Strategic Overview

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Within a dynamic and evolving market the need to keep up to date with the distribution strategies employed by world class companies has never been greater. How manufacturers and retailers organise their supply chains, the political, economic and social influences on their decisions and the effectiveness of the execution of their strategies is critical to competitive advantage.

Moreover understanding the strategic development of the myriad of service and infrastructure providers is essential to the facilitation of best practice.

The 2nd Global Distribution Strategies Europe conference focused on the importance of nodal choices: cross-docking, warehousing, logistics platforms or indeed direct to consumer approaches. It looked at the latest trends of inventory management mitigated by best practice in customer service.

Global Distribution Strategies Europe answered questions such as:

• How do some of the world's largest manufacturers and retailers organize their physical distribution network?
• Where are the 'hotspots' for distribution centre clusters?
• What are the key drivers in the organization of supply chains?
• How do distribution strategies vary by industry sector?
• How are strategies dependent on product attributes and upstream/downstream dynamics?
• Why are port-centric and intermodal strategies so important?
• How progressed are RFID strategies?
• How are supply chain visibility technologies affecting physical distribution?
• What have been some of the worst distribution disasters?

Global Distribution Strategies 2009 addressed all these issues by bringing together the leading practitioners in the industry within a single forum, combined with Ti's own research on the sector.

How is the Global Distribution Strategies series different?

Organised by leading market research company Transport Intelligence, this series of conference has been developed with one key goal: to reveal best practice in the industry by a series of informative presentations. The programme is compiled by Ti's expert analysts, using their many years of experience to identify the most insightful and powerful speakers. Ti's ethos of excellence in knowledge delivery underpins the conference, in the same way as it does all Ti's market intelligence products and services.

Ti's experts work with all the speakers at Global Distribution Strategies to ensure that presentations integrate within a cohesive programme aimed at answering all the key questions related to the market. The content covers implementing a successful distribution strategy, ranging from strategic, through tactical to operational. Keynote speakers include senior executives from manufacturers and retailers, consultancies, operators and property companies as well as Ti's own experts delivering exclusive surveys and insight on the market.

The conference series will explore distribution strategies, from the perspective of Manufacturers and Retailers, Logistics Service Providers (LSPs), Ports, Property Developers, Material Handling and Supply Chain Technology companies. Ti has the knowledge and insight to examine the issue from both a strategic and operational perspective.

Global Distribution Strategies 2009 offered all those present the opportunity to gain answers to the key questions concerning distribution strategies benefiting from the opinions of the key decision makers in the sector. All of this was presented by Ti in a clear, concise manner, fulfilling the same objective as all of Ti's information products.

Who attended the 2nd Global Distribution Strategies Europe conference?

Global Distribution Strategies 2009 was attended by the leading executives from:

• Manufacturers and Retailers
• Logistics service providers
• Property development companies
• Banks and financial institutions
• Property Agents
• IT solutions providers
• Government development agencies
• Materials handling equipment providers
• Consultancies