STANFORD, CA. - April 14, 2009 - More than 150 supply chain management experts, practitioners, and policy makers are expected to gather at a conference May 21 at the Stanford Graduate School of Business to exchange best practices for sustainable supply chains. Registration is now open for executives, nonprofit leaders, policy makers and academics.

The conference, "Advancing Socially and Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains: Innovation, Integration, Incentives," is co-sponsored by the Global Supply Chain Management Forum and the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

"More than ever, working environmentally sustainable elements into your supply chain is essential to good business," said Hau Lee, Codirector of the Global Supply Chain Management Forum and the Thoma Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology. "This is the time for companies to retool their supply chains so they are ready when markets expand again."

Featuring all new speakers and topics, the agenda for this one day conference will focus on how companies can integrate green supply chain responsibility into their corporate DNA, improve visibility beyond tier-one suppliers, advance responsibility through technology and process innovations, create supplier incentives that result in win-wins, and adapt to a new world with volatile labor and energy costs.

Speakers are expected from Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, Pepsico, Riders for Health, Safeway, Dow Chemical, and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.

"The most powerful way to foster social innovation is by promoting the mutual exchange of ideas, values, talent, and capital across sectors"“what we call 'dissolving boundaries' through the collaboration of business, government, and nonprofits," said James Phills, the Claude N. Rosenberg Jr. Director of the Center for Social Innovation and Professor of Organizational Behavior (Teaching) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

"This conference provides a platform for supply chain executives and experts to work together toward the common goal of ensuring the availability of natural resources, supporting social reforms, while securing the efficient delivery of supplies," said Lee.

The conference is part of the Global Supply Chain Forum's Socially and Environmentally Responsible (SER) Supply Chains program, which is focused on identifying best practices and developing new models and frameworks. To achieve this, the SER Program is collaborating with a cross-section of industries and organizations, conducting SER-related research and student projects, developing new teaching cases and courses, and sharing knowledge though events and publications.

Conference fees are $495 for corporate members, $295 for nonprofit and government attendees. A registration discount is available through April 24, 2009. To register, go to: http://www.register123.com/event/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x638743f5e9 Stanford Social Innovation Review subscribers will receive a discount.

If you are already a member of the Stanford Global Supply Forum, contact Vanessa Hutchinson at hutchinson_vanessa@gsb.stanford.edu

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The Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) is the leading publication for executives at nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible businesses. Published by the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the quarterly journal chronicles and advances the exchange of ideas between sectors to foster innovative solutions to social problems. A publication of CSI.
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