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Future-Proofing The Direct Materials Supply Chain:

Modern Tools & Tips for Spend Optimization and Supply Risk Management

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These days, supply chain pros face monumental challenges that make optimizing costs, optimizing inventory, and ensuring supply continuity exceedingly painful. And the current uncertain economic climate isn’t helping.

But where do you start? How do you implement supply chain solutions once you build your strategy, and what benefits should you realize?

Those are just some of the questions answered in this webinar.

Join us for a discussion led by Jithendra Palasagaram, Founder & CEO at Part Analytics, and Luis Velez, Director of Strategic Sourcing at ITW as they explore practical strategies to optimize costs, ensure supply continuity, and overcome the roadblocks hindering efficient operations for the direct materials supply chain.
 
Some of the key topics covered include:
  • Proven strategies to proactively identify and effectively manage supply risks, ensuring continuity in any market condition.
  • Ways to leverage innovative technologies to streamline processes, reduce costs, and maximize efficiency.
  • Insights from Fortune 200 manufacturer, ITW, discussing how they successfully transformed supply chain operations to reduce shortages, save costs, and improve production.

Featured Speakers

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Jithendra Palasagaram, Founder & CEO at Part Analytics

Jithendra is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Part Analytics. He founded Part Analytics in 2019 after recognizing pain points in electronics procurement industry and designing elegant and effective systems to address them.

Prior to founding Part Analytics, Jithendra spent 13 years in engineering and procurement functions at GE Healthcare. Jithendra developed and executed strategy to digitize electronics spend management and get better visibility to spend and risk data across 4 different GE businesses and delivered $15MM in savings and proactively mitigated supply chain risk. Jithendra is passionate about procurement and supply chain management and has a keen sense for how technology can disrupt traditional silo-based procurement and strategic sourcing.

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Luis Velez, Strategic Sourcing Director at ITW

With over 28 years of experience in Procurement and Supply Chain initiatives with Automotive and Appliance OEM manufactures, Luis Velez serves as the Director of Strategic Sourcing at Illinois Tool Works, Inc. (ITW). For over 10 years, Luis has been leading supply chain efforts to leverage ITW's scale, mitigate supply chain risks, and deliver value across the business.

Velez holds a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering and Masters in manufacturing systems Engineering from the University of Michigan.