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The Insider's Guide:
         6 Megatrends of Supply Chain Optimization

                              In this webinar, Karen Butner, Supply Chain Management
                              Leader, IBM Institute for Business Value, looks at how
                              leading companies can restore stability to their global
                              supply chains and add real value to the business.




Today’s complex economic environment and ever-expanding global supply chains
require new guidelines for peak performance. Volatile global market conditions and
customer demand mean that small errors may cost you millions. Companies that are
looking to outperform their competitors need a new paradigm for optimizing supply chain
configurations and synchronizing supply and demand


In this webinar you will learn:
      Easy to apply lessons on how to contend with the fluctuations in customer demand so
       that you can make better, more accurate predictions about what your customers will need
       and when
      Practical ways of interpreting and leveraging key metrics for properly informed business
       decisions at every step of the supply chain
      Real life examples of how better supply chain management and operations can add value
       back to the business, especially in volatile market conditions


About Karen Butner
                       Supply Chain Management and Sustainability Global Leader
                       IBM Institute for Business Value

                       Karen Butner serves as the Supply Chain Management and
                       Sustainability Global Leader, for the IBM Institute for Business
                       Value, the business think tank of IBM.
                        In this role, she is responsible for research, market insights and
                        thought leadership development and global deployment. She is
frequently invited to keynote at international conferences and is widely quoted in leading
business and industry publications.
She has over 25 years of experience in strategy development and transformation. Her
industry concentration is high technology, retail and consumer products, electronics, life
sciences, logistics and telecommunications. Her passion is to assist clients in the
development of strategies and improvement agendas to bring significant value in
transforming their global performance.
I invite you to join as a member of the PEX Network Group http://tinyurl.com/3hwakem,
you will have access to Key Leaders Globally, Events, Webinars, Presentations, Articles,
Case Studies, Blog Discussions, White Papers, and Tools and Templates. To access
this free content please take 2 minutes for a 1 time FREE registration at
http://tiny.cc/tpkd0
PEX Network, a division of IQPC, facilitates access to a wealth of relevant content for
Process Excellence, Lean, and Six Sigma practitioners. Further enhanced with an online
community of your peers, we will provide you with the tools and resources to help you
perform more effective and efficiently, while enhancing the quality operations within your
organization. As our industry becomes more and more dependent on the Web for
information, PEXNetwork.com has been developed to provide Six Sigma professionals
with instant access to information. Leveraging our strength and foundation in education,
IQPC and the Process Excellence Network are uniquely positioned to provide a
comprehensive library of webcasts gathered from our events, as well as exclusive
content from leaders in the industry.

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The Insiders Guide 6 Megatrends Of Supply Chain Optimization

  • 1. The Insider's Guide: 6 Megatrends of Supply Chain Optimization In this webinar, Karen Butner, Supply Chain Management Leader, IBM Institute for Business Value, looks at how leading companies can restore stability to their global supply chains and add real value to the business. Today’s complex economic environment and ever-expanding global supply chains require new guidelines for peak performance. Volatile global market conditions and customer demand mean that small errors may cost you millions. Companies that are looking to outperform their competitors need a new paradigm for optimizing supply chain configurations and synchronizing supply and demand In this webinar you will learn:  Easy to apply lessons on how to contend with the fluctuations in customer demand so that you can make better, more accurate predictions about what your customers will need and when  Practical ways of interpreting and leveraging key metrics for properly informed business decisions at every step of the supply chain  Real life examples of how better supply chain management and operations can add value back to the business, especially in volatile market conditions About Karen Butner Supply Chain Management and Sustainability Global Leader IBM Institute for Business Value Karen Butner serves as the Supply Chain Management and Sustainability Global Leader, for the IBM Institute for Business Value, the business think tank of IBM. In this role, she is responsible for research, market insights and thought leadership development and global deployment. She is frequently invited to keynote at international conferences and is widely quoted in leading business and industry publications. She has over 25 years of experience in strategy development and transformation. Her industry concentration is high technology, retail and consumer products, electronics, life sciences, logistics and telecommunications. Her passion is to assist clients in the development of strategies and improvement agendas to bring significant value in transforming their global performance.
  • 2. I invite you to join as a member of the PEX Network Group http://tinyurl.com/3hwakem, you will have access to Key Leaders Globally, Events, Webinars, Presentations, Articles, Case Studies, Blog Discussions, White Papers, and Tools and Templates. To access this free content please take 2 minutes for a 1 time FREE registration at http://tiny.cc/tpkd0 PEX Network, a division of IQPC, facilitates access to a wealth of relevant content for Process Excellence, Lean, and Six Sigma practitioners. Further enhanced with an online community of your peers, we will provide you with the tools and resources to help you perform more effective and efficiently, while enhancing the quality operations within your organization. As our industry becomes more and more dependent on the Web for information, PEXNetwork.com has been developed to provide Six Sigma professionals with instant access to information. Leveraging our strength and foundation in education, IQPC and the Process Excellence Network are uniquely positioned to provide a comprehensive library of webcasts gathered from our events, as well as exclusive content from leaders in the industry.