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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.
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…
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 · SCMR Staff
Climate change and geopolitics top the lists of supply chain risk for 2025 according to a new analysis by risk analysis firm Everstream Analytics.
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 · Bridget McCrea
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.
Wednesday, January 8, 2025 · Jeff Berman
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…
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.
Tuesday, January 7, 2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Current CO2 tracking methods lead to inaccurate Scope 3 emissions reporting, but technology is enabling more accurate assessment methodologies.
Tuesday, January 7, 2025 · Larry Lapide
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.
Tuesday, January 7, 2025 · Jason Miller
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.
Monday, January 6, 2025 · Achyutha Mohan
Even when a company designs a peak event entirely from the ground up, unforeseen issues can still arise, but cloud providers can help their supply chain partners manage this surge with proper planning.
Friday, January 3, 2025 · Jeff Berman
The report’s benchmark reading, the PMI, at 49.3 (a reading of 50 or higher indicates growth), rose 0.9% over November, with the PMI contracting for the ninth consecutive month and the 25th time in the last 26 months.
Friday, January 3, 2025 · Brian Straight
A new year brings the same concerns for procurement teams. Managing through disruption continues to be a top challenge requiring new partnerships and improved resiliency.
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 · Brian Straight
Hexnode CEO Apu Pavithran explains why cybersecurity threats are growing and what supply chain businesses can do to protect their systems in this 6 Questions With … feature.
Friday, December 27, 2024 · Brian Straight
Gartner has identified Agentic reasoning, multimodality and AI agents as three AI advancements that will shape the future procurement, and the steps organizations should take to benefit from these advancements.
Thursday, December 26, 2024 · Brian Straight
A Bain & Company survey found that just 36% of companies are continuing investment in offshore manufacturing as nearshoring, reshoring efforts accelerate.
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