Find out how to build a strategy and roadmap that balances IVC with your current improvement efforts – internally and externally. We’ll specify what it take to make it happen - from setting metrics to leading a large-scale transformation. Hear about IVC in action as we discuss United Stationers’ story.

In this module we’ll discuss how to define your vision and mission, and how to introduce hypotheses that enable IVC adoption. By exploring analysis and design techniques, and outlining an effective calibration method, we’ll demonstrate the values IVC can offer above and beyond what you have accomplished to date. Tune in to learn how AT&T is applying IVC.

By making supply chain a part of your business strategy and operating plan, you can deliver bottom line results that support your business objectives. In this module, we’ll explore how to develop and manage a value chain idea, maximize your technology and overcome cultural and structural hurdles.

Find out how elements such as total cost, organizational structure, network performance, physical infrastructure, systems, and information technology can bring significant value to your organization.  During this module, you’ll learn about low-cost country sourcing and marketing, and explore new frontiers in global distribution.  We’ll also discuss product ideation and portfolio management as targeted areas of improvement.

With an integrated value chain you can impact the metrics that are significant to your company’s financial performance. Is return on invested capital a target for your company? Are you generating revenue through excellence in supply chain processing? Want to enhance your corporate value from a Wall Street perspective? Is your CFO a supply chain champion? Find out how companies like Sysco are getting the best return on their supply chain investments with an integrated value chain.

In this module of our thought leadership podcast series, we’ll discuss the Integrated Value Chain’s (IVC) general principles and how IVC can impact 40 to 70 % of your cost structure.  IVC, which forces a view of your extended enterprise, is a means for reaching higher levels of improvement in your supply chain that make a difference for your business. Learn how you can achieve excellence in areas that are critical to both costs and revenues.

In this final segment of our six-part podcast series, we’ll take a final look at the theme we’ve been espousing; why the CFO should become an advocate for leveraging the supply chain.  Our speakers will discuss how this shift will lead to increased to shareholder value, and to the creation of a value managed enterprise - a business system across which value is added at every key step in the process.

Want to take a deeper look at the changing role of the CFO?  During part five of the CSC/Manhattan Associates podcast series, we’ll explain why you can better satisfy Wall Street by being a catalyst in adding extra values to your business performance.  This behavioral shirt requires thinking like a Wall Street analyst - taking a rigorous viewpoint that is focused on continuous improvement to shareholder value.

Explore a contemporary business model that is proving very useful for firms trying to reach the highest level in the supply chain maturity model. In part four of this six-part series designed for CFOs, we’ll discuss how most market leaders are turning to a portfolio approach to business management - combining several ingredients with a supply chain effort to optimize business results and enhance shareholder value. 

Find out how the CFO and members of the financial community can take a more active role in supply chain management, and how you can add extra values to your business performance.  During part three of this six-part podcast series, we’ll consider how a CFO could make a Wall Street analyst sit up and pay attention when it comes to the financial impact of the supply chain.