Presented jointly by
The Supply Chain Management Research Center, a research unit of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas,
and the Ozark Roundtable of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 from 8:00am-3:30pm
at the Sam M. Walton College of Business Reynolds Center for Executive Education
on the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Campus

7:15-8:00am Continental Breakfast and Registration

8:00-8:15am Welcoming and Opening Remarks
Don Bland, Senior Managing Director of Outreach, Sam M. Walton College of Business

Jim Crowell, Director of the Supply Chain Management Research Center, Sam M. Walton College of Business

8:15-9:30am  Washington Insights, Perspectives, & the Economic Climate

Janet Kavinoky Director of Transportation Infrastructure Congressional and Public Affairs for the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington DC

9:30-10:00am Morning Break

10:00-10:40 am 2008 University of Arkansas Graduate Case Team

Helen Gunsaulis, Nhan Nguyen, Josh Richardson, Michael Rateliff and Jyo Venkatachala

10:40am-11:30am Delivering the Customer Promise

Johnnie Dobbs, Executive Vice President Logistics & Supply Chain at Wal-Mart Stores

11:30am-12:25pm Lunch

12:25am-1:10pm Green is Lean

Dr. J. Rod Franklin, Vice President Product Development/Contract Logistics, Kuehne + Nagel

1:10-2:10pm Cost To Serve Panel

Moderator: Dr. John Ozment, Professor, University of Arkansas

Wes Kemp, President & Chief Operating Officer, ABF Freight System, Inc.

Pat Reed, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, FedEx Freight

Gary Whicker, Sr. Vice President Engineering Services, J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.

2:10-2:30pm Afternoon Break

2:30-3:30pm Consumer Product Goods Company Panel

Moderator:  Matthew Lindsey, Director Customer Service, Unilever

Mike Liebherr, Vice President Transportation, ConAgra Foods

Lisa Lowie, Director of Customer Service & Logistics, Procter & Gamble

Andres Lopez, Global Director Customer Logistics, Johnson & Johnson