Addressing Global Challenges in High Performance Supply Chains

Supply Chain Council hosted complimentary executive briefings in New Zealand and Australia

Once a year Supply Chain Council tours the Australia/New Zealand region to share insights gleaned from the year’s global events and also to share the latest updates in SCC development with regional supply chain leaders. Plans reviewed include the release of SCOR® 11 (available since December 1, 2012) and a standard system for managing global supply chains using SCOR: M4SC. If you are not familiar with the global standard SCOR (Supply Chain Operations Reference model), visit the SCOR section of our website.

Executive Director Joseph Francis, Supply Chain Council, United States —one of the world's most popular speakers on supply chain management – will be the speaker for all locations. You may find his brief biography below the schedule.

During the first hour, key elements of high performing supply chains in successful global organizations will be shared. A hands-on workshop will follow for those who have time to stay for another hour.  This time will be used to briefly explore the next evolution of using SCOR for managing supply chains - M4SC.  In the workshop, attendees will explore how to develop a supply chain strategy for part of your supply chain, including a supply chain performance SCORcard with a set of performance requirements that you can leverage in the coming business year.

SCC would like to thank the sponsors for the Australian and New Zealand SCC Executive Briefings:

• The University of Auckland Business School
• Victoria University of Wellington
• Xelocity Limited
• SAP Australia Pty Ltd
• LSC Solutions Pty Ltd

About the speaker

Joseph Francis is Executive Director for the Supply Chain Council. He is an acknowledged expert on supply chain and business process management with a particular focus on SCOR and related frameworks with many organizations worldwide.

He has advised companies as diverse as Air Products, IBM, PRTM, Cendant, Hewlett-Packard, SASOL, Home Depot and Ericsson on methodologies for SCOR and framework-based process management within their company¹s enterprises.

He has lectured on or participated in research on framework-based content with University of Houston Bauer College of Business, the Georgia Tech Logistics Institute, the Gordon Institute of Business Science, and many more educational institutions around the world. He has been published often through various organizations on the utilization and techniques of SCOR application in large enterprises. Mr. Francis is a former chairman of the Supply Chain Council Board of Directors and has worked with the Council as Chief Technical Officer, and as volunteer for more than a decade.

Prior to work with SCC, and running a small BPM consultancy, he created and directed Hewlett-Packard¹s Business Process Management team for the CIO of HP, and had overseen the supply chain process merger between HP and Compaq, where he worked for over a decade prior to joining HP.