A One-Day Seminar - 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Thursday, March 12, 2009 – Bloomfield College,
467 Franklin St, Bloomfield, New Jersey

By William Walker, CFPIM, CSCP, CIRM

While the headlines of the day – frozen credit forcing bankruptcy, business interruption from extreme weather, fuel cost uncertainty, labor costs rising in China, healthcare costs escalating in the United States, currency exchange whiplash, the war on terrorism, rolling power blackouts in major cities, protests in favor of fair trade, new regulations to protect the environment – suggest that all risk factors are beyond our control, the truth is more complex.  Risk is an inherent part of business.  Some risks are internally generated and within our control, while other risks are externally generated and outside our control.  Every supply chain network has natural fault lines that are dependent upon the product, the network relationships, the dynamics of market competition, and the business environment.  Each trading partner in a network has a management team who may, or may not, understand how to drive the business within a network context.  When a network is brittle, it may fail even under low risk conditions.  When a network is more pliable, it can continue to function competitively even under high risk circumstances. 

The time proven 5V Principles of Supply Chain Management - Velocity, Variability, Vocalize, Visualize, and Value - simplify the network design and operational decisions of complex supply chains for broad usage throughout the manufacturing and service sectors. These principles are used to solve network problems by people separated by time, geography, and culture who must work together as a team to deliver competitive products and services under high risk conditions.  This seminar builds from a fundamental understanding of network architecture, through achieving high performance, to providing a high degree of network tolerance for both internal and external risks.  The end goal is a risk tolerant network.  This seminar is structured into a series of modules; each module consists of a lecture reinforced by real life experiences, detailed instructor led examples, and interactive team games and problem solving exercises.

Bill has 35+ years experience designing, implementing, operating, and optimizing global supply chain networks for Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, Siemens Building Technologies, and StarTrak Systems, LLC. Bill was named a “Top 20 Logistics Executive for 2000” by the Logistics Forum. He is the author of Supply Chain Architecture: A Blueprint for Networking the Flow of Material, Information, and Cash and contributing author of Supply Chain Networks and Business Process Orientation.

   Who Should Attend?

This seminar will be attractive to supply chain directors, supply chain    professionals, planners, purchasing agents, buyers, outsourcing specialists, logistics managers, warehouse specialists, transportation specialists, vice presidents of operations, operations management, materials engineers, new product engineering, information technologists, product marketing, cost accountants, supply chain consultants, academicians, and students of the supply chain.

   Agenda

   8:00am           Sign in

   8:30am           Morning Session

   Noon               Buffet Lunch

   12:30pm         Afternoon Session

   3:45pm           Summary and Q&A

   Registration fee includes:

· All instruction

· Lunch

· Workbook and handouts

· Certificate of completion

 Registration Deadline: March 5^th

 Registration:  Register on-line now and pay on-line with your credit card !   

 No refunds issued, substitutions are allowed

 Network Risk Seminar

 Member Registration……….$350/person

 Non-Member Registration… $395/person

 Team Rate (3 or more)….... $325/person