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Supply Chain Short Takes: AutoScheduler.AI – Driving Productivity in the Warehouse
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Supply Chain Short Takes: AutoScheduler.AI – Driving Productivity in the Warehouse

Keith Moore, CEO of AutoScheduler.AI, returns for another Short Take discussion with David Maloney of Supply Chain Xchange and DC Velocity about AutoScheduler.AI, a resource planning and optimization platform that works with a warehouse management system to orchestrate all activity within the warehouse. They specifically talk about ways to drive productivity in the warehouse, including technologies that provide greater throughput, labor management software to optimize the use of workers, and the need to orchestrate warehouse functions.

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 Zebra robots in a DC
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Supply Chain Short Takes: Zebra Technologies – The future of fulfillment automation

Learn what is driving the need for more advanced fulfillment automation solutions and what the future might hold for this segment of the industry.

Cody Upp, director of sales, marketing, and solutions design at Zebra Technologies, speaks with DC Velocity's David Maloney about the future of fulfillment operations. They review some of the history of fulfillment automation and the major changes that these solutions have made to our supply chains. They also discuss what is driving the need for more advanced fulfillment automation solutions and what the future might hold for this segment of the industry.

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CSCMP EDGE 2024 Recap
CSCMP EDGE 2024 Recap
CSCMP EDGE 2024 Recap
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CSCMP EDGE 2024 Recap

EDGE24 featured dynamic keynote speakers, more than 75 educational sessions, and many networking and learning opportunities.

EDGE24 has wrapped up in Nashville. The annual conference hosted by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) featured dynamic keynote speakers, more than 75 educational sessions, and many networking and learning opportunities. This recap video shows the highlights from this year’s event.

CSCMP EDGE 2024: Gains Systems
CSCMP EDGE 2024: Gains Systems
CSCMP EDGE 2024: Gains Systems
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CSCMP EDGE 2024: Gains Systems

Dave Shrager, CEO of Gain Systems, talks about his company and its role in the supply chain industry in solving complex operational problems.

Dave Shrager, CEO of Gain Systems, talks with David Maloney of Supply Chain Xchange about his company and its role in the supply chain industry in solving complex operational problems. The conversation took place at the exhibit hall of CSCMP's EDGE 2024 conference in Nashville.

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CSCMP EDGE 2024: Yale
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CSCMP EDGE 2024: Yale

Dan Kachelmeyer, executive business manager at Yale, discusses the lift truck company's Yale Reliant System.

Supply Chain Xchange's Group Editorial Director David Maloney talks with Dan Kachelmeyer, executive business manager at Yale, about the lift truck company's Yale Reliant System during the CSCMP EDGE 2024 conference in Nashville, TN.

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Yale

Business leader Fawn Weaver shares an American story at EDGE
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Business leader Fawn Weaver shares an American story at EDGE

Interview with author, entrepreneur, and CEO of America’s fastest-growing whiskey brand caps off first full day of Nashville conference.

The first full day of CSCMP’s EDGE 2024 conference ended with the telling of a great American story.

Author and entrepreneur Fawn Weaver explained how she stumbled across the little-known story of Nathan Green and, in deciding to tell that story, launched the fastest-growing and most award-winning whiskey brand of the past five years—and how she also became the first African American woman to lead a major spirits company.

Weaver is CEO of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey, a company she founded in 2016 and that is part of her larger private investment business, Grant Sidney, Inc. Weaver told the story of "Nearest" Green—as Nathan Green was known in his hometown of Lynchburg, Tenn.—to Agile Business Media & Events Chairman Mitch MacDonald, in a keynote interview Monday afternoon.

As it turns out, Green—who was born into slavery and freed after the Civil War—was the first master distiller for the Jack Daniel’s Whiskey brand. His story was well-known among the local descendants of both Daniel and Green, but a mystery in the larger world of bourbon and a missing piece of American history and culture. Through extensive research and interviews with descendants of the Daniel and Green families, Weaver discovered what she describes as a positive American story.

“I believed it was a story of love, honor, and respect,” she told MacDonald during the interview. “I believed it was a great American story.”

Weaver told the story in her best-selling book, Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest, and has channeled it into an even larger story with the founding of the brand. Today, Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey is made at a 323-acre distillery in Shelbyville, Tenn.—the first distillery in U.S. history to commemorate an African American and the only major distillery in the world owned and operated by a Black person.

Weaver and MacDonald's wide-ranging discussion covered the barriers Weaver encountered in bringing the brand to life, her vision for where it’s headed, and her take on the supply chain—which she said she views as both a necessary cost of doing business and an opportunity.

“[It’s] an opportunity if you can move quickly,” she said, emphasizing a recent project to fast-track a new Uncle Nearest product in which collaborating with the company’s supply chain partners was vital.

Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey has earned more than 600 awards, including “World’s Best” by Whisky Magazine two years in a row, the “Double Gold” by San Francisco World Spirits Competition, and Wine Enthusiast’s “Spirit Brand of the Year.”

CSCMP’s EDGE 2024 runs through Wednesday, October 2, at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel & Convention Center in Nashville.

This story was updated on October 1, 2024.