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Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas - September 16-17, 2026

Logistics & Strategy Theater

DALLAS-WEB-HEAD

Logistics & Strategy Theater

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10:00
  1. 20 mins
    • The decisions shaping cost, service and emissions this year
    • How to prioritize transformation initiatives without creating program sprawl
    • What ‘good’ looks like across network, people and technology
10:20
  1. 20 mins
    • Where bottlenecks appear between production, storage and dispatch
    • Syncing production schedules with fulfillment waves and carrier cutoffs
    • How to reduce rework, dwell time and expediting
10:40
  1. 20 mins
    • Understand why traditional WMS-driven, store-by-store pallet picking is holding operations back
    • Learn how voice-directed workflows enable accurate, scalable multi-pallet picking in complex environments
    • Explore how the solution reduces travel by 15–30%, increases throughput, and unlocks productivity without adding infrastructureyhyy
11:00
  1. 20 mins
    • Learn how voice picking supports faster onboarding by guiding workers through tasks with intuitive, natural speech interaction

    • Understand how voice strengthens communication through multilingual system interaction and real-time live translation capabilities

    • Explore how gamification increases engagement by bringing feedback, motivation, and performance visibility directly into daily workflows,jju,

11:20
  1. 20 mins
    • Disposition strategy: repair, resale, refurbish, recycle and when to automate each step
    • Reducing touches and transport legs in the returns journey
    • Making reverse measurable: cost-to-return, recovery rate and cycle time
11:40
  1. 20 mins
    • How leading operators plan capacity across labor, equipment and carrier availability
    • Contingency playbooks that reduce premium freight and overtime spikes
    • What to measure to spot constraints before they hit service
12:00
  1. 20 mins
    • From reactive to resilient — how to shift your procurement team from crisis management to proactive risk scoring across a global supplier network.  
    • A practical framework for managing multi-country EV supply chains without losing visibility — balancing buffer stock, air freight, and supplier qualification under production pressure.
    • Why dual sourcing must be triggered by risk score, not by crisis — and how AI-driven supplier evaluation can get you ahead of disruptions by 9–12 months.kmkuj
13:00
  1. 20 mins
    • Prioritizing risk by impact and probability
    • Supplier and carrier contingency models that work in practice
    • How to stress-test plans with tabletop exercises
13:20
  1. 20 mins
    • Visibility is not orchestration: the difference in outcomes and operating model
    • Where orchestration adds value: exceptions, re-planning and cross-functional decisions
    • Common pitfalls: data quality, ownership and process discipline
13:40
  1. 40 mins
    • The changes that delivered measurable improvements and the ones that stalled
    • How teams drove adoption across planning, warehouse and transportation
    • What to do first if budgets are tight
14:20
  1. 20 mins
14:40
  1. 20 mins
    • Design rules for automated handling and sortation
    • Reducing void fill, corrugated material and damage claims
    • How packaging decisions affect throughput and returns
15:00
  1. 20 mins
    • Turning status data into proactive service
    • Exception management that protects margin and customer trust
    • What good KPI governance looks like
15:20
  1. 20 mins
    • Rolling out best practice without crushing local flexibility
    • Operating cadence: how high-performing networks run performance weekly
    • What to automate, what to standardize, what to leave alone
15:40
  1. 20 mins
    • Managing peaks without breaking service
    • Reducing errors at speed: quality gates and exception handling
    • Changes teams would repeat and the ones they wouldn’t
10:00
  1. 20 mins
    • How to avoid ‘tool-first’ programs and focus on execution outcomes
    • What to standardize across the end-to-end flow
    • How to measure success beyond vanity metrics
10:20
  1. 20 mins
    • Where cold chains fail: handoffs, dwell and monitoring gaps
    • Visibility that matters: alerts, escalation and corrective action
    • Balancing compliance requirements with operational efficiency
10:40
  1. 20 mins
    • Identifying inefficiencies across warehouse operations

    • Aligning software, workflows and labour strategies

    • Driving measurable gains in productivity and accuracyEPG

11:00
  1. 20 mins
11:20
  1. 20 mins
    • Mapping supply risk beyond tier 1
    • Building supplier scorecards that drive action, not reporting
    • Contract and governance levers that improve resilience
11:40
  1. 20 mins
    • How ‘on-time’ is evolving and what customers now expect
    • Tactics for reducing failed deliveries and exception cost
    • Customer experience vs margin: finding the profitable promise
12:00
  1. 20 mins
    • Where integration breaks and how to design around it
    • Master data and event flows that matter most
    • How to phase change without disrupting operations
13:00
  1. 20 mins
    • Reducing touches and cycle time in returns processing
    • Using data to improve product and packaging decisions upstream
    • Improving recovery rate while keeping costs contained
13:20
  1. 40 mins
    • How teams built the business case and defended it
    • Change management realities: adoption, training and process discipline
    • Pitfalls that blow up timelines and fixes that saved them
14:00
  1. 20 mins
14:20
  1. 20 mins
    • Using execution data to improve forecasts and replenishment decisions
    • Exception-led management: fewer meetings, faster interventions
    • Keeping inventory lean without hurting service
14:40
  1. 20 mins
    • Practical steps to improve partner data quality and timeliness
    • What to standardize and what to keep flexible
    • Making collaboration measurable: fewer exceptions, faster resolution