(CSCMP: Irvine, CA) -- The Lean Leadership Summit is an unprecedented assemblage of many of the most capable and successful executive lean leaders in an intimate setting to share how they transformed their operations to create competitive advantage to grow their businesses. Join the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Southern California Roundtable for the Lean Leadership Summit at the Hyatt Regency in Irvine, California, on April 22.

Every speaker is an executive lean leader with a solid understanding that lean is a system for solving problems in the total business system, not just “a set of tools” applied on the factory floor. Each of our event partners (LEI, AME, APICS, Shingo Prize, CSCMP, WERC, DMA, USC, SoCal Consortium of Lean Organizations, and numersous Toyota “alumni” offer a huge variety of educational and collaborative opportunities to fuel your change initiative. Two of the 20 speakers scheduled are:

James P. Womack—Founder and chairman, Lean Enterprise Institute. Womack led the research team for MIT’s five-year $5 million study of the global automotive industry which introduced the term “lean.” This term describes Toyota’s unique business system that created competitive advantage in product development, supply chain management, fulfillment from order through production to delivery, customer support and enterprise management. He is co-author of the The Machine That Changed the World, Lean Thinking, Seeing the Whole, Lean Solutions and numerous articles.

Gary Convis—Retired Toyota manufacturing president and current senior adviser, Dana Corp.  Learn the secrets of the “NUMMI miracle”—how under Toyota leadership General Motors’ worst plant was transformed into its best. Convis was hired from Ford to be the senior American executive to lead the launch of Toyota’s first North American manufacturing plant, NUMMI. An effective leader of the Toyota Way, Convis was promoted to executive vice president of NUMMI; then president of the largest production site, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky; with concurrent responsibility as executive vice president of Toyota Engineering and Manufacturing North America; and managing officer of Toyota Motor Corp.

You will learn

• How the COO of the 8,000 unionized employee UCLA Health System raised customer satisfaction ratings from the 38 percentile to the 95 percentile to become the No. 3-rated U.S. hospital with 100-percent occupancy
• How Avery Dennison’s $1 billion office products division, facing a declining mature market and low cost competition, transformed themselves into a growth machine through process and product innovation
• How Toyota achieves the industry’s best service in their $4 billion service parts business with double the inventory turns of their competitors
• How a 220-store retail grocery chain facing new competition from big box discounters applied lean thinking to every part of their business to reverse declining sales to grow 60 percent in four years
• How Alcoa created their own internal lean consulting team that wrings out annual savings of more than $100 million per year
• From an Air Force four-star general how they are transforming their lean deployment strategy and metrics for huge benefits in their 700,000 member global organization
• How Toyota’s intelligent use of IT and enterprise process reengineering enabled them to change vehicle specifications to individual customer requirements just five days before final assembly
• How Learjet’s general manager created the most efficient plant in Bombardier Aerospace’s nine global plants.
• How a German Volkswagen executive learned from Toyota to see and lead in a lean system and landed a COO job with a major global company
• How the retired dean of the University of Toyota and director of Special Olympics applied lean thinking with his board to transform their strategy to effectively drive fund raising in this difficult economy—an important lesson in the health care debate

There are practical presentations and training programs for teams—programs full of concepts and ideas that can begin implemented immediately. Bring your core team to this once-in-a-lifetime executive learning event and transform your operations into a competitive weapon for growth.

Register online.