Description
Position your company’s thought leaders as industry authorities through the Logistics Leaders Podcast. Each 20–30 minute, professionally produced conversation explores real-world returns, reverse supply chain, and post-purchase challenges facing modern retailers and brands alongside the strategic, operational, and technological decisions shaping the future of reverse logistics.
The series reaches an engaged audience of senior retail, supply chain, operations, technology, and sustainability decision-makers responsible for driving efficiency, customer experience, and profitability across increasingly complex returns ecosystems.
Available:
Availability in the 2nd and 4th week of every month starting March
What’s included:
- 20–30 minute expert interview published across RETHINK Retail podcast channels
- Promotion across RETHINK Retail channels, including the RETHINK Retail newsletter (25,000+ retail professionals) and LinkedIn (30,000+ followers), plus one NRF promotional post via either LinkedIn or email
- 3,000–6,000 listens per episode from a senior retail leader audience
- Strategic visibility arc for each episode, including a strong launch push, continued reinforcement over subsequent weeks, and evergreen resurfacing when the topic is most relevant
- Full episode recording and highlight clips made available for sponsor use across websites, sales presentations, and social media
- Opportunity to help shape the discussion topic and include a retail perspective, ensuring alignment with your thought leadership objectives
Target Audience:
- Senior executives (Senior Director level and above) from leading retailers and brands with 1,000+ employees.
- Listeners are leaders responsible for reverse logistics, supply chain, operations, omnichannel, sustainability, technology, data, innovation, customer experience, and corporate strategy, often owning or influencing significant cost structures and P&L outcomes tied to returns.
Key Benefits:
Podcast interviews provide a trusted, long-form platform to position your executives as credible reverse logistics authorities while sharing practical, experience-backed insights with an influential audience of retail decision-makers. The professionally produced format, combined with multi-channel promotion, maximizes reach, credibility, and meaningful follow-up with the right audience.
Episode Recommended Topics:
- From Cost Center to Competitive Advantage: The Evolution of Reverse Logistics How leading retailers are rethinking returns as a strategic capability, not an operational burden.
- Returns Forecasting: Bringing Predictability to an Inherently Uncertain System How data, analytics, and cross-functional planning are changing how retailers anticipate and manage return volumes.
- The Real Cost of Returns And How Leaders Are Getting It Under Control A practical look at where margin is truly lost in reverse logistics and what’s actually working to reduce it.
- Automation, AI, and the Future of Returns ProcessingHow robotics, machine vision, and AI are transforming inspection, routing, and disposition decisions.
- Return Fraud, Abuse, and Policy Design in a Customer-Centric World How retailers are balancing fraud prevention with experience, trust, and lifetime value.
- Reverse Logistics as a Customer Experience Strategy Why returns are becoming one of the most powerful post-purchase touchpoints and how leaders are designing for loyalty, not friction.
- Recommerce, Resale, and the Circular Opportunity in Returns How resale, refurbishment, and secondary markets are unlocking new revenue from returned goods.
- Designing Reverse Supply Chain Networks That Actually Scale Lessons from retailers optimizing hubs, transportation, and processing models to handle volume without breaking cost structures.
- Sustainability and Returns: Moving Beyond Good Intentions to Measurable Impact How companies are measuring, managing, and communicating the true environmental footprint of returns.
- What Comes Next for Reverse Logistics A forward-looking conversation on regulation, consumer behavior, technology, and how returns operations will evolve over the next five years.
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RETHINK Retail Audience Fact Sheet - Supply Chain & Logistics.
Sponsor to provide:
- Logos 2 | DUE: ASAP | SUBMIT LOGOS HERE
- 1 full-color logo as high-resolution vector file. .eps, .ai, or .pdf files preferred.
- 1 single-color - black or white - logo as high-resolution vector file. .eps, .ai, or .pdf files preferred.
- Content deliverables as dictated by the NRF content team.
