Friday, January 24, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
Procurement faces a dual challenge in 2020 – reducing internal and external costs while at the same time adding value and becoming a better strategic advisor to the business, according to new Procurement Key Issues research from The Hackett Group, Inc.
Friday, January 24, 2020 · David Gerrard
Faced with changing customer expectations, retailers must transform the last mile of delivery with better supply chain workstream collaboration.
Wednesday, January 22, 2020 · SCMR Staff
At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim is calling for renewed cooperation from all stakeholders to tackle the urgent issues of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from shipping.
Wednesday, January 22, 2020 · SCMR Staff
Fortna®, The Distribution Experts®, a leading global automation, engineering services and software company, today announced that it has acquired Pierau Unternehmensberatung GmbH (“Pierau Planung”), a European-based, market leader in supply chain and logistics design,…
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
The Airforwarders Association (AfA), Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA) and the Air Expedited Motor Carriers Association (AEMCA) will stage their annual AirCargo Conference to be held January 26 – 28, 2020, at the Omni Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee.
Thursday, January 16, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
When the 2019 USC Marshall Global Supply Chain Excellence Summit convened last August, Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka placed special emphasis on technology infrastructure. That same theme was sounded when he delivered the fifth annual “State of the…
Thursday, January 16, 2020 · SCMR Staff
New research from the National Center for the Middle Market finds that more than three-quarters of middle market businesses have either experienced a major transition in the past five years or expect one in the next five years.
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 · Jeff Berman
The companies said they will collaborate to facilitate the development of integration tools allowing for faster, seamless implementations to improve productivity and efficiency for shared retail and 3PL customers, as well as establish HighJump as a licensed retailer of…
Monday, January 13, 2020 · Michael Gravier
Management and leadership are the fulcrums for leveraging labor, and they are weak and under-developed in many supply chains. Management is discovering that the genie is out of the bottle when it comes to technology redefining labor. The reasons are simple.
Monday, January 13, 2020 · Jack Siney
Only 20% of government buying is conducted through the long and cumbersome bid/RFP process, so companies can move swiftly through the pipeline to try and capture the 80% of government business secured through a variety of other procurement vehicles.
Thursday, January 9, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
New research revealed that American shoppers are more excited and open to technology that improves the overall shopping and retail experience.
Thursday, January 9, 2020 · Jim Baehr
In Procurement we must understand where we are, what we can do, where we want/need to go and how to get there when it comes to “digital transformation."
Wednesday, January 8, 2020 · Nate Moison
A major challenge for supply chain practitioners in many consumer-packaged goods companies is how to manage inventory for an ever-growing portfolio of stock-keeping units (SKUs). Add a mandatory third tier to the distribution network, and the challenge becomes even more…
Tuesday, January 7, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
Having just finished celebrating the arrival of 2020, global managers are concentrating on retaining “supply chain fluidity” amid Chinese New Year (CNY) shutdowns set to begin January 25.
Tuesday, January 7, 2020 · Patrick Burnson
Tony Sciarrotta, Executive Director of the RLA, share his views on the reverse logistics industry in this exclusive interview.
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