COVID-19

Are you good or great?

Monday, March 4, 2024 · Brian Straight Boeing is providing a real-time case study on why supply chain diligence is vital to the health of your organization.

Driving supply chain flexibility in an uncertain and volatile world

Monday, March 4, 2024 · Johanna Schönberger and Kim Sundtoft Hald The SC-Flexibility Drivers Matrix creates a roadmap to creating the versatility modern supply chains require.

Here’s what I’m intrigued by in 2024

Tuesday, January 9, 2024 · Brian Straight The supply chain could undergo significant change this year as we adapt to the new normal.

Next-Gen SupplyChains: Underpinning your ability to manage complexity and drive innovation

Tuesday, January 9, 2024 · Ricardo Ernst, Michael Brown, and Mayank Sharma Traditional supply chain engineering is no longer effective. But no single transformation model is universally useful. Instead, there are three pillars that should guide supply chain digitization.

Turning the Page: One industry’s paper-thin use of AAA

Tuesday, January 9, 2024 · Andrew Zeiser, Richard Tarpey, Ralph Williams, and Greg Lovensheimer Developing agile, adaptable, and aligned supply chains can help the printing-paper industry weather supply chain turmoil.

Customer-centric supply chains by design

Friday, September 1, 2023 · Milena Janjevic Modeling with a customer focus allows businesses to meet today’s business demands.

Supply chain legitimacy necessitates resiliency—which requires digital supply networks

Thursday, July 6, 2023 · Jim Tompkins and Michael Hughes Supply chain leaders must take advantage of the push for new networks that bring end-to-end visibility to problems. both upstream and downstream.

The importance of supply chain resiliency in a post-pandemic world

Friday, March 24, 2023 · Bob Brennan The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of supply chain resiliency. Businesses that invest in building resilient supply chains can withstand future disruptions and gain a competitive advantage in a post-pandemic world.

The dawn of a new supply chain world order

Tuesday, January 3, 2023 · Nick Yvas Since the start of the tariff wars, geopolitical conflicts have upended international trade. To prevail in the coming years, supply chain managers must incorporate international relations into their planning and actions.

Are you resilient?

Monday, November 7, 2022 · SCMR Staff What has become clear as we do our post-pandemic reviews is that the firms that demonstrated the ability to get up off the canvas and keep punching were those that invested in resiliency before the pandemic—even if they didn’t use that term.

Leadership and planning in an ambiguous world

Monday, November 7, 2022 · Theodore Klein If the world doesn’t follow a script in a post-COVID world, how can a business? Maybe it’s time for applied improvisation.

Coming out of the darkness

Monday, November 7, 2022 · Gary A. Smith, CPIM-F, CSCP-F, CLTD-F How the post-COVID world will affect the four elements of the supply chain.

Build a playbook to implement supply chain resilience

Monday, November 7, 2022 · Sumantra Sengupta Supply chain resilience is one of the hottest topics in supply chain management. Practitioners want to know how to implement it into their operations. What follows is a pragmatic framework.

Realizing the full potential of supply chain resilience surveys

Monday, November 7, 2022 · Morris A. Cohen, Shiliang Cui, Sabastian Doetsch, Ricardo Ernst, Arnd Huchzermeier and Panos Kouvelis As supply chains become more complex and nuanced, surveys about their performance have to keep up to develop strategies that counter disruptions. Here’s a straightforward, two-step process for turbo-charging survey data and building back resilience.

Where are you on the staircase to supply chain sustainability?

Thursday, September 1, 2022 · David Correll, Ph.D., Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics While the path to future frontiers will change as the relative importance of SCS dimensions change over time, it is important to keep in mind that the pressure to improve sustainability is consistent across all of the dimensions.