RFID & EPCglobal: The State of the Standards
1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
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
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State of Retailer and Supplier Collaboration
1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Increasingly, manufacturers and retailers must compete in a dynamic collaborative environment in which today's collaborator is tomorrow's competitor. To benchmark the state of industry collaboration, Forrester partnered with Consumer Goods Technology and RIS News for the 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 — cover 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.
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Results of NACDS/Clemson Packaging Study
1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Case packaging has historically been a broad product-flow activity and standard necessity. However, design considerations have not kept pace with evolving supply chain process requirements. This project was conceived to address the evolving requirements. Packaging science has mainly been performed by the manufacturing side of the supply chain. Key metrics include crush strength, corrugate caliper, tear resistance, damage minimization, and cost efficiency. Though these metrics are essential, they currently do not adequately represent the retailer side of the supply chain. Retailer packaging metrics include similar components such as damage minimization, and cost efficiency, injury risk aversion, corrugate disposal, and many aspects associated with piece picking. 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.
Speaker: Bob Kimmel, Clemson University
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GDSN/Master Data Management
1:00p.m. – 1.45 p.m.
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
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Using Vendor Scorecarding to Drive Performance
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
How are trading partners measuring performance today, and what additional metrics should be considered in the future?
Moderator:
Jim Seber, Seber Logistics Consulting
Speakers:
Marc Urowsky, L'Oreal USA
Troy Shively, Rite Aid Corporation
Ron Link, CVS
Mary Lou McCleese, Johnson & Johnson
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Supply Chain Transformation: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
2:00p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
During this session, we will discuss the predictive supply chain theory as a component of the 4 waves of transformation and it’s 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
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Results of NACDS/Clemson Packaging Study
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Case packaging has historically been a broad product-flow activity and standard necessity. However, design considerations have not kept pace with evolving supply chain process requirements. This project was conceived to address the evolving requirements. Packaging science has mainly been performed by the manufacturing side of the supply chain. Key metrics include crush strength, corrugate caliper, tear resistance, damage minimization, and cost efficiency. Though these metrics are essential, they currently do not adequately represent the retailer side of the supply chain. Retailer packaging metrics include similar components such as damage minimization, and cost efficiency, injury risk aversion, corrugate disposal, and many aspects associated with piece picking. 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.
Speaker: Bob Kimmel, Clemson University
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Planning for Avian Flu and Other Supply Chain Risk and Disruptions
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
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
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Deriving Value from Imminent Regulatory Changes in International Trade
(presentation)
1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
With the changes on Capitol Hill and the new agenda priorities for Homeland Security through the Ports of the US, the retail industry and its suppliers both in the US and around the globe will need to adjust some current processes to accommodate new regulations and oversight.
•What new oversight is to be expected?
•What will be the types of costs that many firms will incur?
•What are the implications of the “Green Lane” flow of containers?
•How can companies derive more value from these changes than the costs incurred?
•What newly developed technologies will allow real financial benefits to be tapped?
Mr. McKinney will present another 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
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Product Launches and Discontinuations
(presentation)
1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
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
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NACDS Legislative Update
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1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
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
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Staples Business Depot (Canada) Demonstrates Benefits of RFID
(presentation)
1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
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
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State of the Trucking Industry
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
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
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Out of Stocks - Solutions on the Horizon?
(presentation)
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
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 endorsed by NACDS and will be published in the first quarter of 2007.
Speaker: J.P. Brackman, Procter & Gamble Company
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New Developments in Managing Returns
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Reverse Logistics, back to the basics
Many companies are learning that the most effective way to manage Reverse Logistics is to avoid it all together. The key is to avoid Reverse Logistics, not ignore Reverse Logistics. 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
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