Supply Chain Peer Forum Spring Executive Summit
(Membership Event)

Sustainability Peer Forum Spring Executive Summit
(Membership Event)

Supply Chain Top 25 Award Dinner
AMR Research will be announcing the annual Supply Chain
Top 25
(please register early as seating is limited)

Angel Mendez, SVP of Global Supply Chain Management, Cisco

With a manufacturing network that circles the globe, Cisco is a pioneer in networked supply chains. Mr. Mendez will share lessons learned in balancing global operations reach with regional practicalities. His session will address the different approaches required to serve markets in the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

Juan Jose Favela, IT Planning Director, CEMEX

Global supply chain strategy is intimately linked to enterprise application design. Few companies have a more complex, logistics-intensive supply chain than Mexican industrial giant CEMEX, and few have been as innovative with demand-driven approaches to serving customers effectively. Mr. Favela will share his insights and experiences enabling this innovative supply chain with technology.

Supply Chain Risk: New Research
Noha Tohamy, Research Director, AMR Research
Kevin O’Marah, Chief Strategy Officer, AMR Research

Globalization is coming home partly because so much risk is associated with spreading the supply network around the world. Over the past five years, AMR Research has focused on supply chain risk management strategies, and found that tactics are available to mitigate risk sensibly and profitably. This session will discuss our latest findings and their implications for supply chain strategy on a regional and global level.

Keynote
Vicente Fox, former President of Mexico

In his keynote address, Vicente Fox will address critical issues affecting value chain strategies for global manufacturers and retailers in a dialog with AMR Research President and CEO Tony Friscia. Topics to be addressed include near-shoring, energy independence, labor, continental logistics, and the Americas as a market.

Jim Varilek, Vice President of Supply Chain, Dow Chemical

Dow Chemical knows plenty about the challenges and opportunities of operating in today’s North American markets. With extensive manufacturing in Canada and a complex network of production and logistics facilities across the continent, Dow has seen crumbling transport infrastructure and rising fuel costs force new thinking about how to handle the U.S. market.  Mr. Varilek will share some of Dow’s views concerning what works and what doesn’t in this supply chain. 

Simon Osborn, Vice President of Logistics, 7-Eleven

With one of the most intricate logistics networks in the world, 7-Eleven faces extreme challenges with rising fuel costs, congested urban delivery schedules, and inherent inefficiencies in the supply chain. Simon Osborn, VP of Logistics at 7-Eleven will begin the session by sharing his views on supply chain complexity, the opportunity to remove redundancy, and the need to become demand driven. This will be followed by dialogue with Rob Garf, VP of Retail Strategies at AMR Research, who will direct questions focused on partner collaboration and joint value creation to increase profitability across the extended network.

• Robert Salerno, VP World-Wide Supply Chain Operations Excellence, Johnson & Johnson
• Jake Barr, Director, Manufacturing, Planning and Logistics, The Procter & Gamble Company
• Jean-Jacques Devaux, Chief Procurement Officer, Schlumberger
• Jim Liefer, Vice President Supply Chain Logistics, Walmart.com

AMR Research has conducted an intensive study of the skills needed for today’s global supply chain management challenge. While many universities now offer degree and certification programs in supply chain management, confusion remains about what skill set is used by the ideal supply chain professional. This panel discussion will focus on our new findings and how this group of companies is obtaining, developing, and retaining their talent.

When Worlds Collide
Bruce Richardson, Chief Research Officer, AMR Research
David Allen, Senior Vice President Operations and Supply Chain, Del Monte Foods

Day Two of the conference will offer attendees a selection of classroom sessions designed to provide practitioner-level detail and open group discussion for professional development.

Session 1

8:30-9:30 a.m.

Session 3

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Supply Management as a Cornerstone of Demand-Driven Transformation
Jane Barrett and Mickey North Rizza