Even with new technologies, the trucking industry needs proactive changes to turn things around on the labor front. We need to take proactively expand the pool of drivers, which currently is 94 percent male and aging.
Manufacturers, product development firms and supply chain partners must accept, embrace and utilize IoT, digital analytics, and AI to stay relevant and grow.
Fraxion, a cloud-based procure-to-pay solution for business spend management, recently launched in North America following its merger with eRequester, with eRequester, a U.S. based e-procurement software suite provider.
The second annual joint survey of supply chain executives from JDA Software, Inc. and KPMG LLP (KPMG) details the key innovation investments across retail, manufacturing and logistics in 2019.
One of the highlights of this week's Gartner Supply Chain Executive Summit was the IBM launch of its Business Transactional Intelligence (BTI) solution.
Regional highlights contained in the recently-released 2019 A.T. Kearney Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index contains some rather granular market intelligence for today's global supply chain managers.
According to the 2019 A.T. Kearney Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Confidence Index, global shippers are more likely to invest broadly around the world in the years to come.
In its “U.S. Economic Forecast Flash,” IHS Markit analysts note that first-quarter GDP growth was impressive, but cautions supply chain managers to remain on guard.
The Monitor Institute by Deloitte recently released a first-of-its-kind report evaluating the current state and future horizon for tools to enable ethical supply chains.
The nation's top carriers are making every effort to extend the trucking rally, satisfy customer needs and differentiate themselves in a cutthroat market.
The majority of C-Suite executives and policy makers in the United States believe investing in security software, infrastructure and emerging technologies is critical to protecting U.S. data from growing cybersecurity risks, according to a newly released survey.
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 · Dr. Larry Lapide, lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and an MIT research affiliate
Note: This “Insights” is a reprint of my April 2007 column. While written 12 years ago it is quite possibly even more relevant today. In 2007, S&OP was not as widely used, but
With the global supply chain fraught with uncertainty and instability, supply chain managers should be examining where sole-source manufacturing suppliers are most vulnerable and how they can work with suppliers to identify and qualify alternate sites.
Along with new forwarding players and suppliers, supply chain managers are embracing digital technologies to develop a variety of innovative business models that will dramatically improve the shipper experience and eliminate entrenched operational inefficiencies.
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