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One of the key challenges facing organizations today is the shortage of candidates for supply chain and retail planning roles. Today, the ideal employee has both tactical/operational expertise and professional competencies such as leadership and analytical skills. Current statistics show there is currently one highly qualified supply chain candidate for every six job openings. The demand for talent with these highly sought after skills is high and growing fast.

Attend this webcast and gain insight from your peers on how to attract and keep supply chain talent, including:

• Strategies to make your company more attractive to the best talent
• How to approach the career expectations of Millennials and post-Millennials
• The impact of digital transformation on supply chain career paths

Panelists:

Karen Smith, Vice President, Global Supply Chain Operations, Kontoor Brands
Sean Willems, PhD, Haslam Chair in Supply Chain Analytics, University of Tennessee
Scott W. Luton, Founder, CEO & Host of Supply Chain Now Radio

Moderators:

Karin Bursa, Executive Vice President, Logility
Bob Bowman, Editor-in-Chief, SupplyChainBrain

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For Neiman Marcus, speed to market is a top priority. Supply chain agility is key to its competitive advantage and keeping pace with rapidly changing customer preferences. As part of a warehousing system modernization, Neiman Marcus transformed its ticketing process with a label management system—an initiative that ultimately led to faster delivery to stores and reduced labor and supply costs. 

Label management software digitally transforms ticketing, enabling a more agile ticketing process that moves inventory faster and quickly processes returns while optimizing print performance. 

Join this webinar to hear Robert Ball from Neiman Marcus describe how streamlined ticketing delivered significant process improvement and these benefits:  

1. Accelerated ticketing that moved product through the distribution center three days faster, improving speed to market
2. Reduced labor costs related to time spent pairing tickets with shipments 
3. Minimized supply costs due to less ticket waste

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Today’s Procurement leaders are challenged when it comes to associating people with businesses. To understand the risk involved with any given organization, it’s critical to have a view into the Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO).

Researching and documenting the full ownership of your suppliers can be a manual and time consuming process. Dun & Bradstreet, the trusted source of insight on B2B relationships and corporate hierarchies understands the challenge to get deeper understanding of business ownership.

Join us for this free webinar to learn about:

• The evolution of UBO
• Current strategies in screening and onboarding
• Various use cases for a better understanding of UBO relationships.

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Internet-based retail has forever changed the way consumers discover, research and purchase a variety of goods and services.  However, as purchasing behavior shifts from brick and mortar to online, retailers are struggling to build and sustain the infrastructure and human capital to keep pace with the rapidly expanding demand.

Specifically, e-commerce operations are continually challenged to meet consumer expectations of faster shipping, lower costs, and improved customer experience amidst tightening labor markets.  Forward-thinking retailers are embracing robotics, automation, and AI solutions to drive direct labor out how goods are received, stored and picked within their distribution centers. Is packaging the unsolvable frontier?

Join us for this free webinar to learn about the various waste sources within a variety of  e-commerce order processing scenarios, explore with us how right-sized packaging, on demand can help your retail facility differentiate its operations to achieve their operational and strategic goals.

Challenges:

• Current packaging methods add wasteful time and material costs to e-commerce order processing
• Labor markets are tightening, requiring retailers to streamline order fulfillment processes
• Consumers are driving retailers to transition to consumer and environment-friendly packaging methods

Solutions:

• Right-sized packaging reduces damages and waste while improving customer experience
• Integrated software can reduce operator tasks and automate decision-making

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Many companies struggle to bring their corporate strategies to fruition. They simply fail to execute. The difference between those companies that execute their strategies and those that do not? Frequently, it is Integrated Business Planning.

Join us to hear about how IBP can help you execute your strategies. You will learn:

• How strategy and execution – when linked with IBP – enables companies to outperform their peers.
• Ways to more clearly articulate, communicate, and monitor strategy that increase the likelihood of executing those strategies.
• How IBP provides a natural mechanism for an enterprise to align and realign strategies with execution. 

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Today's supply chains are becoming increasingly complex in this global world. It can be hard to have full visibility into your supply chain and truly know who you are doing business with.  

Supply chain risk isn't just about the ability of the supplier to fulfill their obligations to your organization.  Today, there is a need to think about important topics like modern slavery and environmental, social and governance (ESG).

Having a compliant supply chain can mean avoiding disruptions to your  business, managing costs and protecting your brand.  

Join us for this free webinar to learn:

• Key steps to having a compliant supply chain
• How data ties to a compliant supply chain
• What impact does ESG have on a compliant supply chain

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eCommerce is driving unprecedented parcel shipping volumes around the globe. It has created a virtual parcel tsunami at the borders that affects everyone in the retail supply chain including suppliers, freight forwarders, customs agents, carriers, and customers.

Consumers are now shopping globally, which is driving parcel shipping around the world. At the same time, big eCommerce is changing the customer mindset for fast and free shipping, regardless of distance. 

From the first mile through the last mile, today’s shippers are facing challenges to their global cargo chain. But in the face of these challenges, smart shippers are finding solutions to simplify their cross-border shipping supply chain and taking advantage of the opportunities an endless aisle delivers.

Join us to take an in-depth look at: 

Challenges:

• Not every product can be shipped to every country
• Scaling “up and out” to achieve global supply chain coverage
• Selecting the right partners and suppliers that offer a mix of value, trust, and stability

Solutions:

• Leveraging strategic, long-term partnerships
• Building a global cargo chain
• Blurring of traditional shipping roles

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You know there are blind spots once an order leaves your dock on the way to the customer. You don’t want to find out that it arrived damaged or worse, it didn’t arrive at all when your best customer calls to complain.

Hear real practical examples and lessons learned from industry leaders using Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) sensors and real-time visibility to mitigate risk, lower costs and improve customer satisfaction.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• When to use an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) sensor
• How to use data you already have with IoT sensor data to identify and react to damage, theft and loss in real time
• How to use supply chain analytics to pinpoint risk areas to avoid
• How to continuously fine-tune your supply chain for agility and best-in-class customer satisfaction

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Being the only touch point with customers for home delivery companies, last-mile delivery has become a key differentiating factor when it comes to the consumer experience. With more and more retailers opting the omnichannel route, it is only normal that retailers are now much more focused on the last leg of their operations. However, the increase in customer expectations also means that quick deliveries and ETAs no longer cut it for modern retail companies.

What are the demands of the present-day customers and how can AI help retailers in meeting them? Find out in this webinar. 

Join SupplyChainBrain and Locus for this live webinar to find out:

• Why should retailers focus on last-mile deliveries?
• What are the challenges and demands of last-mile deliveries for retailers?
• How can technology help in mitigating these challenges?
• What are the modern solutions that are disrupting last-mile deliveries?
• Real-life examples of AI helping retailers in the planning of last-mile deliveries. 

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Risks to Watch if you're in Sourcing, Procurement, or Supply Chain

Companies are facing many challenges in the years to come.  In 2019 specifically, we face a looming global economic slowdown, reduced internal resources/headcount, increasing material costs, and rapid technology changes just to name a few challenges. 

It’s up to sourcing, procurement, and supply chain professionals to constantly understand and deal with all these challenges every day.  But how can you quickly identify, deal with, and even turn these challenges into your advantage?  

Join SupplyChainBrain and Resilinc to gain an understanding of:

• The top challenges we face in the coming year
• How to quickly recognize these challenges
• Concrete examples of best practices to deal with specific supply chain risks
• Specific events from 2018 and how to better prepare in 2019 and beyond