Terry Durham, Darren Davis and Paul Boboian from Zebra Technologies sit down with Mike to demonstrate the Zebra Smart Lens solution.  

This solution from Zebra has the power to see what you have and where it is located real time within a Retail Store environment leveraging RFID technology.   

This solution is in production with several retail stores and is an exciting solution for retailer!

Mike Graen sits down with industry experts on Shelf Scanning Robot Technology and impact to the Retail industry. Panelists include:

David Pinn – CEO of Brain Corp

William Santiago – CEO of Badger Technologies

Brad Bogolea  – CEO of Simbe Robotics

Luis Vera – CEO of Zippedi Robots  

Tim Costello from UST Global joins Mike to discuss the role that future seamless checkout plays in the future of retail.  Tim has years of experience at Walmart running stores, Amazon running warehouses and now is leader at UST global exploring the retail technology of the future.   

Brand Elverston sits down with Mike to discuss the role that Asset protection plays in a retail environment, its impact on OSA and technology trends to support AP.

Brand spent 12 years serving his country in the Military and 22 years in Asset Protection at Walmart. He now owns his own consulting company called Elverston Consulting.

Dean Frew - the CTO of SML Technologies - joins Mike to discuss the role that RFID technology plays in improving retailer on hand accuracy and driving OSA.     

SML technologies is a solution provider that provides a fully integrated RFID solution for retail.  

Henry Ho and Rick West from Field Agent join Mike to discuss the role that retail audits play in understanding OSA.

How can you use crowd sourcing teams to provide in store audits that allow you to measure OSA and alert retail coverage teams to fix OSA issues? Henry and Rick provide some practical examples where in store audits teams play a valuable role.

Brent Williams - Associate Dean for Executive Education and Outreach, and Garrison Endowed Chair in Supply Chain Management in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas - sits down with Mike to share his perspective of the role that supply chain plays in retail OSA.

Geoff Seper from Teamcore joins Mike to discuss the role that Algorithms play in OSA measurement and alerting.

Geoff shares how algorithms can be used by retailers and suppliers to measure OSA without having individuals perform audits. Algorithms have become a powerful tool to measure OSA especially for higher velocity items and alert retail employees and third party providers of the OSA issues.

Jack Buller sits down with Mike about CPG suppliers implications of on-shelf availability and out of stocks.

Jack is a former operations leaders at P&G and understands the role of the CPG customer in driving OSA. The CPG role does not end when they deliver the product to the retailer. Learn how CPG companies invest in retails coverage to drive OSA and sales for their business.

Justin Patton discusses with Mike the importance of on hand accuracy at retail, how to measure it and the different forms of incorrect on hands.  

Not every inventory inaccuracy is created equal.  Some cause you to have too much inventory and some cause OSA issues for your customers. Learn about the importance of critical overstated inventory and the impact it has on OSA.