News Release Energy Management and Supply Chain Optimization Seminar

Tim Neroni, Vice-President of Sales at Hy-Tek Material Handling, Inc. and a member of the Fairfield 33 Development Alliance, invites central Ohio business leaders to a day long continuing education event January 22, 2010 at the Concourse Hotel , 4300 International Gateway, Columbus, OH 43219. The event will run from 7:30 am to 4:00 pm and include breakfast and lunch. There will be a CEO Panel discussing the impact of Supply Chain on business, moderated by John Ness, President of ODW Logistics. Additionally, nationally renowned speakers Steve Gran, Brian Cain, Neal Verfuerth, and Dave Tumbas, CFO from Hy-Tek Material Handling, Inc., will discuss how to implement practical cost saving measures in the business environment. Included in the event will be a breakout workshop session which will allow participants to review their own company circumstances and receive one-on-one assessments, government and utility incentive program information, and ROI analysis.

Optimizing Your Supply Chain: Making the Ties to Financial & Operational Results

Working through an example using actual data from financial balance sheets and income statements, Steve Gran and Brian Cain will demonstrate how to design the organizational architecture around a supply chain that will help solidify the necessary connections to create a common language for standard work and choose the right tools to promote focused efforts toward meeting or exceeding a company’s goals. Learn how the cash-to-cash cycle time can be reduced as you gain visibility through simple tools and analysis to discover hidden cash flow and meaningful cost reduction. Find new ways to identify variations in the supply value chain, understand total costs at the SKU level, and target factors leading to profit erosion. This session will cover an introduction to Flow Duration Management™ that can translate to tangible lessons across multiple functional areas in an organization.

Capitalizing on Energy Management and Green Initiatives

Neal Verfuerth, CEO at Orion, will address the state of the energy industry and how global competition, rising energy costs and environmental regulations will impact businesses. Verfuerth will offer R.O. I. strategies and technology that Fortune 500 companies are implementing now to promote energy efficiency, reduce energy consumption, improve the environment, and reduce costs.

Verfuerth will discuss the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which incorporates more than $80 billion in clean energy investments, including $6.3 billion for state and local renewable energy and energy-efficiency efforts.

Hy-Tek Material Handling, Inc. is a single-source provider of solutions in material handling systems integration, energy efficient lighting, strategy, mobile equipment, technology, information, engineering and service for 46 years. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Hy-Tek has now completed energy efficient lighting and material handling projects in forty states as well as Canada and Mexico. Hy-Tek’s 55,000-square-foot corporate headquarters are located in the Rickenbacker Airport complex in Columbus, Ohio.

Register at www.columbusroundtable.org or call 740.549.5478 for more information.

12/04/2009