Posts Tagged ‘Reverse Logistics Podcast’

Today I am launching my new web site under the new company name of Greve Consulting, formerly known as Metreks.  The focus of my practice is to help companies develop their returns management, aka reverse logistics capabilities.  Viewers will find a lot of useful information on returns including the Reverse Logistics Podcast, which will feature industry leaders from the world of reverse logistics, and my blog which is packed with articles and information to help service providers, manufacturers, retailers, and liquidators make more money.

Register to get the blogs sent to your desktop automatically or save www.GreveConsulting.com as a favorite on your browser.  Your comments, questions, suggestions and feedback are encouraged.  I will use your feedback to improve the value delivered from the site.

Check in from time to time to see what is new.  For example, you might want to check out The Cost of Doing Nothing.  This is a form you can fill out to find out how much opportunity you and your company have in developing your reverse logistics capabilities.

Whether you call it returns management or reverse logistics, it’s all about improving returns and maximizing profits.  I hope you enjoy the new site and get a lot of value out of GreveConsulting.com.

In this podcast Curtis Greve talks about how leading retailers and manufacturers leverage their reverse logistics capabilities to maximize sales.

Yes, a return center can help maximize sales.  How?  By leveraging returns processes and capabilities to efficiently pull unsold, guaranteed sales inventory out of the primary sales channel.  This “Recall” process provides the support network needed to ensure companies avoid out of stocks, avoid markdowns, improves relationships, all while maintaining an inventory position that will ensure customers have access to product when they want it.

The Reverse Logistics Podcast

Your host is Curtis Greve.

The Sustainable Supply Chain Management Podcast is hosted by Dr. Dale Rogers and Curtis Greve. This podcast is focused on sustainable supply chain management issues and best practices.

Podcast #4 – Asset Recovery

Join Curtis Greve and Dr. Dale Rogers as they discuss basics of Asset Recovery in their fourth podcast. Whether you call it Asset Recovery, Liquidation, or Salvage Sales, it is an opportunity to increased profits for manufacturer and retailers alike.

Successful manufacturers such as Nike, Dell, HP, Adidas, Foxconn, and leading retailers such as Walmart, Kohl’s, Canadian Tire and Target successfully integrated a Strategic Asset Recovery Strategy into their Sustainable Supply Chain Management Strategy. This approach enables these companies to maximize the value of obsolete inventory while removing slow moving or dead inventory from the primary stream of commerce.  A Strategic Asset Recovery Strategy will increase customer satisfaction and increase profits.

The Sustainable Supply Chain Management Podcast is hosted by Dr. Dale Rogers and Curtis Greve. This podcast is focused on sustainable supply chain management issues and best practices.

Podcast #3 Agility and Supply Chain Management

Agility will enable a company to get to the mythical next level by ensuring they focus on demand, not a misguided forecasts that can lead to expensive errors resulting in out of stocks, markdowns, unhappy customers, and lost profits.  Join Dr. Rogers and Curtis as they discuss what Agility is, what are the four “R’s” of Agility, and why Agility in Supply Chain Management will be the next evolution in supply chain management.

Podcast #3 – Agility and Supply Chain Management

Show Notes

What is an agile supply chain? A supply chain that is an interdependent network that is demand driven instead of an independent, forecast driven supply chain.

Is there a difference between being lean and being agile? Lean means no waste, reducing the fat. Agile means nimble.

What are the differentiations between a typical supply chain and an agile supply chain? Independent vs Interdependent

Agile supply chain must possess the following characteristics:

• Market Sensitive – supply chain is capable of reading and responding to real demand.

• Virtual – The use of information technology to share data between buyers and suppliers is, in effect, creating a virtual supply chain. Virtual supply chains are information based rather than inventory based

• Process integrated – collaborative working between buyers and suppliers, joint product development, common systems and shared information. This form of co-operation in the supply chain is becoming ever-more prevalent as companies focus on managing their core competencies and outsource all other activities. In this new world a greater reliance on suppliers and alliance partners becomes inevitable and, hence, a new style of relationship is essential. In the ‘extended enterprise’ as it is often called, there can be no boundaries and an ethos of trust and commitment must prevail.

• Network based – the supply chain as a confederation of partners linked together. We are now entering the era of ‘network competition’ where the prizes will go to those organisations who can better structure, co-ordinate and manage the relationships with their partners in a network committed to better, closer and more agile relationships with their final customers. It can be argued that in today’s challenging global markets, the route to sustainable advantage lies in being able to leverage the respective strengths and competencies of network partners to achieve greater responsiveness to market needs.

The Agile Supply Chain model suggests that ideally the supply chain should become a ‘demand chain’ – in other words, everything that is moved, handled or produced should ideally be in response to a known customer requirement. A supply chain tends, by its very nature, to focus on creating efficiency in terms of the flow of material from source to user. On the other hand a demand chain is focused more on effectiveness in the sense that it seeks to be market-driven responding to the needs of the market more rapidly. The key to this transformation – from supply chain to demand chain – is agility.

Source: “Creating the Agile Supply Chain” by Martin Christopher, Cranfield School of Management

The Sustainable Supply Chain Management Podcast is hosted by Dr. Dale Rogers and Curtis Greve.  This podcast is focused on sustainable supply chain management issues and best practices.

Podcast #1-Risk Management considers the many issues and complexity of risk management and what executives should consider when developing strategic plans that address risks from a strategically sustainable point of view.

Podcast #1 – Risk Management

Show Notes

Dr. Rogers has identified 13 types of risks that should be considered when developing sustainable strategic plans.   The 13 types of risks are:

1. Design
2. Financial
3. Labor
4. Reputational (headline risk)
5. Process (better process reduces Ecoli)
6. Catastrophic event risk
7. Environmental risk (Sherwin-Williams avoidance – Burroughs/Unisys)
8. Human rights
9. Supply*
10. Capacity
11. Information risk
12. Ethical
13. Equity – equitable distribution of risk

All comments on this podcast, risk management, and sustainable supply chain management are welcome and will be posted.