NITL among global experts to contribute to the 2012 Global Supply Chain Business Summit

(22 Mar 2012)

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The 2012 Global Supply Chain Business Summit is the 5th in a series of biennial Summits that have spanned nearly a decade. The concept is the brainchild of Dr John Gattorna, acknowledged as one of the outstanding contemporary supply chain ‘thought leaders’.

The idea is to bring together in one location the very finest thinkers and practitioners in the world of enterprise supply chains, to debate and discuss the big issues of the day that are influenced by supply chain performance - and there are very few enterprises on earth where this is not important to corporate health.

In 2010, the Summit was held in Sydney in conjunction with the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, and the theme was: The rules of the game have changed... time to re-set your enterprise supply chains. It appears nothing has changed in the world in the intervening two years, with extreme volatility in financial markets worldwide, and similar volatility in the markets for goods and services. The theme for our 2012 Summit in Singapore is: Supply chain ‘thought leadership’ through Vision – Design thinking – Alignment.

NITL is pleased to announce that Edward Sweeney has been invited to contribute to the summit panel based on the theme of “design thinking in enterprise supply chains”. Design thinking applied in the context of supply chains brings a new and creative edge to designing supply chain networks, visualising them as innovative and human-centred social networks – a far cry from the conventional mechanistic approach adopted by many contemporary enterprises. Top companies around the world are discovering that breakthrough supply chain performance is not achieved through "optimizing the plan": it requires a fundamental rethink of the supply chain's design itself. Supply chain design (SCD) more than a source of advantage, it is a necessary core skill for future survival. Yet, SCD is hugely misunderstood as well. This panel will discuss key insights and best practices involving:
 

  • What is SCD exactly?
  • How is it different from planning?
  • Who are the top design companies, and how do they do what they do?
  • What are the costs of failure?


Invited panellists at the 2012 Global Supply Chain Business Summit are from leading international companies such as Dell, Glanbia, Coca-Cola, 3M, Janssen, Unilever, DHL, Walmart, Astra Zeneca and IBM. In addition to NITL’s Edward Sweeney, the small number of invited academic panellists are from leading international universities with recognised SCM expertise including Cranfield School of Management and the University of Hull Logistics Institute (UHLI) in the UK, University of Borås in Sweden, University of Michigan in the US, the S.P. Jain School of Global Management in Singapore and the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in Australia.

For further information about this event visit:
https://www.2012globalsupplychainbusinesssummit.com

 

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