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The CIES Supply Chain Conference
Tomorrow's Supply Chain: Efficient, Transparent, Sustainable
11 - 12 October 2007
Prague, Czech Republic


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Supply Chain Executives from 30 countries came together in Prague to discuss their top-of-mind issues on the Supply Chain of the Future: Efficiency, Transpency and Sustainability of the Supply Chain.

Delegates looked at supply chain efficiencies in different countries, RFID, transportation optimisation,  hard-discount, responsible environmental and social practices in the food supply chain, recycling, sustainable warehousing, waste management, reverse logistics, the future of the supply chain.

Delegates were also on the shop floor with visits to Tesco and Ahold Distribution Centres, Hypernova (Ahold Group), Makro C+C (Metro group) and Interspar (Spar Group) stores with the Supply Chain experts from these companies.

 

 

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The Joint IT & Supply Chain Conference
Creating Value Together & Delivering Business Growth through Supply Chain & IT Excellence
12 - 13 October 2006
Geneva, Switzerland

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326 IT & Supply Chain Executives from 33 countries came together in Geneva to discuss their top-of-mind issues in IT & Supply Chain and understand how technology can help improve supply chain efficiency.

Delegates looked at the Consumer of Tomorrow, On-shelf Availability, Out-of-Stocks, Shelf-Ready Packaging, Automated Order Picking Systems, VMI, Delivery Optimisation, RFID, Collaboration between Retailers and Manufacturers, Paperless Supply Chain, End-to-End Supply Chain, Planning & Forecasting and ReatilLink. 

Delegates were also on the shop floor with visits to Migros, COOP and Manor with the IT & Supply Chain experts from these companies.

From The Press
Lebensmittel Zeitung
by Jörg Rode
Supply Network
by David Dalton

 

The Supply Chain Conference
Creating Tomorrow's Supply Chain
6 - 7 October 2005
Barcelona, Spain

The CIES conference gathered 262 Directors from 32 countries in Barcelona to discuss the issues of Streamlining the Supply Chain, Transport Optimisation, People and Technology for Supply Chain Efficiency.

The International audience voted on the top of mind issues for the industry and the following issues were voted as priority:

Topics :

  1. End-to-End Supply Chain Cost and Transparency Improving Out-of-Stocks / On-Shelf Availability
  2. Transportation Efficiency and Inventory Management

From the Press:

LSA
by Jean-Bernard Gallois
Lebensmittel Zeitung
by Björn Weber
Food Manufacture
by Elaine Watson
Lebensmittel Zeitung
by Jörg Rode
Lebensmittel Zeitung
by Jörg Rode
Supply Network
by David Dalton

 

The Joint IT & Supply Chain Conference

Tag, Trace & Synchronise - The Retail Experience in Data Synchronisation, Traceability & RFID

7 - 8 October 2004
Paris, France

The CIES conference gathered 300 Directors from 28 countries in Paris to discuss the issues of Data Synchronisation, Traceability and RFID.

The International audience voted on the top of mind issues for the industry and the following issues were voted as priority:

IT Topics :

  1. Improving visibility of the supply chain IT Solutions for supplier/retailer collaboration
  2. In-store processes

Supply Chain Topics:

  1. Simplicity in the supply chain Making Global synchronisation real
  2. RFID Update

 

The Supply Chain Conference
Myths & Realities in the Supply Chain
2 - 3 October 2003
Nice, France

The CIES Supply Chain conference in Nice gathered together an international audience of 212 participants, of whom 43% were food retailers, coming from 30 different countries. The following top-of-mind issues were covered :

          • Global sourcing RFID Factory gate pricing Benchmarking Outsourcing CPFR Store format – supply chain
          • EDI