BCG’s new report outlines how companies must build more resilience into their manufacturing and supply networks—even if that resilience leads to extra costs.
BSI today announced the latest findings from its quarterly review of the top global supply chain security, business continuity, food safety and fraud, and corporate social responsibility threats and trends.
The Q3 Outlook revealed that business spend sentiment recovered modestly (an increase of 9.6 percent), suggesting that while current confidence is still well below trend, businesses are showing early signs of optimism around the economic outlook.
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, classifying businesses as essential or non-essential for a locked-down world has drastically changed shopping demand.
Logistics and supply chain outfits across the country have deployed business continuity response teams to build coordinated efforts that bring together technology, operations, communications, and HR to build a set of policies, processes and procedures to keep everyone safe.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 · Catherine Dame and Abdelrahman Hefny
Researchers at MIT’s Center for Transportation & Logistics explored the use of carbon offsets to leverage sustainability commitments to drive investment in green transport systems through projects like fleet renewal programs.
Supply chain managers will benefit from reassessing their sourcing and distribution networks, including tier suppliers and key network links and nodes.
Monday, July 27, 2020 · Alicemarie Geoffrion, Vice President, Packaging Operations, DHL Supply Chain, North America
Packaging has become one of the highest priorities for many e-commerce providers. But how can you optimize your packaging for sustainability while managing costs and meeting customer expectations?
While supply chain organizations deal with the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, they still pursue gender equality goals. According to Gartner, Inc.’s 2020 Women in Supply Chain Survey among 177 supply chain professionals, 17% of chief supply chain officers are now women…
Hundreds of senior decision makers in healthcare, robotics, and other industries report damaging COVID-19 impact, focus on digital transformation, and emphasis on building supply chain resilience through agility
Success in today’s global business environment can be more effective when executives can manifest themselves as change agents who reshape, and in some cases, manipulate corporate culture to better apply knowledge and create competitive advantage.
With companies across the globe restarting operations in the new normal, executive leaders are balancing the standard way of doing business against the innovation needed to build growth in 2020.
As the business world continues to reinvent itself, here’s a look at how supply chain executive education could evolve over the next year.
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