloud Supply Chain: Insights on End-to-End Transformation from Microsoft, Behr Paint Company and CloudPaths

Understanding of the importance of change management and user adoption of supply chain solutions across the entire organization
Learn how Microsoft has achieved successful planning for their cloud supply chains.
The impact for Behr Paints of one plan for demand and supply all the way through transportation and logistics
Recognizing why collaboration with multiple tiers of suppliers is integral to the supply chain process
Why Behr Paints needed visibility of end to end plan from raw material to packaging for their supply chain to run smoothly

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Future-Ready Logistics: Harnessing Generative AI for Supply Chains
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Future-Ready Logistics: Harnessing Generative AI for Supply Chains

Delve into the transformative power of generative AI in modern logistics. Hear firsthand how the collaborative efforts between TMC, a division of C.H. Robinson, and Microsoft have optimized global supply chains using advanced generative AI tools.

Key takeaways include:

See practical applications of AI in real-world supply chains, specifically streamlining tasks and driving efficiencies
Find out how the companies achieved a 20% reduction in human interaction for supply chain tasks like documents, exception handling, and more
Get answers to your most pressing AI-related questions during the interactive Q&A portion

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Navigating the Future: Digital Strategies for Profitable Growth in a Dynamic World
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Navigating the Future: Digital Strategies for Profitable Growth in a Dynamic World

Jeffrey Tazelaar is the Global ISC Innovation Director leading the Digital Fulfillment Center team at Dow. In this role he leads a group of innovation experts located in a world class digital center on the next generation of technologies, processes and organization alignment that will drive best in class customer and employee experience across Demand Planning to Fulfill.

Prior to this role Jeff was in Enterprise Architecture and Global Leader in SC Visibility where he set the strategy and global technology standards for visibility, track, trace and authentication technologies associated with Dow’s global Supply Chain.

Jeff has vast experience in software solutions and AutoID/RFID systems through work experience ranging from the largest retailer to systems integrators deploying solutions for the Department of Defense, CPG, Automotive and Food value chain participants. In these roles he managed the design and development of complete visibility solutions for Fortune 500 companies and various government agencies to fully realize the benefits of technology.

Mr. Tazelaar holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science Degrees in Packaging from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He also studied overseas at the University of London, where he analyzed and contrasted the British/European and United States packaging systems. He has completed coursework for his Ph.D. in Packaging from MSU with a focus on the measurement and justification of corporate digital programs with a current status of ABD.

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Transforming the Supply Chain for Superior On-Shelf Availability
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Transforming the Supply Chain for Superior On-Shelf Availability

Justin is a commercially focused, end-to-end supply chain leader with extensive experience with both customers and suppliers across businesses and regions. Justin has worked at P&G for 14 years and is currently serving as the Vice President, Head of North America Commercial Operations. Prior to joining P&G, Justin worked at Dell in operations and customer experience.

Justin has a strong foundation in supply chain planning, manufacturing, and logistics. He is known for leading transformational change, developing winning culture, and building strong organizations. Justin prides himself of being a genuine, approachable leader that listens and has a relentless focus and desire to win.

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Composable Supply Chains: Incremental Improvements for Rapid Value Realization
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Composable Supply Chains: Incremental Improvements for Rapid Value Realization

Exploring the concept of composable supply chain solution architecture—a strategic approach that allows for incremental improvements, driving significant value and quick results without the need to rip and replace existing systems
Learning how specialized, best-in-class solutions can seamlessly integrate with your current infrastructure, creating a tailored and flexible supply chain environment
Understanding the limitations of traditional monolithic systems and the benefits of a composable approach.
Discovering how incremental improvements can lead to rapid value realization and reduced transformation fatigue.
Gaining insights into real-world success stories where composable solutions have driven substantial improvements in supply chain operations.
Learning practical strategies for integrating specialized tools into your existing framework to enhance specific aspects of your supply chain with greater precision and efficiency

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Using Generative AI to Reimagine S&OP and Improve Employee Experience
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Using Generative AI to Reimagine S&OP and Improve Employee Experience

