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Apple's Risk Management - This Week in Supply Chain Management (29 / 2012)

Daniel Dumke — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:15:43 +0000

This week there is one article and one conference I would like point out.

Article

The Risk Management Monitor has a short interview with Walter Isaacson on Steve Jobs’ approach to risk management at Apple, Inc. (RMM)

Conference

Have a look at the “4th Supply Chain Risk Management Seminar” by Icon Events on October, 25 & 26 in Barcelona. (Icon Events)

This week I already tweeted about:

IndustryWeek: Managing Currency Risk in the Supply Chain http://t.co/dWSLzjxB
Exploring a new strategy in Risk Management: Responsiveness http://t.co/NBF5u2gE

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Case Study and Conference - This Week in Supply Chain Management (14 / 2012)

Daniel Dumke — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:46:46 +0000

This week I received my first full-version feedback on my PhD-thesis. A big thanks to my reviewer! Luckily I do not have too many adjustments to make, so I will use time during the easter holidays to commit the changes. I hope to be done by Tuesday, and I already got an appointment with my Professor on Wednesday, to officially hand over the dissertation.

Articles

The Bangkok Post rethinks the supply chain and supplies a few measures to reduce risks. (Bangkok Post)
Greg Duncan explores a real life case study of two U.S.-based manufacturing companies and the differences in the impact of last years tsunami in Japan. (Risk Management Magazine)

Conference – sponsored message

IQPC’s Supply Chain Risk Management Summit is set to take place May 14 to 16, 2012 in Boston. This event will provide you with the tools and techniques you need to ensure business continuity, implement risk mitigation strategies and minimize financial implications of supply chain glitches. Other topics to be covered include emergency reaction plans, protection against currency fluctuation, and cumulative energy prices.

Take advantage of our early bird registration by calling IQPC now on 1-800-882-8684, email info@iqpc.com or visit www.SupplyChainRiskMgmt.com for more information.

Update: This conference has been canceled.

Already tweeted

These are the tweets from this week. You can follow me on twitter.

RT @KennionGroup: Sourcemap, an MIT-Incubated Startup, Offers Solution to National Security Risk Posed by IT Supply Chain http://t.co/5s
The Dirty Little Secret Of Overnight Successes | Fast Company http://t.co/6M4cVXaK
PwC Finds “Critical” Need for Younger Supply Chain Managers – Article from Supply Chain Management Review http://t.co/bbDQb1yz
How Strategic Risk Management Improves a Company’s Competitive Standing http://t.co/3IP5If3O
IPCC Climate Change Report Highlights Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters http://t.co/WLF2GLEM

Enjoy your weekend!

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Supply Chain Conferences 2012

Daniel Dumke — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:32:00 +0000

Just another year comes to an end and so it is high time to aggregate the upcoming conferences on supply chain management and related topics in 2012.

The goal is to have a comprehensive overview of the most instructive and useful conferences of the year.

If you have any additions, just let me know in the comments section of this article. Also, you can recommend one of the conferences or the other from your personal experience.

In accordance with the topic of the blog I focussed my selection on conferences, which also have tracks related to supply chain risk management. As last year, I also added a column for the Target Audience being either Business, Research or Both.

Since not all major conferences have released the dates for 2012, I will update this post as soon as I receive new information. You can subscribe to my site and get updates via RSS or email by clicking the icons in banner on this page.

