Proceedings: 2007 APICS International Conference & Expo
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Lessons in Customer Collaboration in Asia
Program Code:
I-4
Date:
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Time:
3:45 PM to 5:00 PM
EST
SPEAKER
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Robin Ploss, Program Manager, Display Technology Division,
Corning, Inc
Robin Ploss is a program manager for Corning Inc.'s Display Technologies Division, currently based in Taichung, Taiwan. Ploss has 17 years of experience in operations, planning, manufacturing systems, and supply chain management roles. He earned a bachelor of science in physical science from the University of Houston and a masters of engineering from Cornell University.
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Kurt A. Hollasch,
CPIM, Supply Chain Manager,
Corning Inc., Display Technologies Division
Kurt A. Hollasch, CPIM, is the supply chain manager for Corning Inc.'s Display Technology Division, based in Tokyo, Japan. He has 12 years of experience in supply chain management and has held operations roles in Corning, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Company, and Brown & Williamson Tobacco. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor of science in chemical engineering and earned an MBA from the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University.
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Description
As business continues to globalize, more and more companies will find themselves with customers throughout Asia. Kurt A. Hollasch, CPIM, supply chain manager for Corning, Inc.'s Display Technology Division in Tokyo, and Robin Ploss, a program manager for Corning Inc.'s division in Taichung, Taiwan, share obstacles encountered in Asia while reconfiguring the company's supply chain. Discover how a United States-based company successfully worked with customers in Asia.