Unique Storage and Handling Optimization Solutions You Need to Know About

A Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) aggregates the purchasing volume of its members for various goods and services and develops contracts with suppliers through which members may buy at group prices and terms. Despite their distinct advantages, GPOs continue to be widely misunderstood. Learn how to leverage the purchasing power of a group of businesses to obtain discounts from vendors based on the collective buying power of the GPO members and why participating in a GPO is a distinct strategic advantage.

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.

The future of your business depends on your ability to adapt and support changing customer demands and fulfillment options. Join us to learn how to optimize logistics to fuel growth, lower costs, and enhance service. Build a complete logistics system to connect your transportation management, global trade, warehousing and fulfillment processes and people.

If you or your company looks to improve the consistency of printed packaging in the market, reduce time-to-market for new graphic packaging and products, simplify the churn and expense of print approvals, and increase bandwidth within graphics management resources, please join us for this discussion with Jay Sperry from HAVI Global Solutions.Packaging makes a first impression. Packaging engages with the target consumer; both before and after the product is purchased. Printed graphics on packaging not only informs and activates key product messaging, when executed correctly they establish the products quality position, and enforce the brand and product experience. Packaging is a manufacturing process, driven by efficiencies and cost management, with a supply chain that is diverse in capabilities, regions, print methods and substrates.