Our practitioner membership consists of a who's who from top retailers and suppliers brought together to solve pressing issues in retail-supplier execution. Service and solutions providers may join VCF as associate members, empowering you up to:

• Participate in the dialog between retail trading partners to solve specific and costly issues in supply chain operations and execution
• Provide the tools necessary to drive supply chain velocity and retailer-supplier execution
• Join leading companies and organizations from around the world in defining best practices vital to the evolution of the global, high-tech trading networks
• Underscore your company’s profile with decision makers and primary influencers charged with delivering metric-supported operational success

By becoming an associate member, you will gain the following benefits:

• Directly access and network with hundreds of decision makers and influencers in supplier and retailer operations, finance, marketing, and IT to promote your products and ideas
• Demonstrate thought leadership in your industry segment
• Drive and influence the direction in development of near-term business solutions that will be implemented strategic leaders in eBusiness
• Take home strategic intelligence and actionable information you can put to work immediately and in next-generation solutions
• Receive exclusive member registration pricing to all conferences
• Sponsor areas of direct interest to your organization at discounted associate member rates
• Take part in research projects, including white papers and benchmark surveys, and industry feedback sessions to broadcast knowledge in your subject area
• Participate in a close-knit community of peers looking to resolve the myriad complexities in trading partner relationships and operational execution

Annual Associate Membership, which includes membership in both VCF and Trade Promotion Management Associates (TPMA) , is $7500.

Access to the Compliance Clearinghouse is reserved. Please contact Susan Haupt for more information on the Compliance Clearinghouse.

For more information about associate membership, contact Kim Zablocky.

Who should join:

• Compliance solutions
• Enterprise solutions
• Financial supply chain solutions
• Financial services
• Import and sourcing solutions
• Web portal services
• Auctions and other community management services
• Business intelligence solutions
• Forecasting, planning, pricing and promotion solutions
• Transportation management solutions
• Logistics/3PL companies
• IT/EDI communications providers
• Label printing, barcoding and scanning solutions
• Consultants

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A sample of 2007 Service/Solutions Provider Members

• ABF Freight System, Inc.
• afterBOT, Inc.
• Avery Dennison Corporation
• ADT Security Services, Inc.
• Compliance Networks LLC
• DemandTec
• DIcentral
• Dynamic Worldwide Logistics
• EDI Specialists Inc.
• FineLine Technologies
• The Gilbert Company
• GMAC Commercial Finance
• GXS
• HighRadius Corporation
• Hitachi Consulting
• Label Interactive Technologies
• MEI

Click to see specific membership program benefits for Retailers, Suppliers, and Service Providers.