Mike Shelor, Principal, Patton Consultants, Inc.

Speaker - Reverse Logistics Workshops & Seminars

Mike Shelor is a principal of Patton Consultants, Inc. He has extensive product service and logistics experience as Chief Operation Officer of 3RE.Com (Logistics Management Inc.), Corporate VP & GM of Enterprise Service Solution Corporation, and in executive management positions with Genicom and General Electric. Contact Mike Shelor at 540-256-3738 or MShelor@PattonConsultants.com

Reverse Logistics – Completing the Supply Chain Loop

• Channel returns are highlighting the need for new reverse logistics strategies
• Returns are not a new problem for manufacturers and retailers. What is new is the volume and need for speed in the asset recovery
• The internet has highlighted new challenges for on-line retailers never before experienced
• Large amounts of human resources, systems and developing processes are being deployed in an attempt to control the onslaught in high volume consumer product returns
• It takes the right skill, experience, reverse supply chain velocity, proper economic modeling and supporting systems to truly control this runaway train of product returns
• Contract manufacturers are entering the 3PL space
• Global capability in reverse logistics is quickly becoming a real requirement
• No matter what industry you are in, Reverse Logistics is being propelled forward by changes in technology and consumer expectations and is rapidly reinventing and presenting itself as an area of professional expertise and financial opportunity