Day 1 | Velocity Conference

Protect Your Brand: Vendor Compliance throughout the Supply Chain

August 22, 2018 • 0 Comment

PVH is a diversified global apparel company, with over $9 billion in revenue and businesses in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. In this session, Lamont Wharton, VP of IT at PVH, will discuss how PVH manages the complexities of vendor compliance and product quality across all its brands with NGC’s Andromeda Vendor Compliance and Quality Control. Learn how PVH is using Andromeda to:

Streamline vendor processes with a centralized system of record for vendor onboarding and management
Drive continuous improvement in factories through Good Manufacturing Practice audits
Manage the quality inspection process by leveraging common data and processes across every region and improving visibility
Allow more comprehensive measurement of data, reporting and communications for environmental compliance

On Target SIOP Transformation

August 22, 2018 • 0 Comment

Leupold & Stevens, Inc. manufactures telescopic and red dot sights, spotting scopes and binoculars. In this session, Senior Forecast Analyst Jay Schmidt will discuss how this traditional manufacturing company built a sophisticated supply chain planning process that enabled it to shorten execution lead times, gain flexibility and quickly react to changing market conditions.

Learn how Leupold & Stevens uses Logility Voyager Solutions™ to:

Increase finished goods inventory turns and improve customer service levels
Streamline forecast management and accuracy
Manage product life-cycles and accelerate new product introductions

Tackling the Omni-channel Inventory Challenge

August 22, 2018 • 0 Comment

At Finish Line, flexibility and automation are at the core of an ever-evolving retail strategy to delight customers with the latest merchandise in just the right size and channel. In this session, Senior Director of Planning and Allocation Katie Morrison will talk about how Finish Line is leveraging one solution to write orders, automate merchandise allocation and store replenishment, accelerate size and packing optimization and provide valuable analytics to drive efficiencies across its omnichannel retail portfolio.

Learn how Finish Line uses Logility Voyager Solutions™ to:

Create one comprehensive plan with the flexibility to support key market trends and timing
Leverage store-level forecasting
Gain efficiencies with size and pack optimization
Automate allocation and replenishment to boost productivity and precision

How Expiry Planning Helped Siemens Healthineers Reduce Writeoffs

August 22, 2018 • 0 Comment

Waste: Every manufacturer and distributor is concerned about it to some degree—but for some companies, it can be the difference between profitability and financial crisis. With good expiry planning, you can sell more and discard less for a healthier bottom line. Find out how Siemens Healthineers used the expiry planning functionality that’s built into Demand Solutions DSX to make better use of its inventory and reduce costly writeoffs.

Delivering Best in Class Service through Supply Chain Excellence

August 22, 2018 • 0 Comment

Global meat-processing company, Smithfield Foods is the largest pig and pork producer in the world. Smithfield continually delivers best in class service to its retail, food service and restaurant customers through a culture of supply chain excellence. In this session, Vice President of Supply Planning Karolina Mallahan will explain how Smithfield achieves supply chain excellence using Logility Voyager Solutions™.

Learn how Smithfield leverages four key pillars to:

Reduce complexity
Improve visibility
Assign accountability
Execute

Leveraging the Power of an Integrated Supply Chain

August 22, 2018 • 0 Comment

Glen Raven is a global provider of innovative fabric-based solutions for applications in the awning, marine, furniture, flooring, protective, military and geosynthetic markets. In this session, Director of Planning Ajay Bhardwaj and his team will talk about how the company deployed Logility Voyager Solutions™ to transform its digital supply chain process including demand, inventory and supply planning to grow top-line revenue efficiently and increase service levels to customers without increasing inventories.

Learn how Glen Raven uses Logility Voyager Solutions™ to:

Create a single, integrated business and operating plan
Increase sales by 13% with no increase in inventory
Manage Increased complexity (SKU counts at multiple levels in the BOM)
Improve customer service levels from 95% to 97%

Uncovering Sources of Growth with Advanced Analytics

August 22, 2018 • 0 Comment

For more than half a century, Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics has been an industry leader in the overhaul, exchange, repair, design and manufacturing of aircraft instruments, avionics and advanced power solutions.

In this session, Director of Supply Chain Marissa Williams and Director of Finance Lindsay Koster will walk through Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics’ success story of implementing Halo Advanced Analytics. Learn how Mid-Continent quickly adopted Halo Advanced Analytics throughout the organization, uncovering sources of growth with benefits in many areas including:

Improved product and service margins
Fast, in-depth root cause analysis
Operating the business “in the moment”
Improved data quality and streamlined operations

NGC Advisory Board

July 11, 2018 • 0 Comment

NGC’s annual Advisory Board meeting is by invitation only and open to NGC’s client Executive members. Executive committee members will meet to offer expert advice, share latest challenges facing the industry and provide guidance to the latest solutions. Discussions will include Andromeda latest enhancements, product roadmap and open discussions on software recommendations. NGC values the feedback from each executive board member and is committed to building solutions that help meet today’s industry challenges.

Digital Directions: The Future of Fashion with NGC

July 11, 2018 • 0 Comment

The future of fashion is digital, and NGC is playing a key role in enabling fashion brands and retailers to realize all the benefits of digitization. During NGC’s kickoff session, Mark Burstein, president, NGC, and Fred Isenberg, president of Consulting Services, will share NGC’s strategic vision, product roadmap and organizational changes to ensure that NGC customers are leaders in digital transformation.

Mark and Fred will also share highlights from NGC’s Advisory Board meeting and some of the many ways that NGC’s Andromeda Cloud Platform is helping companies to:

Enable faster decision-making by bringing together planning, design, sourcing, production, logistics and replenishment into a single enterprise
Align supply and demand, minimizing overstocks, markdowns and out-of-stocks
Create a framework for cognitive/autonomous supply chains, enabled by AI and machine learning-based systems

Powering the Digital Supply Chain

July 11, 2018 • 0 Comment

Dive deeper into the specific ways the Logility supply chain optimization and advanced retail planning solutions help you get from concept to customer faster. Powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence, Logility Voyager Solutions™ combine business planning; demand, supply and inventory optimization, sales and operations planning (S&OP); merchandise planning, assortment and allocation; and advanced analytics.

This session will explore how Voyager Solutions can help you gain competitive advantages by having a faster, more responsive and nimble supply chain—one that boosts visibility, accuracy and business confidence so you can mitigate risk, harness new opportunities, create new efficiencies and value, and discover new ways to boost service and reduce costs.

Attend and learn how Voyager Solutions leverage these powerful capabilities to help you transform your digital supply chain:

Automation of Routine Activities
Continuous and Event-triggered Planning
Digital Twin
Advanced Analytics
In-memory Power
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

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