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General Business Webinar Slides
- November 1, 2024
- Webinar Slides: The Recipe for Success: Cloud Solutions for Blending and Distribution
- Join this webinar, presented by NetSuite and BlendAPPS, to discover how cloud-based ERP solutions can transform your business. Learn how integrating cloud solutions can optimize blending processes, ensure compliance, and drive growth in a competitive market. With real-world examples and actionable insights, this webinar will provide chemical distributors with the tools needed to modernize operations, improve efficiency, and scale for the future. Key Takeaways:
How cloud ERP can optimize blending and distribution processes
Best practices for streamlining back-office operations
Real-world success stories from the chemical distribution industry
Actionable strategies to improve operational efficiency and compliance
- September 16, 2024
- Webinar Slides: Dispatch for Chemical Fleets: Applications of Automation and AI to Manage Risk, Compliance and Efficiency
- Webinar Slides: Dispatch for Chemical Fleets: Applications of Automation and AI to Manage Risk, Compliance and Efficiency
- August 12, 2024
- Webinar Slides: Leveraging a Field Enablement Partner to Fight Inflation
- Webinar Slides: Leveraging a Field Enablement Partner to Fight Inflation
- June 28, 2024
- Webinar Slides: Compensation and Benefits 2024 Study: Results and Trends
- With the U.S. economy near a state of full employment, how do you ensure your company remains competitive in the labor market? Job openings, turnover, and quit rates are near all-time highs, so it's imperative that you are doing something to attract and retain employees. While compensation alone is a key factor, it is not the only factor for an employee to accept a job offer or to remain an employee. An organization's overall total rewards package, including pay, health care benefits, retirement and savings benefits, vacation, and paid time off, incentives, work environment, and others all play a role. In this webinar, we'll share some of the key trends from the 2024 ACD & Cross-Industry Compensation and Benefits Study and provide guidance on how to best utilize the results for evaluating your firm's compensation packages.
Nearly 600 wholesalers, from 20 industry segments, participated in the study, representing close to 8,000 locations!
Presenter: Greg Manns, CPA
Mr. Manns is a CPA and Vice President of Industry Insights, Inc., headquartered in Dublin, Ohio. Industry Insights has been a trusted research partner and advisor for associations since 1980. Industry Insights specializes in providing data analytics and research services for associations and their members.
- May 23, 2024
- Webinar Slides: Alliance for Counteracting Disaster - Top 5 OSHA Violations for ACD Members
- ACD members face significant scrutiny from a bevvy of state and federal authorities. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has increasingly turned its eyes towards the Chemical Distribution industry. Join Michael McGuire and Cullen Wise of Johnson, Kendall & Johnson to hear about the most common violations seen in the Chemical Distribution industry and learn the most effective strategies for combating them.
- May 9, 2024
- Webinar Slides: Implementing Digital Customer Journey: Best Practices
- Agilis is a premier software provider specializing in innovative digital tools that enhance customer engagement for chemical suppliers. Over the past seven years, Agilis has partnered with a wide array of chemical distributors, guiding them through designing and executing effective digital customer journeys. This process includes the meticulous organization of product data, deployment of digital catalogs, and the introduction of sophisticated tools designed to facilitate discovery, engagement, and transactions. In this webinar, Jay Bhatia of Agilis will delve into the wealth of best practices and valuable insights gained from the extensive experience in digital customer journey implementation, offering attendees a comprehensive understanding of how to achieve success in this vital area.
- April 8, 2024
- Webinar Slides: How to Onboard Customers and Prevent Fraud for 21st Century Distributors
- Moving business online increases the scale of both risk and opportunity for distributors. In the age of artificial intelligence, the heuristics that helped us identify fraud in the past have grown ineffective.
In this session with Sid Malladi, Trevor Messick, and David Fulham of Nuvo, you will learn how to onboard business customers digitally, protect yourself from fraud, and increase business velocity.
- March 11, 2024
- Webinar Slides: Product Master Data Unlocks Business Transformation
- The industry is actively pursuing digital transformation and distributors are finding themselves being slowed down by the same core problem: organizing and digitizing product data.
Successful digital transformation starts with organizing the product data collected from principals, which is often trapped in PDFs, spreadsheets and SharePoint drives. Organizing and harmonizing this data unlocks distributors to pursue their larger digital transformation goals.
