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To Tuesday, December 03, 2013 - 05:00pm
We are pleased to announce our upcoming 28th Semi-Annual Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (SCRC) Meeting and sincerely hope you can accept our invitation to participate. The meeting will take place on December 2-3, 2013 at the McKimmon Center at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. The regular partnership meeting will convene at 12:30 pm on Monday, December 2nd and conclude Tuesday, December 3rd at approximately 4:00 pm.
As a precursor to the regular partnership meeting, the 40+ member SCRC Board of Advisors will meet to discuss changes in the constantly evolving and complex global supply chain landscape. This on-going dialog between business and academia is what drives the SCRC’s continuous improvement engine, as well as contributes to the long-term strategic objectives of the program. Advisory Board members will receive a separate invitation with meeting details.
The theme of this meeting will focus on a topic of great interest to supply chain professionals at every level of the organization: “Mapping Your Supply Chain Analytics Strategy”.
One of the most important themes in our recent study on global supply chain trends and issues was the emerging importance of analytics in end-to-end integration of enterprise networks. As noted by one of our invited lecturers, “Data is an asset, and needs to be managed to achieve competitive advantage.” And yet, many organizations struggle with their data, and lack a cohesive approach for collecting and cleansing customer and supplier data from multiple systems, organizing and analyzing the data, and visually representing and applying it to supply chain decisions that drive business value. The theme of this meeting will explore Supply chain analytics strategy, which we define as a structured approach to invest in enabling technology, engineering and management of the asset (data), utilization of the data to enable a strategic advantage (information strategy), that drives alignment of business units strategies and objectives. Mature organizations are capturing demand and supply spend information, and linking it to tacit data (research and development, product forecasts, etc.) that drives a more holistic understanding of supplier and customer markets. As enterprises move toward the long-term goal of end-to-end supply chain integration, developing the infrastructure and foundation to drive shared information across multiple tiers of customers and suppliers represents the “analytics holy grail”. Some of the areas that could be impacted include supplier project workflow tracking, incident and risk mitigation, health and safety, material visibility, transportation planning and tracking, smart grid analytics, and predictive analytics. Future analytics will also span “omni-channel” data requirements, embedded product analytics, machine learning, and other future capabilities.
In exploring these issues, I will be sharing insights with you that I’ve derived from SCRC projects and interviews with several analytics subject matter experts. Additionally, we will be joined by a number of supply chain executives from other industries who will also share their insights on these topics.
This SCRC meeting, “Mapping Your Supply Chain Analytics Strategy”, is an excellent opportunity for you and your team of supply chain professionals to hear from subject matter experts on these topics, network, and share perspectives with other executives facing the same challenges. The meeting is a private forum for open discussion of problems faced by executives with a common interest in driving intelligent solutions to a largely undefined and challenging public directive.
The meeting agenda will include:
- An update on SCRC programs and services since the last meeting
- “Future Trends in the Supply Chain Analytics Landscape” by Dr. Rob Handfield, Distinguished Bank of America Professor and Co-Director of the SCRC. Dr. Handfield also serves as the Manufacturing Analytics Faculty Lead for the International Institute of Analytics.
- Mr. Jason Schenker, Economist and President of Prestige Economics. A regular presenter at the SCRC meeting, Mr. Schenker will share his thoughts and views on the current health of the economy and the impact of current geopolitical events on global business conditions. Mr. Schenker has been recognized by Bloomberg News as one of the top economic forecasters in the world for eight consecutive quarters across multiple categories.
- Mr. Doug Hague, Analytics Executive, Bank of America
- Mr. Paul Mugge, Director, and Dr. Mike Kowalenko, Teaching Assistant Professor, Center for Innovation Management, NC State University
- A student ‘gallery walk’ showcasing graduate and undergraduate supply chain practicum projects completed with industry partners this semester
- Formal student / company presentations, including: Bayer CropScience, Caterpillar, Foodbuy, GlaxoSmithKline, John Deere, Lenovo, Revlon, and Stop Hunger Now
- Supply chain professionals networking opportunities
A reception and dinner will be held at the McKimmon Center at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC on Monday evening and will be attended by supply chain professionals as well as a number of administrators, faculty, and students. This is an enjoyable event that facilitates an informal networking opportunity for students to meet corporate executives and to learn about supply chain issues in the “real world”. Dress for the meeting, reception, and dinner will be business casual.
Please let us know if you will be able to join us for this unique and important event by completing the attached registration form and returning it by November 15, 2013 to Andrea Dudley
We hope you can join us for the 28th Semi-Annual SCRC meeting! If you have any questions, please contact Rob Handfield at 919.515.4674 or Clyde Crider at 919.513.4487.