Pre-Conference Workshops
Come early this year and attend one of four pre-conference workshops! Pre-conference workshops are separate from the Annual Global Conference and registration applies.
Sunday, September 30, 2012
8:00 am to 5:00 pm EST
Georgia World Congress Center Atlanta, Georgia USA
All Workshops include the following:
- Networking opportunities
- Breakfast and lunch
- Additional materials where indicated in workshop details
Register for the conference and a workshop at the same time! Just go to "Register Today" and be sure to check one workshop of your choice. 
Price: $499 US
Members: $399 US
Associate Members: $299 US
Student Members: $199 US
Register for this workshop only:
Building and Maintaining Business Relationships
Leveraging Supply Chain Management for Enterprise Development
Supply Chain Risk Mitigation
The “New” Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management: What Matters Now in Supply Chain
This workshop qualifies for 6 SCPro™ continuing education units (CEUs). Please retain the Certification of Completion as documentation of your attendance. Learn more about CSCMP’s SCPro™ Certification and CEUs.
Building and Maintaining Business Relationships
Presented by:
Jo Ann Muniz, Vice President, Supply Chain, Philadelphia Gas Works
Sallie Sherman, Chief Executive Officer, S4 Consulting, Inc.
The quality of relationships among supply chain partners and service providers is often the difference between struggle and success. Learn tools and techniques for building, maintaining, and rescuing business relationships and creating high-trust, high-performance alliances at individual, team, and corporate levels. This session concludes with a real world case that has practical supply chain application.
You will:
- Understand the importance of structured relationship management in 21st-century supply chain management.
- Learn the dynamics of human behavior and brain responses in relationships.
- Experience the tools and techniques of building high-trust, high communication, and high performance relationships (internal and external).
- Hear a real world case example of supply chain transformation based on sustainable practices and processes with a foundation of relationship management.
Leveraging Supply Chain Management for Enterprise Development
Presented by:
Tom Freese, Principal, Freese & Associates, Inc.
Steve Geary, President, Supply Chain Visions, Inc.
This workshop takes you beyond the fundamentals. It is a higher level examination of how to use supply chain management techniques to elevate performance, communicate supply chain issues to senior management, and relate supply chain initiatives to corporate strategic directions.
You will:
- Learn how to extend knowledge of fundamentals to elevate performance in cost, quality, and profitability.
- Take home a clear picture of how and where supply chain management can move the needles of financial performance.
- Gain an understanding of how to integrate supply chain tactics with corporate strategies.
Supply Chain Risk Mitigation
Presented by:
Richard Sharpe, Chief Executive Officer, Competitive Insights, LLC
Supply chain disruptions are a common occurrence that companies must face on a daily basis. Significant disruptions may not be as frequent, but can have dramatic financial consequences for a company. This interactive workshop will highlight key sources of supply chain risks and provide mitigation techniques that you can take back to your own company.
You will learn:
- Risks – their primary sources and how they can financially impact your company
- Strategies – how to identify risks that could cause significant disruptions to your supply chain
- Resilience – introduce strategies for mitigating supply chain risks
The "New" Fundamentals: What Matters Now in Supply Chain
Presented by:
Ken Ackerman, President, K.B. Ackerman Company
Art Van Bodegraven, Practice Leader, S4 Consulting
Fundamental supply chain management principles are critical to your organization. This workshop will cover the six key elements of the “new” fundamentals.
You will learn:
- Security—the real scope and range of security responsibilities and techniques in today’s world
- Strategy—how to stay connected with your company and leverage supply chain management to support the end game
- Relationships—the hard work and investment that goes into building and maintaining relationships with targeted strategic customers, suppliers, and service providers