October 2009
Tuesday, October 20th (please note: date change from the 27th)
Long Term Agreements & Contract Negotiations Panel
5:30pm Registration and Networking
6:00pm Dinner and Panel discussion
Geezers Restaurant, Santa Fe Springs Map
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Our panelists will be discussing their experiences with Long Term Agreements with customers and vendors.
We will discuss:
What to look out for, how to structure contracts, how to hedge commodity prices, benefits and drawbacks to having long term agreements, quality programs required by some customers to do business with them, managing quality from vendors, forecast and delivering to the release, how to turn relationships into partnerships, assessing the risks involved and negotiating a price to compensate for the risk.
Panelists include: Pat Scott, President, NC Dynamics, Scott Wallace, President, Votaw Precision Technologies and Dan Watts, Customer Liaison Rep, D-Velco Mfg., assigned at Honeywell
November 2009
Tuesday, November 17th
Roundtable Discussion with NTMA Chairman Ron Overton
5:00pm - 5:30pm Reception
6:00pm Dinner and Speaker, Welcome Comments by Ron Overton and Roundtable discussion
Location to be determined
We are pleased that NTMA National Chairman Ron Overton will be joining us. Ron is the president of Overton Industries in Mooresville, Indiana. Overton specializes in metal tubing services, injection mold tooling, carbide tooling, custom stamping, and powdered metal tooling in the Automotive, Consumer Products, Defense, Energy, Heavy Equipment and Safety Industries. Ron will give us a quick overview of doing business in the Auto industry.
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