Growing Supply Leadership and Influence
August 4-5, 2010
Chicago, Illinois
Supply leadership and influence across the business is a topic of great interest. For some time senior management has looked to supply for cost savings and bottom-line impact. Now, management expects the supply team to embrace and lead important and complex initiatives that bring considerably greater value to the company.
Sessions
| Setting the Stage: The Expanding Universe of the Field | Joe Cavinato, Ph.D., C.P.M. Director, The A.T. Kearney Center for Strategic Supply Leadership at ISM, and ISM Professor of Supply Chain Management, Thunderbird - The Graduate School of Global Management |
| The Next Step Change in Leadership Integrating supply and business leadership across the nature, culture and purpose of the company is critical for those with a desire to move beyond a CPO role. What is leadership? Where do we want to take the business strategically? How are leaders developed? |
Christina De Luca, CPSM, MCIPS Chief Procurement Officer, Refining and Marketing BP plc |
| Metrics and Influence on Extended Leadership This session will explore how procurement growth and importance can be limited based on company procurement measures. Key points will include:
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Steven Budzynski, C.P.M. Vice President, Corporate Services and Operations Procurement GlaxoSmithKline |
| CPO Challenge Challenge to CPOs about opportunities not fulfilled and how to do so in the future — Are you pushing the boundaries hard enough? |
Tom Slaight Senior Partner A.T. Kearney |
| Leadership Through Advanced Analytics This session will draw on A.T. Kearney's work with clients across a range of industries where collaborative optimization and other advanced analytics were used to drive higher impact results than can be achieved with traditional approaches. |
Yves Thill Principal A.T. Kearney |
| Procurement-Driven Innovation Through a survey of the CSSL participants, we will explore the extent to which procurement executives are expanding their role through their participation in innovation. |
Sumit Chandra Partner and Vice President A.T. Kearney |
| Unlocking the Leadership Opportunity Every CEO should demand the highest level of performance and contribution that the Procurement and Supply Management profession can deliver. Taking Procurement and Supply Management to the highest level within a corporation demands effective leadership. Brad will describe the leadership opportunity, paint a portrait of an effective leader, discuss applications for supply management professionals to be leaders, and suggest ways to develop new skills to become more effective leaders over the next two to four years. |
Brad Holcomb Senior Vice President and CPO Dean Foods |
| Going Forward Capturing what we covered, discovered, what's next, and the capabilities needed for what's next. |
Joe Cavinato |
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.