WEBINAR: What Manufacturing Leaders Need to Know About Realizing Lost Dollars in Their Organizations—and why they need to act today

Oct. 17, 2015 – You are invited to attend this live webinar, “What Manufacturing Leaders Need to Know About Realizing Lost Dollars in Their Organizations—and why they need to act today” presented by SYSPRO Canada’s Regional Sales Manager, Bev Fleming and special guest presenter, Grant Thornton’s Practice Leader, Business Process Improvement, Operational Advisory, Nihad McBride, as they share their insights into how to identify, measure, and implement areas for business improvement, in this exclusive event designed specifically for manufacturing leaders.

According to the 2015 Manufacturer’s Outlook report published by PLANT, a leading publication advancing Canadian Manufacturing, which surveyed over four hundred senior manufacturing executives throughout Canada, 60 per cent of companies cite controlling and reducing costs as their biggest challenge, while 95 per cent of respondents said productivity is key to business growth, but only 45 per cent are pursuing a formal productivity improvement strategy while 20 per cent are in the processes of developing one.

Executives often struggle to pinpoint the source and breadth of the waste in their organizations. Even when they are able to identify and quantify the hidden costs of inaction (“the status quo”), the process of implementing change can often be a mammoth task. In order to remain competitive and not waste money, manufacturing leaders must overcome their biggest competitor — “DOING NOTHING” and look to re-examine how every part of a business can offer value for less, including identifying the many hidden and not-so-hidden costs.

In this webinar, attendees will learn where and how to measure lost dollars they may not be realizing in the following key areas:

• Purchasing: Eliminate rogue and reactive purchasing
• Inventory Management: Streamline inventory-on-hand reduction while increasing turns
• Sales Fulfillment: Improve timelines, delivery and quality for customer order fulfillment
• Order-to-Cash Business: Reduce cash collection timeframes

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If you are a manufacturing leader looking to improve your own organization’s bottom line, this is a must attend event. Space is limited. Register today. The webinar takes place November 26 at 2 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. EST, and is brought to you by SYSPRO Canada.

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About the speakers

Nihad McBride
Practice Leader, Business Process Improvement, Operational Advisory, Grant Thornton

Nihad obtained her practical experience in Management Consulting, Corporate Finance, and international business in publicly and privately held companies including Fortune 500 companies in Africa, Europe, Australia, and North America.

Nihad brings 15 years of hands on experience delivering strategic services, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations, corporate diagnosis, finance business process improvement, lean initiatives, capacity assessment, and business transformation.

Nihad gained her experience within the oil and gas industry with global and multi-division organizations such as British Petroleum and Schlumberger Ltd. Such experience has enabled her to achieve additional value for our clients in the areas of operational risk mitigation, control efficiency and process improvement.

Nihad has successfully assisted global organizations with ERP implementations and remediation plans design, implementation, and monitoring, including articulating findings and recommendations to key stakeholders and audit committees.

Bev Fleming
Regional Sales Manager, SYSPRO Canada

With 25 years of sales, industry and ERP experience, Bev has dedicated the majority of her career to sales leadership positions for various global companies including Infor, SAP and NetSuite.

In Bev’s current role as Regional Sales Manager, she is responsible for growing the manufacturing and distribution customer base in the Ontario and Manitoba markets. Bev’s broad experience in both ERP and tier one software allows her to develop complex business solutions for SYSPRO customers.  

Previous to SYSPRO, Bev was instrumental in building international and domestic sales of ERP solutions by working with Fortune 500 companies, mid-market and large enterprises with revenues exceeding $1 billion in sales. During her tenure at Infor (formerly Systems Union), Bev was instrumental in growing the North American Insurance vertical to $6.3M in new business and $500K annually.

A born sales leader, Bev draws from her fascination with ERP to help build trusted relationships with prospects and clients. Bev’s intuitive nature and her ability to strategically identify opportunities and align the necessary resources, allows her to excel at building solutions for even the most complex business challenge. As a result, Bev’s career accolades include continuous target overachievement, placing her as a top performer in complex, multi-site solutions.

Bev is also the founding principal of SalesProphit, an entrepreneurial coaching firm and draws from her extensive experience and sales leadership to provide sales coaching for entrepreneurs.

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Registrants for this webinar may be contacted by Manufacturing AUTOMATION and the website sponsor, SYSPRO Canada, following the event.