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Agenda Announced for North America's Top Supply Chain Leadership Event

"The Executive Summit brings together leading supply chain executives from a cross section of global industries," notes Gary Kilponen, Executive Summit chair and vice president - operations at Cameron Valves and Measurement Group. "The environment has been designed to make sharing ideas and asking questions of peers and supply chain experts natural and easy."

Presenters at the 2011 SCC Executive Summit will share their success stories and strategies for overcoming adversity and improving supply chain performance. Topics on the agenda include how to manage rising commodity prices, transportation constraints, shifting global labor costs, and the impact of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

Cisco to Share Insights on Japan Crisis

The devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on 10 March 2011 was the most significant challenge encountered by the extended global supply chain systems in this century. It is projected that some major global supply chains won't recover until the end of the year, if ever.

James B. Steele, program director value chain risk management, global business operations, for Cisco Systems, Inc., will describe the disaster's impact and Cisco's response. He will share the company's current approach to building proactive resiliency into the supply chain.

The line-up of speakers also includes:

• Ed Fish, Senior Vice President, Corporate Oil & Gas, Kuehne + Nagel
• Shekar Natarajan, Director of Supply Chain, The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc.
• Carlos Felipe Guimarães Lodi, General Manager of Logistics Planning, PETROBRAS Brazil
• Linda Conrad, SIRM-E, Director of Strategic Business Risk, Zurich Financial
• Cindy Reese, Senior Vice President Worldwide Operations, Oracle Corporation

The SCC Executive Summit is a high-quality conference designed to provide rewarding content for leading supply chain executives. Attendance is limited to only 100 people. Program details and registration information are available on the Summit website (www.scc-execsummit.org/na).

ABOUT SUPPLY CHAIN COUNCIL

Supply Chain Council (www.supply-chain.org, +1 202 962 0440) is a global management organization that helps its members make dramatic and rapid improvements in supply chain processes. SCC maintains the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model, the supply chain management community's most widely accepted framework for evaluating and comparing supply chain activities and improving performance.

for Supply Chain Council
Elizabeth Vudhiwat, +1 214-744-6188
evudhiwat@supply-chain.org