The NZPICS Supply Chain Annual Conference is the yearly gathering of New Zealand's production, inventory and supply-chain profession, convened by NZPICS; 2026 is listed for Auckland, with dates and venue not yet published by the organiser.
The NZPICS Supply Chain Annual Conference is the yearly gathering of New Zealand's production, inventory and supply-chain profession, convened by NZPICS. Third-party reporting on past editions describes it as the annual NZPICS Supply Chain Conference — a programme of speaker sessions and professional networking for operations and supply-chain practitioners. The 2026 edition is listed for Auckland; at the time of writing NZPICS had not yet published the 2026 date, venue or programme on its own site.
NZPICS (the New Zealand Production & Inventory Control Society) describes itself on its own site as a premium not-for-profit supply-chain education provider. According to coverage of its 2023 conference by Abel Software, NZPICS is New Zealand's channel partner for ASCM (the Association for Supply Chain Management), delivering APICS qualifications such as CPIM locally, alongside corporate training and an instructor pathway. The organisation marked its 43rd anniversary in June 2023, placing its founding around 1980 and giving it decades of standing in the New Zealand supply-chain community.
The conference is aimed at supply-chain, operations, procurement, logistics and manufacturing professionals. Its programmes have historically drawn senior New Zealand and international industry leaders: according to the Abel Software report, the 2023 edition (themed "Supply Chains in Transition") featured Roger Gray, CEO of Ports of Auckland; David Ross, CEO of Kotahi; supply-chain and sustainability leaders from Fisher & Paykel; and Abe Eshkenazi, CEO of ASCM. That line-up signals the calibre of speaker the event tends to attract, though the 2026 programme and speakers had not been published by NZPICS at the time of writing.
The directory lists the 2026 conference at the Ellerslie Event Centre, set on the grounds of the historic Ellerslie Racecourse at 80 Ascot Avenue, Remuera. According to the aucklandnz.com venue listing, the centre sits roughly 7 km (about a 10-minute drive) from Auckland's CBD and about 17.5 km from Auckland Airport, with on-site parking and motorway access, and function spaces that scale from small meeting rooms up to large halls. As the 2026 date and venue have not yet been confirmed on the organiser's own channels, delegates should treat these details as provisional pending an official NZPICS announcement.
A long-running association conference, the NZPICS event anchors New Zealand's supply-chain profession in the business-events calendar. It is a repeat, home-grown gathering that convenes senior operators from ports, logistics, manufacturing and distribution, and its continuity over four-plus decades, together with its tie to the global ASCM/APICS network, make it a stable fixture worth tracking for the association meetings segment.
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