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Packaging & Marking Innovations For Productivity & Profit
Several new technologies and tactics are impacting the world of packaging and thus, the material handling that moves those packages. Examples include brand protection, counterfeit products, and supply chain diversion with covert marking, covert inks, micro-barcodes, micro-tags, and other mass serialized product marking. Equally noteworthy are the new green packaging techniques such as random height cartons that help minimize mass, cost, fill and freight. This discussion will expose you to several emerging examples that are worth knowing about as you charter your evolution.
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Giving Birth To A Labor Management System
Between the blurred lines of logistic software product categories, the Labor Management space has emerged with the promise of measurable efficiency gains. In this overview, we will discuss the unique functionality that defines labor management, the key HR and engineering initiatives to address, where the ROI comes from and the main integration items you should prepare for.
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Service Oriented Architecture - An Evolution Of IT Design
The next generation of software applications is upon us. SOA is a model of applications that are built by combining reusable inter operable services independent of the underlying platform and programming language or technologies. Proponents believe that SOA can help businesses respond more quickly and cost effectively to changing market conditions. This visionary session will evaluate and compare SOA to traditional software models and help you determine its value in your business future.
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Keeping Your Federal Tax Dollars Afloat
Learn how the Navy is using commercial off-the-shelf warehouse management software solutions and commercial integration capabilities to provide critical decision support platforms across the new fleet of logistics ships. Systems are being developed to drive shipboard automated material handling systems, provide advanced notification of incoming cargo and support secured, and real-time visibility of all fleet cargo through the use of mandated RFID technology.
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A Holistic Approach to Supply Chain Transformations
To compete successfully in the global economy, companies need to take their increasingly complex supply chains to the next level of performance. This session discusses a real-world case study of a multi-disciplinary supply chain transformation that generated breakthrough operational improvements and reduced overall costs. The transformation was driven by a number of important management tools, including network and inventory optimization, performance management, process excellence, and IT-enabled visibility and collaboration.
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Plant To Enterprise Connectivity As A Competitive Advantage
Everyday you are asked to stay ahead of growing customer demands such as improved quality, genealogy, RFID, sustainability, and order flexibility while reducing your operating costs. By integrating manufacturing and logistics with their enterprise systems, customers have gained the necessary agility and responsiveness to outperform their competition. Learn how several Fortune 100 companies achieved competitive advantage with real-time visibility and control of production levels, inventory, throughput bottlenecks, quality and compliance issues.
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Business As Usual Has Been Cancelled: Now What?
Globalization is not only changing the competitive landscape; but, also the way companies plan, source, make, and deliver their products. Transforming the organization from planning and forecasting operations to demand-driven, customer responsive supply networks is the new imperative in the flat world. While we hear of many successes, the major challenges to implementation are managing change and leveraging technology to empower people. As the supply chain evolves from a chain to a network, collaboration is emerging as a key competitive imperative. Companies must adapt their business processes and adapt to the new flat world playing field to achieve market leadership.
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Taking Your Transporation Management On The Road
TMS implementations have tremendous potential to deliver optimized transport planning while reducing cost and maintaining or improving service level. This presentation will focus on how to unlock this potential by examining the key success factors, including process alignment, data quality, and scope definition, to help guide your decision about whether to implement a TMS solution, and provide practical insights for getting the most out of your investment.
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The Road To Flawless Execution & Shorter Lead Times With ARIA
Mobile automatic identification and data collection (AIDC) technologies have greatly increased the ability of companies to quickly and accurately gather critical business data from the warehouse. However, changing business requirements, volatile demand planning, and off-shoring require system wide real-time visibility of inventory. The "Perfect Order" is no longer a goal, but a business requirement. ARIA (Adaptive Recognition and Information Assurance) is a framework for achieving new levels of efficiency, velocity, visibility and accuracy in Supply Chain Execution.
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