Professor Tim Baines, Aston University UK’s Professor of Operations Strategy, believes in the newfound idea of services-led competitive strategy, known as servitization. Professor Baines specializes in the realization of competitive manufacturing operations and has worked extensively across a wide range of industrial engineering, technology management, and manufacturing management disciplines, with celebrated icons of servitization like Rolls-Royce, Caterpillar, Xerox and more. He will speak at the Service Lifecycle Management conference in Amsterdam next February. Visit the website to learn more about the program.
The culture of service organizations is changing rapidly as a new model driven by a focus on innovation and culture takes hold. In this podcast, we discuss that modernization with Tim Saur, Vice President and COO for Durst Phototechnik, AG North America, and a speaker at the Field Service events. Field Service Medical is the only conference specifically tailored for medical device service and support executives in North America. The event takes place January 23 to 25, 2012 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina, San Diego, CA. You can visit the website to take a look at the program.
Catherine Teti, MD Knowledge Services, Chief Agency Privacy Officer, GAO, speaks with Worldwide Business Research, producers of the eDiscovery Readiness for Government conference, about how to maintain, preserve and dispose of data on social media and cloud computing platforms. In this podcast, she talks about how to understand where data is stored on these platforms, how to preserve data not owned and controlled by the agency and how to dispose of data once its retention period has ended. She will speak more about this at the eDiscovery conference, which will take place November 29 - December 1 in Arlington, VA. Visit the website to learn more about the program.
Medical Devices are highly sensitive and highly specialist instruments, but they exist in a deeply competitive, cost-driven market, not to mention the logistical complexities of a hospital environment. This of course creates a multitude of challenges that takes a supply chain expert to overcome successfully. One such expert is Susanne Amholt, VP of Business Development, Life Sciences & Healthcare for DHL Supply Chain in Mainland Europe, who joins me in this podcast to discuss those challenges. Part 1: Cost pressure issues in hospital supply chain management & emerging markets Part 2: Emerging markets continued and the issues surrounding medical device logistics Part 3:Why hospital logistics needs to be taken more seriously and how outsourcing your entire supply chain logistics operation could transform hospital performance overall For more information visit logimedeurope.com
Medical Devices are highly sensitive and highly specialist instruments, but they exist in a deeply competitive, cost-driven market, not to mention the logistical complexities of a hospital environment. This of course creates a multitude of challenges that takes a supply chain expert to overcome successfully. One such expert is Susanne Amholt, VP of Business Development, Life Sciences & Healthcare for DHL Supply Chain in Mainland Europe, who joins me in this podcast to discuss those challenges. Part 1: Cost pressure issues in hospital supply chain management & emerging markets Part 2: Emerging markets continued and the issues surrounding medical device logistics Part 3: Why hospital logistics needs to be taken more seriously and how outsourcing your entire supply chain logistics operation could transform hospital performance overall For more information visit logimedeurope.com
Medical Devices are highly sensitive and highly specialist instruments, but they exist in a deeply competitive market, not to mention the logistics of a hospital environment. This creates challenges that take a supply chain expert to overcome. One such expert is Susanne Amholt, VP of Business Development, Life Sciences & Healthcare for DHL Supply Chain in Mainland Europe, who joins me to discuss those challenges. Part 1: Cost pressure issues in hospital supply chain management & emerging markets Part 2: Emerging markets continued and the issues surrounding medical device logistics Part 3: Why hospital logistics needs to be taken more seriously and how outsourcing your entire supply chain logistics operation could transform hospital performance overall For more information visit logimedeurope.com
Part 1 of a 2-part AutoSEE Podcast in association with TheValueChain.net Inalfa Roof Systems is one of the world’s biggest providers of vehicle roof systems for the automotive industry, designing for companies such as BMW, Ford, General Motors, Audi, Rolls Royce and many, many others besides. Being across supply, design and of course production and manufacturing brings with it many challenges in the procurement function. To find out more about them, and how they manage them, I am joined by Daniele Giannetti, Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) at Inalfa Roof Systems Group. In part one we take a look at the South East Europe region, the benefits and problems with clustering for a mid-sized company, and the financial crisis. In part two we will be taking a deeper look at the developing influence of the procurement function across the business, green and eco innovation and what strategies you should be employing in order to gain buy-in from top-level management.
