SherTrack plans to present “Theory of Constraints & Systems Thinking: NXT GEN Continuous Improvement Concepts” at APICS Chicago Chapter, Mar 17, 2010 (http://www.apics-chicago.org)

SherTrack will speak on “NEXT GEN S&OP: Scenario Planning Supported by Predictive Analytics”  in Munich, Germany at APICS Affiliate, PMI Production Management Institute, February 8, 2010. (www.PMI-M.de)

 

SherTrack  invited back to participate in and contribute to NGPHARMA Europe Summit, in Lisbon, Portugal, Mar 29-31, 2010. (www.ngpsummit.eu.com)

 

SherTrack & CHAINalytics plan to present a NEW 3-hour workshop on “NEXT GEN S&OP: Building Blocks of Success” at IBF’s Demand Planning & Forecasting Conference in San Francisco, CA, April 2010. (www.ibf.org) (www.chainalytics.com)

SherTrack & CHAINalytics will profile the fundamental Building Blocks for NEXT GEN S&OP success. These will focus on methodologies such as….1) Product Portfolio Management…..2) Customer Tiering/Segmentation &…..3) Total-Cost-to-Serve Supply Chain Model.

 

SherTrack & DuPont to present 3-hour workshop at IBF London conference, Feb 1, 2010 covering “NEXT GEN S&OP:  Scenario Planning using Predictive Analytics & Digital Modeling”

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SherTrack launches its New 3-Tiered Strategic Solution Platforms leveraging Predictive Analytics, Discrete-event Simulation and DOE methodologies to drive Rapid Improvements in Operational Excellence.  See Download Tab for PDF.

 

SherTrack to Speak, Chair a Flight and Exhibit at IQPC’s Premier 11^th Annual Six Sigma & Process Improvement Summit, Jan 18-21, 2009, Orlando, Florida

(http://www.leansixsigmasummit.com)

 

SherTrack to Collaborate with IQPC to produce a compelling Webinar on OE, Operational Excellence, highlighting their DMAIC/Modeling work at Bayer Materials Science for IQPC’s December 2009 e-Newsletters & Web Site.

 (www.sixsigmaiq.com/index.cfm) (www.shertrack.com)

 

SherTrack publishes new Whitepaper on “RCP; Rail Car Planning & Fleet Sizing”, leveraging Predictive Analytics & Discrete-event Simulation. Visit Download Tab for PDF.

 

First-of-a-Kind Supply Chain Risk Management MBA course to be introduced at Lehigh University in 2010 by SherTrack VP, Gregory L. Schlegel, CPIM, CSP, Jonah.

This new course is an introduction to balancing enterprise-wide complexity, uncertainty and risk to achieve supply chain excellence and sustainability. The course covers the basics and best-in-class elements of the Sales & Operations Planning process along with new stochastic/probabilistic methods in support of scenario planning at the enterprise level. The course will introduce new sources of supply chain uncertainty, complexity and new risk models and tactics and will leverage Web-based Digital Modeling/Discrete-event Simulators that support new approaches to enterprise-wide S&OP scenario Planning.

 

 

SherTrack to Participate in and Contribute to NGP, Next Gen PHARMA Executive Conference, Sept 15-17, 2009, Bremen, Germany. (www.ngpsummit.eu.com)

 The Summit 15th - 17th September 2009

Exclusive Roundtables

Roundtables and Panel Discussions will run for a minimum of 40 minutes. At least ten minutes will be dedicated to questions from the floor, giving all attendees an opportunity for interaction and a chance to create dialogue between themselves, their peers and the industry leader. Read More...

NGP Summit Europe 2009

The Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical industry has the challenge of finding more innovative ways to get products to market more effectively and profitably. In this new era of global commercialisation the industry needs to overhaul their business models to improve the agility and flexibility of their organisations "go to market" strategy.

 

SherTrack to Collaborate with IQPC to produce a compelling Webinar on OE, Operational Excellence, for their Oct-Nov 2009 e-Newsletters & Web Site. (http://www.sixsigmaiq.com/index.cfm)

 

  

SherTrack & DuPont to Facilitate 3-hour Workshop at IBF’s October 2009 conference, titled..”NEXT GEN S&OP: Scenario Planning Supported by Predictive Analytics & Digital Modeling”

         (http://www.ibf.org/conferences.cfm?fuseaction=conferenceDetail&conID=252)

 

  

SherTrack to participate in SixSigmaZone’s CEO Interview Program. SherTrack will discuss the tremendous benefits of new Predictive Analytics, in complex manufacturing, for publication and broadcast during 4^th Quarter 2009.

