- 1. Nearshoring Has a Long Upside
- (Logistics)
- ... global marketplace. Nearshoring can help companies to reduce the time it takes to get products to market, as they can be manufactured closer to their target markets. Need for greater supply chain control: When ...
- 2. The Importance of Supply Chain Resilience
- (Supply)
- ... effect. Recovery: The ability of a supply chain to return to full operations after a disruption. End-to-end data-driven supply chain control: The use of data and technology to gain visibility and control ...
- 3. Deploy the Right Type of Supply Chain Control Tower
- (Supply)
- A supply chain control tower is often a confusing term to many in the market. It confuses with regard to what it actually means and its value to supply chain organizations. A supply chain control tower ...
- 4. Supply Chain Visibility with IOT
- (Technology)
- ... a connection is reestablished. TPSynergy's Supply Chain Control Tower analyzes this data stream continuously and immediately notifies stakeholders whenever an abnormal situation arises. The data is also ...
- 5. Airbus Builds a Control Tower
- (News)
- Although most of us have little in common with aircraft manufacturer Airbus, there may be some takeaways from a recent presentation about their supply chain control center.Bob Ferrarri attended the discussion ...
- 6. Risk Management Becomes Top of Mind
- (News)
- Everyone believes in risk management, but sometimes it takes a real disaster to get things moving. The latest bankruptcy news about Hanjin Shipping is an example of a non-weather related disaster that ...
- 7. Responding to Control Tower Information
- (News)
- We've read a lot about supply chain control towers, but is improved visibility the goal? Or do you want to actually be in a position to do something about what you're monitoring?On the 21st Century Supply ...
- 8. Is Your Supply Chain OS Ready?
- (Management)
- We’ve talked about supply chain control towers over the years but it’s time to migrate from something that’s simply observing and controlling to the notion of a full environment that provides a set of ...
- 9. The State of Supply Chain Control Towers
- (News)
- Everyone agrees that a supply chain control tower would be a great capability. At a recent conference, Logistics Viewpoint's Steve Banker discussed the state of control powers with a group of knowledgeable ...
- 10. The Power of the Tower
- (News)
- The supply chain control tower is still a popular concept that addresses a number of needs, such as visibility and collaboration, that organizations crave. The folks at Logistics Viewpoints have taken ...
- 11. Start the Revolution
- (News)
- Supply chain control towers have been a running discussion topic for awhile now. Steve Banker thinks they're the vanguard of a significant revolution in supply chains.In a recent article on the Forbes site, ...
- 12. P & G's Control Towe
- (News)
- On the Logistics Viewpoints site, Steve Banker checks out the plans that he thinks Proctor & Gamble has for a supply chain control tower. Although P & G is a supply chain leader, it's striving to improve ...
- 13. ec-bp.com's Best of 201
- (Blogs)
- ... but they do provide leadership in efforts like this one. Check it out HERE. Lastly, the prolific Ken Kinlock contributed a number of articles related to supply chain control towers, a couple of which ...
- 14. Control Towers and Risk Management
- (News)
- Our own Ken Kinlock has written extensively on the concept of the supply chain control tower. Some recent research by Accenture has bolstered our view of this technology by looking at the return on investment ...
- 15. Where are the Control Towers?
- (News)
- Bob Ferrari has been a long-time observer and commenter on the subject of supply chain control towers. He sees continuing interest, but implementing a control tower is a long journey and many are in the ...
- 16. Are Control Towers Working?
- (News)
- Visibility across the supply chain is an elusive goal. Supply chain control towers are purported to address that, but how common and effective are they?In a 21st Century Supply Chain blog, Trevor Miles ...
- 17. SAP Joins the Movement to Control Towers
- (Logistics)
- ... be releasing something we at ec-bp.com have been talking about for quite a while... a Supply Chain Control Tower. A quick search on ec-bp.com for Supply Chain Control Tower (SCCT) shows more than 20 entries ...
- 18. SAP's New Supply Chain Strateg
- (News)
- SAP, not known as a supply chain innovator, is making a bold move toward building some interesting solutions. It's not a done deal, but the building blocks are being developed.Steve Banker tells us what's ...
- 19. SAP's Supply Chain Control Towe
- (News)
- Visibility is a hot topic in the supply chain arena, and the 'supply chain control tower' is one technology used to address the visibility challenge. It's no surprise that SAP, the lead ERP dog, has developed ...
- 20. The Importance of Integration
- (Integration)
- ... have little chance of providing the visibility needed to mitigate risk and provide great customer service. Ken Kinlock has been all over this topic in his series on supply chain control towers (read his ...
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