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Focus: Security and Risk Management
The 2008
conference features these supply chain leaders:
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Jeffrey Tew, PhD
Technical Fellow and Group Manager
Global Manufacturing Strategy and Planning Group
Manufacturing Systems Research Lab
General Motors Research and Development Center
Warren, Michigan |
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"A
Risk Management Strategy for Developing a Robust,
Global Supply Chain in Manufacturing"
Safe and secure supply chain
operations are crucial to ensuring "brand
protection" and "secure product delivery" in any
manufacturing supply chain and are quite difficult
and costly to maintain in most U.S.-based
operations. However, the difficulties and risks grow
exponentially for globalizing manufacturing supply
chains. In such situations, maintaining standards
and utilizing appropriate technology while
maintaining efficient operations are key.
This presentation will cover the importance of
employing key technologies and management practices
within the context of a lifecycle approach that
begins in the product design/development phase and
extends to end-of-life. It will describe how this
approach can facilitate global manufacturing
companies attaining desired supply chain security,
performance and brand protection. A strategic
framework will be proposed for utilizing advanced
information technology to ensure the desired level
of security through measurement, detection, and
information agent dispersement. |
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Jeffrey Tew Bio
Tew
is the GM Technical Fellow and Group Manager of the
Global Manufacturing Strategy and Planning Group in
the Manufacturing Systems Research Lab at General
Motor's Research and Development Center in Warren,
Michigan. Prior to this position, he was the
Director of Logistics Engineering at Schneider
Logistics, Inc. in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Earlier, he
was a Senior Systems Engineer at Consolidated
Freightways, Inc. in Portland, Oregon and an Adjunct
Associate Professor of Computer Simulation at the
Oregon Graduate Institute. Tew was also a member of
the faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University, Georgia Tech University, and a
visiting professor at Tsinghua University in
Beijing.
Tew has chaired the Industrial Advisory Board for
the Penn State University Enterprise Integration
Laboratory and been a member of advisory boards for
the LEEAP Laboratory at Purdue University and
RadicalLogistics Inc., and served as Co-Director for
the GM/Stanford University Collaborative Laboratory
on Work Systems.
He has published numerous articles in many archival
journals such as European Journal of Operational
Research, The Journal of Simulation and
Computer Science, Management Science,
Operations Research, and The Society for
Computer Simulation Transactions; among others
and continues to actively publish his work both
within General Motors and in external, archival
journals.
Tew received a B.S. in mathematics from Purdue
University in 1979, a M.S. in statistics from Purdue
University in 1981, and a PhD in industrial
engineering from Purdue University in 1986. |
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Claudia
Knowlton-Chike, PMP
Director, Integrated Supply Chain
Rochester, Minnesota |
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"Global Transportation and Risk Assessment"
With the increase of overseas components sourcing,
overseas production, and lengthy supply chains
serving international markets across the world,
mitigating supply chain disruptions is paramount.
Companies have long dealt with disruptions such as
natural disasters, strikes, accidents and so on.
However, tremendous damage can be done to a
company’s image, brand and margins due to
vulnerabilities in the global supply chain. The goal
is to design security into the supply chain rather
than mitigate consequences after the fact. This
presentation will address global transportation and
proactive strategies, including route risk
assessments, vulnerability assessments and other
countermeasures. |
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Claudia Knowlton-Chike Bio
Knowlton-Chike is an energetic
executive and change agent whose career spans the
end-to-end supply chain with IBM and Motorola. She
brings a background in package engineering combined
with senior level experience in logistics,
manufacturing, order fulfillment, supply/demand
planning, new product introduction and business unit
management.
Most recently, she worked at Motorola as a Director
within the Integrated Supply Chain where she held
global leadership roles in Manufacturing,
Transportation and New Product Introduction. She led
strategy and operational excellence activities
focused on continuous improvements and an excellent
customer experience resulting in significant cost
savings, reduced lead times and process
efficiencies.
Knowlton-Chike earned her BS in Industrial
Technology/Package Engineering from the University
of Wisconsin at Stout. She received her Project
Management Professional certification from George
Washington University, a Masters Certificate in
Supply Chain Management from Penn State and an MBA
from the Carlson School of Business at the
University of Minnesota.
She has served as a Campus Relationship Manager at
Michigan State University and as the Chair of the
Greater Rochester Advocates for Universities and
Colleges Board, which advocates for higher education
in Minnesota. She also served as the Minnesota
Chapter Lead for Women in Technology, working with
technical women to develop and present energizing
workshops that motivate young girls in the world of
science, math and technology. |
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Mel Vanden Berg
Vice President of Quality Assurance
Proliant, Inc. / APC, Inc.
Ankeny, Iowa |
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"The Challenges of Exporting Animal-Derived
Products"
Animal-derived products continue to provide unique
difficulties in establishing and maintaining
exports. Protective agricultural tariffs, human and
animal health concerns – real or not, the
inspections and health certificates required by
regulatory agencies provide a complex maze through
which companies wishing to export must successfully
navigate in order to participate in this market. In
many cases, companies must work closely with
government agencies such as USDA-APHIS, USDA-FSIS,
USDA-FAS and FDA to fulfill their known, published
requirements and then those which only many of which
become known only when initiating the export
process. This presentation will reveal some of the
means Proliant Inc. and APC, Inc. have found to
overcome the many challenges when dealing with
animal-derived product exports. |
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Mel Vanden Berg Bio
Vanden Berg is the Vice President of Quality
Assurance for Proliant Inc. and APC Inc., which
produce animal-derived products for the food,
animal, dietary and pharmaceutical industries. Prior
to this position, he was Vice President of Technical
Services with FreshMark Foods in Kent, Washington
and Director of Quality Assurance and Productivity
for Curtis-Burns' facilities (now owned by Birds
Eye), located in Tacoma, Washington. Vanden Berg
started his industry career as the Plant Chemist for
Bar-S Foods Company in Seattle, Washington.
Vanden Berg was Chair-Elect and Chair of the Puget
Sound Section of Institute of Food Technology. He
served as Chairman of the Quality Control Committee
of the N.W. Food Processors Association. He spent
more than four years as a lecturer for the
University of Washington Better Processing School.
Vanden Berg received his BS degree in Food Science
from the University of Washington in 1971 and has
been employed in the food and feed industries since
that time. |
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