Workshops and presentations from Supply Chain Process Improvement Experts! 

The two-day seminar takes the participant through a systematic approach to solving the problems of Heath Care Supply Chain & Operations.

During these two days, participants will:
1. Learn what lies at the roots of the problems
2. Understand the systematic process for quickly gaining incredible results from their current operation through the application of the Five Focusing Steps.
3. Understand why the words “Drum Buffer Rope” have been coined as another name for this solution.
4. Understand the need for aligning the organization to work in concert with the solution.

Agenda
-The Process of Ongoing Improvement
-What to Change
-The problems
-Analyzing the time and cost to address these problems
-An experiment to validate that these are the problems we need to invest in
-Understanding the underlying roots of the problems – a conflict!
-Validating the roots – experiments to show the effects of measurements
-What to Change To
-The Five Focusing Steps
-Applying the Five Focusing Steps to our Experiments
-Aligning the release of material to the solution
-Aligning the operational rules to support the solution
-Aligning our control process with the solution
-How to Cause the Change
-Putting the organizational change into place.

Dr. Charles A. Watts, DBA, CPIM, Jonah
ISCEA - Exec Director of Education & Certifications:
Professor of Operations Management
John Carroll University,
Cleveland, Ohio

Dr. Mahender Singh is a Research Director for the MIT Supply Chain 2020 Project, a multi-year research effort looking into the future of logistics and supply chain management. His research and teaching focus on operations and supply chain management, with particular interest in exploring the underlying structure of complex supply chains.  

Dr. Singh has over ten years of experience in the field of supply chain management and has worked on multiple global supply chain projects to analyze and redesign planning systems. He has taught Operations Management at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he received his Ph.D.; he is also a graduate of MIT-CTL’s Master of Engineering in Logistics Program.