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Accenture’s Supply Chain Study Champions “Change-Ready” Culture

Tuesday, January 28, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
Recent research by Accenture found that Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs) are ahead of their peers in the sales function, surpassing them in scaling digitally enabled solutions.

Coronavirus and Your Global Supply Chain

Tuesday, January 28, 2020 · Rosemary Coates
If you haven't already started working on an alternate sourcing and manufacturing strategy that excludes China, you should start immediately.

Measuring Supply Chain “Fitness”

Monday, January 27, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
In a recent column for Gartner's “Beyond Supply Chain” newsletter, Michael Uskert posits that supply chain's success may be its own undoing due to disruptions in multiple global arenas.

How Retailers Gain Control of the Last Mile of Delivery

Friday, January 24, 2020 · David Gerrard
Faced with changing customer expectations, retailers must transform the last mile of delivery with better supply chain workstream collaboration.

This Week in Davos: Supply Chain Emissions Must Be Curtailed

Wednesday, January 22, 2020 · SCMR Staff
At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim is calling for renewed cooperation from all stakeholders to tackle the urgent issues of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from shipping.

Fortna Announces Acquisition of Pierau Planung

Wednesday, January 22, 2020 · SCMR Staff
Fortna®, The Distribution Experts®, a leading global automation, engineering services and software company, today announced that it has acquired Pierau Unternehmensberatung GmbH (“Pierau Planung”), a European-based, market leader in supply chain and logistics design,…

Supply Chain Managers Will Take Look at Air Cargo Options This Year

Tuesday, January 21, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
The Airforwarders Association (AfA), Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA) and the Air Expedited Motor Carriers Association (AEMCA) will stage their annual AirCargo Conference to be held January 26 – 28, 2020, at the Omni Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee.

APQC Infographic: Supply Chain Analytics Trends and Success Factors

Monday, January 20, 2020 · APQC
In 2019, APQC surveyed supply chain professionals regarding the use of analytics in the supply chain. It conducted a similar survey in 2016.
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Are your performance measurements destroying your supply chain? Part II

Friday, January 17, 2020 · Steven A. Melnyk, Michael Bourne, David Frayer and Will Rifkin
The performance measurement system is the most misunderstood, confusing, misapplied and frustrating element of most supply chains. Yet, an effective performance measurement system is one of the foundations on which the strategic supply chain is built.

Technology Infrastructure is Key to Port Competitiveness

Thursday, January 16, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
When the 2019 USC Marshall Global Supply Chain Excellence Summit convened last August, Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka placed special emphasis on technology infrastructure. That same theme was sounded when he delivered the fifth annual “State of the…

Middle Market Study Reveals Importance of Transition Planning

Thursday, January 16, 2020 · SCMR Staff
New research from the National Center for the Middle Market finds that more than three-quarters of middle market businesses have either experienced a major transition in the past five years or expect one in the next five years.
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Thriving on the Supply Chain High Wire

Thursday, January 16, 2020 · Stanley E. Fawcett, Amydee M. Fawcett, A. Michael Knemyer and Sebastian Brockhaus
The difference between supply chain winners and also rans is choreography, a competence every supply chain manager needs to master

2019 retail sales finish on an upswing

Thursday, January 16, 2020 · SCMR Staff
Commerce reported that December retail sales, at $529.6 billion, were up 0.3% over November and up 5.8% annually. NRF reported that December retail sales were up 0.5% from November to December on a seasonally adjusted basis and up 2.1% on an unadjusted basis rose 6.7 annually%.

Resilience360 and Riskpulse Combine to Create Leading Supply Chain Risk Management Solution

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
Columbia Capital, Greenspring Associates and DHL recently announced to jointly acquire Riskpulse to scale the business in combination with Resilience360.

Infrastructure Supply Chain Sales: How The Government Sales Pipeline Got Shorter And Faster

Monday, January 13, 2020 · Jack Siney
Only 20% of government buying is conducted through the long and cumbersome bid/RFP process, so companies can move swiftly through the pipeline to try and capture the 80% of government business secured through a variety of other procurement vehicles.
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