Supply chain professionals are under immense pressure to improve productivity, make better decisions and reduce inefficiency across increasingly complex operations.
Join the CILT(UK) West Midlands Region for an afternoon of practical learning, professional development and networking focused on the ideas shaping logistics and supply chain.
Hear from specialists working across intralogistics, supply chain transformation, and logistics collaboration. Explore the challenges behind operational change, investment decisions, and empty miles, and leave with fresh thinking you can apply in your own role.
Hosted by CILT(UK) West Midlands Region, this event is open to CILT(UK) members from across the UK with an interest in practical innovation across logistics, transport, and supply chain.
Why attend?
You will have the opportunity to:
Hear practical perspectives on intralogistics, productivity and supply chain performance
Understand why major supply chain decisions can fall short, and what supports better evaluation before investment
Explore how stronger collaboration and coordination can help tackle empty miles
Meet fellow CILT(UK) members and sector professionals over networking drinks and food
Earn 2.5 CPD hours for attending
Who should attend?
This event will be particularly relevant to:
Logistics and supply chain professionals
Warehouse, distribution and operations leaders
CILT(UK) members interested in innovation, operational performance and professional development
Speakers:
Naomi Jones, Business Development Manager, Gebhardt
For over three decades, GEBHARDT Intralogistics UK has been helping businesses achieve higher productivity through intelligent innovative intralogistics design.
Will Lovatt, Chief Revenue Officer, Kallikor
Why Less Than One in Five Major Supply Chain Decisions Lands as Intended.
New research from 200 UK and US supply chain leaders reveals why complexity, fragmented evaluation and even personal career risk are preventing major supply chain decisions from landing as intended. Discover the decision-making capabilities that are helping organisations evaluate change more confidently before capital is committed.
Michael Ostroumov, Founder and CEO, Value Chain Lab
Empty Miles Are a Coordination Failure: The Case for more effective Collaboration in Logistics
Michael Ostroumov is the Founder and CEO of Value Chain Lab, the company behind FLOX, a multi-party logistics marketplace and orchestration platform. He has spent over 20 years in supply chain and performance improvement, working across strategic and operational roles. FLOX connects buyers, warehouse providers, 3PLs and hauliers, then coordinates execution and visibility across every party in a shipment. Michael's work starts from a single idea: empty miles are a coordination failure, and the answer is collaboration across networks that have long operated in isolation.
Competencies for this event:
SC2.3 Service, Value Adding and the Competitiveness of Supply Chains
DT2.1 Technology, Automation and Innovation
LE1.1 Leadership, Development, Organisational Culture and Change Management
LE2.1 Customer Service and Relationship Management