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See below a sample of our seminar and webinar library. More are available exclusively via the SCLAA member portal.
WEBINAR SERIES - MASTERING SUPPLY CHAIN MATURITY WITH AI: From Assessment to Action
PART 1
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Part 1: AI-Driven Supply Chain Maturity—What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Measure It
A structured approach to supply chain maturity, enhanced by AI, can transform decision-making, resilience, and efficiency. This session explores key maturity models and how AI accelerates assessment and action for business growth.
HOW TO DEVELOP A SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN ROADMAP AND WHERE TO START.
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In this webinar event, Brendan O'Keeffe of Circular Supply Chain Advisory will provide you with the basic stages and tools to develop your organisational supply chain roadmap. This session will provide you with the ability to make a critical start in your organisational supply chain journey with it's critical focus on sustainability and bring many business benefits.
HOW TECHNOLOGY (AND AI IN PARTICULAR) IS TRANSFORMING S&OP PROCESSES
Part 3: How to get AI-powered forecasting up and running inside your retail business in 60 days
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With the right inputs and training, today’s AI planning tools outperform human planners, making them transformative for improving retail bottom lines. In this webinar, we’ll explore the practical steps to implement a third-party tool like Quantiful and train your team for seamless integration into your environment and planning processes.
In this webinar, we’ll deep dive into the practical steps required to get a third-party tool (like Quantiful) up and running and your people fully trained in your respective environment and planning processes. We’ll look at the data requirements, the engagement process you’d likely work through and the sort of benefits you should expect.
In the second part of the webinar, we’ll work through the real-world experience of a significant Australasian retailer that adopted Quantiful for replenishment planning. We’ll explore what the world looks like for them post implementation and what benefits they expect to unlock over time.
FROM TEA TO COFFEE INDUSTRIES: Challenges and Opportunities in the Inventory Optimisation Journey
- Connecting the dots for a seamless digital transforma-tion journey.
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The journey of inventory management and optimization through technology is crucial for growing businesses. Effective inventory management not only manages complexity but also paves the way for business success. However, this journey can often be unclear and filled with challenges, making it difficult to achieve the desired outcomes from technological investments.
In this webinar, our panelists will share their success stories, challenges, and opportunities in the inventory optimization journey, from identifying their business needs, identifying their supply chain complexity, selecting tools, data sourcing and cleaning to implementation and change management.
ADVANCING SUPPLY CHAIN EXCELLENCE. PART 2
Unlocking Growth: AI-Powered Demand Sensing Strategies for Success
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Learn about Demand Sensing's crucial role in Supply Chain Planning, often overlooked due to data and tech challenges. Join our webinar to explore AI-driven strategies for accurate demand prediction, empowering businesses to excel in dynamic markets.
Demand Sensing is often overlooked in Supply Chain Planning as it relies on excellent data visibility and supporting technology. Many companies struggle to identify short-term demand signals or understand how to use them effectively.
In this webinar, we define how Demand Sensing differs from Demand Planning and learn how to implement both simple and comprehensive approaches to Demand Sensing that utilise systems and data for high levels of automation and accuracy.
SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Integrating Sustainability into Supply Chain Management
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How do you implement sustainable supply chain management (SSCM)? Join Arup's webinar to learn about SSCM benefits, a new framework, and implementation examples from the Rio Olympics.
In this webinar, the first in a new series from Arup, Adrian Doyle, Logistics and Supply Chain Specialist, and Simone Unanue, Senior Sustainability Consultant, will take you through Arup's SSCM Framework and a share insights and learnings.
HOW TECHNOLOGY (AND AI) IS TRANSFORMING S&OP PROCESSESS
Part 2: How to accelerate the adoption of AI in your business.
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AI is transforming retail planning at an unprecedented rate due to its accuracy, performance, and ability to scale to meet the needs of some of the largest retailers in Australia. In this webinar we’ll look at the role AI can play across different planning horizons and then do a deep dive into Replenishment Planning by looking closely at how Jaycar implemented the technology and what they learned along the way.
FIRE COMPLIANCE FOR INDUSTRIAL WAREHOUSING
Fire Compliance for Australia & New Zealand with Dr Ingunn Haraldseid
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Everything you need to know to make your project a success.
Learn the ABCs of Industrial Warehousing Fire Compliance with Dr Ingunn Haraldseid.
Product Safety - why do we test?
General overview of fire tests conducted
Local compliance
In depth Q&A Session
ADVANCING SUPPLY CHAIN EXCELLENCE PART 1
Assessing and Enhancing Supply Chain Planning Maturity
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Unlock Supply Chain potential! Join our webinar to learn about assessing strengths, weaknesses, and actionable strategies for growth. Empower your organisation to thrive.
From entry-level to enterprise-level, organisations can identify strengths and weaknesses to develop strategies for higher maturity and competitiveness. Improving supply chains is essential, but how do we identify areas of opportunity?
Supply Chain Planning relies on the right mix of people, processes, tools, and data to create a resilient, agile, and efficient supply chain. Knowing our strengths and weaknesses helps prioritise improvement initiatives.
