Meeting/Event Information

Corporate Citizenship Starts with Supply Chain Management

In recent years, a noticeable paradigm shift has taken place in the business world. Driven by the realization that business and society can no longer intersect at the crossroads of profits first and society second, business is adopting a new order that puts the interests of society on a level that is at par with the interests of business. Companies are aggressively embracing the philosophy of corporate citizenship, which means taking responsibility for protecting the environment, reducing inequality, and bringing about social justice through supply chain practices and beyond.

Our program will provide an executive overview of Corporate Citizenship which will include the following:

1. Status and challenges of supply chain management 2016.

2. What is Corporate Citizenship , Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Supply Chains

3. Identification of key drivers for Corporate Citizenship

4. What are Sustainable Supply chains and key drivers

5. What are the major benefits of Corporate Citizenship

6. Review of key international initiatives and standards for corporate citizenship

TAKE-AWAYS

1. Understand the relationship of Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Supply Chains in the world of operations management.

2. Learn the roadmap for supply chain sustainable principles

3. Understand the business case drivers and benefits of Corporate Citizenship

4. Describe the Global Reporting Initiative and the United Nations Global Compace

SPEAKER

Ami Shah was born in Mumbai (Bombay) India which is the financial, commercial and entertainment capital of India. She earned her Business degree from the University of Bombay, India. Ami moved to San Antonio over 20 years ago and spent much of her early career working at Kinetic Concepts.

Ami has over 20 years of manufacturing and supply chain experience. Ami is a previous APICS PDM speaker and champion for APICS education over her career. Ami is currently a professional buyer for Kalmar RT Center who manufactures RT240 Rough Terrain Reach Stackers and RT022 Rough Terrain Telehandler whose supply chain extends to oil and gas, remote logistics, intermodal logistics, mining, forestry and governments.

VENUE

San Francisco Steakhouse located at 10223 Sahara Drive, San Antonio, TX 78216. Networking begins at 5:30PM with Dinner at 6:00PM and Ami's presentation at 7:00PM.

Please visit www.apics-sanantonio.org to register. Send inquiries and/or comments to [email protected]. Thank you for your continued support.