 

SherTrack to publish articles on NGPHARMA North America’s web site & in their magazine:

(www.ngpharma.com)

SherTrack will be authoring several articles on Innovation and Supply Chain Excellence in the PHARMA arena. Situations discussed will be—Managing Complexity, Mitigating Risk, The New Efficient Frontier and driving Working Capital Excellence through the use of new solution methods such as Stochastic/Probabilistic Predictive Analytics.

 

SherTrack now Contributing to iQualityPocess Blog on Theory of Constraints:  (www.iqualityprocess.com)

SherTrack is contributing on a regular basis to this new and exciting dialogue on TOC, Theory of Constraints. iQualityProcess has many blogs covering areas such as Lean/Six Sigma, Change Management and more.

 

SherTrack to speak at Atlanta Chapter of APICS, Jan 2010:        

Atlanta APICS Chapter

Advancing Productivity, Innovation, and Competitive Success

SherTrack plans to speak at this very large gathering of Operations Management Professionals in January 2010. The discussion will revolve around a Case Study at Bayer where SherTrack leveraged Digital Modeling/Discrete-event Simulation and Lean/Six Sigma to drive overwhelming agility & manufacturing responsiveness.

(http://www.apicsatlanta.org/)

 

SherTrack to publish article in upcoming July-09 issue of Supply Chain Management Review.

(www.scmr.com) (www.valeocon.com)

               

SherTrack, along with Lean/Six Sigma guru and former PWc/IBM Lean Six Sigma Practice Partner, Richard Smith, now with Valeocon Consulting, will be profiling a Case Study leveraging the concepts from their 2005 SCMR article on DODSC, Dynamic On-Demand Supply Chains.

 

 SherTrack & Valeocon begin collaboration to drive overwhelming supply chain value for Pharmaceuticals.

 

 Direct the Power  (www.valeocon.com) 

“What is our mission? To help clients achieve and sustain improvements in business performance. What makes us different? We listen, understand and formulate solutions that the clients own, based on their unique business needs, situation and culture.”
The Partners of VALEOCON     

 

SherTrack to contribute to IQPC’s Process Excellence Week conference, Sept 21-24, Chicago, IL.

         

SherTrack will present a very new continuous improvement concept coined….”TLS”, Theory of Constraints-Lean & Six Sigma and discuss how these established improvement methodologies are being leveraged together to drive overwhelming value to the bottom line.

http://www.processexcellenceweek.com/ShowEvent.aspx?id=141814&langtype=1033

 

SherTrack to speak at the APICS International Conference, in Toronto, Oct 3-7, 2009.

(www.apics.org)

         

SherTrack will present a Case Study profiling how Bayer Material Sciences coupled Lean/Six Sigma methodologies with Digital Modeling/Simulation to drive improved manufacturing responsiveness.

SherTrack will be speaking Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 4pm.

 

SherTrack to speak at APICS' Congress-for-Progress-34 Conference, April 15-17, 2009 in Philadelphia, PA (www.cp-apics.org)

SherTrack will speak on new Demand Management methodologies and techniques and facilitate a forum covering SRM, Supplier Relationship Management.

SherTrack Plans to Contribute to Aberdeen SCM Summit Dialogue, April 2-3, 2009, San Francisco (www.aberdeen.com)

Creating Strategic Alignment for Global Competitive Advantage
April 2-3, 2009 at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco

In partnership with Enterprise Technology Management (ETM) and Material Handling Management (MHM), Aberdeen Group's Summit will address the pressures that supply chain executives face in this dynamic global trade environment.

