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Luc Hooybergs, General Manager, Nike EMEA Distribution Center, and Alex Andrade, Director, Nike Logistics System – Winning the DC's Challenges in a fast-changing World. Nike’s largest DC in the world designed for pallet quantity shipments to customer DCs not able to support new shorter lead-times, frequent smaller lot orders, value-added services, digital (Internet) single-unit orders to thousands of delivery locations – all while preparing for volume to double in 5 Years. Luc will explain the strategic advantages of the increased capacity and flexibility, less capital-intensive human-based Lean approach. Alex will share his front-line perspectives on organizing and managing this long-term project, overcoming the challenges of change management, and lessons learned to help you on your Lean Journey.

Ron Briskie, Vice President, Supply Chain & Operations, Avery Dennison Office & Consumer Products. - Improving Business Results by Becoming Lean in the Office Functions. Ron led Avery's Enterprise Lean Sigma deployment through his supply chain operations from suppliers to customers to create a truly unique competitive advantage, contributing substantially to profits and cash flow - recognized by winning Supplier of the Year Award from key customers and Industry Week's Top 10 North American Plant Award. Continued market pressures demanded even more, so Ron took Lean System Thinking to a whole new level by driving effective application of Lean Hoshin Kanri to drive strong cross-organizational cooperation and Lean System Thinking Process Improvement Problem Solving through headquarters office functions and connected to the rest of the organization. You will learn how Ron and his team adapted and better connected Lean to his HQ office operations to take performance to a whole new level - doubling previous year productivity gains, best on-time fill rate to customers in history, best safety record in history, exciting innovation and growth initiatives enabled by new global supply chain capabilities, and an engaged learning organization that will inspire you.

Christina Saint Martin, Vice President, Performance Excellence, Service, Stanford Hospital & Clinics reporting to passionate CEO Amir Rubin who spoke at our prior Lean Leadership Summit, and together they are this rapidly improving the reputation of their $2.4B health system. Former Director, Excellence in Healthcare at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in England where she developed her knowledge and ability to adapt TPS to healthcare through an intensive 6-month program with some former Toyota Japanese experts, four 2-week long Japan Study Missions, 14-month Advanced Fellowship, Monthly week-long coaching and education sessions from well-known Japanese Sensei's). You don't want to miss this learning opportunity whether you work in healthcare or another industry.

Eric Filion, Director Business Aircraft, Global Completion Center, Bombardier Aerospace, CREATING A LIGHTER & FASTER ORGANIZATION BY FOCUSSING ON A LEAN HUMAN APPROACH. Challenged to meets strong demand for Bombardier's world-leading Global series Aircraft, Eric led a transformation operated through a human Lean approach requiring a paradigm shift from a reactive organization to a rapid response team directly connected to the product flow. Learn from Eric how in just six months hands-on leadership engagement not only improved sustained capability within his own sphere of control, but also created processes and systems to better connect supporting functions to support on-time daily aircraft production in shorter lead-time. He also developed a more agile learning organization: learning based on quick analytics, thoughtful experimentation and mostly learning by doing. In this presentation, you will also learn how we made quick and sustainable business gains through performance management rather than through traditional capital or technology investments. When you hear what Eric has to share, you will understand how you too can make a huge impact on your business.

Jeff Jagiela, Director, Global Transport & Logistics Services at Pfizer - Pfizer's Path to Supply Chain Visibility and Control. Applying his 16 years of materials management and logistics experience and spirit of innovation to overcome an urgent business challenge, Jeff's pioneering use of the Cloud to effectively integrate and manage their complex and highly regulated global supply chain earned Pfizer's project recognition as a Supply Chain Innovation of the Year presentation at the recent CSCMP Global Conference. Pharmaceutical shipments require the highest levels of traceability and control of custody, temperature and other parameters. Rapid expansion of distribution into the less-developed regions of the world such as (east Africa) and additions of many new suppliers and logistics partners created an apparently impossible challenge to collect, exchange and manage the logistics supply chain. Numerous innovations using the Cloud to enable rapid connections to supply chain members for global access to data needed for visibility and control of shipments. Learn how you can apply these breakthroughs in your business.