Consumer Returns 2016 (past event)
September 26 - 28, 2016
Contact Us: 1.888.482.6012
Evolution And Integration of Technology; Secondary Markets And Logistics Optimization
07:00 - 08:00 Continental Breakfast & Registration
08:00 - 08:05 Welcome Remarks
08:05 - 08:15 Chairperson’s Opening Address
08:15 - 08:55 Panel: Effective Inventory Management Practices Within The Secondary Market
Do you find it difficult to find a balance between customer demand and responsible inventory levels? If you answered yes, this session can help you deliver results that help alleviate pressure and facilitate accurate data flow. Our panelists touch on managing pricing associated with demand in the secondary market while keeping contractual return rights in mind.
08:55 - 09:25 Opportunities In The Secondary Market and Recycling
Let’s talk strategic partnering with a Recycling firm who will manage the responsibility for you ensuring you stay abreast of latest compliance and regulatory issues that may affect your supply chain.
09:25 - 10:05 Panel: Minimizing The Pressure for Reducing Expenses Associated With The Secondary Market
Are you feeling the pressure to reduce expenses in the secondary market. This panel helps establish goals to find cost reductions within business processes, rethink transportation models to cut costs, explore exportation, and increase percentages of price points in the secondary markets.
10:05 - 10:45 Morning Refreshment Break In The Solutions Zone
10:45 - 11:25 Case Study Revolution: Utilizing Secondary Marketplaces: How Do You Achieve The Highest Recovery With The Highest Volume?
Chuck Johnston Director of Repair and Returns for The Home Depot will explore options on how can barter systems work for businesses? Advantages of auction process; What strategies can big box retailers utilize for disposition of product that cannot be returned to an OEM? And taking brand limitations/policies into account
11:25 - 12:05 Panel: Identifying The Best Suppliers To Meet Your Needs In The Secondary Markets
Let our panel of experts show you how to maintain control of your product in secondary markets by evaluating secondary market sales channels to best position your product and finding the best vendors/suppliers with vested interest to help protect your products brand integrity in the secondary market.
U.S. Cellular
Greg Brewer
Reverse Logistics Operations ManagerU.S. Cellular
12:05 - 13:05 Lunch For All Attendees
13:05 - 14:05 Interactive Roundtables
Our interactive roundtable sessions are perfect for learning, sharing and networking. Explore sessions that will trigger new ideas in green solutions, partnering for sustainability and inventory optimization in secondary markets. You will have to opportunity to select two roundtable topics that most interest you, table discussions last 30 minutes, after every 30 minutes you rotate to a new topic/new table to get the most out of this 60 minute session.
1) Ensuring Recall Items Do not Get Into Sales Channels
2) Effectively Measuring Inventory In Your Pipeline
3) How Can Partnerships Be Used To Better Serve The Secondary Markets- Mark Hanners Executive Vice President, The Mazel Company
4) Understanding The Energy And Environmental Profile Of Your Reverse Logistics Activities
5) Optimizing Profitability On Refurbished Products
6) Inventory Optimization: Policing Your Distribution Centers And Warehouses For Optimal Flow Of Goods
7) Greening The Reverse Supply Chain: Tactics, Tools, And Technology
8) Partnering For Sustainability: Developing A Recycling And E-Waste Program
9) Minimizing Environmental Impact Throughout The Development Of Your Product And Regulatory Update on Compliance For Disposal And Recycling Of Returns
1) Ensuring Recall Items Do not Get Into Sales Channels
2) Effectively Measuring Inventory In Your Pipeline
3) How Can Partnerships Be Used To Better Serve The Secondary Markets- Mark Hanners Executive Vice President, The Mazel Company
4) Understanding The Energy And Environmental Profile Of Your Reverse Logistics Activities
5) Optimizing Profitability On Refurbished Products
6) Inventory Optimization: Policing Your Distribution Centers And Warehouses For Optimal Flow Of Goods
7) Greening The Reverse Supply Chain: Tactics, Tools, And Technology
8) Partnering For Sustainability: Developing A Recycling And E-Waste Program
9) Minimizing Environmental Impact Throughout The Development Of Your Product And Regulatory Update on Compliance For Disposal And Recycling Of Returns
