Igniting Sustainability Change Through Intel's Supply Chain

Global disruptions have created dire supply chain and financial challenges for many businesses. And after two years of compound crises, companies are reeling over how to manage a seemingly endless cycle of threats.With supply chains still in disarray from the events of the past two years, it's harder for businesses to react to emerging situations

Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP) builds on what you know as a supply chain professional and opens new opportunities for inventory reduction, reducing bullwhip effect, stabilizing your supply chain and improving customer service. DDMRP combines Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) with the pull and visibility emphases found in Lean and the Theory of Constraints and the variability reduction emphasis of Six Sigma.

In partnership with Arrive Logistics, this webinar offers shippers information on how to reduce freight costs by becoming a preferred shipper. Subject matter expert Brian Reed has spent the last 18 years serving freight providers and shippers around the globe by developing innovative and modern solutions to supply chain challenges. Most recently, he served as the Vice President of Transportation and Customer Service at the nation’s largest bottled water organization, Niagara Bottling LLC. In this role, Brian managed a team of over 180 people developing innovative solutions to manage costs and deliver outstanding service for the company’s largest spend category and on March 29th he will share his data-driven insights.

The inexorable force of digitization is reshaping the 3PL marketplace, with new alliances and partnerships reflecting that trend as never before. Warehousing and freight brokerages, meanwhile, are sectors of constant reinvention. Armstrong & Associates research indicates that one other ongoing development is also a game changer: global trade tensions and disruptions. "We are going to be taking a long view on how trade agreements will play out, and what their impact will have on logistics managers with their planning and forecasting budgets," says Evan Armstrong, president of Armstrong & Associates.