Events

Special Briefing on Opportunities in China's Warehousing Market
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Steve Ganster and Denny McKnight, Asia entry strategy experts at Tompkins Associates, present this special webinar on the Development and Expansion of China's Distribution Warehousing Market.

Ganster and McKnight highlight results from a six-month research project on trends in China's warehousing market, which is rapidly expanding and becoming more sophisticated as China's economy continues to roll on unabated by the global recession.

Topics covered:
- Characterization of China's warehouse activity
- Size and growth of key material handling equipment
- Perspective on key end-use sector development
- Review of potential opportunities for U.S. and European company participation

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Videocast -
Breakthrough Logistics Strategies: Logistics Gurus Have Their Say
Featuring Jim Tompkins with Tompkins Associates, Greg Aimi with AMR Research and Tom Kozenski with RedPrairie

Are you looking for a fresh new idea or two to help jumpstart your logistics performance? We’ve gathered several of the leading logistics experts for a lively, thought-provoking panel discussion on the breakthrough performance tips they have gathered over their many years in the industry. If you leave this session without gaining at least one good idea you can put to use today in your organization, you just weren’t listening.

Join us to:

• Learn performance tips from the thought-leaders in the industry;
• Hear real-world examples of how these ideas have been put into action; and
• Come away with helpful hints you can put to use in your organization today.

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Webcast: Getting Supply Chain on the CEO's Agenda
Featuring Jim Tompkins, CEO and founder, Tompkins Associates

How can supply chain professionals get their message heard at the top levels of the organization? Dr. Jim Tompkins, an internationally recognized authority on leadership and supply chain best practices, reveals the answers in this special leadership webcast on-demand.

Tompkins gives practical tips on how to communicate the positive impact of supply chain management on the business -- in terms CEOs can understand and appreciate. You'll discover how to make a persuasive business case for supply chain investments. And you'll learn about the key traits and competencies that supply chain people need to develop to assure a long and successful career.
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Videocast - How Enterprises Gain from Global Trade Management:
A New Process Model for the China-to-US Trade Lane
Presented by Stanford University and the Supply Chain Television Channel from Supply Chain Digest
Learn how to achieve bottom-line benefits such as an annual profit increase of 28 percent for exporters and a 23 percent increase for importers. Featuring Dr. Warren Hausman and Dr. Hau Lee of Stanford University, this videocast overviews a new global trade management process model.
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Webcast: Trends in Automation and
Top Systems Suppliers

Modern Materials Handling presents the Top 20 Systems Suppliers Webcast - The Current State of Warehouse/DC Automation Projects. Join Modern Materials Handling's Executive Editor Bob Trebilcock and Jim Tompkins, President and CEO of Tompkins Associates, in this special webcast that covers the current trends in automation projects going on inside warehouse/DCs, as well as an overview of the Top 20 systems suppliers that are helping to make those projects possible. Watch this webcast now.

Trans-Pacific Contract Negotiations: How market dynamics are taking shape in advance of May-June contract negotiations
Moderator: Bill Mongelluzzo, West Coast Editor, The Journal of Commerce

With:
Don Anderson
Vice President of Transportation Services, Tompkins Associates
Paul Bingham
Managing Director, Global Trade and Transportation, IHS Global Insight
Brian Conrad
Executive Administrator, Transpacific Stabilization Agreement
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The Future of Materials Handling: America Has Talent. Will it work for you?
Finding and cultivating talent in the material handling industry is the subject of this panel discussion with Jim Tompkins, CEO of Tompkins Associates; along with fellow panelists Brian Eddy, a director from SubCon Industries, and Kevin Gue, a professor from Auburn University. Presented by Modern Materials Handling.
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Leading Edge Logistics: A Two-Part Series
This outstanding series of two Supply Chain Videocasts from Supply Chain Digest will give you practical insight that will help improve global and domestic logistics and transportation strategy and execution.
Part One / Part Two (free registration required).

Seven Habits of Highly Successful Supply Chains
This extremely popular presentation is now on-demand and freely accessible without registration, presented by Jim Tompkins, CEO of Tompkins Associates.
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RFID's Reality: Finding the Payoff in Technology
A presentation with Paul Faber, Principal, Tompkins Associates and Jill Jusko, senior editor of IndustryWeek. Free registration is required.
See the full presentation with audio or PowerPoint only (5MB).