Learn about digital transformation trends and challenges specific to distribution and how you can enable your sales team to win more business, while empowering customers to discover your products online from all of your principals.
- February 16, 2024
- Webinar Slides: The Power Grid: A Strategic Growth Roadmap
- The Power Grid is a framework that brings together core concepts for igniting growth and productivity as derived from some of the most powerful personal growth and business books in print: Atomic Habits, The Compound Effect, Getting Things Done, 10x is Easier Than 2x, Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business, and more. The Power Grid helps shine a spotlight on: Why so many companies get stuck debating game-changing moves instead of taking action; the blind spots that keep us in a trial-and-error cycle of slow growth; the phony excuses we use to play small while fighting customer problems instead of preventing them in the first place; and why some companies drive explosive sales growth while others are stuck in first gear. Most importantly, Brent Johnstone of ACTvantage will help give concrete tips and tricks to develop your 2024 "Pathway to Power" in which you play big and drive growth faster, more easily (less energy), and with maximum results. After understanding your own Power Grid, you will look at your 2024 goals and how you execute against them in a whole new light. Are your New Years Resolutions already leaving you drained? Let's get you on that Pathway to Power.
- February 12, 2024
- Webinar Slides: ACD Membership Resources and Benefits
- Newly updated for 2024! Hear from ACD's Senior Director of Membership, Jenni Jenkins, as she reviews the various membership resources and benefits available to ACD's members and Affiliates.
- December 5, 2023
- Webinar Slides: Safer Chemical Storage
- Storing incompatible chemicals together can inadvertently pose hazards, so it is important to always have your chemical storage records up to date. Not only can incorrectly stored chemicals cause a fire or explosion, but they can also result in significant health issues for your team and the wider community.
In this webinar, join Chemwatch Americas' Paul Benbow, Tom Hasse, and Augusta "Gusty" Brinley, as they discuss the following:
Regulatory requirements for chemical storage.
Whether or not a register or manifest is needed.
What information should be included.
How to determine what items can be stored together, or which ones need to be stored separately.
Where to find the information and reports needed to be able to stay compliant.
- December 1, 2023
- Webinar Slides: Navigating the International Logistics Challenges
- Join Noushin Shamsili, Shirin Swanson, and Farid Tahvildari of NUCO Logistics, Inc. for an informative webinar that provides valuable insights into the worldwide logistics sector and offers guidance on how to overcome its challenges while capitalizing on its opportunities. You will learn about the latest trends and issues affecting international trade, such as supply chain disruptions, trade regulations, sustainability, and digital transformation. You will also get practical tips and best practices for managing your logistics operations effectively and efficiently in a complex and dynamic environment. This session will feature insights and best practices from experts in the field, followed by a Q & A session.
- October 27, 2023
- Webinar Slides: Driving Strategic Value Through Sustainability
- Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and sustainability are becoming an expected part of strategic decision-making conversations for many companies and organizations. Accountability is key and as consumer expectations and reporting requirements have continued to evolve, environmental issues are increasingly requiring data to measure and evaluate progress. So, what does this mean for supply chains? And how can companies and organizations help ensure their sustainability strategy drives long-term value for their business and makes a positive impact on the planet?
In this session, Rachel Schwalbach and Becker Meylor of C.H. Robinson cover ESG and sustainability trends and best practices and discuss challenges and areas of opportunity for companies and organizations who are working to build more efficient and resilient supply chains.
- October 13, 2023
- Webinar Slides: Top Tips for Tank Telemetry Program Success
- Chemical plants and distributors are increasingly investing in tank telemetry to drive efficiency, profit, and increased safety. However, understanding the ROI, getting off the ground, or even optimizing an existing telemetry program can require sometimes unfamiliar expertise. In this session, Adam Meek of Anova will examine how to avoid the pitfalls, increase the safety of your operation, and maximize returns from your tank telemetry program.
- September 29, 2023
- Webinar Slides: Emerging Technologies: Applications for the Chemical Industry
- Since the turn of this century, there have been some rapid advances in computing and information technology that are starting to reshape the chemical distribution industry. These advances range from artificial intelligence to connected devices and from blockchain to robotics. Do these offer any opportunities for innovation and growth in our industry? Absolutely! In this webinar, Tinium's Nishant Dass covers some of the most fundamental and transformative technologies that are going to impact every single sector of the economy. After an overview, Nishant leads a discussion on the specific applications that can benefit the chemical distribution industry.
