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21st Century Supply Chain Blog Launches Expert Interview Series Featuring Q&A With Notable Supply Chain Thought Leaders
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Ottawa, Canada, March 11, 2009 —
News Facts:
- The Supply Chain Expert Blog Series launches as the premier roundup of thought provoking ideas and unique perspectives on today’s most pressing supply chain management issues from the industry’s top supply chain thought leaders.
- The series is hosted on the 21st Century Supply Chain, a popular industry blog, and will feature a weekly Q&A with experts including top research analysts, consultants and key members of industry associations, academia and press.
- The Q&A series kicks off with insight from Bruce Richardson, Chief Research Officer, AMR Research. In his post, Richardson comments on the declining economic climate and what specific supply chain initiatives can be applied in the short term to have greatest effect on a company’s financial performance and sustainability.
- Consistent with the mission of the 21st Century Supply Chain blog, the expert Q&A series will explore relevant and compelling industry issues, such as:
- The economic downturn and its affect on the supply chain and supply chain risk management strategies
- The government stimulus package and its impact on the industry landscape
- Supply chain management trends including outsourcing, integration and globalization
- On-demand / Software-as-a-Service
- The blog series is brought to you by Kinaxis, providers of an on-demand supply chain management service, RapidResponse™ which empowers multi-enterprise manufacturers with the collaborative and integrated demand-supply planning, monitoring, and response capabilities required in today’s complex and dynamic business environment.
To Subscribe:
For free access to the entire Supply Chain Expert Blog Series, please visit the 21st Century Supply Chain blog and sign up for email, twitter or RSS updates.
Featured Guests:
Some of the experts that will be featured in the Q&A series include:
Corey Billington, Professor, Procurement and Operations Management
IMD Global Business School
David Blanchard, Editorial Director
Material Handling Management and Outsourced Logistics
Abe Eshkenazi, CSCP, CPA, CAE, Chief Executive Officer
APICS The Association for Operations Management
Clarence Chen, Principal
PRTM
Colleen “Coco” Crum, Managing Principal
Oliver Wight Americas, Inc.
Simon Ellis, Practice Director, Supply Chain Strategies
Manufacturing Insights, an IDC Company
Bob Ferrari, Managing Director
The Ferrari Research and Consulting Group
Mary Hayes Weier, Editor At Large
InformationWeek.com
Robert D. Kugel, CFA, SVP & Research Director, CFO and Business Research
Ventana Research
Larry Lapide, Ph.D., Director, Demand Management,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Transportation & Logistics, and
Research Director, Demand Management Solutions Group (DMSG)
Gary Lynch Global Leader, Supply Chain Risk Management Practice
Marsh
Andrew K. Reese Editor,
Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Bruce Richardson, Chief Research Officer
AMR Research
Nari Viswanathan, VP, Principal Analyst, Supply Chain Strategy & Planning
Aberdeen Group
About Kinaxis
Kinaxis™ helps companies achieve operations performance breakthroughs with a unique solution for planning, monitoring and responding to the unpredictable changes in their increasingly complex supply chains. Kinaxis RapidResponse™ is an on-demand service that embraces human judgment and empowers supply chain decision makers with integrated tools for supply chain visibility, demand management, supply management, sales and operations planning (S&OP) and supply chain risk management. Global leaders such as Casio, Jabil, Qualcomm, and Raytheon are delivering superior customer service and gaining competitive market advantage with RapidResponse. For more information, visit the Kinaxis web site at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at www.21stcenturysupplychain.com.Take Action:
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