What Path Are You Taking To Supply Chain Success?

On Wed., Mar. 26, 2003, Consumer Goods Technology hosted a Webcast that examined technology collaboration between retailers and consumer goods companies. The 60-minute Webcast featured senior technology executives from leading consumer goods companies and retailers. This page presents the highlights from that Webcast, along with additional comments and slides.


BUSINESS PROCESS  TECHNOLOGY  RFID  IMPLEMENTATION 

BUSINESS PROCESS

The Changing Chain

John Fontanella, AMR Research


Product Lifecycle Management is becoming crucial. Concerns over both time-to-market and remaining competitive now demand lightning response times and deep pockets.

Audio Length: 37 seconds

That's Life

John Fontanella, AMR Research


In recent years, supply chains have become extraordinarily complicated and elaborate, involving more partners and customers.

Audio Length: 1 minute 1 second
Days Gone By  
Auditing The Auditor  
Partnering With A Vendor  

TECHNOLOGY

Collaboration Is Here To Stay

John Fontanella, AMR Research


Collaboration tactics are going to dominate technology for many years to come, but AMR sees the need to change attitudes as a potentially more immediate problem than changing applications.

Audio Length: 36 seconds

Vendors Can Do More Than They Say

Peggy Winstead, Saks


In Saks' presentation, Peggy Winstead used one slide depicting a PDA scanning a box. She used it to memorialize a vendor that said it couldn't when it really could.

Audio Length: 30 seconds
Changing Technology  
Hoisting The Host  
 

RFID

With RFID, Results Sink Without Synch

John Fontanella, AMR Research


Trying RFID without the benefit of data synch is a remarkably ill-advised idea.

Audio Length: 59 seconds

Falling Prices Accelerated RFID Deployments

John Fontanella, AMR Research


RFID deployment has been happening more quickly than AMR expected because prices dropped sooner than they were supposed to.

Audio Length: 1 minute
It's 2 am And I Know Where Your Shirts Are  
 
   

IMPLEMENTATION

How The Container Store Kept Its Costs Contained

Kevin Marlow, The Container Store


A look at how The Container Store made its IT decisions.

Audio Length: 1 minute 19 seconds

New Ways To Push Cartons Around

Peggy Winstead, Saks


Saks' receiving dock has worked around staging lines and traditional sorting in a virtual technology attempt.

Audio Length: 37 seconds
To hear the entire unedited broadcast, please click here.