How to Reduce Cost & Security Risk while Growing your Supply Chain

Description

Outsourced manufacturing benefits your organization with reduced overhead, faster time to market, and rapid product scale.  The key to supporting this effort is the ability to create close collaborative design, quality, and new product introduction (NPI) processes with the entire supply chain.  However, the collaboration must be accomplished while maintaining the highest possible level of security over intellectual property (IP).

This is the conundrum of many companies that outsource today. They must deliver their product in a highly competitive, quick product-cycle market.  They must also maintain ownership and control of their IP.  Today's operations and supply chain VPs are under extreme pressure and can't sleep because they're worrying about their IP.

So how can you outsource manufacturing, collaborate with a large group of suppliers, and still sleep at night confident that your IP is secure?  This is a classic risk/benefit conflict.  Attend this webinar to learn how to grow your supply chain economically while reducing risk.

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Speakers

Ranjan Prasad
VP Operations & Supply Chain
SunLink Corporation
 

Ranjan has been recognized as one of the “Top 25 Supply Chain Executives of 2009” by Global Supply Chain Review magazine.

Ranjan is responsible for managing SunLink’s operations and end-to-end supply chain, which include partnerships, fulfillment, inventory management, procurement, demand planning, logistics and information technology. With a wealth of international supply chain and discrete manufacturing experience, he has been instrumental in helping SunLink extend its competitive advantage by developing its global supply chain to reduce costs and increased quality and on-time delivery.

Prior to SunLink, Ranjan worked at Cisco as a Supply Chain Manager where he managed and designed a demand-driven replenishment supply chain. He also held various engineering and management positions that enabled him to architect, manage and deploy complex manufacturing processes.

“SunLink has built a remarkable team of supply chain professionals who have both deep business process knowledge and technical expertise – a truly rare combination. Just like everyone at SunLink, they are smart, results-focused and absolutely maniacal about learning what is important to customers and then delivering it. I’ve been on board practically since day one -- and it’s that organization-wide drive to continuously improve our products and services that makes every day interesting, challenging and exciting.”

Ranjan received a BS in Industrial Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and a MS in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University.

Craig Livingston
Chairman & CEO
Arena Solutions

Craig has been named as a “Supply & Demand Chain Executive Pro to know” by Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine.

As chairman and chief executive officer of Arena Solutions, Craig Livingston sets the company’s strategic direction and oversees all operations.

Before joining Arena, Craig served as vice president and general manager of the SME Solutions division of PLM provider Agile Software. Responsible for the division’s global operations, he oversaw the development, distribution and support of PLM solutions for small to mid-sized manufacturing businesses. His success in that role helped propel Agile to strong growth and a successful acquisition by Oracle.

Previous experience in executive sales and operations roles at other engineering and enterprise software leaders, including think3, PeopleSoft, CCI-Triad and Borland, laid the foundation of Craig’s thorough understanding of the needs of mid-market manufacturers.

Craig holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from San Jose State University.



Steve Chalgren
VP Product Management & Strategy
Arena Solutions

Steve has been recognized as one of the “Top 100 people influencing electronics manufacturing services (EMS)’ by VentureOutsource.

As vice president of product management and strategy, Steve Chalgren is responsible for setting product strategy, charting the product roadmap and leading the Arena product team.

Steve combines deep domain expertise with a proven record of delivering products that solve manufacturers’ real problems. Prior to Arena, Steve was a product strategy director at Oracle, where he led a team to extend Oracle’s product lifecycle management (PLM) footprint by defining and delivering the company’s first innovation-focused PLM product. Previously, as director of products for the small and medium enterprise (SME) division at Agile Software, Steve oversaw the Agile Advantage product line, which included both client/server and on-demand versions of the product. He led the division’s multi-site offshore development and product management teams to extend the product’s usability, functionality and international reach. Directing the SME global customer care team at the same time, Steve also made sure that customers had a significant voice in product updates, maintaining high customer satisfaction during a period of strong growth for the company.

Before working in enterprise software, Steve spent a nearly a decade in manufacturing supply chain operations, mainly for fast-growing technology start-ups. In these roles he gained an appreciation for the complexity of design-to-manufacturing processes and first-hand experience with the challenges faced by the people who participate in them.

Steve holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Bradley Persson
Senior Document Control Manager
Switch Lighting

Bradley has successfully completed 14 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) implementations to date.

He has extensive experience implementing and evangelizing document control, engineering change management, data management, AVL/QVL management, product configuration, quality systems, ERP systems, and PLM/ERP interfaces. Bradley has worked in PLM, ECAD, MCAD, ERP, and CRM product data environments throughout his career for Hi-Tech Commercial & Consumer Electronics, Scientific Instrumentation, Automotive, Biotech Equipment, & Telecomm Equipment.

Bradley completed his Certified Program and Project Management from San Jose State University.

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