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Given the intense pressures felt by all throughout 2020, it is now more important than ever for businesses to maximize their own operational resilience and preparedness for future supply chain shocks. External and internal assessments must be made now to ensure your business' capacity to withstand impacts to your operations and emerge from them stronger and more adaptable.

During the hour long session, we will explore:

• The crucial elements of digital collaboration within supply chains to maximize efficiency and adaptation of processes to fluctuations and shifts in demand that will continue to occur in 2021.
• The connectivity between internal functions of a business (supply chain, finance, procurement) with a focus on expediting operations and increasing end-to-end visibility by limiting blockages between silos.
• The expected changes that will occur over the next 12 months and how the events of 2020 have better prepared businesses to react and adapt quickly and effectively to minimize losses as further challenges arise.

Expert speaker line up sharing their insights:

• Dirk Holbach, CSCO Laundry & Home Care, Henkel
• Peter Bolstorff, EVP Corporate Development, ASCM
• Andreas Thonig, Regional VP Sales DACH & Nordics, Tradeshift
• Frank Baur, VP Supply Chain EMEA, Parker Hannifin

Coronavirus related disruption continues to pile pressure on supply chains as peak season is upon us. Huge questions are asked of supply chain leaders: Are you close enough to your customer? Do you have enough resiliency in your sourcing operations? Can your supply chain cope under pressure, or will it buckle?

In our latest whitepaper ‘Rebalancing supply chains’ we tackle key sourcing challenges including:

• Network design: Bridge the gap between supply chain and sourcing through assessment of dual and near shoring strategy and implementation
• Demand-driven: Transition from supply chain to demand chain, leveraging greater flexibility to overcome potential future disruptions
• Inventory visibility: Improve information cross the chain and navigate fluctuating supply and demand with agile inventory control to optimize stock levels and cash flow
• Business continuity: Assess sourcing risk within your network and diversify where appropriate to ensure your sourcing model is sustainable for the long-term
 
• Risk Mitigation: Explore collaboration strategies and double sourcing for greater risk mitigation

26 pages of insight come the likes of:

• Nate Herman | SVP Supply Chain | American Apparel & Footwear Association
• Fiona Ki | VP of Global Sourcing & Product Development | American Eagle
• Josue Alzamora | Global Head of Lifestyle Vertical | A.P. Moller - Maersk
• Phil Roe | Chief Customer Officer and Strategy Director UKI | DHL Supply Chain
• Liz O’Neill | EVP & President, Product, Innovation and Supply Chain | Levi Strauss & Co
• Ed Barriball | Partner | McKinsey & Company
• Alexis DePree | CSCO | Nordstrom
• Bill McRaith | Chief Supply Chain Officer | PVH Corp.

• Discuss the key benefits of maximizing visibility and real-time status management of high value goods in transit, with a focus on IoT enabled, data rich asset monitoring to assist across inventory control, installation & recovery.
• Explore how to minimize supply chain complexity most effectively in your operations and identify which steps must be taken by your business to manage and execute a comprehensive reduction in these processes.
• Understand the specific details pertaining to new regulations and compliance requirements of critical asset monitoring that your business must adhere to across supply chain and logistics operations to protect the company and shipments.

Expert speaker line-up includes:

• Erik Lund, Head of IoT Tracking Division (Visilion), Sony Network Communications Europe
• Moritz Hermann, Project Manager, Operational Excellence, Thermo Fisher Scientific
• Esteban Ibarra, Vice President IOT Solutions, Kore Wireless
• Bill Combs, Vice President Connected Vehicles Strategy & Experimentation, Penske Transportation Solutions

The latest deadline in the Brexit negotiations is looming large over businesses’ supply chains, and this one carries serious implications for your operations. After 31 December 2020, anyone selling goods to consumers or businesses between the UK and EU will face import VAT, potential tariff charges and customs declarations for the first time.

• The status of Free Trade Agreement negotiations: Discuss the latest position of the Free Trade Agreement deal talks, learn which issues are still to be confirmed in regards to cross-border trade and explore the ramifications of no trade deal being struck in November 2020.
• Implications to freight operations: Evaluate the impact of these new regulations on your logistics operations and transit of goods, assessing your readiness to adapt to issues including cost management, capacity requirements and expected delays at the border for customers.
• Impending customs regulations and tax requirements: Get to grips with mandated customs demands that must be adhered to for imports and exports and understand where you can receive assistance and reliefs from authorities and agents to better manage customer and supplier demands to keep supply chain customs and VAT friction to a minimum.

