By Patrick Burnson ·
December 11, 2019
In this exclusive interview we speak with Brian Hodgson, SVP Industry Strategy for Descartes, as he shares his “Top Three Trends” currently reshaping supply chains.
By SCMR Staff ·
December 11, 2019
According to a new market report, the global smart & mobile supply chain solutions market was valued at $13,614.8 million in 2018 and is expected to reach $31,612.0 million by 2027, expanding at a CAGR 9.9% from 2019 to 2027.
By SCMR Staff ·
December 11, 2019
Bringg Barometer 2020 State of Retail Delivery Report compares original survey data of over 1,000 consumers with retailer offerings and charts a way forward
By Rosemary Coates ·
December 10, 2019
According to the National Christmas Tree Association, tree farms sell approximately 25-30 million Christmas trees every year at an average price of $75 each – totaling $2-3 billion in revenue. Approximately 26% of these trees are sold to big-box retail chains like Wal-Mart or The Home Depot and delivered to distribution centers. The rest are sold to nurseries, retail lots, non-profits, or other retailers.
By Eva Ponce ·
December 10, 2019
The rapid growth in e-commerce has triggered fundamental changes in the way consumers buy goods.
By Patrick Burnson ·
December 10, 2019
Because the supply chain industry has historically been slow to adopt when it comes to digitization, there simply hasn’t been enough collected data for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms to make reliable suggestions, says Jorge Rodriguez, SVP of Product Development at Cleo – a software company providing business-to-business (B2B), embedded integration, application-to-application (A2A), cloud integration and big data.
By Boris Shiklo ·
December 5, 2019
We explore how to approach the implementation of IIoT solutions for supply chain management in a way that allows avoiding excessive investments and drives fast payoff.
By SCMR Staff ·
December 4, 2019
From autonomous ecosystems to circular economies, supply chain managers are coping dynamic change in 2020
By Michael Gravier ·
December 4, 2019
We are on the cusp of major challenges in labor, and supply chain managers should prepare. The economy has created a record number of jobs and unemployment is at nearly the lowest it can be, yet too many workers aren’t benefiting.
By Patrick Burnson ·
December 2, 2019
While more than 50 world leaders convene this week for the 2019 United Nations Climate Change (COP25) conference at Madrid's IFEMA convention center, a major ocean cargo carrier has joined the largest international voluntary initiative for sustainable development.
By DHL Supply Chain ·
December 2, 2019
The move to ever-faster e-commerce deliveries is stretching fulfillment operations to their limit. Can existing networks adapt to the coming demand for next-day and same-day delivery?
By Patrick Burnson ·
November 25, 2019
As we reported last week, the data explosion is at its peak and becoming more mainstream across all industries – the supply chain is no exception, maintains Dr. Madhav Durbha, Group Vice President of Industry Strategy at LLamasoft, a leading leading provider of enterprise supply chain design technology.
By Visible Supply Chain Management ·
November 22, 2019
Your New Year’s resolution might be to switch third-party logistics providers. But how?
By Patrick Burnson ·
November 21, 2019
The data explosion is at its peak and becoming more mainstream across all industries – the supply chain is no exception, maintains Dr. Madhav Durbha, Group Vice President of Industry Strategy at LLamasoft, a leading provider of enterprise supply chain design technology.
By Patrick Burnson ·
November 21, 2019
The largest companies in the U.S. collected cash from customers faster in 2018 and held less inventory, resulting in the best overall working capital performance since 2012, according to the annual Hackett 1000 cost and cash optimization survey from The Hackett Group, Inc.