A Proverbial Who's Who in Supply Chain Management
The COE SIG in Chicago is a membership group that brings together senior-level operations executives from the Chicagoland area in an open and confidential environment. It is a periodic, member-led executive roundtable that consists of 15-20 senior-level operation executive members. Members have the opportunity to network with local companies and share ideas on common business challenges.
Membership is open to Presidents, CEOs, COOs, EVPs, VPs of Supply Chain, and VPs of Operations at local manufacturing, distribution, and retail companies.
Member Benefits
By joining COE SIG, you will discover:
- Industry vision, thought leadership
- Benchmarking on industry trends and leading practices
- Facilities tours of local companies
- Ways to increase your organization’s Supply Chain effectiveness
- Meetings that are conducive to sharing of strategic ideas and to openly discussing challenges
- How to improve inefficiencies in inventory or in other areas
- An impartial industry-specific board of advisors
- How to drive value throughout the organization
- Gain the expected return from your Supply Chain investments
- Better operations practices
- Access to the members-only website
- Free membership
Format
The COE SIG meets bi-monthly for a two-hour session (8:00 AM – 10:00 AM) at pre-designated host site with a facility tour at the end of each meeting. Meetings consist of member presentations, open sharing, benchmarking, and discussion of industry issues, profit opportunities and business building strategies. Past SIG discussion topics have included:
- World Class Supply Chains
- Spend Characteristics
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Sourcing
- Inventory Management
- KPIs and Metrics
The facilitator of the Chicago COE SIG meeting is John Caltagirone – VP of Global Supply Chain Strategy, The Revere Group.
Upcoming Meetings
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More Information
For information on upcoming meetings or to become a member, please contact Colleen Doyle at 312-873-3396.