| 08:00 |
Coffee |
| 09:00 |
- Kickoff by Senior Supply Chain Executive
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Supply Chain Challenges in the retail/CPG industry are many and varied. Choosing what
to focus on can mean the difference between achieving company goals or facing the wrath of financial analysts.
This presentation will deal with the key factors that CEOs' mus consider when making
investment, organizational or technological decisions and how they measure success.
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| 10:45 |
Break |
| 11:00 |
- Collaborative, Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment [CPFR ®]
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This session will describe the genesis of CPFR and the development of the business process
model that is being employed by numerous companies and industries around the globe.
Case studies will depict the benefits and learning's that companies have experienced as they
developed collaborative relationships with their trading partners and improved the quality of the
information vital to demand planning and supply chain execution. The impact on on increased sales,
improved profitability and cash flow will be discussed.
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| 12:00 |
Lunch |
| 1:00 |
- Floor-Ready Merchandise [FRM]
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General merchandise retailers and their suppliers ahve successfully developed and implemented
standards that have dramatically improved productiviity for the merchants and their suppliers.
Various standards, collaboratively developed, have effectively and effeciently improved the flow of
merchandise from the cutting floor to the sales counter. Case studies will explain the actual
experiences and games achieved.
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| 2:00 |
- Logistics & Transportation
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Transportation, long forgotten by senior management, will be front and center as a result of
the new federal government regulations concerning hours of service. Companies will be compelled
to employ standards developed by VICS, to include the Electronic Bill of Lading the VICS Routing
Guide and Collaborative Transportation Management to meet cost and customer service objectives.
Senior leadership will forced to focus transportation, a cost center tahat is typically seventy
percent of the supply chain budget, and this session will provide thought provoking suggestions
that will deliver results.
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| 3:00 |
- RFID - EPC ™
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Radio Frequency Identification has been practiced for sometime, but the advent of the electronic
product code, a passive chip, will change the supply chain landscape, much as the U.P.C. did several
decades ago. This session will deal with the current state of implementation, technology, and
applications, providing the audience with a clear picture of the path forward.
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| 4:00 |
Q & A |
