Channel - Frontiers in Supply Chain and Analytics Symposium

Presented by the Center for Supply Networks and Analytics @ Rensselaer's Lally School of Management

8/22/2022 7:37:47 PM

Channel Videos

Agility through Digitization and Analytics

Sentient Supply Chains - How to Create Adaptive Self-Correcting Supply Chains This talk will focus on how differing experiences require different, evolving capabilities and utilization of analytics. It will point out the need for a clearly defined purpose for analytics that tie to a broader strategy or goal, as well as how that purpose can evolve based on business needs – with a few examples to bring that idea to life. Ultimately, we’ll discuss how data and analytics can support speed, while also help people using the data to make better decisions, build intuition, and think differently about their role within supply chain. Leveraging Segmentation to Optimize Pricing and Supply Chain This talk will focus on how advanced analytic techniques can be used to segment customers and products to optimize pricing and supply chain strategies. We will discuss how a B2B company used techniques such as clustering and regression to understand product deployment strategies and customer buying behavior to optimize pricing. Panel Discussion

Jay Jayaraman, Partner, OPS Rules

4/20/2016 2:30:00 PM

Keynote Address

"A New Supply Chain Frontier From Information to Impact" Inherently, manufacturing supply chains have always been linked, but the emergence of digital tools holds the promise of making these connections faster, more efficient, and more productive than ever before. While technological capabilities in terms of hardware and software to link supply chains exists, the big challenge has been the integration of technology to truly transform today’s factories and supply chains. This will require new information, new skill sets, new thinking, and new ecosystems of partners that allow everyone from big companies to SMEs, academia, and governments to impact how supply chains drive business.

Christine Furstoss '86, '88, Vice President & Technical Director, Manfacturing and Materials, GE Global Research

4/20/2016 1:15:00 PM

Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management

The Revolution of Analytics in Enterprise Risk Management This talk will look at broad trends in how companies have addressed supply chain risk management through the use of analytics. Recent examples of events and reactions, with particular focus on the development of the Risk Exposure Index with Ford will be highlighted. Ways in which analytics inform risk management internal to and external to an organization will also be discussed. UPS and the Immunization of Healthcare Supply Chain Risks The healthcare industry is experiencing a collision of cost and regulatory pressures where a critical balance of the two need to be carefully managed. To add to this complication, the traditional distribution networks are experiencing dramatic shifts further deepening the risks for these critical healthcare shipments. This presentation touches on how UPS manages risk in its network and how it has leveraged these learnings and partnered with healthcare and humanitarian customers to make their supply chains more resilient. Designing for Supply Chain Resilience It is not a matter of "IF" a natural disaster, geopolitical event, supplier bankruptcy, or extreme weather will disrupt your supply chain, it is just a matter of “WHEN”. With increasingly complex and longer supply chains, the opportunities for disruption will always be there. A company's business continuity plan and how it responds to a disruption can significantly impact its customers, employees, and shareholders. This talk will focus on how supply chain design can enable firms to build resilience. Supply chain design can allow companies to easily model the cost and service impacts if facilities, regions, or transportation legs are rendered unusable due to a disruption. Doing this analytical exercise BEFORE disaster strikes and having the capability to continually perform dynamic network modeling during a disruption is far more effective at keeping the business running and can potentially allow a company to grab market share from its less-prepared competitors. To take a page from Charles Darwin, “It is not the strongest Supply Chain that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Panel discussion

Tim Kachur '02, '03, Senior Manager, OPS Rules

4/20/2016 7:30:00 PM

Talent Management: Supply Chain and Analytics

Managing the Talent Pipeline Managing the talent pipeline is very critical in emerging areas of supply chain and analytics at General Electric (GE). This talk will focus on how GE is managing and forecasting manpower needs as well as optimizing our structure and enhancing our talent pipeline. The tools being used and how they are operationalized within the GE business frameworks will be discussed. Strategies to Close the Talent Gaps in Supply Chain This talk will discuss the talent needs of the industry in the supply chain management domain. The role of professional organizations such as APICS in responding to the talent needs and the workforce development strategies needed to bridge the talent gap will be discussed. Analytic Challenges and Opportunities in Health Insurance and Payer/Provider Partnerships Healthcare information technology, informatics, and data science are rapidly growing analytic fields, however, the hype often outpaces the reality. Many healthcare insurers and providers are still in their infancy of using analytics to drive value. Although there are numerous startups and established population .population health vendors, they historically they lack the agility and flexibility needed to cope with emerging healthcare markets and opportunities, so there is a continual need to blend buy and build strategies. This talk will present an overview of some of the key challenges and opportunities currently faced by those entities. It will also focus on areas where supply chain analytics has been successfully utilized by those groups; and lingering challenges with talent management. Panel Discussion

Peter Bolstorff, EVP APICS Supply Chain Council

4/20/2016 5:30:00 PM

Welcome

Opening speech for the "Frontiers in Supply Chain and Analytics Symposium"

Thomas Begley Ph.D., Dean, Lally School of Management

4/20/2016 1:00:00 PM