Expert speaker line-up included:

• Richard Asquith, VP Global Indirect Tax, Avalara
• David Henig, Director, UK Trade Policy Project, ECIPE
• Lionel Van Reet, Partner, PwC

During the hour, the panellists discussed

• The complexity of omnichannel: Whether it’s e-commerce or brick and mortar, learn how to operate efficiently as an omnichannel retailer with agile & flexible fulfilment network design
• Insourcing v. outsourcing: Find out when it is the right time to invest internally in automation or when to rely on external partners to deliver top of class customer experience
• The race to same-day delivery: Learn how to use existing assets like your store network & your local DCs to your advantage using automation to enable faster and more efficient order processing

Expert speaker line-up included:

• Jason Lerman, Director of Operations, UNTUCKit
• Wayne Snyder, VP Retail Industry Strategy, Blue Yonder
• Jon Gold, VP Supply Chain and Customs Policy, NRF
• Melissa Valentine, Global Segment Director, Retail, Locus Robotics
• Gina Anderson, VP Solutions and Growth, GEODIS

During the hour, the panellists discussed

• Predict Trends: Increase agility by spotting major trends quickly through the analysis of online sales and mobility data.
• Data & Technology: Ensure your organization is equipped to manage and respond to events such as holiday peaks, product launches, more frequent promotions and more regular life cycle refreshes
• Offshoring v Nearshoring: Learn the pros and cons of each option, including possible risk reduction risk and faster lead times.
• Agile Fulfilment: Respond tactically through effective planning, replenishment, redeployment and pricing.

Expert speaker line-up included:

• Justin Kim, Executive Director, S&OP, Shiseido
• Praveen Moturu, VP & Chief Enterprise Architect, Mars
• Antony Lovell, VP of Applications, Vuealta
• Troy Hicks. SVP of Global Supply Chain, Herbalife

• Explore the key impacts of 2020 on supply chain operations and discuss what is needed for businesses to successfully outline and implement a progressive and resilient strategy to drive growth, manage ongoing risk and maintain quality of products for customers.
• With increasing eCom requirements, shifts in logistics capabilities and fast paced inventory management fluctuations, explore where companies should aim to remove blockages and replace redundant, highly error-prone processes with automation to match the renewed need for speed, flexibility and accuracy.
• Discuss the drawbacks of overly complex supply chains - layered with silos that contribute to a lack of communication and operational visibility - and analyse how best to overcome these obstructions and bridge the gaps in your supply chain processes to drive up efficiency.

Expert speaker line-up included:

• Jeff Rivera, COO, Lineage Logistics
• Sean Harapko, America's Supply Chain & Operations Solution & Regional Leader, EY
• Evi Cohen, VP Global Life Sciences & Healthcare, Appian

Key findings from the report include:

• Need for Demand Planning: 51% of shippers identified “lack of clarity on customer demand” as the biggest supply chain bottleneck they are seeing due to COVID-19
• eCommerce Boom: 65% of shippers have either slightly increased or significantly increased their ecommerce operations due to COVID-19
• Smooth Transition to Remote Working: On a scale of 0-100 shippers noted that workforce productivity scored 77, whilst it scored 80 for logistics service providers
• Technology Roadmap Change: 58% of logistics service providers have shortened their technology roadmaps due to COVID-19

Join, Gina Anderson, VP Solution & Growth, GEODIS, Brian Bourke, Chief Growth Officer, SEKO Logistics, Chace Burnette, Principal Engineer, Shipt and Christian Floerkemeier, VP Product, CTO, Scandit

• Learn how technology solutions such as augmented reality can better equip you to deal with variations in demand and improve your customer experience
• Leverage a digital first software approach in order to scale at speed and more efficiently onboard new workers in a safe manner
• Understand that there is no need to rip up current systems & break the bank to create a seamless delivery experience that places the customer at the center
• Discuss whether new variations of delivery such as curb-side delivery & contactless delivery will usher in a new normal for last-mile delivery