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APICS 2008 Learning Paths
Having trouble navigating the increasingly global supply chain? Select this Learning Path to investigate how you can succeed in today’s global marketplace, including how to guarantee lead times, leverage collaboration to reduce the new product introduction cycle time, address a sudden loss of supply, and more.
- Work within the constraints of regulatory agencies
- Improve your customer relationship management
- Manage your risk
- Improve your procurement practices
- Master logistics in a global environment
Plant Tours
- Boulevard Brewery
- New Oak Vineyards
- Procter & Gamble
- Roasterie
- Stonehaus Farm Winery
Educational Sessions
Broad Overview Session
Evolution of Supply Chains
Ray Barger
Director of Procurement, ViaSat, Inc.
Supply chains have become increasingly complex in today's expanding global business environment. To cope, company leaders have developed different types of supply chains at varying levels of maturity to address key issues and risks affecting goods and services. Participants will learn about supply chain types and maturity models and get an introduction to key issues and risks faced in today's globalized business landscape. This broad overview will set the stage for this learning path.
Topical Issue Session
You Can Guarantee Lead Times—Here’s How
Debra L. Smith, CFPIM, CSCP
Product Information & Planning Manager, AGS Company
Randall Schaefer, CPIM
Consultant, R. Schaefer Consulting
In a lean world, customers require 100 percent on-time delivery. This is so fundamental to success that they are demanding supplier lead-time guarantees, with financial penalties imposed for late or incomplete shipments. But guaranteeing lead times is as much about the customer as it is the supplier. It requires customer-supplier collaboration in establishing three critical parameters.
Topical Issue Session
The New Economics of Global Supply Chains
William T. Walker, CFPIM, CIRM, CSCP
Director, StarTrak Systems, LLC
Where company leaders once rushed to outsource labor, the economics of global competition have changed. China now outsources labor to India and Vietnam. International logistics have real constraints, not to mention the constraints of sharply rising fuel costs. Significant trade barriers have surfaced in the form of new environmental initiatives, such as the European Union's Restriction of Hazardous Substances directive and the carbon footprint. Lastly, the U.S. dollar shows wide fluctuation against foreign currencies. This interactive session presents a comprehensive framework to evaluate the competitiveness of product cost within a global economy. A combination of lecture and two-person exercises are used to explore the next global manufacturing strategy—value-added segmentation.
Topical Issue Session
Global Logistics: How to Get Around on Every Continent
David Jacoby, CFPIM, CIRM, CSCP, C.P.M.
President, Boston Logistics
The session will help global supply chain executives construct a total supply chain for international shipping. In the process of doing this, the session will explore current issues involved in shipping internationally to and from sourcing hotspots such as China, Malaysia, and Latin America. The presenter will draw from benchmarks, company examples, pictures, video clips, and interactive quiz questions. The content will be based on Boston Logistics "Logistics in..." studies, which through a series of mostly live-onsite sessions in various countries, has explored the current challenges and opportunities facing global shippers today.
Mini Workshop
Global Supply Chains: Globalization, Preparedness, Resilience
Irvin Varkonyi, CSCP
President, Supply Chain Operations Preparedness Education (SCOPE)
The pace of globalization has accelerated at a dizzying rate. While the business world may have adapted to maximizing benefits from globalization, it may be leaving itself vulnerable to disruptions in the global supply chain. This interactive session will consider the impact of events that bring the world closer together while simultaneously exposing operations to more disruptions. The presenter will invite interactive discussion through a discussion of six V's--value, visibility, variability, velocity, vulnerability, and verdency. Eventually, participants will understand preparedness and resilience are worth more than risk management.
Case Study
Case Study on Sudden Loss of Supply
Michael Trocchia, CPIM
Director SCM Project Management, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
The case presents a situation in which the supply of key raw material for a $1 billion product is interrupted. Participants will work through their action steps to deal with the interruption and plan to avoid similar issues in the future.
Wrap-Up Session
Reducing the NPI Cycle Time Using Collaboration
Kirit Goyal, CPIM
Program Manager, ATMI
In a fast-paced, high tech semiconductor manufacturing business, time-to-market determines if a product can bring commercial success. The seven steps of development from idea to commercialization have to undergo multiple iterations involving the organization, suppliers, and customers. In such an environment, collaboration using technology as well as process can reduce time-to-market. This session will review the various tools and processes used and the metrics that can measure benefits.
Retail innovator Blake Mycoskie, chief executive officer at TOMS Shoes, will discuss building a global business with an altruistic core. Blake Mycoskie redefines the idea of walking in someone else's shoes. Since he founded TOMS Shoes for Tomorrow in 2006, he has donated more than 10,000 pairs of Argentine-style alpargatas to impoverished children in developing nations, from Argentina to South Africa. Former President Bill Clinton personally tapped Mycoskie to be a partner of the Clinton Global Initiative, which unites world and business leaders from a variety of backgrounds to channel the capacities of individuals and organizations to end poverty and unify the global community. Not a bad start for a young entrepreneur who visited Buenos Aires as a volunteer and returned to the United States as an entrepreneur whose business grew from three interns and a loft office in Venice Beach, CA to more than 40 employees and 600 stores around the world.
Discover how Burt's Bees broke the mold, and maintained profits and productivity, by incorporating sustainability into the company mission.
Since 1989, the Burt's Bees maintained a priority of earth friendly, natural personal care. This organizational philosophy extended to protecting and providing for nature, not simply extracting resources. By embracing sustainable best practices, you can be at the forefront of this hot trend in operations management. At the same time, you can help your organization maintain its bottom-line productivity.
Your employer doesn't need to have an expressed commitment to the environment for you to begin thinking green. With the help of the APICS 2008 Sustainability/Green Learning Path and keynote speaker John Replogle, you will gain added insights into green manufacturing, sustainability, and one of the coolest companies out there—Burt's Bees.
As a senior advisor for the Nike Foundation and a long-standing Nike executive, Darcy Winslow is focused on building a strong relationship with the female athlete/consumer through innovation, product, communication, and retail. Having worked at Nike for 14 years, Winslow has held many positions within the company, including biomechanical research assistant, director of footwear and apparel product testing, and product development manager. Most recently she was the general manager of sustainable business opportunities, a role focused on developing and implementing more environmentally and socially sustainable business strategies across the organization, from long-range research and development, through product creation and the supply chain.