Amazon, Avent, Adidas, Land O’Lakes and IBM Supply Chain Executives Keynote at 2017’s Supply Chain Summit: Chicago
Posted by on Feb 8, 2017
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The Supply Chain Summit is returning to Chicago for 2017 (14-16th June), bringing together 700 senior supply chain and logistics executives to share best practices, benchmark and network.
With innovation, digitization and customer centricity at the heart of the agenda, it is the go to place for the brightest minds driving the industry forward. The leaders who meet in Chicago are the forces driving the change.
Avnet announced they will be returning in June to take part in one of the industry’s biggest gathering. Alongside Avent there is a whole host of new companies joining us this year including Amazon, Adidas, IBM, Land O’Lakes and more!
Discussions this year will centre around 6 key topics: customer centricity, supply chain transformation, eCommerce and Omnichannel, automation, collaboration, talent and leadership. “The Supply Chain Summit: Chicago is set up to be the perfect platform for supply chain executives from a variety of industry verticals to learn, benchmark and take something of value away. The excellent program, quality attendees and targeted approach provided by eft already has me looking forward to June” commented Joanne Wright, VP, IBM Supply Chain.
A snapshot of the confirmed speakers includes:
• Anthony Levandowski, Co-Founder, Otto
• Ed Feitzinger, VP Global Logistics, Amazon
• Mike Buseman, Chief Global Logistics & Operations Officer, Avnet
• Nic Vu, GM and SVP of North America, Adidas
• Mehran Ravanpay - VP Global Supply Chain Logistics, Schneider Electric
• Joanne Wright, VP IBM Supply Chain, IBM
• Yone Dewberry, SVP Supply Chain, Land O'Lakes
• Darrell Edwards, Senior Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer, La-Z-Boy
Danielle Horsnell, Event Director, commented “As the industry moves on and transforms, so must the Supply Chain Summit and this year we’ve worked extra hard to bring you the key industry speakers and critical industry topics that will help you develop your business strategies as the supply change goes through a transformation that you can’t get left behind from.”
Complimentary passes are available for senior supply chain executives at retailers and manufacturers, offer ends 24 March, 2017. See here for more details: Link to http://events.eft.com/scsc/register-user.php