The pace of technology changes is outpacing many organizations’ ability to understand and prepare for its impact on supply chain employee experience and performance. Deploying the same adoption strategies supply chains have used for prior technologies will fail to deliver results. In this workshop learn how organizations can learn to thrive in a Generative AI future to reimagine S&OP — eliminating silos and removing decision latency. By replacing sequential processes with digital insights organizations can:
• Facilitate budgeting & departmental alignment
• Transform meetings into data-driven sessions
• Enable planners, sales, operations or even finance to speak the same language and make smarter, faster decisions
See how the new S&OP easily improves productivity and reduces errors, with a conversational interface that anyone can use to speak supply chain in their everyday language.
Reimagine S&OP with the application and adoption of Generative AI
See real live use cases for generative AI
Discuss how AI can continue to solve traditional S&OP challenges in new ways

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Decision Intelligence: Accelerating AI for Autonomous Supply Chains
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Decision Intelligence: Accelerating AI for Autonomous Supply Chains

In a landscape defined by increased change and complexity, supply chain management demands a strategic integration of Decision Intelligence. Decision Intelligence, which sits at the intersection of data, AI, and automation, enables companies to make faster and better decisions and build their supply chains into a competitive advantage. Join Fred Laluyaux, CEO and President of Aera Technology to hear how customers are leveraging the Aera Decision Cloud™ to modernize and automate their supply chains, propel productivity and profitability, and advance towards an autonomous supply chain.

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Cracking the Data Puzzle: How Manufacturers Can Optimize Sourcing and Logistics, and Prepare for AI
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Cracking the Data Puzzle: How Manufacturers Can Optimize Sourcing and Logistics, and Prepare for AI

Blume Global
Blume Global is a multimodal supply chain orchestration platform, uniting international, end-to-end visibility, supplier management and logistics execution. As the single source of truth for logistics data, Blume provides visibility throughout the value chain, from sourcing to delivery. Shippers use Blume to navigate worldwide disruptions and create agile plans amid uncertainty. Direct connectivity to the ocean, air, rail, parcel, LTL and truckload carriers along with Blume’s industry expertise and innovative solutions helps users maximize transportation spend and reduce carbon emissions.

www.blumeglobal.com

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Putting Customers at the Heart of the Supply Chain – How The Kraft Heinz Company, Haas Automation, Inc. and Refresco Accomplish This with Help from SAP
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Putting Customers at the Heart of the Supply Chain – How The Kraft Heinz Company, Haas Automation, Inc. and Refresco Accomplish This with Help from SAP

Hear how world-class companies including The Kraft Heinz Company, Haas Automation and Refresco rely on SAP to help balance customer focus with a connected supply chain. This session will offer perspectives from a consumer products brand owner, an original equipment manufacturer, and a co-manufacturing partner on how they are aligning their supply chains with customer insights to ensure that they can meet demand efficiently while also responding to changing market dynamics. — Moderator: Val BlattChief Revenue Officer, SAP Business NetworkSAP Panelists: Janelle OrozcoChief Procurement and Sustainability OfficerKraft Heinz Ian CluderayVice President Supply Chain ManagementHaas Automation Andrew FarleyNorth America Information Systems…

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Paul Gallagher of General Mills: The People-Centric Approach to AI
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Paul Gallagher of General Mills: The People-Centric Approach to AI

At the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Paul Gallagher, the Chief Supply Chain Officer of General Mills, to talk about how making Artificial Intelligence work for a company revolves around people at all stages of the journey. General Mills is already almost five years into a transformation that incorporates AI tools, and while the use cases and real-world examples are compelling, perhaps the most interesting part of their story is how its tens of thousands of employees are engaging with the technology in the day-to-day. For every leader who wants to see what this exciting next generation of technologies is really going to do when it starts delivering on its promises, give this episode a listen!

