Events

How do you still take out cost, keep cash and compete?

23rd March 2010

Cranfield Management Centre

Keep ahead of the competition - pursue perfection
Statistically the recession is now behind us. However no company can afford to relax. Those that have survived have done so through extraordinarily careful control of costs, cash and customer service. So too have your competition who will be even harder to beat. The speakers we have lined up have all made incredible changes to their business to make sure that they can survive. They have made practical use of all the tools - Sales & Operations Planning to be prepared, Lean to take waste out, collaboration and agility to be flexible. They have delivered outstanding results in terms of cost, quality and delivery achieving service levels in excess of 99% and over 20 inventory turns. To do this you have to make fundamental changes to the way you operate, which means taking your people with you on a challenging journey. If you do not have dreams, then how can they come true?


Seminar Programme
- How to use inventory cleverly across the whole supply chain, postpone variety, use collaboration where possible, be lean and ride out the
turbulence
- How to use world class Sales & Operations Planning processes as a framework for being a high performance global company, through creating flexible hubs and spokes
- How to break the mould to get the business to become world class. Proven and practical ideas for big and small companies
- How to get people engaged in the pursuit of perfection

 

Speakers include :

Martin Christopher -

Martin Christopher is Emeritus Professor of Marketing and Logistics at Cranfield School of Management.  He is recognised as a leading authority on supply chain management and has published widely in this area.   His book

Logistics and Supply Chain Management  has become one of the leading texts on the subject.  Martin Christopher has lectured around the world and is a frequent speaker at international conferences and in-company events.  He has received many awards including the Distinguished Service Award of the US Council for Supply Chain Management Professionals.

Andy Birtwistle of British American Tobacco, who is leading a global project that will transform the way that BAT plans its supply chain. This project is part of BAT’s overall business transformation programme aimed at making BAT more competitive in every country of the world.

The key elements of the project are a global roll-out of a new planning capability providing above market supply chain visibility, delivering a cost effective and responsive Regional and Global SOP process. The results are extraordinary and keeps BAT at the global forefront of their market.

Bernard Lim has been a remarkable agent of change in many companies including Tektronix and Welmed. He has achieved extraordinary results in terms of performance in quality, delivery and cost through energising his people in the pursuit of the apparently impossible.