NEWARK, N.J., June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The Journal of Commerce will present a free webcast on "New Efficiencies in Retail Supply Chains: Putting Productivity to Work in the Downturn," on Wednesday, June 17 at 2 p.m. EDT. Registration is ongoing at http://www.joc.com/supplychain for the live presentation and chat.
John T. (Tom) Mentzer, Ph.D., Chancellor's Professor, Bruce Excellence Chair of Business, and executive director, Demand Supply Integration Forums at the University of Tennessee, and Larry Lapide, Ph.D., director, Demand Management, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, will discuss how forward-looking retailers are improving their demand forecasting and supply chain management. Moderator will be Joseph Bonney, executive editor, The Journal of Commerce.
The panelists will address: -- The Journal of Commerce's exclusive Top 100 Importers and Exporters coverage. -- Trends in retail supply chains. -- How globalization and recession are changing retailers' supply chain management. -- Planning and managing retail demand in a volatile economy. -- Balancing costs and customer service through inventory management. -- Changes in retail distribution strategies.
"As one shipper told us, this is showtime for true innovation in logistics and supply chains," said Paul Page, editorial director of The Journal of Commerce, which is part of UBM Global Trade (http://www.ubmglobaltrade.com/), a division of United Business Media Ltd. (http://www.ubm.com/). "We've seen the risks this economic downturn is presenting to some of the country's largest retailers, and we've also seen what some of the leading companies are doing to sharpen their supply chains, get through this cycle and come out stronger than ever."
The webcast is the final part of The Journal of Commerce's Top 100 Importers and Exporters coverage, designed to enable industry insiders to learn from a panel of experts what forward-looking retailers are doing to improve their demand forecasting and supply chain management.
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