Tim Hotze is Senior Vice President, Network Planning, Global Intelligence and Last Mile for Target. He oversees Target’s Supply Chain intelligence products and applications as well as end-to-end strategic and operational functions for Network and Topology Planning. Tim also oversees Fulfillment Optimization, Guest Order and Availability Management. In addition he has full responsibility for Last Mile Operations and the Target Sortation Center Network, from conceptual planning to activation to day-to-day operations including all aspects of Last Mile carrier and delivery management.

Before joining Target in 2017, Tim held a number of elevating leadership roles at Amazon covering Supply Chain Execution, Capacity Planning and Management, Inventory Placement and Labor Planning. He also spent more than a decade at Panalpina World Transport where he had responsibility for worldwide logistics and Supply Chain solutions as well as innovation management. Tim holds a seat on the Advisory Board for the Institute of Business Forecasting and Planning (IBF) and is a former Executive Director as Treasurer and Secretary on the Board of Directors of The Warehouse Education and Research Council. Tim holds a joint Master’s degree in Electrical and Industrial Engineering as well as Logistics and Supply Chain from the University of Technology in Darmstadt (Germany).