Warehouse management is an extremely crucial function of supply chain and has grown to be increasingly complex. The consistent rise in customers' expectations has posed greater challenges in customizing warehouse operations to meet those increasingly high expectations.

The logistics and warehousing sector in Asia Pacific is undergoing significant changes with increased merger and acquisition activity, which has lead to better infrastructure creation. The supply chain industry has emerged as the indomitable sector, with logistic services becoming critical to maintaining the flow of essentials goods while well-placed warehousing assets have become vital to enable hyper-efficient deliveries across locations. Logistics players across the Asia Pacific have quickly integrated technology to enable monitoring and tracking requirements for predicting delivery timelines and enhanced customer experience.

The increased intra-APAC trade has driven economies in the region to adopt, survive and modernise their logistics infrastructure, which limited the volume de-growth by 4.2 per cent compared to 12.3 per cent and 9.0 per cent de-growth in trade volumes in East to Europe and East to North America routes in H1 2020. The APAC market is expected to recover faster and grow at a 6 per cent CAGR from 2021 to 2024.

Inventicon brings you the 4^th Annual Warehousing and Inventory Optimization Asia Summit 2021 that captures the need to recognize the significance of the positive developments in the sector with favourable geo- economic policies and rising investments. The conference attempts to take cognizance of the daily complex operational issues faced by the warehousing professionals and offers a platform to evaluate implementation of technological advancements & best practices framework for dealing with operational efficiency issues faced on everyday basis.

• Approaches to identifying ways to creating additional product customization opportunities in the warehouse
• Measuring and communicating the right metrics to improve warehouse operations performance
• Overcoming the challenge of addressing seemingly unforecastable intermittent demand
• Keeping up with the retail giants in their omnichannel supply chain game
• Developing roadmap for transformation into Smart warehouse
• Approaches to boosting manpower productivity in warehouse operation
• Understanding the scope for value added services within a warehouse to help optimize supply chain management