The supply chain revolution is happening—but what does it mean for you? Advances in connected IoT technologies are radically changing the way you manage the supply chain. By connecting customers, manufacturers, and suppliers through the smart supply chain, you can make the flow of goods faster, safer, more efficient and more environmentally friendly. And by taking a logical, step-by-step approach that combines operational technology (OT) and IT expertise, you can build a smart supply chain at your own pace—and realize exceptional results.

Key Take-Aways

• Assess your business and supply chain challenges: Identify where you are now—and the best starting point for moving to a smart, connected supply chain
• Gain knowledge: Understand the value smart solutions and connected IoT technologies can bring to your business with real-time insights and reporting
• Move forward without fear: Learn how to transform your supply chain one smart step at a time

• What are some of the major disruptors that are changing the game for supply chains?
• What are some consumer trends that companies need pay attention to?
• How can companies prepare their supply chains to respond quickly to sudden and unexpected changes
  in markets?
• What is the impact of emerging technologies on the supply chain?

Attendees will learn how to derive significant performance improvements by transitioning to a single, collaborative Sales & Operations Planning function with customers by implementing Demand-Driven Value Network (DDVN) practices, and how to leverage customer analytics for greater results using Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) best practices. By joining forces with customers to focus on inventory “sell-out” and harnessing data closest to the purchase transaction, companies can turn “big data” into actionable intelligence to deliver better decision-making, increased forecast accuracy, higher sales, and superior service.

Key Take-Aways

• Gain understanding of successful change management requirements, including internal investment and organizational structure considerations, and partner capability assessments
• Learn key requirements for building your own DDVN and VMI roadmap
• Discover the wide range of benefits DDVN and VMI adoption can offer, including greater transparency and agility, reduced supply chain costs and improved retailer performance
• Learn how to connect, gather and analyze data across multiple internal and third-party data sources to enable real-time business performance management, drive insights, enable faster decision-making

High Performance Leadership is a process that defines and drives success at all levels of the organization. It teaches everyone how to create a culture to take action that drives success on the critical few items that are the most important for the organization. This session will go over how defining the playing field, keeping score and aggressively coaching all individuals we can create a team that not only achieves their objectives but will blow them away. High Performance Leadership has demonstrated lowered turn over, improved moral and transformed organizations performance.

Key Take-Aways 

• Defining your high performance process
• Develop your high performance culture
• Keeping score that develops winning teams

An unrelenting increase in the complexity of our organizations, business models, and supply chains combined with unprecedented volumes of data being made available has caused a sort of “paralysis by analysis” in modern companies. Whether a poor decision is made based on faulty information, or even if the right decision is made after much delay, the cost implications can be immense. This session will cover the holistic approaches required to break this decision making barrier, including:

Key Take-Aways

• How operating models & business processes can be tweaked to expedite decision making
• How Data Management & Visualization can improve the reliability of your information while making it available in a format easily consumable by all decision makers
• How recent advancements in Machine Learning provide the ability for both tactical and strategic decisions to be made automatically, reducing decision fatigue and placing focus on areas where a “human touch” is required

In these times of rapid change in the business world, many people have lost TRUST, lost trust in “the company”, lost trust in partnerships, lost trust in their own teams.The presentation will be centered around building trust in your Global Supply Chain, including:

• Trust with your functional and commercial partners
• Trust with your NEW team
• Building More Trust with a long standing existing team

What can you do NOW to prepare for the new technologies and yet drive optimization into your business and see increased service levels by 15%+ and reduced working capital and operational costs by 20%+. Learn what to do when your Supply Chain’s world is turned upside down, when the digitization and ERP digital platforms become a reality in your organization. Building competitive edge in a world class supply chain requires collaboration, decision making and most importantly discipline.

Key Take-Aways

• Optimization of your ERP and alignment between Demand, MRP and Supply operations will significantly improve product delivery
• What key aspects need to be put in place to ensure the organization is ready for the promises of digitization, i.e. agility, speed to market, lot size of one and real-time decisions
• Operations and Supply Chain alignment with capacity managed and leveled production schedules, and see improvement with cost reductions across the end-to-end chain
• Collaborative long-term relationships built on respect and trust in ERP data and ensuring a single source of truth throughout the organization

Today’s consumers are smarter and more demanding shoppers than ever.  To drive customer loyalty, your supply chain must operate flawlessly.  However, you rely heavily on an extensive ecosystem of vendors and other trading partners to execute your supply chain.  Digitizing the buying and fulfillment process, driving visibility, improving collaboration, and vendor compliance, are all essential components of an agile supply chain that minimizes risk and improves consumer satisfaction. This session will explore how Stage Stores digitized and automated its vendor compliance program leveraging OpenText deductions management—driving significant savings to the bottom line, while also improving vendor relationships and satisfaction.

Key Take-Aways 

• How to improve vendor compliance AND improve relationships simultaneously with transparency and real-time information sharing
• Best practices for streamlining supply chain and procurement processes with improved data quality
• Lessons learned in moving from vendor deductions capture to deductions avoidance
• How digital business networks can improve profitability and accelerate growth for your business

During this presentation we will explore the tremendous growth that European Wax Center has experienced over the past 3 years and discuss the foundation cornerstones that were essential in establishing a supply chain that could survive and thrive in a hyper growth environment.

Key Take-Aways

• The importance of selecting the right people
• Collaborative forecasting resulting in a more efficient supply chain
• Transparency is key in an outsourced environment
• Cross-functional workflow leads to better decisions

Complexity burdens most companies. Supply chains can often suffer from too many suppliers and overly-built infrastructures. Supply base consolidation can be a solution to deliver reduced supply chain complexity, provide greater visibility and transparency, and create efficiencies within your supply chain. With these concepts, supply chains can be leaner, more robust, and more profitable.

Key Take-Aways 

• Greater visibility and transparency into your supply chain
• Reduce unnecessary internal competition
• Globalization of supply base lends itself to opportunities to consolidate your global procurement strategies
• Consolidated procurement offers cost benefits as well as better efficiency throughout the supply chain, but it can often difficult to implement, especially when delays and inefficiencies demand attention

Consumers are going to return products — that won’t change. In fact, many consumers will make multiple purchases with the intent to return what doesn’t fit their need. In online commerce, returns aren’t after the purchase, they’re part of the purchase now and are a key factor in forging a continuing relationship with shoppers. Winners in the new economy will get away from treating returns only as a cost and will see it as a competitive opportunity to engage with customers and earn loyalty! Where data show that 92% of shoppers will buy from you again if returns are easy, exceeding their expectations on both purchases and returns will pay off.

Key Take-Aways

• Learn how to setup a value-added omni-channel return solution. You’ve spent money and time creating a seamless omni-channel purchase experience. See how you can do the same with returns
• Profit-driving insight into important customer loyalty and purchase behavior can be extracted from a return solution that captures the proper data. See what that looks like
• Acting on that data is business-critical for sourcing, pricing, policy setting, and promotion
• Leveraging the right reverse supply chain partners can provide faster speed to credit for consumers, maximize value of inventory, reduce your freight/transportation spend and minimize your carbon footprint. Find out how