Conference Information
To meet the challenges of rapidly changing market dynamics and demand pressures, companies need an integrated supply chain execution (SCE) platform to coordinate their logistics, transportation, and fulfillment operations.
View this on-demand IndustryWeek event and hear Greg Aimi from AMR Research provide a detailed overview of best practices and the new efficiency frontier for supply chain execution. Prashant Bhatia from SAP discusses how manufacturers can achieve these best practices by utilizing a supply chain execution platform to achieve new performance levels, supported by an integrated logistics and fulfillment supply chain network. Ranga Rajamani, sr. manager IT, Sony Electronics Inc. shares how Sony has used a supply chain execution platform in its operations to achieve a higher level of supply chain efficiency.
When you view this on-demand event you will:
Grasp the best practices in supply chain execution to apply to your own supply chain operations
Learn from Sony on the motivations, lessons learned, and benefits gained from their deployment of supply chain execution
Understand how integrated logistics and fulfillment management can help companies increase customer service and maximize asset utilization, while reducing inventory and transportation spend across their global supply network
Speakers
Adrienne Selko
Online Editor
IndustryWeek
Adrienne Selko manages the editorial content of IndustryWeek's award-winning Web site. Before joining the staff in 2004, Selko was managing editor of corporate publications at a large regional financial institution. She was also an editor for the U.S. based publication of a medical manufacturing company. Prior to that she ran a public relations and marketing company that published a best-selling healthcare book. Selko received a bachelor's of business administration from the University of Michigan.
Ranga Rajamani
Senior Manager, IT
Sony Electronics, Supply Chain Solutions
Ranga Rajamani has 13 years of experience with ERP/Supply Chain solutions, driving major IT initiatives in manufacturing, distribution and logistics. At Sony Electronics, he has architected and managed multiple supply chain initiatives, recently implementing SAP Extended Warehouse Management application for SAP SCM (SAP EWM) across multiple sites.
Greg Aimi
Research Director
AMR Research
Greg Aimi brings more than 20 years of business experience in the supply chain, technology, marketing, and high technology industries to his position as a research director in AMR Research's Market Services group. In his current role, Aimi provides research and best practice analysis in supply chain management, global trade, and visibility and event management. He helps clients understand the impact of these areas on demand-driven supply networks.
Aimi pioneered the development of the supply chain execution category of software. This category is composed of the integration of transportation, warehousing and distribution, order fulfillment, and the associated movement of goods and information across an integrated supply chain network. His work has focused on the continual re-optimization of supply chain functions in response to the daily disruptions and dynamic change of the real world.
Before joining AMR Research, Aimi held several senior management positions. He worked at RedPrairie and as VP and CTO of two early and mid-stage software companies. He received his bachelor's from the University of North Texas.
Prashant Bhatia
Director of Solution Management
SAP
Prashant Bhatia is a director of solution management for SAP. He is responsible for architecting and bringing to market SAP's Logistics and Fulfillment Management platform, which enables supply chain execution end to end processes focused on all activities related to the movement and storage of inventory from the time it enters the supply chain until it reaches its end destination. Bhatia has over 13 years' experience in the supply chain space. He recently joined SAP from a best of breed software solutions provider, where he served in many roles ranging from solution management, consulting, and sales focused on value based selling. Bhatia holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.