Registration & Information Desk Open

Exhibit Installation

First Timers Reception

Welcoming Reception

Registration & Information Desk Open

Breakfast and Business Program I

Welcoming Remarks
Wilson Lester
Senior Vice President, Supply Chain
Rite Aid Corporation

State of the Industry
Tony Civello
Chairman, President & CEO, Kerr Drug, Inc.
NACDS Chairman of the Board

State of the Association
Steve Anderson, IOM, CAE
President & Chief Executive Officer 
NACDS

Keynote Speaker
Nolan Ryan
Hall of Fame Pitcher

Exhibit Hall Open

Lunch

Education Sessions

RFID & EPCglobal: The State of the Standards
EPCglobal continues to lead multi-industry collaboration efforts to develop standards that support track and trace, pedigree, inventory management, eProof of delivery, cold chain management, and pharmacy management. As the standards are tested and released, EPCglobal continues to create products and services to support each phase of RFID adoption. Come find out how these offerings can help your company today and get the latest updates and better understand how healthcare, consumer products, and transportation and logistics industries are using EPC/RFID technology.

Speaker: Robert Celeste,
EPCglobal

State of Retailer and Supplier Collaboration
This session will feature the results of the recently completed second annual report on the state of manufacturer and retailer collaboration. The resulting data and analyses — based on a survey of 80 manufacturers and 89 retailers. The report covers key topics and trends, including demand planning and forecasting, collaborative product development, trade promotion management, marketing collaboration, supply chain execution, and foundational technologies like RFID and global data synchronization.

Speaker: Patrick Connaughton
Forrester Research, Inc.

Results of NACDS/Clemson Packaging
In an effort to reach best practice packaging for the holistic manufacturing and retailer supply chain, NACDS is embarking on an optimization study with Clemson University’s packaging science school.  The results of this study will be presented over two breakout sessions. Case packaging design considerations have not kept pace with evolving supply chain process requirements.  This project was conceived to address the evolving requirements.

Speaker: Bob Kimmel
Clemson University

GDSN/Master Data Management
How are companies establishing policies to manage their data and ensure that it is accurate all the time?  Is data synch still important?

Speaker:  Colin Haig
SAP

Refreshment Break

Education Sessions

Using Vendor Scorecarding to Drive Performance
How are trading partners measuring performance today, and what additional metrics should be considered in the future?

Speaker: Marc Urowsky
L'Oreal USA

Speaker: Troy Shively
Rite Aid Corporation

Speaker: Ron Link
CVS

Speaker: Mary Lou McCleese
Johnson & Johnson

Moderator: Jim Seber
Seber Logistics Consulting

Supply Chain Transformation: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
During this session, we will discuss the predictive supply chain theory as a component of the 4 waves of transformation and hidden yet massive potential within the supply chain network.

The presentation will cover how leading supply chains allow businesses to go beyond the standard operations of traditional systems and into the 21st century reality of global visibility, real-time transactions, and high customer expectations.

Speaker: Joe Hornberger
Manhattan Associates

Results of NACDS/Clemson Packaging Study
(Repeat Session)
In an effort to reach best practice packaging for the holistic manufacturing and retailer supply chain, NACDS is embarking on an optimization study with Clemson University’s packaging science school.  The results of this study will be presented over two breakout sessions. Case packaging design considerations have not kept pace with evolving supply chain process requirements.  This project was conceived to address the evolving requirements.

Speaker: Bob Kimmel
Clemson University

Planning for Avian Flu and Other Supply Chain Risk and Disruptions
Over the years, our industry has developed business continuity plans, and disaster relief and recovery plans, but is our supply chain ready to respond to an avian flu pandemic?  This session will explore some of the issues and challenges to consider in the event of a flu pandemic.

Speaker: Mark Hillman
AMR Research

Exhibit Hall Open

Reception

Registration & Information Desk Open

Breakfast and Business Program II

Will Hope and History Rhyme
Speaker: Randy Lewis
Senior Vice President, Distribution and Logistics
Walgreen, Co.

The Roads That Built America
Speaker: Dan McNichol
Author

Exhibit Hall Open

Lunch

Education Sessions

Product Launches and Discontinuations
(presentation)
Timing the on-shelf availability with the onset of a national advertising campaign is key to the success of a new product launch.  Just as important is a collaborative strategy for discontinuing the items that the new product is replacing.  This session will explore successful supply chain strategies that address both these issues.

Speaker: Michael Hartman
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

NACDS Legislative Update
(presentation)
This session will feature an update on legislation at the state and federal level that affects the distribution of products our members carry and includes an update on pedigrees, CSOS, and pseudoephedrine.

Speaker: Kevin Nicholson
NACDS

Staples Business Depot (Canada) Demonstrates Benefits of RFID
(presentation)
Staples Business Depot, the Canadian subsidiary of the international office-products retailer, completed an end-to-end supply-chain pilot in 2006 with a group of its vendors to their delivery center, as well as on a direct-to-store basis to successfully demonstrate the process benefits of utilizing EPC-ready Gen 2 technology in real world operations. Presentation includes specific component descriptions of an end-to-end RFID pilot project, definitive technology and productivity metric results, and methods utilized to create a collaborative RFID pilot among supply chain partners.

Speaker: Jeff Ashcroft
Strategic Logistics Partners

Deriving Value from Imminent Regulatory Changes in International Trade
(presentation)
With the changes on Capitol Hill and the new agenda priorities for Homeland Security through the ports of the U.S. , the retail industry and its suppliers both in the U.S. and around the globe will need to adjust some current processes to accommodate new regulations and oversight.

This session will present Washington, DC, based view of the impending changes being discussed, and then turn to the extraction of operational and financial benefits from the Supply Chain Management process and procedural changes demanded from shippers and carriers to meet the new regulatory requirements.

Speaker: Joseph McKinney
System Planning Corporation

Refreshment Break

Education Sessions

State of the Trucking Industry
The trucking industry has undergone a significant transformation over the past few years.  We are in the midst of a driver shortage and changes to a variety of rules and regulations in the industry.  This session will highlight how the industry is evolving and what is next.

Speaker: Bob Costello
American Trucking Associations

Out of Stocks-Solutions on the Horizon?
(presentation)
For the past two years, a global study has been undertaken to identify opportunities to reduce out of stocks to help drive profitable growth for both retailers and manufacturers.  During this session, participants will hear how effective the solutions were in reducing the incidence of OOS.  This study was sponsored by Procter & Gamble and will be published in the first quarter of 2007.  

Speaker: J.P. Brackman
Procter & Gamble Company

New Developments in Managing Returns:
Reverse Logistics, Back to the Basics
By focusing on front end supply chain efficiency and working collaboratively between trading partners many companies are reducing their Reverse Logistics expense by keeping their products out of that channel altogether.  Learn how leading companies are reducing returns and unsaleables by collaborating with their trading partners.  This session will focus on the very real progress that is being made and the dollars that are being saved by measuring, understanding, and reacting to conditions that lead to damages and unsaleables in the chain drug channel.

Speaker: Don Rombach
GENCO

Exhibit Hall Open

Exhibit Hall Dismantle

Reception

Closing Dinner & Entertainment
Featuring: Toxic Audio