Web Seminars
SDCExec.com presents a series of live and on-demand Web seminars featuring presentations from experts in the global supply and demand chain field. Sign up for upcoming webcasts or view the archives by clicking the links below.
Upcoming Seminars
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On-Demand Seminars
Using Technology to Connect the Dots in the Global Supply Chain
Sponsored by HighJump Software - March 27, 2008 * 1:00-2:00 pm, CST
Join Microsoft, Ashley Furniture, HighJump Software, and Supply & Demand Chain Executive for a thought-provoking Webcast that will detail how Ashley Furniture, the top-selling brand of home furniture in North America, has achieved supply chain success.
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Applying Lean Concepts across the Value Chain to Reduce Inventory and Improve Free Cash
Sponsored by TBM - March 11, 2008 * 2:00 pm EST
A lean value chain can provide your customers with the right products at the right time and at the right place. Join this Web seminar to find out how TBM worked with its client to analyze demand patterns for more appropriate inventory levels, align customer demand with production and reconfigure packaging. The results: a $1 million reduction in inventory for a single product line while doubling annual inventory turns.
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Jumpstart Your Procure-to-Pay Initiative by Getting Internal Stakeholder Buy-In
Sponsored by Ariba - January 31, 2008 * 1:00 p.m. EST
Register to attend this upcoming webcast where you will listen to panel members from LAM Research and Check-N-Go Corporation share valuable insights and experience in working with internal organizations to articulate value and drive their internal initiatives forward. An end-to-end procurement solution touches many groups in different ways and can bring great savings to a company’s bottom line, yet many companies struggle with being internally aligned. Join this webcast to talk with these executives and others as they share their insights and unique solutions to overcoming this challenge.
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Print Marketing Spend - Sourcing Best Practices That Drive Results
Sponsored by Ariba - January 17, 2008 * 1:00 p.m. EST
Join Ariba's Steve Sussman and Supply & Demand Chain Executive's Andrew Reese to learn a practical way to reach new levels of savings through best practices focusing on new, improved strategies and methods that will increase your spend visibility, optimize the print spend value chain, and produce new savings in various stages of your maturity cycle.
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Tools to Profitably Green Your Supply Chain
Sponsored by Dolphin Software — December 6, 2007 * 2pm EST/11am PST
This seminar reveals how your company can reduce Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) chemical product count, spend and toxicity. Get insights first-hand from industry-leading chemical management experts, and post your questions during the Q&A session.
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Driving World-class Results with Strategic Sourcing at MeadWestvaco
Sponsored by Ariba – October 16, 2007
eSourcing alone is not enough. Are you looking to expand your efforts with strategic components of a more complete spend management implementation? Then you can’t afford to miss this webcast.
Learn how MeadWestvaco, a global leader in packaging solutions, has:
* Moved beyond eSourcing to an integrated global sourcing process to help drive visibility and compliance
* Used Contract Management to ensure that agreed-upon pricing, terms, and conditions from those activities are complied with by suppliers and internal purchasers
* Applied its strategic sourcing vision to business units operating in more than 30 countries
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Jump Start Your Lean Initiative at the Factory Floor
Sponsored by CDC Factory – September 25, 2007 * 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific
Join CDC Software and Litehouse Foods for a live presentation on the industry's first packaged manufacturing operations management solution – CDC Factory. During this presentation you will learn:
* The value and benefits of a comprehensive and integrated approach to manufacturing operations management
* How to achieve, and the benefits of, "a culture of performance"
* Lessons learned and the results achieved by Litehouse Foods
Jumpstart Your Lean Initiative at the Factory Floor
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The Business Case for Greening Your Chemical Inventory
Sponsored by Dolphin Software Inc. – September 18, 2007 * 2pm Eastern/11am Pacific
This valuable one-hour seminar shows how to leverage chemical inventory data to make more profitable business decisions. Gain insight into how to analyze your inventory and select and source less expensive, less hazardous chemicals.
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Improve the Print Processes in your Supply Chain: Innovative uses of bar code and RFID technology from Zebra
Sponsored by Zebra Technologies – September 11, 2007 * 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific
Find out how:
* one company used new technology from Zebra to save 150 minutes per man per week.
* another reduced labeling errors by 60%
* and a new print solution is calculated to save as much as 4000 hours per year!
Speakers:
Paul Vogt, Industry Marketing Director, Zebra Technologies. Other Speakers TBA.
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Winning on the Shelves: Improving Sales & Operations Planning with Customer-Based Forecasts
Sponsored by John Galt Solutions, Inc. - Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Consumer based forecasting is becoming one of the most important components of any companies supply chain planning process. Including it in the S&OP will not only make your company profitable, but also more competitive. In this free Vendor Webcast on July 17, provided by John Galt Solutions, Inc., founder Kai Trepte explains how to manage gaps between what retailers sell and what customers buy to have the right products in the right place at the right time. In an hour you will learn how to:
1. Manage inventory more effectively to ensure higher levels of customer service.
2. Drive a one number plan based on customer point of sale data.
3. Use fact base processes to develop forecasts that capture the key
assumptions within your supply chain.
Increase your inventory planning knowledge
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The Critical Role of Spend Visibility in Effective Spend Management Strategy
Sponsored by Ariba - Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Is your Procurement organization flying blind? If you don't have spend visibility, you may be missing out on substantial savings and strategic opportunities. Learn how effective Spend Visibility allows procurement organizations to Bring more spend under management, identify new and greater savings opportunities in more categories, and drive compliance both internally and externally.
Listen to E*TRADE FINANCIAL describe how they achieved significant gains by spend visibility.
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The Business Case for Greening Your Chemical Inventory
Sponsored by Dolphin Software, Inc. - Thursday, June 21, 2007
One of the relatively untouched opportunities for improving the supply chain is in better MRO chemical management. This free online seminar shows how easy it is to leverage your company's existing compliance data to source more cost-effective and safer MRO chemicals - also reducing product redundancy, handling and storage costs, and regulatory burdens.
You can't afford to overlook your chemical and MRO product inventories.
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Delivering on the Promise of Low-Cost Sourcing: Lessons from Supply Management Leaders
Sponsored by Emptoris - May 15, 2007
While most companies have been sourcing from low-cost countries for many years, most continue to struggle with common challenges. In this webcast, hosted by Andrew Reese of Supply & Demand Chain Executive, speakers from Accenture and Emptoris will share new research, case studies and first-hand experience on why companies often fall short of their goals and how companies can deliver on the promise of low-cost country sourcing.
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Top 7 for '07: Category Insights for 2007
Sponsored by Ariba - April 26, 2007
This webcast will provide procurement executives and professionals with the latest insights into hot commodity and spend management trends that affect their ability to achieve operational excellence and drive procurement savings to the bottom line.
Quarter after quarter and year after year, Ariba delivers the category expertise and services needed to successfully navigate today's dynamic global procurement environment. With more than 400 sourcing specialists strategically deployed in key markets around the globe, Ariba Global Services Organization (GSO) provides unparalleled domain knowledge and on-the-ground support that companies of all types and sizes can leverage to effectively manage their spend and drive competitive advantage.
Each day, more than 550 companies around the world use Ariba to source over $450 million in direct materials and indirect goods and services across 5,000 unique categories.
Led by Ariba's acclaimed category specialists, with unparalleled market knowledge and deep commodity expertise, this is a webcast that you will not want to miss.
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Optimizing Supply Chain Management with Sales and Operations Planning
Sponsored by John Galt - April 03, 2007
Join Ventana Research and Syngenta in a discussion on the latest S&OP research, and learn what best practices Syngenta has adapted since first implementing John Galt's S&OP five years ago.
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