Conference Information
Uncover the most important trends, opportunities, and problems that manufacturing organizations are facing today -- and expect in the future. This webinar will focus on the results of a recent study of more than 360 manufacturing executives.
Results of the study highlight the resiliency of cornerstone issues and how the past year of economic downturn has driven new perspectives to take hold. Learn important lessons from these survey responses -- many of which apply to your industry sector and your business.
In this on-demand IndustryWeek-hosted webinar, a roundtable of industry experts interpret the study results. The experts provide their insights on a variety of topics, including:
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Market pressures: Their impact on operational decisions, and new problems that may surface
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Erosion of longstanding customer-supplier relationships and the opportunity for new and foreign entrants
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Information technology investments that remain strong and drive new value
Take this opportunity to look ahead and better position your organization to take advantage of opportunities for better performance.
Speakers
Steve Minter
Chief Editor
IndustryWeek
Steve Minter is the Chief Editor of IndustryWeek. He supervises IW's award-winning editorial staff in the production of its monthly magazine, Website, e-newsletters and other e-media. He is also the group content director for Penton Media's Manufacturing & Supply Chain Group.
Before joining the staff in 2009, Minter was publisher and editorial director of EHS Today, Penton Media's publication covering the safety, health and environmental market. He has a bachelor's degree in English from Oberlin College.
Doug Schrock
Principal, Advisory Services
Manufacturing and Distribution Performance Consulting
Crowe Horwath LLP
Doug Schrock is in his 19th year of working with manufacturing organizations to solve a wide variety of complex and critical business issues such as M&A integration, shared services, process improvement, supply chain best practices, supplier viability, outsourcing, and developing high-impact business improvement roadmaps. A former industrial engineer, Schrock's manufacturing consulting experience ranges from helping $9 billion global MTS manufacturers to $20 million family-owned job shops, with dozens of processes, JIT, and ATO companies in between. His industry expertise spans metals, consumer products, automotive, food, industrial supply, and a variety of other vertical niches. His specializations include professional certifications in manufacturing (CPIM and CIRM), new product development (NPDP), information technology (CISA), and project management (PMP).
Josh Cole
Principal, IT Advisory Services
Manufacturing and Distribution Performance Consulting
Crowe Horwath LLP
Josh Cole has more than 20 years of IT advisory and manufacturing industry experience. Before joining Crowe, Cole was with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) serving Fortune 500 clients in the manufacturing and distribution space. He leads Crowe's Performance practice areas for IT advisory services, specifically for manufacturing and distribution industry clients. His focus areas include strategic IT planning and business alignment, system assessment and selection, and M&A IT advisory services (due diligence and post-acquisition planning/execution).
Ethan Lane
Vice President, Information Technology
Noranda Aluminum
As Vice President of Information Technology with Noranda Aluminum, Ethan Lane is responsible for leading the organization's use of applied information technology to support the continuous improvement efforts of the business.
Noranda, headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee and owned by affiliates of Apollo Management, L.P. is comprised of two core businesses: a primary metals business supporting the integrated mining, refining and smelting operations to produce commodity aluminum product, and a rolled product business supporting downstream aluminum product applications. With over 20 years experience in leading IT and continuous improvement teams, Lane's experience prior to joining Noranda includes an IT leadership role with a large international pharmaceutical company.