McCormick Place, Chicago
January 21 - 24, 2013
material handling international trade show

On-floor Seminars

Free to ProMat attendees.

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1. How To Choose A Wireless Lift Truck Management System To Optimize Your Supply Chain
Date Monday, January 21 Ends 11:15 AM Starts 10:30 AM Location Theater A Seminar # MON10:30A

Wireless industrial truck management has steadily become a best practice among Fortune 500 manufacturers, retailers, and other organizations with substantial material handling operations. However, since these types of systems still have relatively shallow ...

 
2. How To Effectively Manage Reusable Packaging Assets
Date Monday, January 21 Ends 11:15 AM Starts 10:30 AM Location Theater C Seminar # MON10:30C

Reusable containers, pallets and dunnage move product throughout the global supply chain faster, safer and more cost-efficiently when managed and allocated effectively. In this seminar, you will learn best practices in how to optimize your existing, expanding ...

 
3. The Sound Of Voice Success At Sony Of Canada Ltd.
Date Monday, January 21 Ends 11:15 AM Starts 10:30 AM Location Theater E Seminar # MON10:30E

This session examines the experiences of this wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation in its efforts to support a changing business model of more online orders (generating larger numbers of smaller orders) and a high seasonality to the business through ...

 
4. Discover The Benefits Of Goods-To-Person Order Fulfillment- 10 Ways Goods-To-Person Can Improve Performance In Your DC
Date Monday, January 21 Ends 11:15 AM Starts 10:30 AM Location Theater G Seminar # MON10:30G

The goods-to-person method of order fulfillment can deliver increased productivity for today’s distribution centers. It is an order fulfillment configuration that should be considered when the application has the appropriate activity profile and business drivers. ...

 
5. Proven Strategies To Increase Productivity And Deal With Slow Movers
Date Monday, January 21 Ends 11:15 AM Starts 10:30 AM Location Theater I Seminar # MON10:30I

Rampant SKU growth and the resulting increase in slow movers are negatively impacting your distribution performance. This session offers proven techniques and an overview of current technologies to help you regain lost capacity. Case studies of how companies ...

 
6. Using Data Capture Analytics For Process Improvement And Vendor Compliance Enforcement
Date Monday, January 21 Ends 12:00 PM Starts 11:15 AM Location Theater B Seminar # MON11:15B

Learn about the latest trends in automatic data collection and how to use system analytics to improve logistics processes and enforce vendor compliance. See how automatic identification systems and data management methods can be paired together for enterprise-wide ...

 
7. 173 Decisions In A Second: How Automated Order Processing Drives Throughput
Date Monday, January 21 Ends 12:00 PM Starts 11:15 AM Location Theater D Seminar # MON11:15D

The application of logic into your material handling system makes for faster and more efficient order selections. An automated material handling system is always in flux, regardless of the degree of automation. Automatic order processing can ensure that the ...

 
8. Economical And Ecological Material Handling
Date Monday, January 21 Ends 12:00 PM Starts 11:15 AM Location Theater F Seminar # MON11:15F

Today warehouses need to achieve higher performance while implementing more sustainable operations. As a result, warehouse managers must look for solutions that deliver both economic and ecological benefits. Choosing systems like lift trucks that offer greater ...

 
9. The Future Of Distribution Management
Date Monday, January 21 Ends 12:00 PM Starts 11:15 AM Location Theater H Seminar # MON11:15H

Effective distribution management is more than just warehousing. Leading organizations recognize the value of being able to holistically address every aspect of the supply chain network.

 
10. Gaining And Maintaining Competitive Advantage With Automation
Date Monday, January 21 Ends 12:45 PM Starts 12:00 PM Location Theater A Seminar # MON12:00A

In this seminar, WITRON highlights how industry leaders are using automation to set themselves apart from their competitors. Various industries and solutions will be profiled to appeal to a wide range of potential seminar attendees.

 
11. A New Foundation For I-D Barcode Reading
Date Monday, January 21 Ends 12:45 PM Starts 12:00 PM Location Theater C Seminar # MON12:00C

Recent innovations in fundamental image analysis methods for barcode readers have combined with advances in image formation to yield systems that outperform traditional laser scanners in the most demanding material handling and logistics applications. The ...

 
12. Increase Productivity, Improve Picking Accuracy and Reduce Costs with Warehouse Navigation
Date Monday, January 21 Ends 12:45 PM Starts 12:00 PM Location Theater E Seminar # MON12:00E

By now, the competitive advantage that an efficient logistics process provides to a company is well known. Just single digit improvements in material handling efficiency can mean tens of thousands of dollars to the bottom line. In this seminar, presenters ...

 
13. Modern Design Trends for Direct To Consumer Fulfillment
Date Monday, January 21 Ends 12:45 PM Starts 12:00 PM Location Theater G Seminar # MON12:00G

Presentation will explain ways to define your direct to consumer fulfillment business and what material handling equipment options could best match your needs. Equipment options will be discussed and compared from an independent third party perspective. A ...

 
14. Show Me The Money – How Information Technology Points To Savings In Material Handling Operations
Date Monday, January 21 Ends 12:45 PM Starts 12:00 PM Location Theater I Seminar # MON12:00I

This seminar will “Show You The Money” that can be saved when you use leading technologies to measure and manage your lift truck battery and charger equipment, your battery changing operations and your fast charge or opportunity charge programs . Learn how ...

 
15. E-Commerce And The DC: How To Keep Operations Clicking
Date Monday, January 21 Ends 1:30 PM Starts 12:45 PM Location Theater B Seminar # MON12:45B

Supporting e-Commerce operations involves changes to how a DC handles orders; one of which is unit level orders opposed to case level orders. By using dimension, weigh, scan (DWS) and label print and apply systems, traditional businesses can easily convert ...

 

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