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Valeri is a supply chain leader with large experience in automotive and industrial goods companies. He specializes in optimizing supply chain processes, leading them towards excellence, and turning them into a competitive advantage for the company.

John has deep functional and technical supply chain expertise. Through roles at Greif, Cardinal Health, L Brands, and management consulting, John has experience across multiple functions and industries (e.g. health care, retail, consumer goods, industrial, and automotive), and technologies (e.g. SAP, Manugistics, i2, Oracle, MercuryGate). His portfolio of work focuses on process improvement with technology … Read more

Debra Smith is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Constraints Management Group (CMG) and a co-founder of Demand Driven Technologies. CMG is a services and technology company specializing in integrated pull-based manufacturing, materials and project management systems for mid-range and large manufacturers and their supply chains. Together with its partners, CMG is responsible for and … Read more

Chad Smith is the co-author of the third edition of Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning 3/E (Ptak and Smith, McGraw-Hill, 2011) and Demand Driven Performance – Using Smart Metrics (Smith and Smith, McGraw-Hill, 2013), Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (Ptak and Smith, Industrial Press, 2016), Precisely Wrong – Why Conventional Planning Fails and How to Fix … Read more

Carol Ptak is currently a partner with the Demand Driven Institute. A leading authority in the use of ERP and Supply Chain tools to drive improved bottom line performance, Ms. Ptak’s expertise is well grounded in four decades of practical experience as a successful practitioner, consultant and educator in manufacturing operations. Her pragmatic approach to … Read more