At this year's annual conference we will be covering 6 different topics in 2 track sessions. Our format will include a "class track", with a traditional presenter or panel, and a "lab track" that offers a more interactive, hands-on experience. You don't need to attend both class and lab to benefit. You can choose to attend only one or both.
The U.S. Material Handling and Logistics Roadmap guides companies through the major trends impacting the industry over the next five to ten years. Listen to experts discuss how to best utilize the Roadmap for your organization.
We all agree that change in supply chains these days is rapid, complex and tough to manage. This session will offer unique insights into the realities of rapidly evolving supply chains in four key areas – workforce, technology, consumers and infrastructure. In addition to the expertise of the panelists, you will be among the first to hear key findings from recent roundtables conducted to update the Material Handling & Logistics U.S. Roadmap. This is your chance to get a jump on supply chain changes already underway and those expected in the next 10 years.
Moderator: Dan Gilmore, President & Editor in Chief, Supply Chain Digest
So, what do changes in the supply chain now and in the next 10 years mean to you and your company? This interactive session will give participants a forum to discuss these changes and how to better manage them. Panelists from the morning session on the Roadmap will facilitate roundtable discussions so you can better understand what's going on and what it all means to your operations. These roundtable discussions won't provide all the answers to these challenges, but they will give you a better chance at taking them more in stride. It's also a great opportunity to network with others facing what you are.
Facilitators: Gary Forger, Consultant, MHIThe supply chain industry is struggling to recruit and retain talent. The labor shortage and ongoing skills gap have become a major crisis for individual firms and the industry as a whole. These sessions will address these issues and how to tackle.
What would you do if ......? Much has been written about the labor shortage and ongoing skills gap across business in general and the supply chain industry in specific. But what can you or your company do to address issues related to recruiting, training and retaining the next generation of talent? In this interactive session, our panelists and attendees will be presented with a variety of "What If" workplace scenarios and then discuss what's working or might work to tackle them. Join us to learn from the panelists and share your own insights and experiences.
Moderator: Bob Trebilcock, Editorial Director, Supply Chain Management Review"We Can Work It Out: Collaborating Across the Generations"
Workforce challenges were ranked as the number one concern for those in the materials handling industry. To build and retain a high-performing workforce, it’s critical to understand how to engage your employees on multigenerational teams. In this interactive session, you discover how generational differences manifest in the workplace and what you can do to be more effective and successful as a leader. Buddy Bush provides participants with actionable advice to implement immediately to help bridge the gap between all generations.
With the boomers aging and starting to retire, who are our next generation of leaders? Is your company prepared to hand off the reins? Find out how others like you have faced this challenge and come out on top.
“Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast” – Peter Drucker Companies are experiencing massive changes in both technology and the composition of their workforce. It’s been proven that money and benefits are NOT the primary reasons why people love their jobs and, more importantly, STAY with the company. We will discuss what “corporate culture” means, how to build it, and what an impact it has when successfully deployed. Great leaders build the “desired" culture and insure that it is constantly maintained.
Presenter: Gough Grubbs, SVP Distribution, Retired, Stage StoresResearch from leading analysts at organizations such as the Harvard Business Review, PwC, Deloitte, Gartner and others shows that developing and maintaining a talent pipeline of future leaders has consistently made the list of top concerns for “best in class” companies across all industries year after year. Supply-chain organizations are certainly no exception. How high on your organization’s priority list is making sure you are doing enough to identify and develop future leaders? Despite the fact that this is a major concern and strategic imperative for most companies, many organizations either end up putting off implementing a program or fail to invest sufficient resources to make it effective. This strategy (or lack of one) can quickly expose organizations to significant risk. The good news is, having a plan in place to develop leaders now and in the future can deliver multiple benefits including:
Learn what technologies are truly shaking up the material handling and supply chain industry and how they will impact your business.
In this session you will learn what emerging and disruptive technologies are truly shaking up the material handling and supply chain industry today and how they will impact your business. A future look of where we are headed in this “Always On” supply chain world and the new products and solutions that will be coming into the marketplace will also be discussed. Panel members include leaders in the robotics, drones, wearables, and disruptive technologies space.
Moderator: Scott Sopher, Global Supply Chain Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLPThis workshop brings state-of-the-art warehouse automation technologies to life. You will see and play with technologies such as augmented reality, drones. Technology by itself is of little use if it’s not readily applicable. The session will hence show how these technologies can be utilized to create bottom line impact.
Facilitators: Jeff Carbeck, PhD, Head of Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Systems, Deloitte Consulting, LLPDiscover how leading organizations are harnessing the accelerating change impacting our industry today. Learn how your company can be more open to change and increase your agility in this new age of relentless competition.
