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Supply Chain News Updates: March Musings on Supply Chain Advances

Monday, March 11, 2019 · Patrick Burnson
As we enter the third month of 2019, here are a few management updates to consider.

Air Cargo Options May Be Good Bet for Supply Chain Managers This Year

Tuesday, March 5, 2019 · Patrick Burnson
With the passing of last month's annual Air Forwarders Association conference in Las Vegas, we caught up with the AfA's executive director Brandon Freid for this exclusive interview which first appeared in our sister publication -- Logistics Management.

Wisdom Comes from the Young

Friday, March 1, 2019 · Michael Gravier
Treatment of people must become a part of supply chain operational risk management. General Motors, Starbucks, Hollywood, and a variety of other businesses illustrate that racism and other bias incidents do not receive sufficient preparation and planning from a risk management…

U.S. Retailers Get Some Good News on Easing China Trade Tensions

Tuesday, February 26, 2019 · Patrick Burnson
As the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) convenes this week for its annual Retail Supply Chain Conference, shippers expressed relief that President Trump has called for a delay for increasing tariffs on Chinese Goods. Had the President made good on his threat, as much…

“Sustainability Transformation” Was Key Issue Addressed by Reverse Logistics Association

Monday, February 18, 2019 · Patrick Burnson
Zachary S. Rogers Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management at Colorado State University was among the speakers at the recently-concluded Reverse Logistics Association (RLA) conference in Las Vegas where shippers heard from a variety of industry experts on how to…

Counterfeits Are Still A Major Problem

Monday, February 11, 2019 · Rosemary Coates
The counterfeiting problem is a multi-headed monster and it is growing

SELF19: The customer-centric supply chain

Friday, February 8, 2019 · Bob Trebilcock
The shift is on from a focus on cost to the customer

SELF19: Tell better stories

Thursday, February 7, 2019 · Bob Trebilcock
The focus in Las Vegas was on a quartet of end users who shared their distribution center experiences

Day 2 at the RLA

Wednesday, February 6, 2019 · Bob Trebilcock
It's moving slow, but Big Data, AI and machine learning are beginning to impact reverse logistics.

The cornerstone of the circular economy is reverse logistics

Tuesday, February 5, 2019 · Bob Trebilcock
Handling returns and reverse logistics was front and center at Day 1 of the Reverse Logistics Association annual conference.

Leadership and the Democratization of Supply Chains

Monday, February 4, 2019 · Michael Gravier
Industry is shifting from “produce to compete” to “adapt to compete." To make this happen, the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution are about to tap into the greatest untapped and neglected resource: the labor force!

ASCM Expands on its Supply Chain Foundation

Thursday, January 24, 2019 · Patrick Burnson
Last week marked the official launch of the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM), designed to join the pantheon of industry leaders in the global marketplace.

Four emerging supply chain trends for 2019

Thursday, January 24, 2019 · Michael Zimmerman, Robert Wang, Brendan See and Shrimant Jaruhar
As supply chains evolve, companies are re-evaluating their networks to determine how their future supply chains should be structured.

APQC Infographic: The Current State of Supply Chain Corporate Citizenship

Wednesday, January 23, 2019 · APQC
APQC and Supply Chain Management Review collected information in December 2018 from 144 supply chain professionals about corporate citizenship activities at their organizations. The following infographic outlines the results they found from that survey.

APQC Infographic: Key Technologies Support a Robust Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Process

Wednesday, January 23, 2019 · APQC
APQC has created an infographic highlighting the key technologies the help support Sale and Operations Processes
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