Part 2 of a 2-part AutoSEE Podcast in association with TheValueChain.net Inalfa Roof Systems is one of the world’s biggest providers of vehicle roof systems for the automotive industry, designing for companies such as BMW, Ford, General Motors, Audi, Rolls Royce and many, many others besides. Being across supply, design and of course production and manufacturing brings with it many challenges in the procurement function. To find out more about them, and how they manage them, I am joined by Daniele Giannetti, Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) at Inalfa Roof Systems Group. In part two we will be taking a deeper look at the developing influence of the procurement function across the business, green and eco innovation and what strategies you should be employing in order to gain buy-in from top-level management. In part one we looked at the South East Europe region, the benefits and problems with clustering for a mid-sized company, and the financial crisis.
Nordic Capital is a group of private equity funds focusing primarily on investments in the Nordic region. There’s about 24 in the portfolio right now and Luvatais one of those, focused on the metals environment, specifically copper. With commodities costs rising on almost all fronts, their procurement challenges are far from unique - but coming from a relatively small company, their solutions have to be truly 'out of the box' to make sure they keep up with their more heavyweight competitors. To find out more about what they are doing in the procurement space, we spoke to Nadia Janssens, Procurement Director at Luvata, part of Nordic Capital, at the CPO Roundtables conference in London.
When Elementis Specialties started looking to expand its global footprint, it was clear that global demand planning tools would be necessary to connect disparate systems across the chemical supply chain. Gustavo Araujo, Supply Chain Director, had to guide his team through the challenges that come with implementing a new global system. The company is still transitioning into this platform and learning how to align the supply chain so that all parts of the process are optimized. For every process, the company now sits down and does a map of the "as is" model, or how the company handles it now, and then maps a "to be" model, or how it will be adjusted. Listen to him here as he discusses in detail how Elementis is working toward better alignment across the supply chain. He will speak further on this topic at the SCMchem conference, which you can learn more about here.
The complexities of bio-pharmaceutical supply chains can be convoluted, to say the least, but an understanding of them is essential to managing cost, quality and compliance. In this podcast, we break down some of the elements with Bob DiVasto, Vice President of Manufacturing and Supply Chain at Cadence Pharmaceuticals. Bob is a speaker at Logipharma, a three-day conference for pharmaceutical and biotech companies that provides strategies and best practices for improving supply chains.
Turkey’s automotive industry is one that has been developing massively in a time where most of the rest of the world has been struggling to stay afloat. So what have they been doing that’s bucked the trend, and more importantly, are there lessons you can apply to your own supply chain strategy? According to Zafer Kabatepe, Supply Chain & Logistics Director at Orhan Holdings, a key conglomerate in the automotive industry in Turkey since 1972, that it’s more than just location, it’s the Turkish obsession with quality that sets them apart. In this first of two parts we find out what makes the Turkish automotive industry so unique and we dip into the strategies Orhan and the whole industry are applying in order to achieve their lofty ‘2023 objectives’, including the export of over 2.5 million vehicles. Make sure to check out part two where we examine supply chain efficiency techniques including clustering and designing flexibility into your supply chain to help deal with sudden stresses. Zafer Kabatepe appears courtesty of the AutoTurkey conference, taking place in Istanbul in October, who are lovely enough to have given all ValueChain readers a massive €400 discount on the entry price! Just book at www.autoturkey.tk using booking code valuechain.
In traditional models, procurement has always been an internal wing of a company, but with processes becoming ever more complex and the marketplace that much more competitive, could the most cost-effective solution for many businesses be to outsource? I caught up with Mark Masterson, Senior Director of Sales at GEP and chair of one of the sessions at CPO Roundtables in June to find out more.
The strategic challenges facing procurement leaders and professionals today are not the same as they were in the past. Are you doing the same thing expecting different results? In this call we will discuss some of these challenges with Eric Beylier, who has been leading the change as CPO for Tetra Technologies. We will explore not only where the role is going internally, but also look at external supplier behavior and the values needed to develop more sustainable relationships. Eric Beylier is VP - Head of Global Supply Chain & Procurement for Tetra Technologies. Mr. Beylier has over 20 years of experience and expertise with many global companies’ supply chain and procurement groups across industries such as Oil & Gas, Specialty Chemicals, High-Tech, Financial Institutions & Retail, and he has done extensive work in Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.
