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Top Takeaways from Coupa Inspire

Logistics Viewpoints

It ran from April 11 th through the 13 th at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas. Raja Hammoud, EVP of Products at Coupa, speaking on the main stage at Coupa Inspire Coupa recently completed its Inspire conference. Roughly 3,000 customers, prospects, and partners attended. The use cases just keep expanding.

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RLA Inaugural Startup Pitch Contest

Cathy Roberson

The biggest retail challenges from the NRF and Appriss survey include the following: Self-service returns Damaged returns or policy abuse Re-processing goods at a warehouse on digital returns Indeed, a lot of work still needs to be done in reverse logistics. Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Last year, I attended a three-day conference in Las Vegas conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal with product returns, unsold inventories and other capitalist jetsam. “Home Depot and Lowe’s let you return dead plants, for a year. The field is large and growing.

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Balance and Segmentation – What the Election Can Teach Supply Chain

Kinaxis

I have to admit, it was cool to see the MUTO walk down the Las Vegas strip and knock down the casinos. If a supply chain is providing the same policies (shipping, fulfillment, safety stock, etc.) For the Supply Chain, segmenting the customer to know what he/she VALUES is critical to providing the right supply chain policies.

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Putting the WoW! Into Service Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

When vendors fly to visit our offices in Las Vegas, they are greeted at the airport by one of our Zappos shuttles. This is all far from industry standard, but if we were in their position, I’m sure we wouldn’t mind being treated this way" It''s not about having a nice policy, they actually do it, a service training without training.

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The New JDA Flowcasting Solution

BlueYonder

The model understands store and retail DC reordering policies, as well as CPG manufacturing and delivery lead times. Aldo Sanerelli, director of Logistics and Distribution at Sigma Alimentos, spoke earlier this year at JDA’s user conference in Las Vegas.

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S&OP in Las Vegas! Let’s Learn, Laugh, and Be Entertained at the S&OP Innovation Summit

Kinaxis

by CJ Wehlage This past week was the IE Group’s S&OP Innovation Summit at the beautiful venue of the Bellagio in Las Vegas. The post S&OP in Las Vegas! Kinaxis was well represented, especially with the wonderful keynote speech from Kathleen Geraghty from Celestica. Let me know your Four Key’s ranking.

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