Supply Chain Webinars

Supply Chain Organization Structures & Eponymous Roles – A Four Decade Retrospective

April 12, 2023 / Wednesday Webinar / Tag: Center for Supply Chain Excellence

Pete Russano is an Operations and Supply Chain Leader. His career spans three decades across medical, industrial and consumer product industries. He has held positions in manufacturing, sourcing, procurement, materials, logistics, 3PLs, transportation and supply chain management with organizations ranging from start-ups to multi-nationals. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the New York State University at Albany and an MBA in Operations and Strategy from the Carlson School of Management, the University of Minnesota. He is Six-Sigma Green-Belt trained and earned a CPIM-certification from ASCM (formerly APICS), the association for supply chain for supply chain management. Pete is a co-founder of the Supply Chain Forum of SWFL and serves on their Leadership Council. Pete currently serves as the Site Sourcing & Procurement Leader for Everaxis-USA in Naples, Florida.

Supply Chain Law: Designing Responsible Supply Chains

December 14, 2022 / Wednesday Webinar / Tag: Center for Supply Chain Excellence

Sarah Rathke is a trial lawyer specializing in manufacturing litigation, particularly complex supply chain disputes. She has argued and tried cases on behalf of manufacturers in forums throughout the US.  Her clients include foreign, domestic, and multinational manufacturing entities. Her skills include a deep understanding of the process of bringing highly engineered products to market and conveying that understanding to judges and juries. Sarah has litigated supply chain disputes involving automotive, aerospace, food, medical, construction, and office products. She has also litigated trade secret disputes involving manufactured products and cases involving the purchase and sale of manufacturing entities.

Avoiding a Supply Chain Collision: Lessons from the USS John S. McCain

October 12, 2022 / Wednesday Webinar / Tag: Center for Supply Chain Excellence

On August 21st, 2017 USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker off the coast of Singapore. Ten US Navy soldiers lost their lives. Dr. Ralph Soule, retired US Navy, will present on what we could learn from this accident and avoid such disasters in the future.

Planning your next cup of coffee: The Starbucks way

September 14, 2022 / Wednesday Webinar / Tag: Center for Supply Chain Excellence

Brian Nagy is an Senior Demand Planning Manager at Starbucks Coffee Company. His professional passion is to solve business problems through creative analysis, collective decisional governance and thought leadership. His intent is to apply his Demand Planning expertise and business acumen to influence game-changing, organization-wide, strategic decisions. His professional principles are to foster collaborate engagement and cross-functional interaction, eliminating siloes and promoting transparent, cohesive communication. Brian’s 14+ years of Demand/S&OP experience in CPG, Retail, Ecom and BTG Planning at Starbucks Coffee, Hershey’s, Cargill and Chewy.com, have allowed him to be able to leverage deeply-rooted knowledge in Lean principles, finance, product mix, margin attainment, global supply chain cost avoidance. He currently lives in Sarasota, FL and loves Demand Planning. It allows him to build strong teams and helps the business transform through the planning and IBP process.

Better Forecasting with Machine Learning: Deep Learning from Amazon

August 10, 2022 / Wednesday Webinar / Tag: Center for Supply Chain Excellence

Demand forecasting has been a laborious chore, needing substantial resources in terms of data scientists, software, etc. This led many businesses to evolve simplistic forecasting models. In this webinar the speaker demonstrates a new breed of tool that leverages the best known technology and at the same time makes it easy for businesses with limited data science expertise to operate.