 

AIT & SherTrack Collaborate on New, Monthly e-Newsletter:  ( www.theaitgroup.com )

The AIT Group and SherTrack have begun a collaboration that involves providing their existing clients and interested Lean/Six Sigma professionals with a continuous stream of intellectual capital and process improvement synergies to drive supply chain excellence. (www.theaitgroup.com)

SherTrack to Contribute to POMS, Production Operations Management Society Annual Conference, May 1-4, 09, Orlando, Florida

SherTrack will participate in a panel discussion revolving around mitigating risk in the supply chain by leveraging Stochastic/Probabilistic techniques at this very prestigious academic gathering. (www.poms.org/conferences)

SherTrack to Contribute to Business Management Quarterly Magazine:

SherTrack will be developing an article coined…. “Complex Manufacturing: Business Process Innovation for Competitive Advantage”, for publication in 2^nd QTR 09 issue and Web Site. (www.busmanagement.com)

 

SherTrack & The AIT Group team up to co-exhibit at iSixSigma Live Summit 09 conference, Jan 13-16, 2009, Miami, FL

This event is shaping up to be the premier event of 2009. No other conference organization has the level of speakers that we have secured, and with our iSixSigma-unique editorial focus and networking opportunities, this will prove to be the one event that Lean Six Sigma and operational excellence professionals should attend in 2009.

Homepage: http://live.isixsigma.com/miami

SherTrack will exhibit, chair a flight and co-present a Case Study at IQPC’s 10^th Annual Lean Six Sigma Summit, Jan 19-22, 2009, Orlando, FL

Click here for SherTrack’s sponsor discount/code

Organized by: International Quality & Productivity Center (IQPC)

2009 celebrates the 10th Annual Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement Summit. As the original and biggest Lean Six Sigma industry event, 2083 senior attendees and over 312 thought leading speakers have taken part over the last decade. The 10th Annual Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement Summit 2009 is history in the making. Each year the freshest and most innovative content led by the Lean Six Sigma community for the community, has been laid bare. Lean Six Sigma secrets are divulged and solutions are brainstormed by the most aspiring minds in the industry, to help you, take that next step on the Lean Six Sigma journey. Each year the agenda is tailor-made to support the current challenges in deployment programs, to recognize the best of the best community achievements through the prestigious Process Excellence Awards, and deliver you fresh inspiration through the wide choice of presentations.

Book now and remember that Business Process Trends members and readers receive a 15% discount if they email to enquiry@iqpc.co.uk , call +44 (0)20 7368 9300 or register via web at www.leansixsigmasummit.com and quote this code IGB-BPT-LSSPIS.
 

 

SherTrack will participate in and be a sponsor for the prestigious NGP, Next Generation Pharmaceutical Summit, at the Royal Evian Resort, Lake Geneva, France, Feb 24-26, 2009 (www.ngpsummit.eu.com)

The NGP Summit is led by a Standing Committee of senior executives in the industry who are determining the themes and topics of the Summit. Over 40 leading CEOs, Managing Directors, COOs, EVPs and VPs responsible their specific business units will gather to re-assess their business models to improve the agility and flexibility of their organisations “go to market” strategy. The summit is an ideal way to meet with like-minded professionals to discuss and resolve these challenges.

 A series of senior level focus groups involving dozens of executives from leading pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing companies, has lead to a unique and comprehensive schedule. Over the two day program, C-Level business leaders will engage in solution briefings, break-out sessions, roundtable discussions, networking and workshops at the stunning Royal Evian Resort, Lake Geneva, France. This is a unique opportunity for busy, like-minded executives at the highest level to speak with peers at other pharmaceutical service companies about their concerns and challenges

Future Pharmaceutical USA’s Lean/Six Sigma Podcast with Deloitte and Sanofi-Aventis, November ’08. (  www.futurepharmaus.com )

SherTrack will participate as a panel member in a very novel Podcast, in November, 2008, discussing Lean/Six Sigma DMAIC projects and Digital Modeling which are emerging in the Pharma manufacturing arena as Critical Success Factors for supply chain excellence.

Future Pharmaceuticals has forged powerful relationships with key industry leaders to provide a platform for successful brand recognition, and for senior decision-makers to have the means to procure and plan implementation strategies based on the topics covered. Positioned to be an authoritative resource within top Pharma companies as well as small, specialty, and biotech, Future Pharmaceuticals magazine is geared to create a deep penetration into a highly targeted and responsive audience, bridging the gap between the industries' top issues and the solutions top-tier vendors can provide.

