Clearing the Borders - Navigating Regulatory Hurdles
As importing goods, both finished and unfinished, becomes more important to both retailers and manufacturers, new regulations have been enacted or are under consideration that will affect the speed and availability of these products. This session will highlight these new regulations and provide tips for companies to consider as they import these products.
Collaborating to Improve Efficiency and Lower Costs - A Panel Discussion
This panel of retailers and manufacturers will showcase how they have worked cooperatively to identify areas for operational improvement, increased their efficiencies and lowered their mutual costs through supply chain collaboration.
Complying with CPSIA - What Every Company Needs to Know
Last August, Congress passed the Consumer Product Safety Information Act (CPSIA) that affects a broad spectrum of products that are sold in retail outlets. This session will outline the types of products affected and steps that both retailers and manufacturers need to take in order to be compliant with this new (and evolving) legislation.
Empty Miles - Using Collaboration to Lower Shipping Costs
VICS, with support from GS1 NA, is making it easier for companies to address a significant opportunity in this area - empty miles. The new VICS Empty Miles Service helps reduce empty trailers and carbon footprint by enabling supply chain collaboration on route planning.
"Future Supply Chain 2016", published by the Global Commerce Initiative together with Capgemini, presents a new integrated supply chain model that takes into account sustainability parameters such as CO2 emissions reduction, reduced energy consumption, better traceability and reduced traffic congestion, as well as traditional measures like on-shelf availability, cost reduction and financial performance.
Impact of New Regulations on Pharmaceutical Distribution Operations
REMS and SOMS - If you are in the pharmaceutical supply chain and don't understand these acronyms, then this is a session you can not afford to miss. Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies and Suspicious Ordering Monitoring Systems are two new buzz words that the federal agencies such as the DEA are using to monitor the sale of controlled substances and products containing pseudoephedrine. This session will highlight the impact of REMS and SOMS on distribution operations.
Millenials and How to Manage Future Business Leaders in the Current Workplace
Developing tomorrow's leaders is a challenge in any economy. In the current environment, how can companies, retailers and suppliers alike, identify, motivate, train and retain their future leaders. This session will provide a blueprint for how managers can manage through tough times and still develop future leaders.
Sustainability and the Environment
Sustainability has become imbedded in today's business lexicon. This session will focus on what can be accomplished to support corporate sustainability objectives throughout the supply chain.
Total Cost to Serve allows you to see how costs are incurred and allocated across the end to end supply chain — enabling companies to alter their supply chain practices to improve overall profitably. Cost to serve modeling can be used by manufacturers or retailers individually or collaboratively to optimize efficiency and lower total supply chain costs by better understanding the cost drivers. This allows companies to create "what if" capabilities to help design supply chain enhancements that drive increased profitability. Cost to serve analyses/models enable companies to aggregate costs by product class/customer across the company for various time periods.
With annual losses of cargo through theft approaching $25 billion, both retailers and manufacturers have a vested interest in cargo security. This session will highlight the latest approaches to cargo security and how our industry can work proacitvely with law enforcement to rapidly respond in the event of a lost vehicle.
Understanding the Impact of the Economic Stimulus Plan on America’s Infrastructure
The recently passed stimulus plan will lead to significant investment into our nation's infrastructure. This session will highlight the impact of the plan on the US Transportation System.
Using POS Data to Drive Supply Chain Efficiency
This session will address how companies work collaboratively on data-sharing, covering supply chain and sales insights, addressing more than just the simple challenge of getting the data, but also knowing how to successfully leverage the data by employing best practices and business intelligence for strategic operational and supply chain gains.