We’ll explore what a Supply Chain Maturity Assessment involves, why it's important, how to start, and what steps to take next.
Webinar Outline:
- Understanding Supply Chain Planning Maturity
- Importance of supply chain maturity assessment
- Evaluating maturity pillars: people, processes, tools, and data
- Insights to prioritise improvement initiatives
- Strategies for growth
- Translating assessment findings into actions
Empower your organisation to achieve higher levels of maturity and competitiveness.
RETURNS MANAGEMENT
How to Balance Customer Experience with Cost Optimasation
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Discussion focused on returns management, exploring how you can transform it from a logistical challenge into a strategic advantage that enhances customer satisfaction and drives profitability.
In today's retail landscape, merchants and manufacturers face the increasing costs of returns, especially during peak sale periods when return rates skyrocket. With returns on the rise and consumer expectations for a seamless process unwavering, finding a balance between managing costs and delivering an exceptional customer experience is paramount.
Discover how integrating a returns portal with your order data can streamline operations, minimise costs, and significantly improve your bottom line in just a few weeks, all without disrupting your existing tech stack.
Gain insights into the evolving challenge of rising return rates from a consumer behavior, logistics, and cost perspective.
Discover ways to enhance operational efficiency, streamline the returns process, and significantly improve the customer experience.
Hear some real-world success stories where merchants have significantly reduced costs and increased purchase rates through a digital returns and dispatch service.
HOW TECHNOLOGY (AND AI IN PARTICULAR) IS TRANSFORMING S&OP PROCESSES
Part 1: How AI is enabling NOT displacing S&OP professionals
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There’s a fear across almost all knowledge-based industries that AI will disrupt and displace great swathes of the workforce and it’s a threat however, in our experience that’s just not the case. Rather than being a threat AI is turning out to be a great enabler in the world of Supply Chain – giving professionals the information and insights they need to operate in today’s complex retail environments.
In this webinar we’ll explain why S&OP has landed where it has and explain why organisations don’t need to redesign their business processes to take advantage of AI. We’ll talk about the role of AI-powered bottom-up SKU location forecasting and the transformative effect it can have on organisations that let the data underpin their current S&OP processes.
Webinar - From Cost Centre to Competitive Advantage: How to Quickly Improve Labour Productivity in the Warehouse
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This interactive webinar will focus on ways to help you get more out of the biggest single cost in your warehouse operations – your workforce, while maintaining or even improving service levels.
As operational costs continue to remain elevated with increasing wages, high energy prices, talent shortages, and ever evolving customer demands, warehouse operators are looking for innovative ways to reduce costs and maintain profitability.
Get your warehouse in order for Peak Season: A guide for Supply Chain and 3PLs
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Get your warehouse in order for Peak Season: A guide for Supply Chain and 3PLs
With Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the Christmas shopping season upon us, supply chains will be under even more pressure than usual. So how do you prepare for the impending surge in demand?
Disability is Diversity and Diversity is a Superpower
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In an era marked by labour scarcity, Sendable has devised a unique business model that employs people with disability in roles that empower them to make the most of their unique talents while guaranteeing top-flight 3PL services for its clients.
Introducing Sendable, a first of its kind company and social enterprise that provides top-tier 3PL services while creating employment and career opportunities for people with disability in jobs that maximise their performance and potential – often outpacing the productivity of those without disability working the exact same jobs in an ordinary 3PL. By creating an inclusive culture, Sendable values individuals of all abilities and provides customers with flexibility, adaptability and efficiency whilst simultaneously providing career paths for an overlooked part of our society.
Unfair Contract Terms - Updates and changes
RIGBY COOKE LAYWERS
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On 9 November 2023, the new Unfair Contract Terms (UCT) regime commenced – broadening its application and imposing penalties for breach.
Transport and logistics businesses should review their standard terms and conditions to ensure that they will not be unfair in circumstances where the new UCT regime applies.
In this webinar, Rigby Cooke Lawyers’ Julia Cameron, Partner – Corporate & Commercial, and Travis Johnson, Associate – Corporate & Commercial, cover the key aspects of the new UCT regime and highlight what you need to know to ensure enforceability and avoid significant penalties for non-compliance.
In Rigby Cooke Lawyers’ latest Transport & Logistics news alert, Travis Johnson sets out some examples of key issues to look out for and change that will help you comply with the new UCT regime, as well as a link to a previous article that summarises the changes and outlines the key concepts of the UCT regime.
Cost Centre to Competitive Advantage: How to Quickly Improve Labour Productivity in the Warehouse
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Transform your warehouse from a cost centre to a competitive advantage! Improve labour productivity, boost service levels and fuel sustainable business growth. This interactive webinar focusses on ways to help you get more out of the biggest single cost in your warehouse operations – your workforce, while maintaining or even improving service levels. As operational costs continue to remain elevated with increasing wages, high energy prices, talent shortages, and ever evolving customer demands, warehouse operators are looking for innovative ways to reduce costs and maintain profitability. Applying best practice and digital technology to improve labour productivity is an effective way of achieving rapid cost savings, without requiring capital investment into real estate, equipment, or automation.
