The Supplier Excellence Alliance (SEA) and Cessna Aircraft Company to Hold a June 19, 2008 Supplier CEO Conference for the Aerospace/Defense Industry

Irvine, CA (PRWEB) May 21, 2008 -- The Supplier Excellence Alliance (SEA) and Cessna Aircraft Company are teaming up for a June 19, 2008 Supplier CEO Conference for senior leaders of supplier companies within the aerospace, defense and space supply chain. The Supplier CEO Conference will be hosted in Wichita, Kansas by Cessna Aircraft Company. An opening Reception, co-hosted by Big Kaiser Precision Tooling Inc. and International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS08), will be held on the evening of June 18, 2008. The Conference will focus on strategies for accelerating supply chain performance.

Prime empowered and supplier led, SEA is a non-profit alliance of leading industry prime and tier-one contractors and sub-tier production suppliers that is transforming the global supply chain by improving supply chain performance, expanding supplier capabilities and collaboration to produce breakthrough supply chain solutions.

The Supplier CEO Conference will feature an impressive line up of industry experts as conference speakers, including?

Keynote Speaker, Ron Alberti, Vice President, Integrated Supply Chain, for Cessna Aircraft Company. The theme of Ron's talk will be "An integrated supply chain - enabling Cessna's lean journey."

Joe Sandor, Hoagland-Metzler Endowed Professor of Practice in Supply Management at Michigan State University's Eli Broad School of Business. Joe's theme will be "Supply chain 2010 and beyond."

CEOs from Omni Aerospace, Perfekta, Inc., and Torotel Products sharing their experiences in implementing the SEA Roadmap, the industry standard for continuous improvement.

Attending supplier executives will find it easy to network through SEA's unique SPEEDCONNECT?, a fast-pace forum for personally connecting with SEA Board Members, SEA Supplier Advisory Council Members, SEA Outreach Committee Members and SEA Sponsors.

SEA member companies represented on its board of directors include The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Northrop Grumman Corporation, United Technologies, Inc, Parker Aerospace, Rockwell Collins, Cessna Aircraft Company, Honeywell Aerospace, Hitco Carbon Composites, Dresser-Rand, Roberts Tool Company, Cristek Interconnects, Photo Etch Company, Bodycote Thermal Processing, Esterline Corporation, and DRS Technologies.

SEA sponsors include Mori Seiki, USA, Inc., and IMTS. SEA partners and alliances include Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG), Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC), California Council for Excellence, California Employment Training Panel, California Space Authority, UAW-Labor Employment and Training Corporation, and ASG Renaissance.

To learn more, visit the SEA website at http://www.seaonline.org

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