NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly a dozen of the
 automotive industry's top executives will address manufacturing success via
 tight, cohesive supply chain management at the 2007 Automotive News
 Manufacturing Conference May 16 - 18 at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel in
 Nashville, TN. The event is sponsored by Deloitte and Tennessee Economic
 and Community Development.
     The conference theme, The Seamless Supply Chain: The managerial culture
 and technical tools that make for high-quality, high-productivity
 manufacturing, spotlights factory floor coordination and communication not
 only in state-of-the-art technology, but also state-of-the-art planning and
 organizational ideas.
     Automotive News Manufacturing Conference presentations kick off with
 individual morning remarks by:
     -- William G. Diehl, President, CEO & Global Automotive Practice Lead, BBK
     -- Ron Harbour, President, Harbour Consulting
     -- John G. Kalson, Director of Production, Hyundai Motor Manufacturing
        Alabama
     -- Bill Krueger, Senior Vice President North American Manufacturing and
        Supply Chain Management (effective 4/1), Nissan North America Inc.
     Sharing insights during an afternoon panel discussion around the theme
 Moving Parts: Achieving perfection in supply chain management will be:
     -- Doug Bartow, Vice President Paint, BMW Manufacturing Corporation LLC
     -- Chris Nielsen, Vice President of Purchasing, Toyota Motor Engineering &
        Manufacturing North America, Inc.
     -- Vicki O'Meara, President, U.S. Supply Chain Solutions, Ryder System,
        Inc.
     -- Sanjiv Sidhu, Founder & Chairman, i2 Technologies, Inc.
     -- Frederiek Toney, Executive Director, Material Planning & Logistics,
        Ford Motor Company
     Bo I. Andersson, Vice President, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain,
 General Motors will address the conference during the dinner program. The
 evening will also include the first-time presentation of the Automotive
 News Supplier's Choice Awards. Based on results of a survey conducted by
 J.D. Power and Associates, the awards recognize original equipment
 manufacturers that best encourage, solicit, implement and reward suppliers'
 innovations as part of their total business plan.
     Rounding out the conference's agenda are VIP tours of Nissan's Smyrna
 Manufacturing Plant.
     The 2007 Automotive News Manufacturing Conference is expected to
 attract 300 - 350 OEM and supplier executives involved in manufacturing,
 purchasing, logistics, information systems, technology and engineering.
     Registration for the Automotive News Manufacturing Conference is $995
 per person. Dinner-only tickets, including the pre-dinner reception, are
 available for $185 per person or $1,850 for a table of ten. Visit
 http://www.autonews.com/manufacturing for a complete agenda and online
 registration or call 313-446 0326.
     The Automotive News Manufacturing Conference is also sponsored by
 Automotive Research Alliance, Brose, Nissan, BBK, Covisint, i2, State of
 Kentucky and the Tennessee Automotive Manufacturers Association.
 
 

SOURCE Automotive News