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• How to Build a Better You

GLOBALIZATION AND FLEXIBILITY

1. The Global Tug of War on Limited Resources: Get Ready to Get Muddy
2. Peak Oil – The Impacts of Demand Destruction
3. Global Supply Chain Performance Measurement - Anticipating and Dealing with Uncertainty
4. Winning and Losing at Globalization
5. Lean Six Sigma in the Supply Chain - A Case Study
6. What Forecast Error is Costing Your Business
7. Supply Chain: A Simulation

COST REDUCTION

1. Cost Reduction a Continuing Effort - How to Attack and Get Results
2. A Case Study for Improved Sourcing Decisions through Outbound Logistics Optimization
3. Back to Basics – Feed the System Right!
4. Quality at the Source
5. Driving Out Cost While Creating Value
6. Metrics That Drive True Company Performance
7. Managing for 2010 & Beyond - Successfully Navigating the Global Race

PLANNING YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN

1. S&OP: Transforming Business Strategy into Operational Plans!
2. Integrated Business Planning: The Silver Lining amidst the dark clouds
3. Do you PDC or TET?
4. The Power of One Less
5. Planning & Controlling Inventory in Good Times and Bad Times
6. Real SOP Implementation (Challenges and Benefits)
7. Supply Chain Conflict: Getting Along for Supply Chain Success

EMPOWERING PEOPLE

1. Managing Supply Chain Risk: The Missing Ingredient
2. People – They are our Most Important Asset
3. Leading Change in a Changing Organization
4. Operations Managers are from Mars, Marketers are from Venus - Making the Planets Align
5. Leadership vs. Management - Getting the Results You Want
6. Leadership to Leapfrog the Competition in the New Normal Business Environment
7. The Bus Riders

LEAN OUT YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN

1. Principles of Change
2. Lean Performance Indicators - A Road Map for Supply Chain and Operations Success
3. Develop Your OWN 'Go Forward LEAN Plan’
4. Lean Supply Chain Management- A Clear Path to Profit Improvement
5. Lean and Agile Value Chain Management
6. Crafting a Lean Supply Chain
7. Lean Supply Chain Business Simulation

INVENTORY INVESTMENT

1. Managing Inventories in a Changing Economy
2. Purchasing Fundamentals
3. Walking the Inventory Tightrope
4. Maximizing ROI on Your Inventory Investment
5. Inventory Investment – Less is More
6. Outsourcing Revisited
7. SCOR Benchmarking

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