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Fireside Chat: Rising to the Occasion: How Global Importers are Driving a New Era of Customer Service in Supply Chain
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Fireside Chat: Rising to the Occasion: How Global Importers are Driving a New Era of Customer Service in Supply Chain

September 15, 2023

Ryan Petersen is Founder and CEO of Flexport, a leader in global supply chain technology. In 2022, companies of all sizes – from emerging brands to Fortune 500s – used Flexport technology to move more than $26 billion of merchandise. Prior to starting Flexport, Ryan was the founder and CEO of ImportGenius, a premier provider of transaction data for the global trade industry. He earned a BA from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

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Welcome Day Workshop: Beyond Visibility: Generative AI’s Role in Developing the Next-Generation Control Tower
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Welcome Day Workshop: Beyond Visibility: Generative AI’s Role in Developing the Next-Generation Control Tower

September 22, 2023

Anders leads the North American Sales efforts at Blume Global. He brings over 25 years of experience in building and leading enterprise sales teams at several global technology companies. Prior to joining Blume, Anders spent 16 years at Oracle where he had responsibility nationally for Oracle’s Enterprise SaaS solutions for Supply Chain Execution and Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning as well as Enterprise Performance Management in several industry verticals.

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The Future of Supply Chain Decisions. Now.
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The Future of Supply Chain Decisions. Now.

September 22, 2023

Fred Laluyaux is the CEO of Aera Technology, a company transforming the future of work through Decision Intelligence — the digitization, augmentation, and automation of decision making. An entrepreneur at heart and Silicon Valley veteran, Fred brings an impressive track record of building successful startups and driving technology innovation. Prior to launching Aera, Fred was the CEO of Anaplan, which he grew from 20 to 650 employees, and a $1B+ valuation. He also held several executive positions at SAP, Business Objects, and ALG Software.

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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

October 11, 2023

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

September 22, 2023

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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Fireside Chat: Supply Chain Velocity through End-to-End Supply Chain Orchestration
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Fireside Chat: Supply Chain Velocity through End-to-End Supply Chain Orchestration

October 11, 2023

David Petrucci is a managing director with global consulting firm Protiviti and leader of its Global Supply Chain and Operations practice. He has 30 years of experience in supply chain and operational improvement and innovation in technology, consulting and industry roles. David has assisted companies in a variety of industry sectors, including retail, manufacturing and distribution, energy and defense, to reimagine their supply chains and balance efficiency with flexibility and resiliency.

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Insights from Kloeckner Metals: Transforming and Advancing our Logistics Operating Model
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Insights from Kloeckner Metals: Transforming and Advancing our Logistics Operating Model

October 11, 2023

As president of managed services, Jordan Kass has global responsibility for C.H. Robinson’s transportation management technologies and supply chain consulting services through TMC, a division of C.H. Robinson and Freightview. Shortly after joining C.H. Robinson in 1999, he led a team to develop a new service, Managed TMS®, under a newly formed division, TMC. Today, Jordan leads a team of supply chain experts who have built TMC into an international business helping to connect, automate and optimize supply chains for some of the world’s largest companies.

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Building a Risk Averse Supply Chain – A Hub and Spoke Guide to Digital Transformation
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Building a Risk Averse Supply Chain – A Hub and Spoke Guide to Digital Transformation

September 22, 2023

Michael Conley is a seasoned Supply Chain professional with over three decades of experience in industry and management consulting. His career spans industries from Food & Beverage, Retail, and Consumer Goods to Electronics, Chemicals, and Industrial Manufacturing, plus extensive work in Corporate ESG within the technology sector. Michael has robust, end-to-end expertise across the Supply Chain, including Forecasting & Demand Planning, Sales & Operations Planning, Inventory Management, Manufacturing & Operations, Logistics, and Procurement. Recognized for leading enterprise-wide transformations that deliver maximum operational and financial performance, Michael consistently drives disparate functional groups into cohesive, connected planning teams.

