IADS Operations Meeting #4: Supply Chain

Merchandise

Tuesday 20 June 2023

Videoconference

TOPIC

Innovation in process and approach

• Inventory management: how to handle surging inventory and automatization
• How to optimize e-commerce fulfilment without replacing the current DC infrastructure
• New ways to scale direct-to-consumer operations
• Sales and operations planning, organizational planning integration: how to cope with the challenges and cultural transformation
• Why and how do you charge suppliers with penalties

Risk management, resilience, tracking and transparency

• Building and designing a resilient Supply Chain for the future: incorporating risk, uncertainty and sustainability
• Supply Chain flexibility and visibility: control tower and digital twin cases
• Transparency in the Supply Chain: how to track merchandise until it arrives at the DC

Optimization

• End-to-end level of service and logistics cost visibility and control
• How to deal with "floor-ready merchandise" (merchandise prepared in the DC to be put straight on the shopfloor)
• Future last-mile logistics: current scenario, new local regulations and framework

Takeaways

• Click below for the Supply Chain meeting takeaways:

takeaways

• Click below to watch the recording of the meeting:

Supply chain meeting recording

• Click below for members' presentations:

Beco presentation

breuninger presenation

el corte inglés presentation

el palacio de hierro presentation

galeries lafayette presentation

magasin du nord presentation

manor presentation

• Click below for Avery Dennsion's presentations:

avery dennison presentation

The missing billions

• Click below for IADS' presentation:

IADS supply chain presentation

General information

• Antitrust guidelines

• IADS Operations Meeting #4 - Supply Chain - Invitation Letter

Timing

Tuesday 20 June from 3 pm to 6 pm Paris time.

Agenda

The meeting agenda will be as follows (Paris time):

• 3:00 pm to 3:30 pm: A presentation from a guest speaker,
• 3:30 pm to 4:45 pm: Members' presentations,
• 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm: A workshop that we will facilitate.