- September 28, 2023
- Webinar Slides: Retirement Planning Series: Risk Management
- During this session of the Retirement Planning webinar series led by Capstone Partners' Philip Roberts, you will learn the key risks faced during retirement and the expert will guide you on how to plan for them.
- July 31, 2023
- Webinar Slides: Retirement Planning Series: Investments
- Join us for the second session of our Retirement Planning webinar series led by Capstone Partners' Philip Roberts. During this session, you will learn the role of investments within the Retirement Income Style Framework. You will also learn the strategies for using investments in retirement.
- April 14, 2023
- Webinar Slides: 5 Ways to Digitally Transform Your Business
- We're sure you've heard the industry buzz: you need to go digital. Have you heard this and wondered what 'going digital' means? Or are you worried it will be expensive? Building organized, automated and digitized processes now will position you to hit the ground running with systems that will streamline and optimize daily work for decades. The more of your processes you can digitize, the more adaptable you'll be to changing market conditions.
- March 27, 2023
- Webinar Slides: Leading the Way in ESG
- Sustainability is more than an aspiration ? it's core to how we conduct business. Join a panel of experts from Univar Solutions to learn how to bring together ambitious goals, operational excellence, technology and collaboration to minimize environmental impact and improve sustainability. By leveraging a strong portfolio of sustainable products, services, practices and technologies to aid customers and consumers in meeting their sustainability goals, distributors demonstrate their commitment to sustainability and vision for a better world. Sustainability makes good business sense and aligns with core values of being serious about safety, a place where people matter, a company that's valuable to others and does what they say.
- February 23, 2023
- Webinar Slides: How to Expand Your Brand Recognition with NACD
- Are you interested in getting your organization in front of NACD's vast membership? Not sure where to start, or looking for a low-level investment to begin that journey? Join NACD's Director of Communications, Aileen Smith, to gain an understanding of the many ways, free and paid, to increase your company's brand awareness among NACD members and Affiliates. During this short webinar, Aileen will go over digital and print advertising and the many opportunities available to represent your company as a thought leader through NACD content.
- February 9, 2023
- Webinar Slides: Get the Meeting No One Else Can with the NACD Chemical Industry Intel Engine
- In this webinar, CEO of Intel Engine's Sam Richter discusses the convergence (or confusion) of "marketing suspects" and "sales prospects" and how the NACD Intel Engine bridges the gap between the two. The webinar includes best practices for email and LinkedIn outreach, plus a live demonstration of the NACD Chemical Industry Intel Engine and how to use it to find new sales opportunities, decision makers, and a whole lot more.
- February 3, 2023
- Webinar Slides: NACD Town Hall 2023
- NACD welcomes you to our 2023 kick-off town hall meeting lead by NACD President and CEO, Eric Byer.
- January 18, 2023
- Webinar Slides: Before, During & After ? Five Steps to Effective Crisis Communications
- When you have an incident, public attention from the media and social media can come fast and furious. Splitting your attention between incident response and Code VII Responsible Distribution communications can be a huge challenge. It gets exponentially easier when you plan ahead, acquire the right tools, and train your team. In this webinar, Founder and CEO of SituationHub, Gerard Braud, shares five secrets to making your worse day far less painful.
- October 24, 2022
- Webinar Slides: Cyber Risk Management and Solutions to Protect Your Business
- In this webinar, our panelists present real-world case studies on cyber-attacks and cyber liability. They walk attendees through best-in-class risk management ideas and solutions to prevent cyber attacks from causing financial harm to your operations. Finally, they discuss the importance of the last line of defense against cyber attacks: risk transfer via insurance.
- July 14, 2021
- Webinar Slides: Media Training
- Talking to the media is like no conversation you will ever have. It is even harder when you are also in the middle of an unfolding situation or crisis. To complicate things further, eye-witnesses immediately begin to post live videos, recorded videos, photographs and ugly posts the instant your situation becomes visible. If you don't speak and issue a statement, the information void is filled by rumors and speculation, which can hurt your revenue, reputation, and brand. Wow! That sounds like a lethal combination. How do you win?
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