RedPrairie Announces Technology Trends Media Panel At Its User Conference, RedShift:2008

RedPrairie Corporation, a world leading consumer driven optimization company, recently announced the global technology trends media panel for its upcoming user conference, RedShift:2008. On Tuesday, May 6, the discussion, "Global E2e Technology Trends" will be moderated by Lora Cecere, AMR Research Director, and will feature editors from Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies, RIS News, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.

"Global E2e Technology Trends" will discuss four of the hottest topics for retail and supply chain leaders:

• Demographic Vision 2020: The Labor Squeeze - How will retailers and everyone in the supply chain be impacted from the coming labor crunch? How can companies better manage this shortage through the use of technology?
• The Last Yard of the Supply Chain - How can POS demand signaling from the store shelf impact decisions made on everything from labor to logistics to materials? What are some of the new technologies available to make complete linkage from store shelf to manufacturing?
• The Potential of Single Button Recalls - Given the high profile recalls over the past years, how can retailers and supply chain leaders work together to create a single button recall? How will future recall legislation impact retailers, manufacturers and distributors?
• Green to Great - How can supply chain and retail companies use IT to help them reduce their carbon footprint while enhancing their bottom line?

Panelists include Robert Bowman of Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies, Vanessa O'Connell with The Wall Street Journal, Jayne O'Donnell of USA Today and Joe Skorupa with RIS News.

Robert J. Bowman is Senior Editor with Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies and SupplyChainBrain.com. He has more than 25 years' experience writing about logistics, the supply chain and international trade.

Vanessa O'Connell is a retail reporter with The Wall Street Journal and has spent the last 17 years as a business newspaper and financial magazine journalist. She has written more than 600 news and feature stories on a broad range of topics, most recently focusing on the retail industry. She also has made frequent television appearances on CNBC and other cable and network channels.

Jayne O'Donnell, USA Today's retail reporter, has written for the nation's largest circulation newspaper for the last 15 years. Her articles appear an average of twice a week and she writes the monthly "Managing Your Money" feature, $hopping $ense. Jayne appears regularly on national TV, including Fox Business Channel, and her first book - on the psychology of young shoppers - will be published in 2009.

Joe Skorupa is Group Editor for Retail Information Systems (RIS News) and VSR magazines. In 2002, the American Business Press judged a series of columns Joe wrote for Hospitality Technology to be one of the three best regularly featured columns in the country. In addition, he has been a judge for such industry programs as the Microsoft RAD Awards, IBM Beacon Awards, Microsoft Specialized Retail Solution Awards and Symbol Enterprise Mobility Solution Awards.

About RedShift:2008, Synchronizing Supply Chain and Retail
Each year, RedPrairie hosts a meeting of the minds with business leaders from the world's most successful companies to push the envelope of strategy and technology in retail and supply chain management. RedShift:2008, RedPrairie's eleventh annual user conference is scheduled for May 5 - 8 at the Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Miami, Florida. For more information, or to register, visit www.RedShift2008.com .

About RedPrairie Corporation
RedPrairie is a world leading consumer driven optimization company. Built on an advanced Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) developed over the past 15 years, the RedPrairie integrated suite of solutions offers on-demand capabilities to over 32,000 sites worldwide for many of the world's largest companies.

RedPrairie's E2e solutions synchronize people and products throughout the customer buying cycle to ensure goods reach the right place at the right time. At the point of sale, this means consumers have access to desired products and that the store is staffed with the right people to help them make their purchases. In the production cycle, it means suppliers and manufacturers time and synchronize shipments and production based on demand signals from the retailer. And in the back room of the store, it means having the least amount of inventory, solving the "last yard" problem of the retail supply chain.

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