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Operations
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A1 – Maximizing Warehouse Space (When Expansion Isn’t an Option)
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The challenges that face your supply chain don’t stop simply because your warehouse is full. This session will reveal the best practices for identifying latent capacity and discuss the best and latest solutions for maximizing throughput.
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A2 – Distribution: Performance Metric Monitoring
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Data is plentiful in the distribution center. What time-constrained supply chain professionals need is information. This session will focus on how to identify and track what you need to know with minimal investment in your most precious resource: time.
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A3 – Unlocking Hidden Cash Flow with Inventory Optimization
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In this slowly recovering, price-sensitive economy, supply chain leaders can give their company a competitive advantage by applying new thinking, tools, and techniques to an old challenge.
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A4 – Transportation Trends and Contingency Planning
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The transportation industry was almost decimated by the Great Recession, and competition remains fierce among the remaining competitors. But continued weakness in the transportation sector is masking some stark realities for the coming months and years. Will your company be ready for the coming capacity crunch?
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A5 – SI&OP Executive Help Wanted
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Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SI&OP) has been around as a best practice for quite a while, yet many companies claim that they fail to achieve the fully-expected results. This session will take you through some of the biggest identified inhibitors to success (Warning: attendees have to promise not to shoot the messenger).
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Global Supply Chain
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B1 – Freight Consolidation and DC Bypass
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Optimizing transportation has never been more challenging than with today’s emphasis on reduced inventories. And with potential capacity shortages around the corner, now is the time to evaluate and take advantage of every available opportunity,
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B2 – How Are Companies Organizing for Supply Chain Excellence?
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Managing change while simultaneously pursuing supply chain transformation is not only essential; it is also a very important step in achieving Supply Chain Excellence. However, the scope and rate of change is increasing. This track will focus on the best practices for your supply chain organization.
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B3 – Rebuilding Global Supplier Relationships
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The dire circumstances created by the recent global economic downturn necessitated some extremely short-sighted decisions to maintain solvency, thereby straining long-standing and burgeoning supplier relationships alike. Long-term success depends on the ability to work confidently with your business partners. This session will focus on how to get back on the mutually-beneficial path.
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B4 – Mergers and Acquisition: Supply Chain Integration
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M&A activity is experiencing a resurgence, but time and time again, the projected savings touted in press releases never seem to materialize. This session will focus on how to quickly and strategically turn two supply chains into one and deliver natural synergies to the bottom line.
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B5 – International Supply Chain Trade Finance
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The intricacies of the global supply chain aren’t limited to the physical movement of product and the requisite paperwork for moving goods across borders and oceans. Learn more about the best practices and potential pitfalls of the financial transaction.
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Technology and Automation
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C1 – TMS Growth Outpacing WMS Growth
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2010 is the year of the Transportation Management System (TMS). With the economy still in the early stages of recovery and capital budgets cut to absolute minimums, companies of all sizes are finding the resources to invest in TMS implementations and upgrades. This session will tell you why TMS is hot and what you should expect to gain once the system is fully functional.
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C2 – The Importance of Warehouse Control Systems
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There is a lot of data between the cement floor of your D.C. and the “glass ceiling” of your I.T. department, but how do you focus it all into useful, timely information that can improve your business? This session will explore how Warehouse Control Systems can efficiently transform your supply chain personnel from number crunchers into decision makers.
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C3 – Network Design and Inventory Optimization Software Advances
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How many days – that’s right days – has it been since you optimized your supply chain network? If you don’t know the answer, then it’s been too long. This session will discuss recent technology advances that have taken a process that was once done annually (at most) and moved it into the era of scalability, flexibility, and globalization.
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C4 – Emergence of SaaS in Supply Chain Technology
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Software as a Service (SaaS) has grown rapidly to fill technology voids created by global supply chains that are evolving and addressing new challenges at an ever-increasing rate. Learn how your company can quickly and affordably solve problems with limited commitments by taking advantage of this emerging solution.
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C5 – Automation Trends in 2010 - Systems Integration for Today
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Find out what automation practitioners are installing in today’s facilities and uncover the latest trends in systems integration in this cutting-edged, informative session.
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Core Benchmarks
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D1 – Core Benchmarks – Distribution Operations
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This topic presents a view into the critical benchmarks that drive DC performance from inbound processing to value-added service and everything in-between.
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D2 – Core Benchmarks – Domestic and International Transportation
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This session features a review and discussion of key transportation benchmarks and practices, covering major modes of transportation across the water and in the air as well as domestically.
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D3 – Core Benchmarks – Planning, Inventory and Forecasting
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Here we present and open for discussion the key metrics surrounding supply chain planning functions, including demand planning, inventories and the always challenging forecasting.
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D4 – Core Benchmarks – Procurement and Sourcing
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The core metrics of sourcing and procurement effectiveness are broken down and summarized in a brief presentation and facilitated discussion. Topics include the “How” of sourcing products and the “What” of procurement metrics.
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D5 – Core Benchmarks – Supply Chain Cost Measures
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This session highlights the supply chain from a cost perspective with a review of logistics costs, inventories, days outstanding and an interesting presentation of the major factors driving supply chain costs today.
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Environment and Security
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E1 – Risk Management Tools and Techniques
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Minimizing the risk inherent in today’s longer, more complex supply chains is one of the biggest concerns of most supply chain executives. This session provides an overview of risk identification and analysis, risk mitigation and tracking and tools such as Fault Tree Analysis and FMEA as a basis for supply chain risk management.
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E2 – Security Cost Assessment – What is Security Really Costing You?
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Security is not something to be treated lightly, as the cost of security in many parts of the world escalates. The true cost of security includes many hidden and some highly visible cost factors, all of which will be discussed and debated.
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E3 – Top 10 Waste Reduction Ideas
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If you are seeking practical ideas to reduce your waste stream from recycling to reuse, this session will give you added incentive by running down the top 10 ideas from our recent survey.
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E4 – Sustainability Lessons from the Leaders
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The leaders in the field of sustainability are using techniques and generating innovative concepts to dramatically reduce their carbon footprints. Results from the Consortium’s surveys on packaging, facilities and buildings, waste reduction and transportation sustainability will be reviewed in this broad-based environmental session.
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E5 – Environmentally Sound Transportation Best Practices
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Transportation is one of the major areas in which energy is expended and harmful exhausted created, therefore this is a prime area to focus on for the environment. Leaders in the transportation sustainability field will share thoughts and examples of ways to improve the energy and emissions efficiency of transportation.
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