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IKEA US’s Forward-Thinking Talent Attraction, Development, and Retention in a Time of Rapid Growth
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IKEA US’s Forward-Thinking Talent Attraction, Development, and Retention in a Time of Rapid Growth

At the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Tanja Dysli, IKEA US’s Chief Supply Chain Officer and the president of IKEA Distribution Services LLC, to talk about her company’s ambitious plans for future growth and how IKEA attracts, develops, and retains the talent it needs to deliver on its customer-centric supply chain now while preparing itself for hundreds of new brick-and-mortar retail locations across the United States. For people who think this might sound like many other talent interviews we have done in the past, we want to highlight IKEA US’s incredible high retention rate, its commitment to have each facility’s staff reflect the demographics of the community it serves, its emphasis on promotion from within, and its incredible focus and transparency on succession planning, institutional knowledge retention, and letting its people know where their careers are going to take them. This is not just any success story shared with pride. Even organizations who feel they are ahead of the curve on Talent Management will find something in this interview worth thinking about further. Give it a listen!

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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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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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Reimagining the Supply Chain — A Conversation with Allan Dow of Logility, Inc.
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Reimagining the Supply Chain — A Conversation with Allan Dow of Logility, Inc.

At the 2024 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Allan Dow, the president and CEO of Logility, to talk about the opportunity supply chain leaders now have to adjust their understanding of what is possible, to set ambitious goals, to build up and test new capabilities, and then to apply all of this to the fundamentals of their job to support their organizations’ growth, productivity, performance, and customer satisfaction.

The next generation of technologies, including AI, are offering supply chain professionals the freedom to fundamentally reinvent their processes and do more than ever before. What does that look like, and what is the logical way to set realistic but ambitious plans to reinvent and reinvigorate themselves for the future? It is a big topic firmly rooted in today’s exciting realities but with a lot of tempered optimism for the future. For all that and more, give this episode a listen.

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Zero Code Technologies Delivering Data-Driven Solutions to Supply Chain Challenges — A Conversation with Sathish Thirumoorthy of UCBOS
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Zero Code Technologies Delivering Data-Driven Solutions to Supply Chain Challenges — A Conversation with Sathish Thirumoorthy of UCBOS

Sathish Thirumoorthy
Chief Strategy Officer
UCBOS Inc.

Sathish Kumar Thirumoorthy has an extensive background in enterprise services, supply chain consulting, and IT consulting. With experience in companies such as ITOrizon Inc., Oracle, CGI, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Sathish has held roles ranging from Senior Support Consultant to Director, Consulting and Practice Leader. Sathish’s expertise focuses on consulting, solutioning, presales pursuits, and client relationship management across various industry verticals. Sathish’s career has been marked by strategic leadership, solution-based project delivery, and proactive proposal development to drive business growth and enable transformation for global clients.

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Supply Chain Visibility as a Key Driver of Performance Optimization and Cost Control — A Conversation with Chris Kucher of project44
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Supply Chain Visibility as a Key Driver of Performance Optimization and Cost Control — A Conversation with Chris Kucher of project44

Chris is an experienced sales Consultant working with organizations of all sizes across the United States effectively think about their business model and reshape with digital innovation at the forefront of their brand. He has spent much of his professional career focused on enabling organizations to choose their technology destiny by selecting best-of-breed software powered by the open source movement. Digital Experience Management has drastically changed the way organizations approach their customers and brand recognition.

Currently, Chris is supporting project44’s new business efforts to help the largest shippers in the world gain real time visibility, insight, and digitization to their global supply chain. project44 supports over 500 enterprise shippers globally by providing the most robust, connected carrier network across all modes of transportation.

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Shipping Cost Containment in a More Expensive World — A Conversation with Derek Bealby of AFMS
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Shipping Cost Containment in a More Expensive World — A Conversation with Derek Bealby of AFMS

How should supply chain leaders work with their partners to control shipping costs in a world of inflation, rising labor costs, increasing fuel costs, and frequent disruptions? Many 3PLs are under extraordinary pressure to pass their costs on to their customers, and negotiating contracts can be a complicated business. How should executives best approach this situation with both their long-term business partners, and also new shippers as they optimize their footprint and build resiliency into their operations? AFMS is uniquely positioned as a resource built upon expertise from the other side of that negotiating table. They understand the pain points shippers are working through, and can facilitate the conversations that generate win-win scenarios Where can they get the information they need to have the right conversations the right way? Listen to this interview for more.

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