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Logistics Committee

Co-Chairs

  • Steve Harmon – Kimberly Clark
  • Steve Matheys – Schneider National

Mission

The mission of this committee is to take a leadership role in defining and driving adoption of common processes for planning and enabling the efficient and effective flow of products, the effective use of service providers and the development and use of information to improve the performance of the retail supply chain while encouraging the use of GS1 standards. Goals, objectives, strategies and metrics are used to measure the relevancy and progress of the committee while providing implementation guidelines and educational opportunities. It encourages member companies to report the use of the logistics standard to the GCI Global Scorecard.


Sub-Committees Who should participate?
  • VP Supply Chain
  • VP Logistics
  • VP/Director Transportation
  • VP/Director EDI
  • Transportation Director or Manager
  • Electronic Commerce manager or Director focusing on transportation eCommerce

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Title: JC Penney, Putting Sustainability Ideas Into Action, March 24, 2010
Description: An article that describes JC Penney’s relationship with VICS and the empty miles service. The article goes into detail about the many benefits JC Penney has received since taking part in the service. It also goes into detail about how empty miles works.

Title: Logistics Strategy: Macy’s Maneuver to Fill Empty Miles, March 24, 2010
Description: An article that describes yet another company’s relationship with VICS and the empty miles service. The article goes into detail about the many benefits Macys has received since taking part in the service. It also goes into detail about how empty miles works.

Title: VICS Collaboration Zone: Empty Miles FAQs, June 16, 2009
Description: A document that presents its readers with the answers to many frequently asked questions about the VICS Empty Miles Service.

Title: VICS Collaboration Zone: Empty Miles, June 16, 2009
Description:A Brochure that gives a description of the empty miles service. It focuses on a number of details about the program including rates and why one would benefit from partaking in the service.

Title: Carbon Management: Hype and Reality, December 14, 2008
Description: An article which focuses of ways to develop carbon management policies. It mainly discusses the 4 “Hype Points” on why we should make change. Also provided is the regional status of global greenhouse gas regulations.

Title: Crunch Time: The End of Cheap Oil June 16, 2010
Delivered by: Chuck Taylor
Description: A presentation that focuses a great amount of oil in the Middle East as well as the shortage in the U.S. It suggests that we reduce, recycle and reuse.

Title: Business Flows, February 28, 2006
Description: A presentation that presents its viewers with a number of different business dataflow charts all which start from the supplier and eventually end with the customer.

Title: Global Supply and Demand, January 11, 2006
Delivered by: Monica Laufenberg, Maersk Logistics USA Inc, CIO & Graham Love, Maersk Inc, Key Client Director
Description: A presentation that estimates the economy will continue its solid growth in 20006. It also addresses industry challenges such as new building prices, high oil prices, high industry costs, and driver shortages.

Title: Meeting the 2005 Requirements for the Bioterrorism Act, January 11, 2006
Delivered by: Wayne Dixon
Location: UTI Worldwide
Description: A presentation that introduces UTi and its vision statement as well as addresses the current challenges of dataflow that’s being presented and the opportunity to improve in the future.

Title: Meeting the 2005 Requirements for the Bioterrorism Act, January 11, 2006
Delivered by: Steve Rosenberg, Director, Electronic Commerce Description: A presentation that begins by introducing the Bioterrorism Act. This Bioterrorism information continues throughout the presentation with supporting information throughout.

Title: World Wide Security Provider, October 26, 2005 Products/Retail Industry
Delivered by: Jerry Carrino
Description: A presentation that begins by giving a brief introduction of Brooks and their impressive corporate history. It reviews the use of the company’s locks and seals as well as their current activity for container usage.

Title: VICS Logistics Sub-Committee Briefing GMA Study, October 26, 2005
Delivered by: Dan Van Hammond
Description: A presentation that does a comparison of the linkage between GDS and EPC networks. It also illustrates EPC Networking predictions for 2006. Also, a detailed graph is presented which represents the recommended retail delivery approach of PIM, GDS, and beyond.

Title: State of the Transportation Industry, October 26, 2005
Delivered by: Steve Matheys
Description: A presentation that uses a series of charts and drawings in order to present research done over time to represent not only information up to 2005 but to help try make some future projections on factors such as driver shortages, driver wages, container volumes etc.

Title: New Strategies for Global Trade Management, May 18, 2005
Delivered by: Beth Enslow
Description: A presentation that gives a description of the Aberdeen Group as well as discusses the topics: “Global Trade Growing Pains”, “Best in Class Practices” and “Building Preemptive Business Networks.”

Title: The Business View to Standards, October 27, 2004
Description: A presentation that touches on quite a few different areas. Some of these areas include; reviewing the steps on the path to Collaborative Commerce as well as the global revolution of data communication.

Title: VICS-Piece Count Integrity Sub-Committee, October 27, 2004
Location: Greensboro, NC
Description: A presentation that reviews a number of areas of the VICS PCI Subcommittee, from its mission to its areas of opportunity. It also goes into more detail in areas such as information flow and shipment handling.

Title: Logistics RFID Sub-Committee Meeting, October 27, 2004
Description: A presentation that defines RFID as well as goes into detail on some of the finer points of RFID such as its Mission Statement, truckload flow process and goes over where companies are with RFID.