It takes a village to take a product from concept to cash, but the supply chains that support this are a complex web, with limited integration between financial forecasting, planning, manufacturing execution, logistics and key partners/suppliers. Spotting potential challenges and facilitating constant communication across the extended supply chain and entire enterprise is critical to meet ongoing customer demand and market volatility. While maintaining effective communication can be complex, collaboration shouldn’t be chaotic.

Join Mike Hegedus from TrinityRail, Michael Ciatto from Genpact, and Patrick Van Hull from Kinaxis to learn how organizations are using hyperconnected supply chains to overcome the chaos. Find out how TrinityRail is breaking down silos, gaining greater transparency and agility across its organization and supplier network, all within a centralized platform.

Speakers:

Mike Hegedus, Vice President of Supply Chain Management and Procurement, TrinityRail

Michael Ciatto, Global Supply Chain Solutions and Services Lead, Genpact

JP Swanson, Business Consultant, Kinaxis

Moderator:

Bob Bowman, Editor in Chief, SupplyChainBrain

As consumers embrace e-commerce more and more, it has created tremendous opportunity for companies to grow their business, while simultaneously putting more pressure on supply chains.

Join Melissa O’Keefe, Group Director of Product & Innovation for E-commerce at Ryder, as she unveils how businesses of any size can shift supply chain strategies and excel with e-commerce fulfillment.

During the webinar, you’ll learn:

• E-commerce trends and the impacts to your supply chain
• What processes you can implement to gain better control of inventory and order management
• Best practices you can use to effectively pivot your operations and eliminate negative impacts to customer experience

Speaker:

Melissa O’Keefe, Group Director,  Product & Innovation E-Commerce, Ryder System, Inc.

Moderator:

Robert Bowman, Editor-in-Chief, SupplyChainBrain

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

With the success of AI/ML in areas like image recognition, medicine, and the web, why are we only seeing incremental gains in the supply chain? What’s throttling AI’s ability to drive optimal supply chain performance?

Ranjit Notani, co-founder and CTO of One Network Enterprises, and Joe Bellini (COO), will explode common myths about AI/ML and why network strategies are essential to success in Supply Chain Control Towers. Learn where AI/ML truly shine and where you should still deploy traditional algorithms. 

There’s a new approach to automated decision-making and decision-support in the supply chain, that marries network learnings with the unique insights of users -- for a multiparty multi-tier process that creates optimal outcomes.

This webinar will help you understand: 

• The limits of enterprise-centric technology and why you need a network-based control tower strategy
• The 5 areas in the supply chain where you can and should use network AI/ML
• The 7 Challenges in achieving the full benefit of AI in Supply Chain and how to overcome them
• How guardrails and time horizons affect the results you can obtain with AI
• How workbenches with predictive and prescriptive analytics streamline problem-solving
• Why improving forecasts is not a panacea for your supply chain. Where to focus efforts instead

Speakers:

Joe Bellini, Chief Operating Officer, One Network Enterprises

Ranjit Notani, Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, One Network Enterprises

Moderator:

Bob Bowman, Editor in Chief, SupplyChainBrain

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

The final mile or outbound shipping function has been an area of strong focus for businesses in recent years with the relentless growth of ecommerce and changes in consumer buying patterns. But the COVID-19 pandemic has now highlighted both the fragility and the importance of international supply chains, the 'first mile', where technology focus has lagged in the past.

Join us to hear how a global network platform is critical for effective international freight management, and how the global network model can improve final mile operations, without the need to rip-and-replace existing TMS solutions.

You will learn:

• How to prioritize TMS investments today?
• How to assess your logistics maturity for tech fit?
• Should you blend inbound and outbound freight operations?
• What recent changes in logistics are likely to be permanent?

Speaker:

Monica Truelsch, Senior Director, Solution Strategy for Transportation, Infor

Moderator:

Robert Bowman, Editor-in-Chief, SupplyChainBrain

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

Join Bob Bowman, managing editor of SupplyChainBrain, as he moderates a lively panel discussion with forward-thinking leaders who are looking to swap tips and share stories to inspire and invigorate your plans for automation. Distributors are tight on budget, their workforces are strained and often they don’t know where to start when building (or rebuilding) their warehouse operations. At the same time, the decisions made early on can make or break how your workforce performs and your business grows. Whether you are just starting to build your warehouse strategies, or want to start over, join this webinar and be ready to leave with the top approaches to turn your warehouse into a powerful automation machine for years to come.

Key Takeaways:
• Identify the essential criteria for warehouse automation. 
• Distinguish ways to prepare, evaluate and implement warehouse automation.  
• Describe future warehouse automation options.

Speakers:

Bill Denbigh, Sr. Dir. Product Marketing, tecsys

Guy Courtin, Head of Global Alliances, 6 River Systems, Inc.