   

Pavilion Technologies, a Division of Rockwell Automation, Value Forum ’08 Event, October 7-10, in Prague, Czech Republic.

http://www.pavtech.com/Forum

Value Forum ’08 is an exclusive event bringing together plant managers, operations managers, environmental managers and engineering personnel from around the world seeking insight into how they can achieve new performance levels.

SherTrack Chairs the Supply Chain Flight and more....at the Upcoming IQPC Six Sigma Summit, September 16-18, 2008, in Chicago, IL (www.iqpc.com)

SherTrack will be chairing the Supply Chain Flight at this large Six Sigma Summit along with exhibiting and co-presenting a Lean/Six Sigma DMAIC project with Bayer MaterialScience.(www.bayerus.com)

SherTrack 2-day seminar on Demand Management, August 14-15, 2008 in Singapore (www.unistrategic.com)

SherTrack will drive a 2-day seminar covering new Demand Management methods and techniques and their impacts on Supply Chain Excellence.

Bayer MaterialScience and SherTrack team up to publish Lean/Six Sigma DMAIC article with Auto Focus Asia magazine and web site.  (www.autofocusasia.com)

Bayer MaterialSciences' VP of Continuous Improvement, Connie Conboy, will be presenting an Executive Overview of Shertrack's recent collaboration with Bayer's Six Sigma Team at this prestigious conference. Conboy's presentation will discuss the genesis of the project, the leadership aspects, corporate buy-in and execution aspects of the Six Sigma DMAIC project which was supported by Shertrack's Digital Modeling, Discrete-event Simulator and rigorous Design-of-Experiments methodology.

 

SherTrack will also be facilitating a 2-hour detailed workshop covering the major elements of the project, including its compelling bottom-line improvement findings. SherTrack also plans to co-exhibit with their new partner, The AITGroup.  ( www.theaitgroup.com )  The ISSSP's Leadership Conference will be held in Scottsdale, AZ

Bayer MaterialScience & SherTrack co-present at WCBF’s Six Sigma Summit, in Chicago, April 29 – May 2, 2008

(www.wcbf.com/quality)

SherTrack becomes corporate affiliate member of ISSSP Six Sigma Community

(www.isssp.com)

SherTrack Teams with AIT Group…..Premier Lean/Six Sigma Business Improvement Organization

(www.theaitgroup.com) 

SherTrack Co-presents with Bayer MaterialScience at SPE’s AUTOEPCON Show, April 22, 2008             Visit the Downloads Area for Presentation

Bayer MaterialScience will be speaking at this very high-profile automotive and plastics event profiling how they’ve leveraged SherTrack’s Six Sigma Simulation Services to drive profitable manufacturing response changes. SherTrack will also be exhibiting at this one-day event, in Sterling Heights, MI, at the Best Western Sterling Inn, April 22, 2008.

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(www.4spe.org) (www.speautomotive.com) (www.spedetroit.com)

SherTrack Engages with Two New Process Manufacturers Leveraging its New SNAPPS AP, Asset Planning Solution & Services

SherTrack has begun an extended engagement with a major advanced Polyolefins manufacturer and with the one of the world’s largest PET container manufacturers.

SherTrack will be leveraging its newly released SNAPPS AP, Asset Planning Solution and Services Package to drive bottom-line results through its assets & production planning and simulation techniques. SherTrack will be providing supply chain services and solutions to enhance planning processes by simplifying and speeding up the planning process, reducing time required to match supply with demand, dramatically expanding visibility of their supply chains and ensuring optimal-feasible production plans resulting in rapid manufacturing responsiveness.

SherTrack Releases New SNAPPS AP, Asset Planning Solution & Services

SherTrack has released its newest Probabilistic Asset Planning Solution & Services Package for the process manufacturing arena. SNAPPS AP augments SherTrack’s existing suite of probabilistic manufacturing execution solutions-- SNAPPS XL and SNAPPS PM. With this innovative asset planning solution, SherTrack will be providing supply chain planning services and solutions that will enhance planning processes by providing greater planning precision and accelerating the planning process—reducing the time required to match supply with demand and support event-driven S&OP.

This latest package of manufacturing execution solutions and services will dramatically expand visibility into the supply chain, drive down operating costs and ensure manufacturers have the ability to produce and evaluate optimal-feasible production plans resulting in rapid and profitable manufacturing responsiveness.

