Wednesday, January 8, 2025 · Dana Kabat-Farr, Iman Nosoohi, and Rémi Labelle-Deraspe
Diversity efforts within supply chain management will not be sustainable without addressing the subtle acts of selective incivility that undermine inclusion as experienced by suppliers, buyers, and firm employees.
Wednesday, January 8, 2025 · Stanley E. Fawcett, Amydee M. Fawcett, A. Michael Knemeyer, and Sebastian Brockhaus
Muhammad Ali was the greatest boxer, but he also learned tough lessons along the way about being just “good enough.” Supply chain managers can take valuable lessons from Ali’s greatest losses.
Wednesday, January 8, 2025 · Willow Liu Yang, Pamela J. Zelbst, Milo D. Berg, and Kenneth W. Green
For CEOs, integrating Industry 4.0 technologies into their supply chain strategies serves as both a risk mitigation strategy and a means to capitalize on efficiency improvements to secure a competitive edge.
This year’s Supply Chain Outlook Virtual Summit gives attendees the strategies, technologies, and automation tools required for ongoing success in modern logistics, transportation, and supply chain management environments.
Wednesday, January 8, 2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A pick-to-zero strategy is an order-picking method where shipments are received, put away, picked, and shipped out on the same day. When adding in network design changes, the benefits result in increased product freshness and lower daily shipment costs.
The December Services PMI, at 54.1 (a reading of 50 or higher signals growth) rose 2.0% over November’s 52.1 reading, growing, at a faster rate, for the sixth consecutive month, and for the 52nd time in the last 55 months, going back to the initial recovery from the…
To ensure sustained precision and efficiency, supply chain organizations look for the right measures to track their performance. Yet many do not consider measuring innovation in the supply chain. Organizations often aim to increase their innovation, but they must first…
To ensure precision and efficiency, supply chain organizations look for the right measures to track their performance. These efforts focus on identifying key performance indicators for standard supply chain functions such as planning, procurement, manufacturing, and logistics.
Tuesday, January 7, 2025 · Korhan Acar, Marc Palazzolo, Aishwarya Kaul, and Faisal Ghoury
With inflation and interest rates easing, more competition in the market and the freight cycle poised to turn, shippers now have more rate negotiating power than they imagine.
Experts and analysts weigh in on the positive impacts of AI, machine learning, and GenAI on the supply chain planning space and offer a peek into what could be coming around the next corner.
As we move into 2025, supply chain executives face an evolving landscape of both exciting opportunities and significant challenges. Advancements in technology are shaping industry trends, changing consumer expectations, increasing environmental pressures, and exacerbating…
It will always be prudent to reduce the use of carbon-based energy sources by making supply chains as energy-efficient as possible, but fossil fuels remain critical in 2025.
As much discussion and deployment of artificial intelligence took place in 2024, 2025 is shaping up to be an even bigger year. This year will likely see the acceleration of AI, and specifically Generative AI, into everyday business functions.
Raw material shortage issues differ across manufacturing industries and while they have eased in some sectors, they remain elevated above pre-COVID levels for a number of sectors.
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