Monday, August 10, 2020 · Cory Searcy and Payman Ahi
The Covid-19 crisis has shaken global supply chains to their core. Stories of stretched or broken supply chains in industries as diverse as medical equipment, food, and rare earth minerals have been widely-documented. The pandemic has forced businesses around the world to…
A study just published in one of the world’s top research journals confirmed what supply chain managers already knew: the most successful companies manage and orient their entire supply chain network to best serve the final end consumer, and they do this by tearing down…
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.
With the ongoing pandemic crisis, it is heartening to learn that new strides in humanitarian supply chains are being made by leading providers of national distribution services.
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.
Be sure you are updating your plans annually. Talk to other companies in your industry about their disaster planning. Look for best practices and good ideas from other companies and incorporate these into your own plan. We must do better to prepare for the next disaster…
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…
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.
The latest report from Resilience360 and Business Continuity Institute (BCI), entitled "COVID19: The Future of Supply Chains" shows the devastating impact the pandemic has had on supply chains, with 73% of organizations encountering ‘some’ or ‘significant’…
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