Tom Campbell, Chief Strategy Officer, Capacity, LLC 

Moderator:

Bob Bowman, Chief Editor, SupplyChainBrain

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

Sandow’s Material Bank, the world’s largest B2B material marketplace for architecture and design, offers designers the ability to sample hundreds of materials from all over the globe. Material Bank promises their high-profile clientele samples will be in in hand by 10:30 am the next day in one single box, at no additional cost.

To successfully deliver sample orders on-time, in-full, and at no charge to the customer, Material Bank pressed to continuously improving operational efficiency and order accuracy while driving down operating costs.

To meet these aggressive goals, Material Bank implemented Locus Robotics Multi-Bot Fulfillment Solution to increase operational flexibility and decrease employee walking time, enabling associates to pick a very diverse group of materials quickly and accurately.

Hear firsthand how Material Bank worked with Locus to implement its robotic fulfillment solution in their new 74,000 square foot warehouse and how the technology is being utilized to deliver the highest levels of efficiency and customer service.

Join Locus Robotics and SupplyChainBrain to learn:

• Best practices for evaluating and adopting co-bots into a greenfield environment
• How robots leverage your current workforce to get orders out the door 2x-3x faster with 100% accuracy
• How to efficiently scale to meet periods of high-demand and priority shipping deadlines without driving up costs or hiring temporary labor.

Speakers:

Karen Leavitt, CMO, Locus Robotics

Farshid Tafazzoli, Chief Business Officer, Material Bank

Moderator:

Robert Bowman, Editor-in-Chief, SupplyChainBrain

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

As the coronavirus outbreak has spread, unparalleled challenges have arisen for food and beverage companies all over the world. Extraordinary measures have been taken to keep the food supply chain safe, efficient, and productive.

Industry leaders, with agile solutions, are swiftly changing their approach to mitigate the fallout of the pandemic; further cementing them as leaders in the post-pandemic world.

Yet many companies are still learning to cope with the new realities of the crisis. The need to quickly identify, develop, and adopt new capabilities that ensure long-term resiliency is ever present on everyone’s mind.

For manufacturers and distributors of Food & Beverage, the new normal is characterized by a variety of factors that include:

• Consumer demand, both in the volume and variety of manufactured goods consumed
• Direct to consumer demand, and the disruption to transportation / delivery networks
• Workforce availability (health), composition, and location
• Regional/global pandemic restrictions to the food supply chain
• Raw material and component inventory shortages affecting production, with resulting inventory shortages impacting manufacturing and distribution companies’ sales

This webinar will discuss some of the key factors involved in building a more resilient post-pandemic Food & Beverage supply chain in 2021 and beyond, including:

• Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic
• Accelerating technology implementation to improve agility
• Methods for developing a more proactive supply chain network
• Building trust into supply chain practices

Speakers:

John Flemming, Director, Information Technology, Chapman's Ice Cream

Doug Mefford, Product Marketing Director, Generix Group North America

Phil Gautrin, General Manager, Generix Group North America

Moderator:

Robert Bowman, Editor-in-Chief, SupplyChainBrain

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

One disruption inevitably gives way to another. Can your business thrive versus simply survive when the next one occurs?
In the first of our four-part series, Mac McGary, executive vice president at Logility, lays out the first three phases of a 12-step roadmap for building a resilient enterprise that can respond and pivot at the pace of disruption as well as seize opportunities presented by shifting market forces.

In this session you will be challenged to:

1. Assess your performance over the last 12 months and consider missed opportunities, risks, and the impact disruption has had on customer relationships.
2. Understand the significance of the assessment, and secure executive buy-in to prioritize action.
3. Create a near-term vision for the next 18 to 24 months that acknowledges current priorities but relentlessly pursues business improvement. 

Speakers:

Mac McGary, Executive Vice President, Logility

Moderator:

Robert Bowman, Editor-in-Chief, SupplyChainBrain

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

Yesterday’s luxuries are today’s necessities. With regards to retail, big box and food & grocery, trends that were anticipated to get picked up in the next 4-5 years have already become mainstream, putting immense pressure on the last mile delivery ecosystem.

Existing hub and spoke delivery models that lack digital capabilities will be soon pushed towards redundancy by evolving customer expectations and new delivery models like curbside pickups, contactless deliveries, Buy Online Pick-Up In-Store, same day delivery and more.

The question is how do brands make their last mile network resilient to changing market dynamics?

Our latest webinar “The Big Picture: What It Takes to Make Last-Mile Delivery Work” will help unearth little-known ways to deal with the last mile conundrum.

Key Takeaways:
• How to take your fulfillment services 5-years ahead of its time
• Importance of orchestrating every little logistics touchpoint
• What it means to go beyond tracking and tracing
• Leveraging modern delivery models to create new revenue streams

Speaker:

Paul Greifenberger, President, FarEye

Moderator:

Helen Atkinson, Writer, SupplyChainBrain