Supply Chain Conferences 2012
Name	Location	Start	End	Fees	Target Audience	Call for Papers	Links
FMI 2012 Supply Chain Conference	Orlando, FL, USA	2012-01-22	2012-01-24	USD 2’045	Business	none	GMA online
Global Supply Chain Management Spring Conference	West Lafayette, IN, USA	2012-02-10			USD 100	Both	none	Purdue University
21th Annual IPSERA Conference	Naples, Italy	2012-04-01	2012-04-04	EUR 395 – 540	Research	2011-11-01	Naples University
RIMS Annual Conference	Philadelphia, PA, USA	2012-04-15	2012-04-18	USD 525	Business	none	RIMS
POMS 22st Annual Conference	Chicago, IL, USA	2012-04-20	2012-04-23	tbd.	Research	2012-01-31	POMS
CSCMP Europe 2012	Frankfurt a. M., Germany	2012-04-23	2012-04-25	USD 925 – 1’420	Both	2012-01-09	CSCMP Europe
Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference	Palm Desert, CA, USA	2012-05-21	2012-05-23	USD 2’195 – 2’595	Business	None	Gartner
European Supply Chain and Logistics Summit	Berlin, Germany	2012-06-19	2012-06-21	GBP 1’495	Business	none	Supply Chain Summit
SMART Conference and Expo 2013	Sydney, Australia	2012-06-26	2012-06-27	tbd.	Both	tbd.	SMART Conference
4th Joint World Conference on Production & Operations Management / 19th EurOMA Conference 2012	Amsterdam, NL	2012-07-01	2012-07-05	EUR 550 – 650	Research	2012-01-13	POM / EurOMA
2nd International Conference on Logistics, Informatics and Service Science (LISS)	Beijing, China	2012-06-08	2012-06-11	tbd.	Research	2012-03-02	LISS 2012
NOFOMA Conference 2012	Turku, Finland	2012-06-09	2012-06-10	EUR 150 – 625	Research	2012-04-30	NOFOMA
ANZAM Operations, Supply Chain and Services Management Symposium 2012	Perth, Australia	2012-12-05	2012-12-07	tbd.	Research	tbd.	ANZAM
17th International Symposium on Logistics (ISL 2012)	Cape Town, South Africa	2012-07-08	2012-07-11	tbd.	Both	2012-01-14	ISL
CSCMP Annual Global Conference	Atlanta, GE, USA	2012-09-30	2012-10-03	USD 1295 – 1795	Both	none	CSCMP
European Transport Conference	Glasgow, Scotland	2012-10-10	2012-10-12	GBP 270 – 350	Research	2012-02-12	ETC
5th International Symposium on Network Reliability	Hong Kong, China	2012-12-18	2012-12-19	tbd.	Research	2012-01-30	INSTR 2012
Hamburg International Conference of Logistics	Hamburg, Germany	tbd.			tbd.	Research	tbd.	Hamburg University of Technology
SCC Executive Summit North America	Palm Springs, CA, USA	tbd.			tbd.	Business	None	SCC

Updates

2012/01/06: Added the 5th International Symposium on Network Reliability
2012/01/13: Added the RIMS Annual Conference
2012/01/27: Added the European Transport Conference 2012

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Rebound and Conferences - This Week in Supply Chain Management (26 / 2011)

Daniel Dumke — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:57:00 +0000

Welcome back to my regular TWi SCM post. This was the last week in June, and thus halftime for the year and still plenty of time to achieve the goals for 2011.

News

Good news are seldom in the news: several sources report that Japan’s supply chain should be back on track now or at the latest by Q3.

Blogs

I also stumbled upon an interesting blog: riskcontainment.com (thanks to this blog review)
Ken Simpson blogs from the Insights 2011 Conference (Contemplating…)
Kathleen Ellis writes about the vulnerability of supply chains and what to do about it, with key points on the necessary actions to prevent disruptions from making too much damage (Insurance Journal)
Yet another blog article on a conference, here the first IHS Global Design and Supply Chain Summit with insights from iSupply (ElectroIQ)

Research

This week you can read about the “Past, Present and Future of SCM” (Jan Husdal)
If you want to learn more about fuzzy decision making and supply chain risk management (which I already mentioned in this article) you can download a current study on A Combined Fuzzy Decision Making Approach to Supply Chain Risk Assessment (CiteSeerX)

I really had a great week, although my work output was similar to this:

“Piled Higher and Deeper” by Jorge Cham (www.phdcomics.com)

Enjoy your weekend!

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Supply Chain Conferences 2011

Daniel Dumke — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:40:00 +0000

In preparation for next year I have been busy looking for Supply Chain Conferences. The goal is to have a comprehensive overview of instructive and useful conferences in 2011.

The conferences I selected all have tracks related to Supply Chain Risk Management. In this year’s table I added another column for the Target Audience as either Business, Research or Both.

Since not all major conferences have released any dates for 2011, I will update this post as soon as I receive new information. You can subscribe to my site and get updates via RSS or email by clicking the icons in banner on this page.

This year I have personally attended the HICL (Hamburg International Conference of Logistics, proceedings) and CSCMP Annual Global Conference in San Diego and I can recommend both of them.