Peter Connelly has been in the procurement business since before he knew there was one - since before most of us knew there was one. He is retiring from Leggett & Platt, one of America's oldest, most respected manufacturers, and leaves behind an industry that is much different than when he started, but still rests on the same important values. Here, he talks to Kelly Hushin, Online Content Manager, WBR, producers of the ProcureCon conference, to which Peter has been a trusted advisor for many years. With a recent disaster in Leggett's hometown headquarters of Joplin, Missouri, Peter has more than ever had to look to the roots of good procurement both as a profession and as a philosophy.
Thanks to our colleagues at AutoTurkey, we have been given the second part of this great two-part podcast from Ismail Sumer, Factory Director at Honda Turkey. Turkey is often seen as the gateway between the Middle East, Africa and Europe, so it's no wonder that it's become a key strategic location for the automotive industry and as a country experiencing exponential growth during a time of international economic crisis, it faces some unique supply chain challenges. In this episode we will be focusing on coping with shocks to the supply chain and extreme fluctuations of demand response, plus we take a look at the processes they employ to ensure quality retention from both them and their supplier during periods of expansion. If you missed part one, we discussed current industry trends and strategies for achieving the 2023 targets set by the Turkish government. Listen to part one here.
'On loan' from our colleagues at AutoTurkey, we've got this great two-part podcast from Ismail Sumer, Factory Director at Honda Turkey. Turkey is often seen as the gateway between the Middle East, Africa and Europe, so it's no wonder that it's become a key strategic location for the automotive industry and as a country experiencing exponential growth during a time of international economic crisis, it faces some unique supply chain challenges. TheValueChain.net is delighted to bring you this exclusive AutoTurkey podcast. In part one we discuss current industry trends and strategies for achieving the 2023 targets set by the Turkish government. In the second part we will be focusing on coping with shocks to the supply chain and extreme fluctuations of demand response plus a look at the processes they employ to ensure quality retention from both them and their supplier during periods of expansion.
Risk assessment is a big part of a firm’s financial management plan and important to procurement teams. While it’s not always a direct responsibility for procurement and it doesn’t always have a dedicated team – it can’t be ignored especially given events like earthquakes, tsunamis and other catastrophes that can’t be avoided. In the following sound bite, Joseph Richardson, Manager of Global Corporate Procurement at FMC Technologies, talks to Carina Kuhl, Executive Producer of the ProcureCon events, about the importance of handling risk management on a continuum as opposed to dealing with it as a single event. This year ProcureCon will take place in Atlanta at the JW Marriott Buckhead from September 12 to 14. You can visit the website to learn more about the program.
As the corporate world barrels into the digital age, aftermarket supply chain professionals must consider how to better utilize technology to improve their businesses. Pitney Bowes is taking steps toward that kind innovation by focusing on how to better optimize service revenue and make better use of online portals for parts sales. In the below podcast interview, Ivin Smith, Vice President, Customer Service & WW Technical Support, Pitney Bowes, talks to Kelly Hushin, Online Content Manager, WBR, about why the company is taking these steps and how they’re improving operations. He mentions the implementation of creative incentive programs to drive the sales of fee-based services, among other initiatives. WBR produces Interlog Summer, a three-day conference for aftermarket supply chain professionals who are looking to automate reverse logistics processes to increase visibility and reduce cost, combat rising transportation costs and achieve better service by optimizing service infrastructures. Visit the website to learn more and to register.
The pharmaceutical supply chain is facing more challenges as drugs become more complex, fewer blockbusters come on the market, serialization mandates approach and inventories need purging. In the following interview, James Hodges, Executive Producer for LogiPharma, speaks to Bill McLaury, Executive Director for North American Pharma Supply Chain at Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp about the top three challenges facing pharmaceutical supply chain today, five years from now and how Novartis is addressing those concerns. LogiPharmais a three-day conference produced by Worldwide Business Research that brings together pharmaceutical and biotech professionals to discuss ways to improve pharmaceutical supply chainmanagement and logistics practices. This year, LogiPharma takes place October 3 to 5 at the Hyatt Regency Harborside in Boston. You can visit the website to learn more about the program.