Diana Gilliam

Global Supply Planning Manager
Celanese

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Day 2

Friday, April 11th, 2014

09:50 Stabilizing Your Supply Chain Through The Implementation Of Business Rules

Diana Gilliam, Americas Process Excellence Leader - Logistics, Celanese

10:10 Panel: Collaborating With Maintenance Around Planned Outages: Ensuring You Have The Necessary Inventory And Production Capacity To Endure Downtime

Heath Dhayer, Supply Assurance Leader, NOVA Chemicals
Diana Gilliam, Americas Process Excellence Leader - Logistics, Celanese
William Duty, Director, Supply Chain Center of Excellence, Momentive

How can you best engage with plant maintenance groups around outages? A key aspect of supply chain risk management is ensuring you have the inventory levels – or production capabilities at other locations – to hold you over during an outage, which is especially difficult given the limitations of forecasting. Learn how some of today’s top companies are managing this process and making their supply planner the conduit between maintenance and the business.

15:10 Panel Session: Optimizing Supply Chain Operations Through Effective Inventory Planning & Management

William Duty, Director, SIOP, Momentive Performance Materials
Diana Gilliam, Americas Process Excellence Leader - Logistics, Celanese
David Kreh, Director, Asset Management and Supply Chain, Fluoropolymers, Arkema
Randall Willis, Director, North America Operations and Supply
Chain, Axalta Coating Systems
Paul Lord, Research Director, Gartner Supply Chain Research

• Attaining optimal inventory levels in diverse and complex supply chains
• Segmenting and ensuring you’re not sitting on aged inventory
• Managing your slow moving inventory
• Continuously focusing on improving forecasting – defining your process and effectively working with sales, marketing and finance
• Analyzing days of inventory on hand (DOH)