Globalization drove worldwide economic growth for decades by increasing offshore manufacturing, while spurring low shipping costs, free trade and cheap labor. However, more recently, a substantial shift is being made toward regionalized supply chains, due to higher wages,…
These days, your supply chain provider can deliver your customers a set of winter tires overnight. It's going to cost them $175 more, cost the environment the carbon footprint of a jet, along with air and noise pollution, all for something they won't need for another…
Among the most anticipated announcements coming from last week's Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, AZ, was the annual “Supply Chain Top 25,” which identifies and highlights industry leaders.
Transportation is evolving rapidly, thanks to supply chain technology powered by data and analytics. Digitization is driving big changes that can help meet the pace of change.
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.
Commerce reported that April retail sales, at $513.4 billion, fell 0.2% compared to March and were up 3.1% annually. NRF said that April retail sales were down 0.2% on a seasonally adjusted basis and up 5.2% annually on an unadjusted basis.
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.
APQC and Supply Chain Management Review collected information in April 2019 from supply chain professionals about the use of Big Data & Advanced Analytics in supply chains around the world.
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.
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