VICS VICS Supply Chain

Floor-Ready Merchandise Committee

Chair

  • Dave Rush, Vice President, Supply Chain Integration, Polo Ralph Lauren

Mission

The mission of this committee is to promote effective and efficient supply chain practices by identifying opportunities and defining standards for speeding up product flow to the retailer's sales floor and enhancing the consumer's shopping experience, which should result in improved consumer satisfaction, increased sales, increased profits, and better use of capital.


Sub-Committees

Who should participate?
  • VP Operations
  • VP Distribution
  • VP/Director Vendor Relations
  • Appropriate subject matter experts (SME's) when topics to address are identified.

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Archives

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Title: Supply Chain Optimizers Packaging Optimization, September 25, 2008
Delivered by: Peter Stirling, EVP, Supply Chain Optimizers
Description: A presentation which gives Business history and background of supply chain. It also highlights the impacts that certain factors can have on a shipment and how we can remedy those negative impacts with packaging optimization.


Title: Supply Chain Optimizers Packaging Optimization, April 22, 2008
Delivered by: Jack Ampuja, President and CEO of Supply Chain Optimizers
Description: A presentation that describes how designing shipping cases to suit the entire supply chain delivers savings.