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Tompkins Advisory Services (TAS) has been designed to provide knowledge, information and data and deep insights to organizations whose business and/or investments are impacted by the accelerated pace brought about by the digital supply chain.

Companies commonly monitor internal metrics in order to measure operational performance. However, a company can only learn so much from its own data. Research and analysis of other leading companies’ best practices provides useful comparisons, and can help you identify priorities and allocate capital.

Tompkins International Asia consulting practice is built for a Globalization 2.0 world where businesses need to rethink, digitize, internationalize, and redeploy their make it, move it, and sell it strategies and operations to address the megatrends affecting their business.

Digital Strategy & Operations

Distribution Center (DC) and Fulfillment Center (FC) operations are central to every supply chain. Driven by constantly changing markets, customer demands, and technologies, the right strategy for modern distribution and fulfillment center operations requires a sophisticated understanding of end-to-end supply chains.

Customer expectations for manufacturing products have changed over the last 15 years. To provide the speed and customization today’s customers require, new manufacturing and production strategies must be used in the supply chain. To achieve success and competitive advantage, all manufacturing companies must reduce costs, minimiz...

Tompkins International’s Material Handling Integration solutions offer greater thought around real needs and balance costs with benefits, instead of simply relying on equipment. While many companies design facilities that depend heavily on conveyors and other mechanization, there are smarter design solutions that provide more pr...

Network design plays a key role in controlling costs, managing complexity, and increasing profit margins. However, an optimized supply chain network can do even more for your business. It can reduce your carbon footprint, help you meet broad sustainability goals, increase the delivery quality of your products, and ultimately b...

The development of an effective and implementable supply chain plan requires broad and deep expertise in the areas of industrial engineering, technology systems, equipment, logistics, procurement, operations management, marketing, business economics, as well as access to current supply chain industry data.

Tompkins is leading clients into a world of Supply Chain Technology systems integration, through a synthesis of software, hardware, and cloud-based systems.

Tompkins International introduces Tompkins Robotics, a new product offering for North America. Tompkins Robotics has joined forces with Lab Z and has been successfully operating in China for the past 3 years, as an innovative material handling sortation system, named t-Sort. Together the two companies will bring this robotic tec...

Transportation is often a company’s most over-looked and under-scrutinized cost area. On average, companies spend about 10 percent of their budgets on logistics, sixty percent of which is typically spent on transportation. Based on recurring survey data, transportation is by far the largest component of logistics costs for mos...

The growth of machine automation, smart devices, and data-producing sensors in equipment has brought immense promise, especially in an age of high-volume, high-complexity eCommerce, distribution, and fulfillment. IoT has the potential to create more efficient, cost effective, and reliable warehouse environments that are safer, ...