Supply Chain Conferences 2011
Name	Location	Start	End	Fees	Target Audience	Call for Papers	Links
FMI 2011 Supply Chain Conference	Orlando, FL, USA	2011-01-30	2011-02-01	USD 1’995	Business	none	GMA online
Financial Supply Chain Payments Conference	Orlando, FL, USA	2011-03-15	2011-03-17	USD 595 – 695	Business	none	US Bank
12th Logistics Forum Duisburg	Duisburg, Germany	2011-03-16	2011-03-17	EUR 590 – 990	Business	none	BVL
Supply Chain Risk Management Forum	Toronto, Canada	2011-03-29			CAD 1,275	Business	none	Conference Board
20th Annual IPSERA Conference	Maastricht, The Netherland	2011-04-10	2011-04-13	EUR 395 – 540	Research	2010-11-19	Maastricht University
POMS 22st Annual Conference	Reno, USA	2011-04-29	2011-05-02	USD 395 -550	Research	2011-01-14	POMS
Supply Chain Risk Management	Singapore	2011-05-09	2011-05-10	not published	Business	none	Marcus Evans
SMART Conference and Expo 2011	Sydney, Australia	2011-05-24	2011-05-26	tbd.	Both	2010-11-22	SMART Conference
Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference	Scotsdale, AZ, USA	2011-06-01	2011-06-03	USD 2195	Business	None	Gartner
18th EurOMA Conference 2011	Camebridge, UK	2011-06-03	2011-06-06	GBP 450 – 640	Research	2011-01-17	EurOMA
European Supply Chain and Logistics Summit	Prague, Czech Republic	2011-06-07	2011-06-09	tbd.	Business	none	Supply Chain Summit
CSCMP Europe 2010	Barcelona, Spain	2011-06-08	2011-06-10	EUR 750	Both	2011-01-10	CSCMP Europe
1st International Conference on Logistics, Informatics and Service Science	Beijing, China	2011-06-08	2011-06-11	tbd.	Research	2011-01-25	LISS 2011
NOFOMA Conference 2011	Harstad, Norway	2011-06-09	2011-06-10	EUR 350 – 555	Research	2011-01-10	NOFOMA
1-2-1 Supply Chain Excellence Summit 2011	London, Great Britan	2011-06-14			tbd.	Business		Supply Chain Excellence
ANZAM Operations, Supply Chain and Services Management Symposium 2011	Geelong, Australia	2011-06-15	2011-06-17	AUD 480 – 800	Research	2011-02-28	ANZAM
13th International Conference on Modern Information Technology	Trondheim, Norway	2011-06-22	2011-06-24	tbd.	Research	2011-01-17	NTNU Trontheim
16th International Symposium on Logistics (ISL 2011)	Berlin, Germany	2011-07-10	2011-07-13	tbd.	Both	2011-01-14	ISL
Global Supply Chain SumMIT	Shah Alam, Malaysia	2011-07-19			free	Business	none	MISI
Hamburg International Conference of Logistics	Hamburg, Germany	2011-09-08	2011-09-09	tbd.	Research	2011-01-31	Hamburg University of Technology
SCC Executive Summit North America	Palm Springs, CA, USA	2011-09-28	2011-09-30	USD 1200 – 2500	Business	None	SCC
CSCMP Annual Global Conference	Philadelphia, USA	2011-10-02	2011-10-05	USD 1345 – 1845	Both	none	CSCMP
4th OSCM Conference	Male, Maldives	2011-12-15	2011-12-17	tbd.	Research	2011-07-31	OSCM
Advances in Supply Chain and Manufacturing Mgmt. (ASCMM 2011)	Kharagpur, India	2011-12-16	2011-12-18	USD 200 – 500	Research	2011-06-30	ASCMM 2011
9th International Heinz Nixdorf Symposium	Paderborn, Germany	tbd.			tbd.	Research	tbd.	Paderborn University
Supply Chain Management SIG 2011 Conference	Haifa, Israel	tbd.			tbd.	Research	tbd.	Institute of Technology
International Conference on Logistics Reseach (RIRL)	tbd.	tbd.			tbd.	Research	tbd.	BeM Mgmt. School

Update (04/Mar/2011): Added 1-2-1 Supply Chain Excellence Summit and OSCM Forum
Update (28/Mar/2011): Added Marcus Evans Conference on SCRM
Update (15/Apr/2011): Added Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference
Update (10/Jun/2011): Added Global Supply Chain SumMIT
Update (29/Jul/2011): Added SCC Executive Summit

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Final Impressions of the CSCMP Conference 2010

Daniel Dumke — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:41:00 +0000

Overall I had a great time in San Diego. The location was great and I meet a lot of interesting people and got new insights for my research. The presentations I visited have been very insightful, but mostly I have been very busy meeting with industry leaders for interviews on Supply Chain Design and Risks.

