Supply Chain Webinars

Billion Dollar Behaviors: Navigating Project Management’s Human Element

September 13, 2023 / Wednesday Webinar / Tag: Center for Supply Chain Excellence

Matthew J. Morris is an industry recognized subject matter expert in project controls and earned value management systems. Early in his career he managed the $2.7B Capital Improvements Program for the District of Columbia and was an adjunct professor teaching the capstone course (M290) for the George Washington University’s Masters in Program Management curriculum. As a senior leader at IBM, Mr. Morris developed and implemented IBM Federal’s capture and proposal management process. He managed some of IBM Federal’s largest government contracts including the CMS Healthcare General Ledger and Accounting System (HIGLAS). Mr. Morris was the President and CEO of Project and Program Management Solutions, International (PPMS) for 14 years. During this time, he developed and implemented the Federal government’s first cabinet-level agency EVMS at the Office of Personnel Management. During the span of his career, he’s contributed to the ANSI/EIA 748 Standard for Earned Value Management, the GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide, and GAO Schedule Assessment Guide. Mr. Morris has lectured internationally including India, China, and Europe. He recently left an executive level position with General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) leading their corporate program management and scheduling group to take a position as the Chief Operating Officer at Cassidy Consulting Group. He is married to Adrienne Morris; they have two adult children and live in Naples, FL.

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.