Supply Chain of the Future with Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
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Join us for Part 2 of 3 webinars! Change is the only constant in supply chain and often can cloud our visibility.
Leaning on recent industry research we examine the need for accepting change and the importance of discovery as two foundations to help supply chain teams move forward and succeed in their use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
Körber Virtual Masterclass Series
Class 1. Improving Productivity with Automation
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Körber is excited to reintroduce its complimentary and virtual Masterclass Series, designed to equip you with the latest insights, strategies, and tools to help you stay competitive. Whether you're trying to meet rising consumer demand, achieve supply chain sustainability, or protect your supply chain against disruption, supply chains are continuously evolving and growing in complexity.
Körber Virtual Masterclass Series
Class 2. Enhance Planning and Operations with Real-Time Inventory Visibility
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Cancelled
Körber Virtual Masterclass Series
Class 3. Enabling a Paperless, Digitised and Modern Warehouse
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Körber is excited to reintroduce its complimentary and virtual Masterclass Series, designed to equip you with the latest insights, strategies, and tools to help you stay competitive. Whether you're trying to meet rising consumer demand, achieve supply chain sustainability, or protect your supply chain against disruption, supply chains are continuously evolving and growing in complexity.
How are organisations coping with supply chain disruptions past and future?
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A unique webinar event where we discuss and review ways leading organisations have helped their organisations meet these continuing challenges and developed effective solutions that equip them for future disruption that boost their growth and optimization in operations.
How a Digital Twin Leads to Better Supply Chain Decisions
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Smart companies focus not just on gathering data, and figuring out how to filter and analyse it, but how to use it to make better, faster, more informed decisions with a digital twin. Discover how a Digital Twin can be utilised in Supply Chain Planning & Optimization to drive better results with less effort.
Biarri: Supply chain planning under uncertainty - setting the right objective
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Supply chains grow in complexity every year. But modern supply chains aren’t just complex - they are also subject to a high degree of uncertainty. Customer demand can shift rapidly; facility throughput or transport capacity can be impacted by unexpected events; supply side disruptions are commonplace. Planning and operating these supply chains is not for the faint of heart.
Speaker: David Lynch, Supply Chain Lead, Biarri
Thought Leadership Series #2: Engagement in the workforce
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Webinar coming shortly
Our second instalment of the SCLAA Thought Leader Series with Sarah Morgan is for those members of our association and their guests who understand the importance of engagement in the workforce. Studies show that up to 70% of employees are disengaged putting productivity and profitability at risk.
LIGENTIA WEBINAR: COVID RESPONSE - AN INSIDER'S VIEW
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National Partner, Ligentia on the COVID Response - An Insider's View. Looking at how the State and Federal Health Department dealt with the initial response and a view on PPE and Vaccine Distribution.
Speakers: Peter Melville, Julian Brancaccio (HOST)
Learn more about MobileDOCK could assist your business with the following speakers and a Q&A discussion session.
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Airports use air traffic control to effectively and efficiently schedule aircraft movements and manage access to their limited number of boarding gates.
MobileDOCK provides destinations including Distribution Centres, City Precincts and other hubs of logistics movements with the same benefits of reduced congestion, improved visibility, safety and efficiency.
SCLAA invites you to a webinar to learn how Officeworks and Barangaroo use MobileDOCK to drive efficiencies for their operations.
Speakers: David Sanders, Darren Hutchinson, Mark Hedges, Rakesh Bandipelli (HOST)
How to gain, retain and enhance employees performance in this new world
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This webinar provides four steps Supply Chain Professionals can take to gain, retain and enhance employee performance in this new world. Hiring employees and retaining them in this market is tough. Wages are rising and competition for good quality is tough. Learning some simple steps you can take to overcome this situation and scale into the future
Presenter: Brad Jeavons
A Graduate's Guide to Navigating Supply Chain & Logistics - insights, tips and support for your career and opportunities
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A deep 3-perspective dive into what the Supply Chain and Logistics Industry holds for graduates. What is it like upon entering the workforce? What do employers want? How are we educating them?
One Woman's Journey Through Disruption
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Supply Chain Professional, Emily Mineo, takes us on a journey of recent disruption in her career. Not only is it challenging when people do not understand what your job function is or what it is you are studying, then there are circumstances that challenge even the strongest of us. There are ways to handle this, change your mindset and handle the situation in such uncertain times. Emily take us on that journey
Navigating Working Remotely in the Supply Chain
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In a time of uncertainty and change, with our physical working environment shifting, never has there been a time where leadership of self and others has been more important.
How to create your best ever perfect resume
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As a follow-up to the recent National Skills Crisis event the SCLAA is also keen to further assist members and non-members, job holders, seekers and employers by offering a webinar which will assist people to create compelling (or their perfect?) resumes when applying for a new role no matter what their current situation.