Speaker Bio

Lusi Zheng

Lusi Zheng

Sr Director, Advisory
Lusi Zheng is a Senior Director Advisor in the PPR & Quality
Advisory team. Lusi advises quality leaders and supply chain planning leaders at the world's largest companies across multiple industries. Her core areas of focus include culture of quality, quality strategy development, cost of quality, demand planning, forecasting, S&OP and S&OE.
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Monday, May 08, 2023 / 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
Ask the Expert: Designing a Cost of Quality Program

Effective cost of quality programs reduce costs and improve margins, providing an advantage in a tougher economic environment. Yet, fewer than 20% of business leaders say they do anything with the data these programs generate. This session allows quality and supply chain leaders to ask an expert question on how to design a cost of quality program that the business adopts. Please note: This session will NOT cover specific metric calculations, performance benchmarks or calculating the value of the quality function.

Tuesday, May 09, 2023 / 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM EDT
Roundtable: A Peer Exchange on the Latest in Quality Management

Join your peers in this lively exchange to address your top priorities and challenges in quality management. With today’s complexity, this is an opportune time for quality leaders to gather around common challenges, share experiences and learn from one another. Attendees should come to this session ready to contribute their experiences and ideas.

This session is for quality leaders only.

Tuesday, May 09, 2023 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM EDT
Key Strategies for an Effective Product Portfolio Optimization Framework

Growth continues to be a top priority for most organizations. One of the ways that historically has been associated to growth is the expansion of the portfolio with new offerings, however this poses a complexity challenge too. In this session we will discuss the strategy so that Supply Chain Planning Leads support the portfolio optimization, how to balance complexity and a framework to put in place so the process can be replicated and sustained.

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 / 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM EDT
Role of Supply Chain Planning in Driving Agility

To be more agile is part of all organizations objectives, but what is agility and how it impacts the supply chain planning way of work? This session is intended to discuss the types of process agility , from the design to the operation. How to tackle them and what supply chain planning can do to enable the organization in truly being more agile.

Join us to hear from Gartner experts and thought leaders.