Information Sharing Teleconference

Effective Communications: CHA Best Practices That Benefit the Bottom Line

• DATES:

  • Monday, September 22, 2008 (CLOSED)

  • Monday, October 6, 2008 (CLOSED)

  • Monday, October 20, 2008
     

• TIME:  Log in 2:45 PM; Session start 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Eastern Time
   

• Cost: No charge to CHA members (Only one registration required per company even if several people will participate)

Register today: Sessions fill quickly!

Hear it like it really is from other CHA members. This non-technical session is an interactive "workshop" limited to 20 companies at a time. The small focused group is designed to enable interactive Q & A. The topic is about USING the CHA Standard Item Record.

A panel of your peers includes:

• Morex
• Coats and Clark
• Crafter’s Home Buying Group
• Ben Franklin Stores

You will hear other CHA members tell what they have learned and believe to be true. They will tell:

• The problems that they are experiencing with suppliers who do not use the CHA Standard Item Record (and why they cannot afford to deal with them)

• How suppliers using the CHA Standard Item Record solve these problems

• They will quantify the benefits that resulted from a supplier using the CHA Standard

  • If they saved staff time what did they do with the "new" time available?

  • If they saved money, what did that enable them to do?

  • If they can now bring items to market faster, how did that impact "turn and earn" or other bottom line metrics?

Then you will hear from other suppliers who are using the CHA standard. They will tell:

• The problems that they are experiencing with customers who do not use the CHA Standard Item Record

• How using the CHA Standard Item Record solve these problems

• They will quantify the benefits that resulted when they began using the CHA Standard

  • If they saved staff time what did they do with the "new" time available?

  • If they saved money, what did that enable them to do?

  • If it enabled them to bring items to market faster, how did that impact "turn and earn" or other bottom line metrics?

• How much effort it took to start to USE the CHA standard

Then you will learn specifically how to:

• Register your company at the CHA Standards and best practices program

• Use the Standard Item Record Excel spreadsheet to link your standard Item Records to CHA based records of Michaels, Sierra Pacific Buying Group, Crafters Home

Who should attend?

This is a non-technical session and should be attended by the management of every CHA Manufacturing member. This will affect sales, marketing and strategic planning. It is a positioning session. Although it deals with technology, it is about making the CHA supply chain more efficient.

What will you learn?

The Class will cover:

• How you can benefit internally and with customers if you use the CHA standard item record format. It can simplify providing quotes and speed up new product introductions.

• What item record information CHA Members expect from suppliers (A "Readers Digest" understanding of the CHA specifications, section 10.3)

• How using the CHA standards provides internal benefits – success stories from manufacturers and retailers.

• How retailers and wholesale distributors can help a supplier to bring the item records of the supplier into compliance with the CHA specification.

• How information presented in the CHA Standard can be automatically converted to meet the format requirements of Michaels, SPB, Crafters Home