North American Conference - Houston - PRESENTATIONS NOW AVAILABLE
Elemica's semi-annual North American Sourcing & Supply Chain Conference was a huge success!
Companies continue to seek ways to accelerate their momentum into 2011. This event focused on sourcing processes to improve material and service contracts, as well as eBusiness strategies that unify order automation, process improvement, and supply chain integration.
- Companies learned how they can reduce costs by improving indirect spend without straining already limited resources.
- Companies gained insight on how they can surpass competitors by promoting a proactive approach to sales growth and customer satisfaction.
- Companies discovered cost saving actions that can be applied to their business within the quarter to promote an integrated, leaner supply chain.
Keynote speakers included The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, The Dow Chemical Company, BASF, and Computer Sciences Corporation. The event included client case studies highlighting the value that companies have leveraged from Elemica’s Sourcing and Supply Chain services. In-depth breakout sessions were also available. Other companies currently using Elemica solutions include Arkema, Bayer MaterialScience, Celanese, DuPont, Rhodia and Wacker along with many others.
The Dow Chemical Company - Nancy Fazzoni
Elemica's takeaways from the conference
- Challenge yourself to Deliver “innovation” to the organization
- Unify decentralized organizations
- Augment resource base - Accelerate delivery to the business
- When considering automation also consider task to improve Quality of life and Employee Retention as much as transactional savings
- Apparent Roadblock - Seek to understand, Ask Innocent Questions in repletion to get to the root issue. The surface objection is never the root.
- We are seeing a shift in focus; 2009 - Operation Excellence, Regulatory Compliance; 2010 - Growth agenda, Predictive Enterprise
- MBI - Minimum Business Infrastructure (Expect to hear and see more of this acronym)
- Standardization and Centralize - compliance becomes a big deal
- BASF Road Tender Automation project's Primary Savings in two areas: 1. Predictable Assessorial in Prepaid + Add freight contracts, 2. Reduced freight costs through increased use of negotiated contracts
For questions or more information, please contact Ashley Capuzzi at (610) 786.1239 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
