Transforming the software giant Microsoft into a world-class supply chain leader as demonstrated by the phenomenal success of the launches of award winning flagship product Halo 3 and the new kid on the block Zune from the hardware and software perspective, covering product development, global sourcing and retail management.

Speaker: Owen Roberts & Deborah Hickey

Electronics is the most global of industries, dominated by global mega-brands like Sony, Nokia, Samsung, and Apple. Yet even as industry leaders take an increasingly integrated global approach to their marketing, they are also working at an ever more granular level to achieve retailing success in the world's key markets such as the USA, India, and China. No, these concepts are not mutually exclusive, but neither do they go together without careful planning and hard work. Learn how global branding leaders are balancing a global approach with attention to local detail.

Speaker: George Bailey

The president of an 800 company-owned and dealer outlets, primarily under the banners of The Source By Circuit City and Battery Plus, presents lessons learned, systems and methodologies adopted, organizational framework established and nature of collaboration with supplier for sourcing multitude of consumer electronics products from over 80 countries.

Speaker: Ron Cuthbertson

Utilizing POS data to better understand the market, the retailer and the consumer. The greatest opportunity lies in analyzing POS data, correlating it with market and retailer information to really understand how the market is behaving, what execution challenges arise at the retailer level and how to execute rapidly to this intelligence. Each of these are challenging in themselves but bringing them all together is the next frontier.

Speaker: Michael Aguilar

Gone are the days when the supply chain was the exclusive domain of operations executives. Sales and marketing executives are recognizing how supply chain integration can assist them with product innovation, collaborative forecasting, inventory management, real-time decision making and returns management.

Speaker: Frank Lanza

How are leading CE retailers planning to deploy radio frequency identification (RFID) to improve their supply chains? The benefits, technology, lessons learned and development strategies for successful RFID retail pilot programs will be presented.

Speaker: Patrick Javick