Dramatic improvements in customer service cycle time, corporate agility, and supply chain performance are being required in today's digital economy. Attend this seminar and hear how software and consulting firms are proposing integrated and extended supply chain strategies, processes and practices as the key to achieving performance improvements. What are "best practices" that make supply chain management a truly effective discipline? Are you asking yourself, "What works and what doesn't?" or "Where should we start?" -attend this seminar and find out what other companies have done. This seminar will include results presented to the US and European Supply Chain Councils. Eight business-to-business best practice groupings or patterns identified (i.e. Supply Chain Event Management, Supply Chain Visibility, etc.) will be presented.

• What are the best practices between companies that really improve performance?
• What are the individual elements that make up these best practices?
• Under what environmental and business relationship conditions will these best practices really work?

• People new to supply chain management will discover how to leverage business partners
• People familiar with supply chain management will learn how to evaluate existing processes with business partners

Dr. Kevin McCormack has over 25 years of business and consulting experience. He is presently the President of DRK Research. In addition to working in the food, beverage, chemical and information technology industry in both the US and Europe; he has taught Information Technology and Operations Management courses at the graduate and undergraduate level in the US and in Europe. He holds degrees in chemistry, engineering and an MBA and a DBA.

DRK Research provides both research and consulting assistance. The organization's clients included Fairchild Corporation, Kraft, Philip Morris, Cargill, Texas Instruments, Borden Chemical, Dow Chemical, Microsoft, Intel, Tektronix, Wal-Mart, and PepsiCo-to mention a few. DRK Research is presently studying the practices and principles that best correlate to effective supply chain management across networks of trading partners (the extended B2B supply chain) in cooperation with the Supply Chain Council (US and European).

This seminar is co-sponsored by EnteGreat and EnteGreat University. EnteGreat, Inc. delivers consulting and systems integration services to manufacturers nationwide. The company focuses on helping customers integrate the production side of their operations with the rest of their supply chain. EnteGreat University provides training and education solutions to support a customer's ever-changing business needs delivered by instructors who have been there and solved real world problems. EnteGreat is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. For more information on EnteGreat, Inc., contact Mark Cubine at 205-968-3050, ext. 115 or visit the company's website.