Disruption has become part and parcel of the supply chain world, impacting technologies, processes and above all, people. In this fast-paced session, David Blanchard, chief editor of Material Handling & Logistics and author of Supply Chain Management Best Practices, will present a quick overview of the evolutionary and revolutionary changes taking place right now in the supply chain, from drones to self-driving trucks to robots to the Internet of Things. Combat veteran, leadership coach and State Senator Hunter Hill will then share his experience leading people through change. What’s required to lead your team through the sometimes volatile process of change? You will learn about managing the anxiety, fear and other emotions that arise in your subordinates when change comes. Whether the organization is driving change or the change is coming from external factors such as markets, competitors, technology, innovation, or other disrupters, change shifts the ground under your feet and that of your subordinates. Come learn what to do and how to lead in these changing times!
Presenter: Hunter Hill, President, Tommy Newberry CoachingChange….The New Normal
Change is the new normal for most organizations. However, many organizations continue to behave as if change is a temporary condition to be managed and tolerated until the change is over and things can get back to “normal.” The reality of the world today is that change is constant. It’s happening at record pace. Multiple changes are happening concurrently and, at times, with conflicting desired outcomes. In addition, many of the changes being introduced are complex and systemic in nature. This phenomenon brings with it a very different work environment and a sense of day to day urgency than many employees are not used to or skilled at navigating their way through. As a result, many employees find themselves feeling harried and stressed as they search for a way back to “normal.” The consistent successful implementation of organizational changes and the ability to continuously accelerate the pace at which successful change happens are both critical elements in the new normal. In addition, they create the shift in culture needed for change to become the new normal. We will explore ways to bring these elements to your organization and to help employees engage in successful change as a necessary element of their day to day work as they become comfortable in the new normal.
How do we position this industry to increase awareness and sales and to attract millennials? Find out how firms are successfully branding themselves to bring awareness, excitement and energy to this rapidly changing industry.
On this panel, industry experts will discuss ways to better position your company for success and how to help better brand the material handling industry. They will answer questions about how they approach marketing to effectively reach Millennials with regard to workforce development, branding and gaining them as a loyal customer. Learn what marketing channels are working, tips to making marketing a priority at your company and how to position your company for success.
Moderator: Brett Wood, President & CEO, Toyota Material HandlingGenerate excitement among any size audience with SongDivision’s Team Anthem. Build group cohesiveness and communicate key event themes and messages, as attendees work together to write and perform an original song led by an all-star band.
The Team Anthem is particularly effective with large groups and adapted to fit any time frame, the Energizer unleashes creativity while setting a high energy environment to keep audiences motivated and engaged throughout the day’s program. No previous musical experience is necessary, and everyone is assured they won’t have to sing solo. Unless, of course, they want to!
This program will be followed by 2 sets of high energy rock and roll dance music performed by world class musicians that have played with artists such as Cheap Trick, Led Zeppelin, No Doubt, Kid Rock, and more!
Facilitator: Song DivisionThe unique collaboration environment between solution providers and solutions created by MHI Solutions Groups will be discussed in this interactive session, from a best practices to lessons learned. MHI's Automation Solutions Group (ASG), including members from solution providers and the solution user communities, will present results from its current work topics. This includes results to-date from the three workstreams. The three ASG work streams are:
The ASG consists of 45 MHI solution provider member companies, and 12 solution user community member companies. ASG is the premier industry group authority for automation in material handling.
Key takeaway for session attendees: Learn about and become more involved in the innovative approach MHI and its Solutions Groups are taking to developing trust and collaboration between suppliers and their customers. Hear about the progress to date on some of the supply chain’s leading automation challenges.
Learn how MHI is tackling real-world solutions demands by leveraging the combined experience, skills and knowledge of its 800 members in 'safe-harbor' collaboration with the user community. The broad-based industry expertise offered by MHI and MHI members makes MHI Solutions Teams an ideal resource for supply chain solution users seeking research and solutions for real-life material handling, logistics and supply chain issues.
MHI is working in concert with interested solutions users to facilitate cooperative teams of its members in Solutions Teams to collaborate with users to study complex issues and offer possible solutions based on the collective expertise of the group. Over the last year, several collaborative Solutions Teams have stood up, produced measurable results.
MHI has been working with a large US based manufacturer for almost a year and in the last several months has organized a User-MHI Solutions Team consisting of over a dozen MHI member companies. The user approached MHI in February with a problem statement that was very broad and of significant scale, and in the intervening months MHI has facilitated a research and discovery process for the user that will be described during this session, including results to date.
Key takeaway for session attendees: Learn about and become more involved in this new MHI initiative designed to establish an innovative and collaborative trust environment between MHI members and material handling solution users through the development, sharing and promotion of best practices.
MHI is the nation's largest material handling, logistics and supply chain association. MHI offers education, networking and solution sourcing for members, their customers and the industry as a whole through programming and events.
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