Topic Summary
Implications for corporate and individual skill needs
Speaker:Bob Ferrari,
Vice President, Marketing and Business Strategy
Optiant, Inc.
Presentation Abstract:
Manufacturers and retailers continue to deal with continuous challenges in deploying and sustaining supply chain processes that are increasingly global in scope. The constant business needs for driving overall efficiency, as well as the need for supporting resiliency and responsiveness to the business, is quickly changing previous assumptions and beliefs for how to deploy planning and execution in a global environment. In this presentation, Bob Ferrari will highlight the key trends for todays global supply chains, what impacts these trends have on overall planning and execution processes, and what some leading edge companies are doing to overcome these challenges. Bob will also speak to the skill level impact and needs for todays, as well as tomorrows supply chain management professionals
Speaker Biography:
Bob Ferrari is currently Vice President at Optiant, an inventory optimization technology and services company, where he is responsible for the companys strategy, alliances and marketing focus. With over 25 years of business and supply chain systems experience, Bob is a renowned supply chain industry analyst and management professional.
Prior to joining Optiant, Bob served as Practice Director for Supply Chain Strategies at Manufacturing Insights, an industry analyst research firm affiliated with IDC. Before IDC, Bob was Director of Supply Chain Product Marketing for SAP AG, with global responsibility for marketing, positioning and business development for the mySAP SCM solutions suite. Preceding his position at SAP, Robert was an Industry Analyst at AMR Research, where he provided research and insights for both the supply chain, procurement and enterprise management applications practices. Bobs prior experience includes multiple planning, operations, and IT systems management assignments within high-technology and complex supply chain environments.
Bob is frequent speaker and writer on contemporary supply chain issues, a previous board member of the MIT Center for Supply Chain Innovation, is APICS CPIM certified, and serves APICS in the capacity of CSCP Exam Review Committee Member (along with our own Deborah Drimer).
Bob was awarded his MBA from the