Discover how to get started with supply chain-centric decision making. Learn how to implement operating principles that guide decision making for key business processes.
Building supply chains that focus on performance in spite of complexity is a problem manufacturers are now solving. This means focusing on advancing the entire supply chain, from end to end. Learn how decisions that managers make in one area of the business can inevitably have a disproportionate impact on supply chain cost and performance. Hear how supply chain-centric decision making can re-ignite operational improvement efforts. By generating additional value and eliminating waste, it drives hard financial benefits - revenue growth, lower operating costs, improved margins and reduced resource requirements, which shrinks working capital requirements and improves return on assets. Discover how to create management systems that drive sustainable cross-functional leadership, collaboration and engagement and visibility to business performance. Hear how to establish KPIs and improvement goals for the short- and long-term.
LeanCor Supply Chain Group is a trusted supply chain partner with a mission to advance the world’s supply chains. Its three integrated divisions – LeanCor Training and Education, LeanCor Consulting and LeanCor Logistics – specialize in lean principles to help organizations eliminate waste, drive down costs and build operational excellence. www.leancor.com
Derek Browning is vice president of sales and marketing at LeanCor Supply Chain Group. His experience ranges from transactional transportation management, to performing logistics network and route designs, supply chain and facility assessments, lean cross-dock and distribution center projects, people development and lean principles. He has supported companies in healthcare and neutriceutical, auto body repair, financial services, industrial construction, consumer appliances, material handling equipment and many more. He has trained lean, six sigma and supply chain through LeanCor’s training and education courses, as well as the University of Kentucky, Saint Louis University, Georgia Tech University and Monterrey Tec’s Extension Campus in Mexico City, Mexico. Browning holds an MBA and a BSc. degree in marketing. His certifications include lean six sigma black belt, lean strategic sourcing and lean six sigma logistics/supply chain management. 
