The “Awakening” – Managing the supply chain during economic recovery  --

Presenter Tom Valliere

Audience profile:  Procurement specialists, product planners, product lifecycle managers, material managers, design engineers. Webinar will look at recovery and predicted supply unbalance. Focus will be on how to manage growth during a period of supply constraint.  The world moves on even during economic downturns, the webinar will look at these landscape changes and how to manage in an altered recovery environment.

Issues:

• Economic upturn will create supply unbalance

• Landscape has changed during downturn with increased environmental requirements and changing customer demographics

• Resources  will lag recovery

Topics:

• Understand why supply lags demand in recovery – how much? – what to expect

• Allocation. What it is, How it works, and what you can do to position yourself

• How to be a "strategic" customer and get preferential treatment regardless of volume

  • Review key supplier relationship items from Webinar 2

• Material planning, staging, positioning

• Supply linearity – why industrial customers will be negatively affected

• Demand creation and management

• Reactionary supply chain dangers

• Full service distributors vs catalog distributors vs direct – what is optimum?

• Data flow in the supply chain - why it  is becoming unmanageable

• Energy, Carbon, Green House Gas effects on the supply chain

• ODM / OEM  which is best for you?  Lines are blurring.

• China – A perfect storm - Why manufacturers are re-thinking North America

 

For information on the workshops or how to participate with the industry partnership please contact:
 
Ann DiVecchio
Strategy Solutions, Inc.
(814)480-8000
ann@getstrategy.com

 

The Partnership…manufacturers helping manufacturers compete. The Northwest Pennsylvania Electronics Manufacturing Industry Partnership is comprised of the CEOs of electronics manufacturing companies in northwest and north central Pennsylvania and is operating under a grant from Governor Rendell’s Job Ready PA Initiative. The goal of the Electronics Manufacturing Industry Partnership is to create awareness among manufacturing companies of the European Union’s RoHS and WEEE Directives, as well as to identify and create access to local, state and federal funding that will able to assist manufacturing companies with low interest loans and grants to provide training and get equipment that is needed because of the enactment of the EU Directives.