To shape their future, procurement teams must position themselves as strategic partners that drive customer value and contribute to the organization’s overall success. Here are five priority areas to help do that.
Thursday, July 10, 2025 · University of Tennessee Global Supply Chain Institute
From optimizing structure and spend to enabling ESG and innovation, it’s time to rethink traditional roles and embrace collaborative, capability-driven strategies to unlock future-ready performance.
Supply chain planning is in need of a reboot. Planners are increasingly expected to take a leading role in managing complex cross-functional processes, driving automation, and building more agile supply chains. As a result, the competencies that today’s planning…
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Despite advances, developing workplace systems that facilitate AI-human working relationships is still in its early stages. Companies need to invest in systems that enable robots and humans to assume more sophisticated roles gradually.
Customers want enhanced personalization, seamless technology, and sustainable options, often at the lowest possible cost. CSCOs must respond by building outcome-driven supply chain models that can deliver differentiated service levels for different customer segments.
The competencies needed by tomorrow’s supply chain planning professionals are very different from those needed just a few years ago. Although many leaders recognize that planners need both soft and technical skills, organizations often rely on traditional approaches to…
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Through the use of advanced forecasting methods like Gradient Boosted Trees, companies can improve resource allocation, reduce costs, and enhance service levels when using drop trailers.
The reality of tariffs is more visible when making a big purchase, such as a car, where a 25% tariff can add $10,000 or more to the price to the vehicle, writes Rosemary Coates.
Employee adoption of AI is slowing—even as enterprise initiatives expand—due to fear, unclear expectations, and the absence of HR-led job role alignment. Norman Katz explains the role HR can play in encouraging employee AI use.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Using a tailored simulation model provides strategic insight into inventory management, resulting in improved forecast accuracy, reduced errors by 26%, and lowered Mean Absolute Percentage Error from 28% to 20.7%, research found.
Monday, June 9, 2025 · University of Tennessee Global Supply Chain Institute
Within the world of supply chain management, your competitive advantage might have been making the lowest-cost product at the fastest possible speed. Today’s ability to achieve competitive advantage depends on end-to-end upstream visibility and the ability to secure critical…
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research has identified the key behaviors and metrics that separate state-of-the-practice from state-of-the-art shippers in full truckload procurement.
With warehouse labor costs rising and uncertainty from trade volatility mounting, logistics leaders are under pressure to do more with less. Gartner outlines three actionable strategies to improve warehouse labor efficiency—focusing on workforce empowerment, smarter resource…
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