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Nashville to Host 2014 Tompkins Supply Chain Leadership Forum

Tompkins Blog

RALEIGH, NC, and NASHVILLE, TN. This year’s forum will take place at the Hilton Nashville Downtown and boasts 15 breakout sessions, several general sessions, and an offsite dinner and live music at The Listening Room Café. The post Nashville to Host 2014 Tompkins Supply Chain Leadership Forum appeared first on Tompkins International.

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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Interestingly, in Q3 2023, 38% of manufacturers, distributors and retailers missed their target for revenue guidance for the quarter. The result was restatement.

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Highlights of Kinaxis 2023 Annual Customer Conference- Part Two

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides added highlights of supply chain planning and execution orchestration provider Kinaxis ’s annual customer conference held last week, both physically in Nashville, Tennessee , and virtually livestreamed. As we noted in our prior blog, there have been significant retail customer wins added including HAVI.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

Starting this week, customers across the US will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages , with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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146 days until Christmas - Are you ready?

Cathy Roberson

As a result, many retailers are sitting on excess inventory. What holiday demand will look like is in flux, AIT CEO Vaughn Moore told the Financial Times , noting that two of his large retail clients have downgraded their sales forecasts ahead of the peak annual shopping period.

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RLA Inaugural Startup Pitch Contest

Cathy Roberson

Retail return rates for 2022 appear to be leveling off, according to data from the National Retail Association and research partner, Appriss. billion in retail returns will be made in 2022 - 16.5% of total retail sales, the same rate as in 2021. NRF and Appriss estimate $816.7

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Calling Reverse Logistics Startups – RLA to host Startup Competition

Cathy Roberson

Retail e-commerce totaled $507.7 of total retail sales. In September I’ll be participating in a panel discussion on returns at the CSCMP Edge conference in Nashville and I’ll be moderating a panel session on the middle and last miles at JOC’s Inland Distribution conference in Chicago.