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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

October 11, 2023

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

September 22, 2023

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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Unlocking The Power of Digital Planning Twin to Gain Value by Connecting Strategic and Tactical Decisions
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Unlocking The Power of Digital Planning Twin to Gain Value by Connecting Strategic and Tactical Decisions

October 11, 2023

Lee has 29 years’ experience in the parcel shipping industry at Pitney Bowes and UPS, with 12 of those dedicated to postal-induction products. Lee has broad experience designing and optimizing networks, including postal-induction, small package, air, and freight.  He was responsible for the design, launch, and integration of new products. Lee is currently responsible for Network Strategy and Design, Service Performance, Postal Operations, and Transportation Analytics.

Lee holds an MBA and dual Bachelors’ from the University of Kentucky.  He mentored in various programs, such as Engineering Development Program and was an active supporter of the Women’s Leadership Development program.  Lee and his wife Rhea have 2 children, Ethan (21) and Lauren (19), and reside in Crestwood, KY.

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

September 22, 2023

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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A Finance Perspective on How to Ensure Supplier Compliance
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A Finance Perspective on How to Ensure Supplier Compliance

October 11, 2023

As Director of Marketing at apexanalytix, Matthew Morookian leads the development of product messaging and content for apex’s solutions. Favorite part of his job is working with clients to tell their stories for peers at trade shows and during virtual events. Prior to apex, Matthew was responsible for client engagements and marketing for the IoT consulting firm 151 Advisors. He received his MBA at Baruch College.

Gregg is a Certified Public Accountant and has a master’s degree in business; he has led the National Service Center in Phoenix Arizona for the past 20 years. With the merger of Safeway and Albertsons, the National Service Center is now responsible for all aspects of retail accounting processes and payroll for 2,300 stores, 300,000 employees, 27 distribution facilities and 20 manufacturing plants with 22 different banners throughout the United States.

Prior to joining Safeway/Albertsons, Gregg worked for the Dial Corporation for 18 years.  He was Director of Finance for the International Division, including Asia/Australia and lived in Hong Kong for a time.

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Forward Thinking: Axon Transforms Supply Chain Operations to Fuel Exponential Growth
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Forward Thinking: Axon Transforms Supply Chain Operations to Fuel Exponential Growth

October 11, 2023

Heidi Benko is VP Product Marketing and Strategy for Infor Nexus.  Heidi has over 20 years of experience in supply chain product management, solutions strategy, and marketing, delivering innovative supply chain solutions to companies across industries that help them transform their supply chain operations.

Will Steenken joined Axon in 2021 as Sr. Director, Global Strategic Sourcing after 25+ years in Aerospace and Defense.  Will is a ‘recovering engineer’ lucky enough to have also had numerous broad leadership roles in functions including operations, customer business, sales, tactical procurement, consulting, and strategic sourcing.  In his prior strategic sourcing roles, he has accumulated a wealth of experience ensuring continuity of supply and best-value supply chain solutions in large, complex, highly regulated environments that have included extensive supplier-owned IP and compliance with US Government acquisition requirements.  Will holds a BSME from the University of Michigan and an MBA from ASU.

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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

October 11, 2023

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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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

November 8, 2023

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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Managing Shipping Costs in a World Where Everything Costs More — A Conversation with Derek Bealby of AFMS
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Managing Shipping Costs in a World Where Everything Costs More — A Conversation with Derek Bealby of AFMS

October 20, 2023

At the 2023 edition of the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with Derek Bealby, a Vice President of AFMS, LLC about how supply chain leaders can work with their partners to control shipping costs in a world of inflation, rising labor costs, rising fuel costs, and frequent disruptions. Many 3PLs are under intense pressure to pass their costs on to their customers, and negotiating contracts can be a complicated business. How should supply chain executives best approach this situation with both long-term business partners, and also new shippers as they optimize their footprint and build build resiliency into their operations? 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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