Sustainability & Supply Chain
Presented by The Wall Street Journal
Monday, September 21 ︱2:00 pm - 3:00 pm (CDT)
UPS is a global leader in logistics, with more than 528,000 employees, serving 11.5 million customers daily in more than 220 countries and territories. In 2019, UPS made 5.5 billion connections around the world, delivering nearly 22 million packages each day. Sustainability is an inherent part of UPS’s strategy and business operations. Join Robert Welch of The Wall Street Journal and Suzanne Lindsay-Walker of UPS for an enlightening discussion surrounding Sustainability & Supply Chain.
Lessons from the Front Lines: Sustaining Your Business During Crisis
Presented by Truckstop.com
Monday, September 21 ︱3:30 pm - 4:30 pm (CDT)
Join Truckstop.com's Trent Broberg for Lessons from the Front Lines: Sustaining Your Business During Crisis, as Trent shares how the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us all how fragile and susceptible our businesses are to dramatic surges and demand for goods. In this session, we will discuss lessons learned from transitioning our workforce to a remote environment (and possibly back), why employee stability is critical to company and customer success, and how to leverage technology to improve relationships in times of distress.
Your Problems are Our Obsession: Things I Learned by Sneaking into Warehouses and Camping Outside Truck Stops
Presented by Convoy
Tuesday, September 22 ︱2:00 pm - 3:00 pm (CDT)
In the last five years, the freight industry has been abuzz with the promise of technology to revolutionize logistics. But how much has it really made a dent in the practical problems that supply chain teams still face?
Join Dan Lewis of Convoy for Your Problems are Our Obsession: Things I Learned by Sneaking into Warehouses and Camping Outside Truck Stops as he discusses some of the challenges Convoy's customers faced and how we can work together to solve them in innovative ways—from intelligent drop & hook programs to dynamically priced, guaranteed backup capacity to insights that improve facility efficiency.
project44 & AbbVie: A New Era of Supply Chain Digitalization and Advanced Visibility
Presented by project44
Tuesday, September 22 ︱3:30 pm - 4:10 pm (CDT)
Join the discussion as Vernon O’Donnell of project44 and Gregory Pritchard of AbbVie cover A New Era of Supply Chain Digitalization and Advanced Visibility. As we near the end of a volatile year, businesses are accelerating digitalization and automation efforts to build more resilient supply chains. Find out first-hand how shippers are using real-time transportation visibility to take on supply chain disruptions and improve planning for the future. Learn about AbbVie’s supply chain and digitalization plans as they look toward the coming year.