Many businesses today are investing in new initiatives focused on omni-channel retailing. This requires an omni-channel fulfillment strategies that can provide a new level of service and convenience for retail customers, including the cost, service and margin impacts of home delivery, ship-from-store, store pick-up, alternate replenishment strategies and more. Is omni-channel absolutely necessary today and why? What will and have already changed? What’re the differences? What business impacts does omni-channel bring? In the process of transition, what have changed from Supply Chain point of view?

Gone are the days of single-channel retailing - and supply chains servicing that model. Today, retailers must optimize their supply chains to deliver products from any point where consumers want to buy them. A typical consumer expects cross-channel services such as 'click-and-collect' and 'order-to-deliver'; wider online SKU offerings; in-store kiosks; free delivery; and free returns through any channel.

Finding a way to optimize supply chains to meet the new pressures of channel proliferation, while still servicing the standard need to keep costs under control and deliver the right products to the right place at the right time, is the new reality for omnichannel retailers.

The role of Procurement is transcending from service function to business strategy partner. The necessity for top procurement executives to manage talent well is not only pressing but complex. What qualities are important to identify and develop in order for Procurement to remain true to your corporate strategy? How to build the right culture for strategic forward thinking and what are the risks to be recognized as functionally disabled? How to tailor talent plans to address different regional needs and business objectives? How to differentiate in the talent marketplace by going beyond financial incentives and creating customized retention strategies?

VCIntegration, the market leading data-driven event marketing company focused in supply chain discipline, will be the official partner with LLamasoft, Inc., the global leader in supply chain design software solutions in an effort to launch the Supply Chain Innovation Workshop on Network Design and Optimization for A Better Supply Chain 2016 on May 19, 2016, in Shanghai, China.

VCIntegration,the leading data-driven event marketing company in supply chain discipline, will be the official partner with XPO - the top ten global provider of transportation and logistics solutions in an effort to launch the Supply Chain & Logistics Executive Gathering 2016 - Putting Lean in the Warehouse and Distribution Network on May 26, 2016, in Puli Hotel, Shanghai, China.

We’ve seen more wrongdoing in organizations in the past 10 years...greater media attention, more accountability from varied stakeholders, changing legislation holding the organizations accountable for individual wrongdoing (FSGO).

If we consider the implications of commercial bribery and trends in enforcement in China, and other high profile prosecutions of multinationals recently, I think a clear message is being sent from Chinese Government, overseas companies who believe to know the Chinese protocols well, might be conducting processes and controls which are breaching the Chinese law, and the consequences can go far beyond than serious financial penalties and claw-back of unlawful gains, it’s on aglobal scale.