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Cost Savings and Driving Success: Insights from Scott DeGroot

February 11, 2025

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Date: Apr 30 2025 
Time: 11:00 AM ET
Live Webinar: 1 hour

Webinar Description

Join us for an exclusive conversation with Scott DeGroot, former VP of Global Planning at Kimberly-Clark (Now with the University of Tennessee), as he shares how he got support for innovative supply chain strategies to drive cost savings, improve efficiency, and enable reinvestment in advanced systems.

Scott will discuss real-world lessons from his experience making transformation initiatives happen:

  • Getting IT support
  • Moving quickly to leverage AI-driven supply network planning solutions
  • Using success to unlock other opportunities

The benefits were significant: The initiative reduced transportation costs, optimized the use of core carriers, improved OTIF, and funded investments in other supply chain technology.

What you will take away:

  1. Data-Driven Cost Reduction – Using analytics to improve efficiency & minimize waste

  2. The role of AI-driven performative analytics in improving efficiency

  3. How cost savings can be reinvested to drive future innovations

Speakers:

Scott H. DeGroot, Adjunct Lecturer and Researcher, University of Tennessee’s Haslam College of Business Global Supply Chain Institute   

Moderator:

Robert Bowman, Editor-in-ChiefSupplyChainBrain