Saturday, July 4, 2020 · Bob Trebilcock
Seattle-based Shipium is focused on improving e-commerce fulfillment, using lessons learned from two e-commerce behemoths
Thursday, July 2, 2020 · Diego Pantoja-Navajas
Software resilience gives organizations the ability to pivot in the face of market pressures and evolve to meet changes in customer trends, and disruptions to individual markets or the global economy.
Wednesday, July 1, 2020 · Jeff Berman
In its monthly Manufacturing Report on Business, ISM reported that the report’s key metric, the PMI, came in at 52.6 (a reading of 50 or higher indicates growth), which marked a 9.5% improvement over May’s 43.1 and a 12.7% gain over April’s 39.9 reading.
Wednesday, July 1, 2020 · Steve Banker, Marisa Brown, and Greg Toornman
When COVID-19 was bringing other supply chains to a screeching halt, AGCO acted early and decisively to keep its operations around the world up and running. The key: A very agile supply chain.
Wednesday, July 1, 2020 · Craig L. Pearce and Christina L. Wassenaar
Is shared supply chain leadership the future? Shared leadership entails the informal, serial emergence of multiple leaders, depending on the knowledge, skills and abilities of the individuals involved, while considering the emerging requirements of the tasks facing those parties.
Wednesday, July 1, 2020 · Sumantra Sengupta
Uncertainty is the new normal for supply chain managers. There’s no silver bullet, but these 10 ideas may provide a template for managing in uncertain times.
Wednesday, July 1, 2020 · Harry Haney, Thomas M. Decker, Jenny Kim, Monica Roth, Holly Warden, R. Bray McDonnell and Mark Mulroe
Some manufacturers and distributors are hiring recently incarcerated individuals in their plants and DCs. To make it work, you have to break through the “concrete ceiling.”
Wednesday, July 1, 2020 · Daniel Covert, Joaquin Ortiz and Tugba Efendigil
Companies invest years and millions optimizing their inventories. It’s time for a new approach to calculate safety stock while still meeting customer service during critical promotion periods.
Wednesday, July 1, 2020 · Eva Ponce and Sergio Caballero
This behavioral shift could help transform the grocery business as it has done in other areas of retailing.
Wednesday, July 1, 2020 · Per Kristian Hong and Arun Kochar
Moving forward, the lessons from our current experiences must be captured and applied in an adaptive fashion to overcome new challenges as proactively as possible.
Monday, June 29, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
The supply chain management undergraduate program in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas has been ranked No. 1 in North America by the leading global research firm Gartner.
Monday, June 29, 2020 · Mostafa Sayyadi
When executives analyze strategy, they can create more knowledge and find the best solution using a problematic search of various options.
Monday, June 29, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
In the just-in-time supply chain environment of the automotive industry, procurement and supply chain managers can consider adjusting inventory levels according to the risk of a renewed regional or national lockdown that might disrupt inbound supply availability for a certain…
Monday, June 29, 2020 · Larry Lapide
This Insights column is the second of a two-part series. It deals with lessons learned from selling and surviving in an organization living through the realities of a “bad news” annual budget—and its corresponding forecasts and plans.
Monday, June 29, 2020 · Jan Steenberg and Rakesh Sharma
The time is right for a purpose-driven supply chain. Maximizing profits for shareholders should no longer be the only objective of corporations. Instead, corporations should be managed with a purpose to improve the future of our environment, citizens, employees and other…
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