In the last session (Brunch & Closing Session) for example Jack Bacon highlighted upcoming risks for supply chain professionals all over the world. As a futurist he especially emphasized that changes keep accelerating at the moment (eg. compared to a hundred years ago). He used the example of describing one typical day in the life of his ancestors, saying that nowadays it is becoming more and more difficult to find just one day or one common theme which describes the life of one person.
All and all a very interesting talk and I just ordered his book (My Grandfathers’ Clock by Jack Bacon) online.

To conclude the conference I added some pictures of the conference as well.
San Diego Conference Center Ballroom

Ballroom filling with people

Brunch and Closing Session at the CSCMP 2010 Conference

Supply Chain of the Future Presentation

Bleeding Edge Warehouse Technologies at the Supply Chain of the Future Floor

Room for Discussions on the Supply Chain of the Future Floor

GES Warehouse Guided Tour

Tour of the GES Warehouse in San Diego

Performance Evaluation Chart at the GES Warehouse Tour

San Diego Padres

San Diego Padres vs. Chicago Cubs on Tuesday at the Petco Park Stadium

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Supply Chain Risk Management Sessions @CSCMP 2010

Daniel Dumke — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:20:00 +0000

Most of the time during the conference I was busy interviewing companies for my dissertation, but I also found time to listen to some of the sessions on SCRM.

SCRM Keynote

The first session on supply chain risk management was held by Garry Lynch (Marsh, author of “Single Point of Failure”) on Supply Chain Risk Management. The contents were: Challenges, Current State, Successful and unsuccsessful practices.
Sadly, I had to leave before the practice part, but the key strategies can be found in his book mentioned above.

Combining Research and Practice

The second session SCRM was on “Global Supply Chain Resilience”. The presentation was held by: Dow Chemical Company (Darrel Zavitz, Martin Fernandes), Ohio State University (Joseph Fiskel, Center for Resilience), US Air Force (Timothy Pettit). They described a research project on SC resilience and its execution.The first interesting point was their highlighting of the interrelation between sustainability and resilience, since the focus of resilience is on being able to work under changing/turbulent conditions and missing sustainable behavior may exactly lead to these conditions.

The speakers defined supply chain variability as consisting of supply risks, deliberate threats, market change and internal change. Resilience on the other hand is described as the capability to adapt to turbulent change.

On the above mentioned definition Fiskel and Pettit built a framework of resilience consisting of vulnerabilities, capabilities and a resulting zone of balanced resilience.
One underlying premise of the process described below is, that usually SC managers do not worry about the unforeseen but about the familiar, but the goal has to be adaptability to real uncertainty!
Together with Dow Chemical they developed a process of “Design for Resilience” which consists of:

Supply Network Mapping
SCRAM (SC Resilience Assessment and Management) Analysis (vulnerabilities and capabilities, where is improvement potential)
Supply Network Simulation (stress testing the SC, weekly basis, the goal is to find clues how to improve resilience)
Strategy selection (a weighing of increasing capabilities vs. cost has to be done, the suggestion was to use kind of a break even analysis for the probability of an adverse event)

Pettit and Fiskel also build a list of possible vulnerability / capability combinations using literature review, a survey and focus group interviews. They use method triangulation to increase the validity of the resulting listing.

All in all they presented a very business oriented modeling system (including a software using a systems dynamics model) to show effects of different scenarios on the supply chain. It is important to note they are not trying to predict future events, but focus on more general agility and resilience of the SC in case of a disruption.

