Distressed Supply Chain Recovery: Powered by Financially Savvy Supply Decisions
August 4-5, 2009 Chicago, IL
Synopsis
Understanding and applying financial concepts has become more critical due to the current economic climate around the world, whether looking outward at the supply base or inward at your company's financial position. This CSSL program is designed to help strengthen the senior supply management executive's ability to understand and plan for financial challenges, both internally and externally.
Program Focus
During this interactive executive forum you will discover, discuss and debate financial imperatives and gain an understanding to plan for, and minimize, negative implications in this time of financial stress.
Topics include:
- Learning how to bridge supply strategies to CFO and CEO financial imperatives
- Exploring financials most important for today's challenging environment
- Uncovering and grasping early warning signs of the troubled supplier and how to manage them
- Maintaining supply and key suppliers in distressed times
- Surviving supply challenges if you are the distressed company
- Examining how Asian cultures manage supplier and employee relationships in troubled times
The Center
The A.T. Kearney Center for Strategic Supply Leadership at the Institute for Supply Management™ is an exclusive thought-development forum of C-level supply management executives, CPOs, and other senior executives who work through the challenges and opportunities of the next two to four years to build competitive business and supply capabilities today, while providing unique executive development and networking opportunities.