WERC Experience 2027
About WERC Experience (formerly WERC Annual Conference)
WERC hosts an annual conference focused on warehouse education, research, and community, attracting logistics professionals and featuring educational sessions and exhibits.
WERC Experience @ ProMat 2027
WERC Experience @ ProMat 2027 runs 19–21 April 2027 at ProMat in Chicago, Illinois, held at McCormick Place.
What it is
WERC — the Warehousing Education and Research Council — serves warehousing, distribution and supply-chain professionals. Its annual gathering, formerly the WERC Annual Conference, now runs as the WERC Experience. In 2027 WERC states it takes place in two parts: at MHI's ProMat in Chicago on 19–21 April, and at the MHI Spring Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, on 16–19 May.
The programme
WERC's sessions are chosen by its Conference Committee from an open call. The organiser groups its desired topics under three headings:
- People — high-performing teams, staffing, safety, personal development, culture and retention.
- Processes — direct-to-consumer distribution, operational efficiency, outsourcing and vendor relationships, inventory control, reverse logistics, transport, sustainability and external disruptions.
- Technology & data — digital transformation, partner data integration, benchmarking, metrics and KPIs, execution software and machine learning.
Sessions are meant to be led by practitioners — shippers or people in operations roles — and pitched at an intermediate-to-advanced audience. Suppliers and consultants may propose sessions only with a customer as lead presenter, and sales or brand commercialism in educational sessions is prohibited; WERC sells commercial time slots separately.
At ProMat
ProMat is MHI's material handling and supply chain exhibition. Alongside the WERC programme, MHI lists two events run with WERC: the Women in the Supply Chain Industry Forum on 19 April, organised with MHEDA, and ProMat Student Day on 21 April, which features guided show floor tours for students. ProMat's own conference has a keynote on each of its three days, opening on 19 April with a panel previewing the 2027 MHI Annual Industry Report.
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Key Topics
- Warehouse operations and benchmarking
- Supply chain leadership
- Logistics technology
- Peer networking
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