Global Trends Roundtable: What’s on the Supply Chain Horizon?

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March-April 2012

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What are the major developments that will impact supply chain professionals in the months and years ahead? What challenges will they face in helping their companies compete in an increasingly global environment?

To help answer these questions, Supply Chain Management Review assembled a panel of prominent analysts, consultants, and industry practitioners. These experts explored a range of topics, including how rising fuel prices, risk management, global sourcing, and new regulatory compliance issues are reshaping the supply chain landscape.

SCMR will reconvene these panelists for a special web event scheduled for March 29, 2012. Register for this FREE webcast now.

Roundtable Panelists Include:

David Joseph Aquino, CPIM: Vice President, Supply Chain Planning, Strategy and Performance Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and formerly research director at AMR/
Gartner.

Simon Ellis: Practice Director, IDC Manufacturing Insights and author of IDC’s “Supply Chain Top 10 Predictions for 2012.”

Roddy Martin: Senior Vice President Global Supply Chain Competitive Capabilities International, Inc., and previously a senior analyst with AMR/
Gartner.

James B. Rice, Jr.: Director of the Integrated Supply Chain Management Program (ISCM) at MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics.

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