The informative Supply Chain Videocast will detail how use of the latest optimization techniques can be applied at the order demand level to increase shipment size without compromising customer requirements or over-the-road regulations - leading to significant reductions in transportation expense. These new techniques, combined with battle-tested optimization processes for pallet building and trailer loading, can help reverse rising transportation spend and dramatically improve case picking and overall distribution efficiency.

The focus on "reverse logistics" has been building for several years, driven by increased awareness of costs (and opportunities), greater regulatory requirements across the globe, and - increasingly - the environmental/ sustainability strategies many companies are pursuing. In this excellent Videocast presentation, you'll learn how improving reverse logistics process can provide a high ROI, while enabling your company to meet regulations and contribute to sustainability strategies.

In this informative presentation from Supply Chain Digest and The Supply Chain Television Channel, we explore recent trends that are showing that near shore suppliers are becoming net beneficiaries of Low Cost County Sourcing initiatives when companies calculate total acquisition cost early in the sourcing process. This is leading to an increased focus on sourcing from Mexico and Eastern Europe, rather than just Asia.

Johnson & Johnson, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, achieved great spend management savings and benefits with visionary leadership and unparallel execution. In this informative Supply Chain Videocast presentation from Supply Chain Digest and The Supply Chain Television Channel, we will review the origin of the team's objectives, challenges, and how they have created a creative plan to address them. We'll highlight efforts around how they utilize spend visibility to support detail spend data analysis, strategic sourcing activities across the globe, centralized eProcurement processes across all the autonomous business units, electronic invoicing through the shared services, and innovative supplier management capabilities.

Participate in this session to find out more about Hallmark Cards' sourcing and procurement strategies and how they were carried out successfully in 2006 and their plans for 2007. It includes a detailed discussion on Hallmark's outstanding use of "e-auctions" for both direct and indirect materials, with more than 1000 "competitive bidding events" per year.

In this innovative Supply Chain Videocast presentation from Supply Chain Digest and The Supply Chain Television Channel, you will hear directly not only from DSC Logistics company executives JoAnn Lilek and Cheryl Tibus, but also benefit from real video commentary from operators and supervisors on their experience going through the change - discussing both the benefits and the challenges. An outstanding presentation.

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In this informative Supply Chain Videocast presentation from Supply Chain Digest and The Supply Chain Television Channel, you’ll gain insight into how a new generation of web-based tools is providing these capabilities and substantial bottom line benefits, and how one automotive OEM is taking advantage of these tools to integrate over 1,000 suppliers in a seamless process and information flow.