A Speaker Roundtable from NASCES24 — A Supply Chain Conversation Among Senior Executives on the Issues and Ideas that Matter Most

The bluEPrint by Executive Platforms

At the 2024 edition of the long-running and successful North American Supply Chain Executive Summit series we sat down with some of our speakers and delegates to record a special episode of Executive Platforms' BluEPrint Podcast series reviewing the top-of-mind issues and ideas of supply chain executives today as chosen by the NASCES24 attendees, weighted by popularity.

With topics ranging from controlling costs, procurement and sourcing, digital transformation and AI, forecasting and S&OP, to managing growth and capacity in a changing business landscape while working to be an employer of choice in the battle for Top Talent, and much more, this is a conversation that should be of interest to every supply chain professional working today. Give it a listen!

This roundtable includes…
Panelists:

Phyllis Dyson
Vice President, Global Product Supply
Duracell

Phyllis is an experienced Supply Chain executive with expertise in Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance, Program Management, Planning, International Logistics and Supply Network Design. Results oriented leader with a passion for developing the capabilities of future leaders. Phyllis began her career with Procter & Gamble, which eventually spun off Duracell into an independent company. Phyllis has held roles of increasing authority in both organizations throughout her career. She holds a Bachelor of Science – Engineering from Cornell University.

Sidra Tufail
Director Supply Chain Operations Customer Service
Philip Morris International

Sidra is a mechanical engineer and a supply chain enthusiast with 18 years of experience in manufacturing and planning across multiple geographies including Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

In her current role as Director Operations Customer Services Americas (Supply Chain), Sidra’s main focus area is ensuring service superiority in markets with high innovation portfolios. Her key focus areas are: planning and response, loss elimination across the value chain (B2B & B2C) and in-market customer collaboration programs at the same time driving efficiencies through cost to serve.

Joanna Kostecka
VP Cloud Global Supply Chain Planning
Microsoft

Joanna Kostecka is privileged to be the VP of Cloud Global Supply Chain Planning at Microsoft. She has 20+ years’ of experience providing executive leadership to high-profile Fortune 500 companies with expertise leading major corporate supply chain initiatives and has earned a reputation for complex global planning and materials process transformation in dynamic environments.

Becky Crane
Vice President, Manufacturing & Engineering
General Mills

Becky Crane has 20 years’ experience at General Mills working across the company’s end-to-end supply chain, in multiple U.S. and international locations. Highlights include plant manager at one of our largest facilities (Hannibal, Mo.), as well as standing up a global procurement organization in Switzerland as an expat. She’s known for leveraging her breadth of experience to build bold strategies and highly effective cross-functional teams to solve problems and create long-term advantage for our businesses.

Crane leads manufacturing, engineering and global safety teams with accountability for over 9,000 employees (approximately 30% of the company’s employee base). This includes responsibility over $1B in capital across the enterprise, standardizing processes and establishing strong business partnerships to enable advantaged agility and accelerate innovation.

Moderator:

Geoff Micks
Head of Content & Research
Executive Platforms