The University of Texas Supply Chain Management Consortium will host a Roundtable Meeting on Friday, November 7, 2003 from 8am-3pm at the Thompson Conference Center (http://www.utexas.edu/cee/tcc/) Room 2.122 on the University of Texas at Austin campus. The topic is Globalization Strategies in Supply Chain Management. The program follows. Driving directions, parking, and lodging are also included below.

 

Program:

 

1.      7:30 AM Continental Breakfast Opens.

2.      8:00 AM Welcome and Road Map.

3.      8:30 AM Global Business Continuity and Disruption Management at Motorola (Tom Matthews).

4.      9:15 AM Disruption Management (Yusen Xia, The University of Texas at Austin).

5.      10:15 AM Global Procurement of Resins at Frito-Lay (Clint Berry).

6.      11:00 AM Global Supply Chain Architectures at Dell: Changes and Future Challenges (Dave Schneider, Ray Archer).

7.      11:45 AM Lunch.

8.   12:45 PM New Member Introduction: Halliburton

9.      1:15 PM Global Supply Chain Issues at Cardinal Health (Joe McClain).

10.  2:00 PM Wrap-up Discussion/Consortium Report

 

Driving Directions to the Thompson Conference Center (TCC) (http://www.utexas.edu/cee/tcc/):

See TCC Directions

Parking (and Directions to the Thompson Conference Center):

 

See TCC Parking for free parking at the Thompson Conference Center.

 

If the free parking is unavailable, see TCC Alternative Parking . Please bring your garage ticket to the meeting and we will validate it.

 

Lodging:

 

See http://www.utexas.edu/cee/tcc/accommodations/index.shtml

 

 

  If you have not already done so, please send Cindy Levey (Cindy.Levey@mccombs.utexas.edu) a list of the people who plan to attend from your organization. In your response to Cindy, please note that you are responding for the UT SCM Consortium Round Table Meeting on November 7, 2003. We would appreciate receiving your response by Friday, October 24, 2003.

  Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you.

 

Regards,

 

Douglas J. Morrice

Professor and Director of the UT SCM Consortium

Management Department

Red McCombs School of Business

The University of Texas at Austin

1 University Station B6300
Austin, Texas 78712-0210

Email: morrice@mail.utexas.edu

Ph: 512-471-7857

Fax: 512-471-3937