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CSCMP 2010 conference opening ceremony

Daniel Dumke — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:22:03 +0000

The second day has been a great day at the CSCMP conference.
I started with the Opening Ceremony moderated by Rick Blasgen, he and Bob Silverman and Donald Biggs (Learn, Network, Have fun) introduced this years theme (Learn, Lead, Succeed) and the keynote speakers.
Roger Woody did a nice introduction of the Distinguished Service Award Winner: Charles Taylor, Founder of Awake! Consulting, Speaking about the risks of rising oil prices and the possibilities of supply chain professionals in increasing efficiency to combat the effects. In the afternoon he was (for an American from Texas(!)) underlining his points stating that Supply Chain Professionals worldwide have to look into their planning for the after-peak-oil phase.

Then the key speaker, Carlos M. Gutierrez, former US secretary of trade, was talking about the importance of free trade for supply chain management and vis-versa. He issued a call for the revival of the concept of globalization and stressed current free trade obstacles.
He especially stressed the risks associated with having the wrong models for including currency fluctuations and tariffs into the decision making process (eg. international location decision).

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Strategic Supply Chain Management @CSCMP 2010

Daniel Dumke — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:04:00 +0000

Yesterday I finished the “Strategic Supply Chain Issues” Pre-Conference Workshop “Where Tactical Functionality Meets the Big Picture”. The following key points were intensively discussed:

Fundamental SC Strategies: Operational Excelence (eg. Walmart), Customer Intimacy (like Zara) and Product Leadership (example: Apple)

A broad view on customers has been propagated, customers equal stakeholders
Lean SCM, premise: Thinking of inventory as being without (direct) value for the customer, a strong focus on flexibility and inventory reduction therefore is necessary
Introduction to the method of value stream mapping for Supply Chain Analysis as a Basis for Supply Chain Design
Supply Chain Design: The network should be checked permanently for necessity of change
As the subtitle of the workshop suggests the right communication of the strategy is of the utmost importance. The optimal balance between short term actions and long term strategy have to be sought (without being disaligned)
Importance and categorization of Collaborations (Vendor-Buyer, Focussed, Partnership, Alliance)
Planning (S&OP)
SCM Metrics
SCM Future

But of course there are many, many more things. A really new thing I learned about the definition of core competency:
It’s the “capability to kick their ass”.

Disclaimer: The experiences described here do not necessarily reflect the my views and I haven’t found a singled peer reviewed reference. But that’s business, isn’t it?

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Summary: Getting the most out of your conference visits

Daniel Dumke — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:23:00 +0000

Are you planning to visit a conference in the near future? Scott Berkun and many other authors write about how to get the most out of your visit. Here I am summarizing the key insights.
First, and most important: Think about your priorities!
Many participants have come a long way and this conference provides the means to meet and talk to them in person. So you should use this power wisely.

Preparation

Have a look at the agenda, mark the sessions that interest you
Make prioritization for concurrent sessions
Have a look at the attendees list, for know faces or people you have something in common.
Prepare your elevator pitch. Prepare for questions like: “Who are you and what is your research area?”
Use twitter and google blog search to find other attendees
Check out LinkedIn, meetup.com and upcoming.com, if there are events around and after the conference
Don’t forget the good old business cards

Sessions / Workshops / Panels

Contribution is probably the best way to make yourself know with the audience
If you cannot contribute a presentation / paper, ask questions!
Use your prioritization of concurrent sessions, if one session does not fulfill your needs leave for No. 2. There is only one chance to learn something, do not waste your time
Keep a list of things you learnt during the day

After and between sessions

Some conferences have social events or dinners scheduled on one of the nights of the conference
If you are alone at the conference try to meet enough people during
Take your time to explore the city you are in exercise (or combine them, like running up-hill to the Acropolis)
Don’t forget the networking

After the conference

Ship your stuff back to your office so you don’t have to carry it
Make a road trip
Do your follow-ups

You can find more details following the the links below.

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Ready for CSCMP Conference 2010

Daniel Dumke — Mon, 03 May 2010 11:08:00 +0000

I am going to San Diego. Today I just received the confirmation for the CSCMP Annual Global Conference 2010. Beside the other conferences, the CSCMP is one of the major events this year.

Since I am already in the vicinity (visiting Japan for vacation) I extended my trip to Los Angeles / San Diego.

I am expecting to get exciting new insights to supply chain management, and especially meet other people from research and business. As soon as the program is fixed I am going to post an update here.

