Drive innovation across your temperature control supply chain through new technologies, prioritizing sustainability and a strengthened infrastructure
September 10 - 12, 2024
| Falls Church, VA
Workshop Day
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Registration & Welcome Refreshments
10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Moving From Your Digitalization Roadmap To Successful Implementation & Execution
Bill McGillian -
Associate Director, Supply Chain Management,
Merck
How can you ensure that your digital transformation strategy is both adequate and achievable?
Core focus areas to include:
>> Setting The Transformation Standard: What are the pre-requisites for success in successfully adopting and integrating digital innovations?
>> Identifying Your Digitalisation Goals & Objectives: How can you ensure your digitalisation strategy is grounded in your unique circumstances?
>> Securing Buy-In for The Long-Term: How can you secure stakeholder buy-in from partners across the supply chain?
>> Monitoring Success & Confronting Challenges: Discover how to track where you are in your transformation journey and measure success
10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Achieving Effective Collaboration And Partnering With Vendors Across To The Supply Chain
How can you identify those ‘Best Friends’ who can understand, anticipate, and resolve your challenges as they occur?
Core focus areas to include:
>> Storage & Packaging: Learn how to identify the right packaging and storage solutions based on your own bespoke circumstances
>> Transport Management: How can you effectively create a plan that mitigates transport risks in partnership with others?
>> Visibility & Monitoring: Identify partners who can provide you with the right tools and technologies to enable greater visibility
>> Optimising The Last Mile: How can effective partnering take you to the right place, at the right time, at the right temperature?
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Networking Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Benchmarking New Approaches In Reducing Waste, Cost & Inefficiency
We investigate where we can implement new & practical solutions to drive further logistics efficiency.
Core focus areas to include:
>> What’s Stopping Us From Going Further & Faster: Identify shared pain points & roadblocks to new efficiency
>> Leveraging New Technology: Which technologies are we adopting to drive efficiency and with what results?
>> Scenario Forecasting & Planning: How can we get better at proactively mitigating waste and inefficiency?
>> Together We Stand: Bolster collaboration and partnering with stakeholders across your supply chain
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Taking The Crucial Steps To Maintaining Product Integrity & Demonstrating Compliance
We explore the fundamentals of meeting product and regulatory requirements for new products.
Core focus areas to include:
>> Basics of Environmental Controls: Explore the fundamentals of regulating the temperature of your products
>> Considerations for Shipping: How can you optimise your shipping process to ensure regulatory compliance?
>> Traceability & Documentation: Implement best practice to demonstrate regulatory compliance
>> Developments in Cold Chain Distribution: What are the innovations that should be on your radar?
