-- Cisco Systems, Angel Mendez, SVP Customer Value Chain Management
-- Coca-Cola North America, Thomas Blackstock, Former VP Supply Chain
Operations
-- Intel, Stuart Pann, VP Sales and Marketing, General Manager, Business
Management Group
-- Supply Chain Council, Richard Sherman, Founder
-- Mutual Distributing Company, Jim Staton, VP Information Technology
-- World Renowned Supply Chain Expert, General William "Gus" Pagonis,
Retired US Army General, Business Leadership Author, Lecturer
-- BD, Larry P. Smith, VP Global Supply Chain
-- USS-POSCO Industries, Michael Obermire, Global SCM Head
-- New York & Company, Sherwin Socaransky, VP Information Technology
-- Hästens Sängar, Dominic Luzi, CIO
-- The Schwan Food Company, Susan Grelling, VP of Strategic Sourcing and
Material Solutions
-- Bayer Healthcare, Thomas Panzer, VP Global Supply Chain
-- Swarovski, Robert Grant, VP Supply Chain/Inventory Management
-- Disney, David Steele, Sr. Director, Supply Chain, Operations, &
Technology
Aberdeen's SCM Summit will also recognize five Best-in-Class organizations
as 2009 Aberdeen Achievement Award Recipients for Best-in-Class supply
chain accomplishments in these 5 categories:
-- Process Excellence - awarded to enterprise that has demonstrated
process ingenuity, agility, flexibility and scalability to address evolving
business requirements.
-- Executive Stewardship - awarded to enterprise that has overcome
tremendous obstacles and achieved new performance heights as a result of
direct involvement and leadership from exceptional executive management.
-- Business Evolution - awarded to the enterprise that has demonstrated the
ability to manage the flow of information across internal and external
functional practices to achieve demonstrable business growth.
-- Innovation in Technology - awarded to the enterprise that has maximized
leveraged technology solutions to solve pressing business issues to
positively impact company performance.
-- Performance Excellence - awarded to the enterprise that has harnessed the
performance impacts of value chain activities and mastered methodologies
for financial, operational, and customer-centric performance excellence.
For additional information on the summit, visit
http://summits.aberdeen.com/index.php/SCM.html.
Technology vendors can sponsor the SCM Summit and showcase their products
and services to SCM decision makers. For summit sponsorship opportunities,
visit: http://summits.aberdeen.com/index.php/Supply-Chain-Management-Summit/the-scm-summit-sponsorship.html.
For access to additional complimentary research from Aberdeen's SCM
Research practice, please visit http://research.aberdeen.com/index.php/-supply-chain-management.
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