SherTrack Partners with MetaOps—A Lean Six Sigma Services Organization…..

Sustainable Profits Driven by Innovation, Lean Six Sigma and Market Awareness…is the mantra of SherTrack’s new partner.

MetaOps™ helps companies who desire to improve their market share and/or profitability. Their philosophy of business transformation blends together an extensive tool kit of "operational excellence" methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen Team Activities, Theory of Constraints, Quality Function Deployment, MetaOps Marketing™, and other best practices. This powerful approach drives rapid improvements in every aspect of their client’s business performance by transferring knowledge to their client’s staff for sustainable improvement. (www.metaops.com)

SherTrack to Facilitate 5-Hour Workshop on DDIM, Demand-driven Inventory Management at APICS' Congress for Progress, April, 2008: (www.cp-apics.org)  Visit the Downloads Area for Presentation

SherTrack will facilitate a 5-hour workshop on Demand-driven Inventory Management at the prestigious APICS Congress for Progress, or CP-33, April 23-25, ill cover new approaches to managing demand variability and uncertainty through new techniques such as Stochastic/Probabilistic demand and supply methodologies.
SherTrack will also touch on elements of AMR's new DDSN, Demand-driven Supply Networks, Demand-Sensing, Demand Shaping and Profitable Manufacturing Response along with CPFR, Event-driven S&OP and Dynamic Inventory Optimization.
APICS' Congress for Progress will be held in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, April 23-25, 2008.
See you there!

SherTrack to facilitate 3-Hour Interactive Workshop Profiling How they've Coupled Digital Modeling/Simulation with Six Sigma Statistical Methods for Profitable Manufacturing Response at WCBF's Six Sigma Summit, Chicago, April 29, 2008 (www.wcbf.com/quality/5082)

SherTrack presents Lean/Six Sigma DMAIC, Supply Chain Modeling Case Study at APICS 2007 International Conference: (www.apics.org)

SherTrack presented a Case Study profiling how a Major Polypropylene manufacturer leveraged Lean/Six Sigma DMAIC methods and combined those rigorous data-driven techniques with SherTrack's Demand-Driven Predictive Manufacturing modeling solution to drive compelling benefits within three months.
SherTrack presented on Monday, October 22nd @ 4:15pm
APICS International Conference, with over 4,000 attendees, was held in Denver, October 21-23, 2007.

SherTrack & Salesforce.com Team Up to Offer "30-Day Free Trial" CRM:
 

SherTrack & Salesforce.com have teamed up to provide SherTrack clients and interested parties an opportunity to "TEST DRIVE" Salesforce.com's latest On-Demand CRM solution for FREE!

As part of Salesforce.com's partner ecosystem, SherTrack is providing Salesforce.com customers leading-edge Demand-driven Predictive Manufacturing solutions that are producing rapid manufacturing ROI with a host of synergies benefiting the demand side of the business as well.

If you are a SherTrack client, prospect or just passing through, please take advantage of this very special, FREE offer, to "TEST DRIVE" Salesforce.com's On-Demand CRM solution for 30 days.

PRESS RELEASE in APICS June, 2007 Worldwide Publication: (www.apics.org)

SherTrack LLC announces WebTop SNAPPS XL for the process industry. The solution integrates data from existing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets into a graphical planning board with integrated key performance indicators monitoring, dynamic alerts and predictive analytics. The browser-based solution quickly evaluates "what-if" scenarios or production schedule changes before committing resources.
 

Society of Plastics Engineers Newsletter May 2007 - SherTrack Reference
May, 2007

SherTrack Presents at Society of Plastics Engineers Automotive Engineering Plastics Conference
March 22, 2007

SherTrack Partners with EPICOR Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions Provider
March 20, 2007

SherTrack Achieves Microsoft Certified Partner Status
October 10, 2005

SherTrack Introduces Powerful New Scheduling Engine
April 15, 2005

SherTrack Releases SNAPPS V3.0
April 12, 2005

SherTrack's SNAPPS Improves Manufacturers Response to Demand Volatility
August 13, 2004

SherTrack Recognized as Part of a New Breed of Supply Chain Solutions
June 18, 2004

SherTrack Launches to Provide Inventory Planning and Scheduling Software for Chemical and Process Industries
May 19, 2004