Successful companies world-wide are analyzing their businesses, identifying supply chain capabilities for exploitation, shoring-up gaps, and transforming business practices and processes to remain adaptable to market demands. Our most popular annual supply chain event draws hundreds of professionals for a full day of topics relevant to today's supply chain business imperatives. The symposium provides a platform for supply chain practitioners and educators to share their vision and experience on such topics as integrating supply chain processes and technology, agility in international logistics, defense market innovation, sustainability, and the future of supply chain management.

Third-party logistics providers deliver new and innovative ways to advance logistics effectiveness for success.  The 22nd Annual R. Hadly Waters Supply Chain Symposium: Innovative Supply Chain Management Through Logistics Outsourcing will look at the strategic and operational value that 3PL providers are bringing to their customers through innovation.

Dr. John Langley, Clinical Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems, Associate Director of Development for the Center for Supply Chain Research and our Hadly Symposium keynote is the author of the 16th Annual Third-Party Logistics Study: The State of Logistics Outsourcing.  Dr. Langley brings key insights from both the provider and customer perspective and is well versed on the subject of logistics outsourcing and the innovations that 3PLs are infusing into their markets.

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