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PRESENTATIONS:
Supply Chain 101: Toward a More Profitable Bottom
Line
Date:
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Time:
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m
Location:
Jacob Javits Convention Center, Room 1E02
Description:
How you
handle your supply chain can help -- or hurt -- your bottom line. During this session, members of the Book
Industry Study Group (BISG) will share insight into the standards and best
practices which have increased their profitability and productivity. Topics will include product identification
– ISBN-13 and beyond, data quality, EDI, RFID, shipping labels and other savvy
ways of lowering your costs while still growing your business. Remember: it’s of
little consequence how brilliant your books are if your potential customers and
business partners can’t find them in the supply chain.
Moderator:
Michael Healy, Executive Director, Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
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Presentation (198 KB)
Speakers:
Joe Gonnella, VP, Inventory Management & Vendor
Relations, Barnes and Noble
Presentation (2.5
MB)
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Transcript
David Hogue, Director of Merchandising, Baker
& Taylor |
Presentation
(144 KB)
Lynn
Dilger,
VP,
Director of Technology, Sourcebooks |
Presentation (949 KB)
Craig Bauer, VP of Global Sourcing, Houghton Mifflin
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Presentation
(669 KB)
Climate Change: The Environment and Book Publishing
Date:
Friday, June 1, 2007
Time:
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Location: Jacob Javits
Convention Center, Room 1E02
Description:
This
Green Press Initiative sponsored discussion, moderated by BISG, will detail what
every segment of the book business can and should be doing to help solve one of
the biggest problems in our near future. Book industry leaders will talk about
strategies for reducing their negative impact on the environment and explain how
you can use them profitably too.
Moderator:
Michael Healy, Executive Director, Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
Speakers:
Tyson Miller,
Director, Green Press Initiative |
Presentation
(2 MB)
Andrew Van Der
Laan, Director of Production Planning, Random House |
Presentation
(290 KB)
Shona Burns, VP
Production, Chronicle Books |
Presentation
(471 KB)
Dave Weich,
Director of Marketing, Powell's Books |
Presentation
(80 KB)
BISG
Presents Book Industry TRENDS 2007
Date:
Friday, June 1, 2007
Time:
1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Location: Jacob Javits
Convention Center, Room 1E03
Description:
Get your first look at the most comprehensive coverage
of book sales by U.S. publishers!
This session will preview the newest edition of the Book Industry Study Group's
(BISG) flagship research publication
Book Industry TRENDS 2007. The
presentation offers details concerning the overall size of the book market and
growth projections for 2007 through 2011. Book Industry TRENDS 2007 is
an authoritative and indispensable tool used by all sectors of the book industry
to stay on top of business today. Planners, marketers, publishers, business
developers, sales directors and others will find this report invaluable in
formulating more successful marketing strategies and business development plans.
Book Industry TRENDS numbers are quoted in The New York Times,
The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post,
Business Week, Publishers Weekly, and many other periodicals serving
book industry professionals who rely on data from Book Industry TRENDS to
plan for the future.
Moderator:
Michael Healy, Executive Director, Book Industry
Study Group, Inc. |
Presentation (1.3 MB)
Speakers:
Albert Greco, Fordham University and The Institute for Publishing Research
Robert Wharton, Fordham University and The Institute for Publishing Research
Jeff Hayes, InfoTrends
The Business Case
for RFID in Book Stores: It Works!
Date:
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Time:
9:30 a.m. to 10:50 a.m.
Location: Jacob Javits
Convention Center, Room 1E06
Description: In July 2006,
BGN, the largest bookstore chain in Holland, implemented an RFID pilot --
placing improved-technology Gen2 tags not on cartons but on each individual
book. BGN’s aim was not to be on the leading edge of a technology, but rather to
achieve the following business
goals:
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increase
sales,
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empower
customers, and
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transform
the selling floor.
Having exceeded business expectations on all counts in six months, while
protecting the privacy of their customers, BGN is now implementing item-level
tagging its trade bookstores across the Netherlands.
Join the CEO of BGN, Mathijs van der Lely,
and a panel of industry experts to learn about item-level RFID in book retail,
and the potential for this technology to increase sales and improve processes in
your business and across the publishing supply chain.
Moderator:
Jim Lichtenberg, Lightspeed,
LLC, Chair, BISG/ALA RFID Working Group
Presentation (500 KB) |
Article:
Our Long and Winding (& Costly!) Supply Chain
Presenter:
Mathijs van
der Lely, CEO, BGN Bookstores |
Presentation (2.38 MB)
Panelist /
Respondents:
Stuart Mowat, VP, Information
Systems & Technology, Simon & Schuster
Livia Bitner, VP, Technical
Services & Product Development, Baker & Taylor
Christopher Platt, Coordinator,
Collection Development, Queens Public Library
The RFID
Working Group is jointly sponsored by the Book Industry Study Group and the
American Library Association.
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For more
information about this or any other BISG event, please contact Angela
Bole, BISG Associate Director, at 646-336-7141 or
angela@bisg.org.
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