Tompkins International

The growth of global markets, increasing customer expectations, rising costs, and more intense and diverse competitive pressures are driving the development of new supply chain strategies and intricate network designs.

Staples is shrinking, Radio Shack is sinking, and then there's Amazon and online e-commerce and the future of retail.

Amazon is able to inexpensively offer customers same-day delivery, while Walmart is making huge strides in using omnichannel innovations. This video explains the disruptions the titans are causing, and most importantly, it presents the elements of how you can effectively respond.

Leaders are developing, although it is slow-going. Omnichannel retailers, consumer product companies doing retail, endless aisle providers, and distributors need a strategic roadmap to determine how to leverage competitive advantages.

You know that Amazon is exploding in the online retail world. Odds are that you’ve recently ordered something from their website. But did you know that they are also your company’s biggest competitor, regardless of the products you sell or your industry?

After a deeper discussion of the two larger complementary philosophies that are reinventing supply chains—omnichannel and DDSC—this executive briefing takes a look at the newest products and features in supply chain technology today.

Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium: Companies need to utilize latest technologies for demand-driven operations & meet expectations of today’s omnichannel customer.

Jim Tompkins, CEO of Tompkins International and noted supply chain expert, will reveal how retailers can tackle roadblocks and ensure successful strategies at the 2013 National Retail Federation (NRF) Global Supply Chain Summit opening keynote on May 20.

This paper discusses the business realities that drive DC design today. It examines how sensitivity analysis, modeling, and scenario planning can provide new design insights for the DC. In particular, it focuses on how such changes affect material handling equipment design and IT architecture within the warehouse.

Distribution center (DC) and material handling equipment (MHE) design must be flexible to meet the challenges of today’s changing business climate, according to a new paper by Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium.

Amazon continues to change the game for retailers. A few Christmases ago, they set the retail world on its backside with the introduction of free shipping – regardless of the fact that it costs Amazon, and everyone else, something to provide that service for free.