Day 2

Achieving Complete Visibility into Operations with Advanced Analytics

August 22, 2018 • 0 Comment

Founded in 1955, Aaron’s, Inc. is a leading omnichannel provider of lease-purchase solutions, and owns the Aaron’s, Progressive Leasing and HELPcard brands. Aaron’s engages in the sales and lease ownership and specialty retailing of furniture, consumer electronics, home appliances and accessories through its more than 1,860 company-operated and franchised stores across 47 states and Canada, as well as its e-commerce platform, aarons.com.

In this session, Aaron’s Inc. CIO and SVP of Digital Products John Trainor explains how Halo’s strong data consolidation capabilities and data quality controls allow his organization to blend and cleanse their data, providing a single version of the truth and enabling the organization to:

Analyze data and transform it into actionable insights
Accelerate supply chain and retail planning initiatives
Make data-driven decisions across multiple departments

Improving Promotion Lift with Artificial Intelligence

August 22, 2018 • 0 Comment

Evaluating the impact of promotional activities is a challenging task. A significant portion of demand planning is driven by promotion factors which cannot be accurately forecasted using a traditional statistical model.

In this session you will learn how to apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) to predict demand levels and create multiple scenarios for various combinations of promotional factors including price discounts, advertising impact, seasonality, and any other factor that may affect demand.

Failure is Not an Option: Managing Product Testing More Effectively

August 17, 2018 • 0 Comment

With more than 50 brands, Randa Accessories is the world’s largest men’s accessories company. In this session, Randa Accessories will discuss how it’s using NGC Andromeda to automate its product testing capabilities and set high standards across its brands. Learn how Randa is using Andromeda Product Testing to:

Streamline testing for regulatory and quality protocols
Integrate with third-party labs to receive, store and analyze test results
Pre-define protocols to know what, where and when to test
Store results, and automatically generate the required GCC and legal documents for CPSIA, Prop 65 and REACH

Driving the Dairy Supply Chain

August 17, 2018 • 0 Comment

Tillamook County Creamery Association prides itself on its commitment to bringing to market the most consistent, best tasting, highest quality dairy products made in the most natural way possible. Tillamook has recently taken its offerings national which required the addition of multiple manufacturing and distribution points as well as the need to transform its supply chain. In this session, Senior Planning Manager Elaine Videau and her team will talk about how the company transformed its team and technology to grow topline revenue while consistently delivering a 99% or above fill rate and accelerating inventory turns.

Learn how the Tillamook County Creamery Association uses Logility Voyager Solutions™ to:

Accelerate finished goods inventory turns
Increase visibility of new items across production locations
Improve forecasting and budgeting
Optimize promotional programs

How to “Go There” with Dynamic Safety Stock

August 17, 2018 • 0 Comment

LaCrosse Footwear, Inc. is U.S. footwear company founded in 1897 in La Crosse, Wisconsin and now based in Portland, Oregon. The company has two core brands that serve a vast consumer base; from those passionate about the great outdoors, to industrial workers, to military service personnel around the world. Over the last few years LFI has improved profitability, increased marketing dollars and was fortunate to have grown revenue 13% in 2018. We are challenged with continuing this trend and have aggressive growth targets to double the size of the company by 2021.

Learn how LaCrosse Footwear uses Logility Voyager Solutions™ to:

Manage Logility parameter settings and batch jobs
Categorize a tiered approach to Service Level safety stock
Integrate creative solutions to adapt to ERP/MRP limitations

Key Features in Voyager Manufacturing Planning

August 17, 2018 • 0 Comment

This introductory supply optimization session focuses on showing you how to use Logility Voyager Manufacturing Planning and Scheduling™ to slash manufacturing planning time, and to increase throughput, and fill rates by creating production plans that support new product introductions, achieve true least-cost, least-change manufacturing, and establish realistic inventory limits across single or multiple plants. Topics to be covered include:

Overview (representation, algorithms, outputs, integration)
Scheduling algorithms (Infinite capacity plan, new insertion sequencing algorithm, find unit that best fits amount, assign production proportionally, etc.)
Modeling manufacturing stages, BOMs, changeovers, and auxiliary resources
KPI capabilities (100+ KPI’s ) and exception handling capability
Integrate this with upstream solutions such as Supply Planning, Replenishment Planning, and downstream MES/shop floor execution systems

Inventory Planning – A New Look at the Safety Stock Process

August 17, 2018 • 0 Comment

Safety stock causes headaches for most manufacturers and distributors—but it doesn’t have to. In this customer case study, you’ll learn how one company thought outside the box to optimize its safety stock levels and deliver lasting benefits to the bottom line.

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Achieving Complete Visibility into Operations with Advanced Analytics

Improving Promotion Lift with Artificial Intelligence

Failure is Not an Option: Managing Product Testing More Effectively

Driving the Dairy Supply Chain

How to “Go There” with Dynamic Safety Stock

Key Features in Voyager Manufacturing Planning

Inventory Planning – A New Look at the Safety Stock Process

Make Better Decisions, Faster: Using Supply Chain Analytics to Improve Decision Making

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