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Supply Chain Excellence = Strategy Alignment
MIT Supply Chain 2020 Projects research on excellent supply chains found that focusing on achieving corporate customer objectives rather than just reducing costs and inventories can have a greater overall impact on financial performance. It also found that excellent supply chains are those that support, enhance and are an integral part of a competitive corporate strategy. Dr. Lapide will cover the Strategic Alignment methodology and show how it can be used to tailor your supply chain to compete in the market.
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One If By Land: Approaching Trends From The European Material Handling Industry
European nations face logistic challenges that we on U.S. soil have not, but may soon. They have long focused on smaller order fulfillment quantities, reusable containers, minimizing waste, aging population and high cost of land. Sound familiar? This multi-continent expert in Supply Chain design and optimization will shed some light on off-shore strategies and results that may help you get a jump on the future of U.S. distribution.
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From Magnifying Glass To Telescope - Setting Strategy For 2020
As a leader in North American heavy manufacturing, Caterpillar has plenty of global rivals vying for market share. As such, survival demands an operational and logistic strategy that is more than just forward thinking. This inspiring summary of Cats Vision 2020 strategy will help you contemplate your next several supply chain moves.
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Demographics In The Drivers Seat
The time was when shifts in demographics were considered to be long-term drivers of business strategy. That reality has abruptly changed to where shifts are influencing shorter-term strategies and even tactical plans; and, all of this has occurred in less than one management generation. This presentation will examine the shifts that have companies rethinking infrastructure investments and explore several key demographic drivers that have proven to be reliable business indicators.
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What Makes World Class Warehousing & Material Handling?
In world-class warehousing, costs are minimized while also improving customer service. The principles and systems described in this session, developed over a decade of logistics research, education and consulting project experience, are common denominators of world class warehousing. These lessons can be used to develop a warehouse master plan to support the corporations overall logistics strategy.
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The Perfect Labor Storm: Trends In Workforce Demographics
Aging leadership, retiring baby boomers, rising health care costs, shortages of skilled labor and generational gaps in attitude and work ethic, are just a few of the workforce demographic and socio-economic events that are converging. Together, these trends threaten to produce a rare resource void in the Supply Chain. This session will clarify the issues and help you prepare. Bring your rain coat.
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Motivating Productivity In Your Valuable Workforce
We have long been taught that motivation is a personal thing people do what they want to do, not what we want them to do. Right? Wrong! This tutorial is designed to help you pull your supervisors out of a victim mentality regarding their disengaged employees. The information provided about human behavior will show you that supervisors actually have full control over whether or not an associate is motivated. Could your organization stand a boost in productivity?
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Finding Best Practices In Your Own Backyard
Many companies are sitting on undiscovered collections of their own best practices. Internal benchmarking can readily unlock those valuable practices to help drive significant performance improvements. This presentation provides an easy to follow framework for creating an internal benchmarking program and provides a case study of how one company achieved breakthrough results learning from themselves.
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