If you are going, too, and you want to meet, drop me a note in the comments section or on Twitter (SCRMBlog).

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CSCMP's Annual Conference: Two days for early bird registration

Daniel Dumke — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:25:00 +0000

Attendees of the CSCMP Annual Conference 2010 who register before April, 30th will receive $400.00 US off the regular registration rates.
So there are only two days left!

The opening keynote will be held by former Kellogg Company CEO Carlos Gutierrez; Jack Bacon is going to close the event, with a talk on “Nonlinear Thinking for the Nonlinear World”.

You have the chance for registration here. The schedule can be found here, scroll to the bottom of the page.

An overview over other conferences on supply chain management for this year can be found in this blog.

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ANZAM Conference Australia

Daniel Dumke — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:22:31 +0000

The ANZAM Operation Management Symposium will be held in Sydney June, 6-8th 2010.Topic this year is “Managing in Challenging Times“. The focus is going to be on issues when managing supply chains under uncertainty.

Abstract submissions are due on April, 30th.
Early bird registration (until May, 17th) is 400 AUD, after that date 450. Student registration is 100 AUD less.

The homepage has more information on the conference.

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More SCM Conferences

Daniel Dumke — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:04:00 +0000

There are two more conferences on Supply Chain Management in 2010.

2nd Supply Chain Risk Management Seminar Barcelona 2010

On April, 14th & 15th in Barcelona.
The standard fee for participants is EUR 1895 (early bird: EUR 1395; students: EUR 895)
The following topics are going addressed:

Procurement Tactics for Managing Through Crisis
Supply Chain Risk Management: Lessons With the Crisis
Supply Chain Risk Management and Mitigation
The Ability of a Supplier to Exercise Plans in Place to Protect Their
Planning & Forecasting in Volatile Conditions
Risk Mitigation Planning & Execution
Successfully Dealing With Supply Chain Risk- How do Current Innovators
Creating a Truly End-to-End Supply Chain to Minimize Risk
Stable Manufacturing and Flexibility for Customers – Maintain robust
Managing Risk – Severely Reducing Through Business Continuity Plan or Likelihood Reduction
Tackling Increased Variablity in the Supply Chain

More information is available on www.iconeventsinternational.com.

Supply Chain Risk Masters

On May, 3rd to 4th in Berlin, in German
The major topics contain:

Early identification of supply chain risks
Increase transparency of the supply chain
Risk oriented supplier selection
Asia – challanges for supply chain risk management
Developent of a systematic risk management approach

Selected speakers

Karin Degler, Leiterin Lieferantenrisikomanagement, Porsche AG
Karl Daumüller, Program Manager, Hewlett-Packard GmbH
Peter Iff, Global Sourcing, OC Oerlikon Management AG
Klaus-Peter Noest, Risk Management, Magna Automotive Holding AG
Manfred Meffert, Consulting Supply Chain Management, IBM Deutschland GmbH
Prof. Dr. Uta Jüttner, Luzerne / Cranfield University

There is more information available on www.econique.com.

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Conferences 2010 in Numbers

Daniel Dumke — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:35:00 +0000

Overall there will be nine major conferences in 2010 with a Call for Papers. So I did a analysis of the topics mentioned there, I did not include general conference slogans.

On average every Call for Papers includes 17,7 topics, ranging from 11 (CSCMP Europe 2010) up to 32 (8th International Heinz Nixdorf Symposium).After aggregation of those 159 topics into 26 themes, it results in the following ranking.

The top 10 conference themes 2010
Theme	Percentage	Comment
Innovation in Supply Chain Management	11%	This is a major topic in several conferences e.g. HICL 2010
Strategy and Supply Chain Design	9%
Green and Sustainable SCs	8%
Supply Chain Risks	6%	Six of nine conferences relate to Supply Chain Risk Management (CSCMP EU, EurOMA, ISL do not include this topic)
IT and SCM	6%
Logistics	5%	Including internal and external, inbound and outbound logistics
Global Supply Chains	5%	Global Supply Chains and the effects of globalisation on SCM
SC Performance	4%
Procurement	4%
Human Ressources	4%	…and the impact of human behavior on SCM

I think it is noteworthy that topics concerning quality issues only account for 1% of the total topics, lean and inventory management approaches account for 2 respectively 1%.

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