Tuesday, October 15, 2024 · Don Maier, University of Tennessee
A long port strike was averted, but the fight is not over. Shippers should prepare and budget for a significant increase in transportation costs in 2025 and beyond. Given the increase in operating costs in labor alone, BCOs should not be surprised when shipping lines pass…
Monday, October 7, 2024 · Seongkyoon Jeong
Cybercriminals exploit the relationships between companies and suppliers to infiltrate critical systems, often causing significant operational and financial damage. Businesses must assess the specific risks they face and the role their suppliers play in these scenarios.
Friday, September 27, 2024 · Sara Hsu
Extreme weather events are on the rise, posing significant challenges to supply chain managers, who must make rapid decisions and pivot to alternative suppliers or different logistic routes while adhering to climate-related regulations.
Friday, September 20, 2024 · University of Tennessee Knoxville Global Supply Chain Institute
The EPIC Framework provides the structure for assessing supply chain readiness in regions around the globe from economic, political, infrastructural, and competence perspectives by defining and explaining these dimensions to assess their potential impacts on the effectiveness…
Monday, August 5, 2024 · Seongkyoon Jeong
Similar to traditional Bill of Materials practice, the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) details the required software modules for a product, helping organizations understand the components within their software and better track vulnerabilities.
Friday, July 19, 2024 · Dan Pellathy
Senior leaders should be concerned about the challenges facing their planning functions. Today’s value creation systems are severely constrained by insufficient talent and ineffective processes for developing leaders. Yet many companies fail to recognize this critical…
Friday, July 12, 2024 · Dan Pellathy
In addition to the challenges and core competencies, a research team at GSCI’s Advanced Supply Chain Collaborative identified five organizational action areas to support the development of the skills modern-day planners need.
Monday, July 8, 2024 · Dan Pellathy
There are 11 core competencies that provide an overview of what’s needed to measure supply chain planners’ effectiveness and develop tomorrow’s planning leaders.
Thursday, June 27, 2024 · Dan Pellathy
Whether companies seek to manage complex cross-functional processes better, increase digitalization and automation, or build greater agility, planning is central to their strategic initiatives, including talent development.
Friday, April 29, 2022 · SCMR Staff
Researchers at the University of Tennessee say operational and process skills along with relationship and communication skills figure prominently in supply chain performance.
Monday, November 9, 2020 · Kate Vitasek
Most outsourcing relationships are highly transactional rather than highly collaborative and win-win. The Vested business methodology, used by more than 50 organizations, builds a bridge from the former to the latter. Here’s how the business model evolved and how it is…
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