- 21. Go With The Flow: Streamlining Your Supply Chain Flow with AI
- (Integration)
- ... same procedures over long periods of time and through countless meetings, artificial intelligence comes to the same conclusion in a few keystrokes and clicks--or without any keystrokes at all. AI Makes ...
- 22. Target Freight Management Named to Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing U.S. Companies for 4th Straight Year
- (News)
- ... wait for a driver to call,” Henderson explains. “But because of the nature of our business, we’re already traveling around the country and meeting face-to-face with flatbed companies and drivers. We decided ...
- 23. Target Freight Management Named to Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing U.S. Companies
- (News)
- ... board and wait for a driver to call,” Henderson explains. “But because of the nature of our business, we’re already traveling around the country and meeting face-to-face with flatbed companies and drivers. ...
- 24. IoT Conference Learnings
- (News)
- Industry conference attendees are usually in a position to pick up a lot of great information from leaders and executives. In today's fast-paced supply chain world, it's especially important to do so.Bob ...
- 25. Best Practices to Support Speedy Delivery
- (News)
- There is no 'silver bullet' in meeting the speedy delivery expectations of ecommerce customers. There are, though, several best practices you can adopt to improve your chances.On the Supply Chain 247 site, ...
- 26. Begin With the Basics in Managing Risk
- (News)
- Risk management continues to be top-of-mind for supply chain professionals. A recent ISM panel meeting produced a great quote on the topic from a BCG consultant: Know Your Supplier.Sounds almost too simple, ...
- 27. Changing to Meet Your Customers' Expectations
- (News)
- Like it or not, your customers are driving the bus and you need to either meet expectations or suffer the consequences. The pushing of the envelope by Amazon is certainly a key ingredient.On the Multichannel ...
- 28. Meeting Omnichannel Expectations
- (News)
- Meeting customer expectations in an omnichannel, 'I want it right now' world is a real challenge. A number of systems and processes must be orchestrated to perfection in order to deliver what the customer ...
- 29. University of Tennessee Supply Chain Forum Notes
- (News)
- Forums and conferences are great venues to learn about what industry leaders are doing in the supply chain arena. A recent meeting at UT was attended by Dan Gilmore of the Supply Chain Digest.He provides ...
- 30. The Rise of the Supply Chain Grid
- (News)
- ... the costs involved in meeting omnichannel expectations.On the Industry Week site, Doug Kimball and Srini Muthusrinivasan provide a detailed explanation of how and why the grid is now happening. Read i ...
- 31. Using Behavior to Your Advantage
- (Management)
- It’s the start of a new year and once again, I set goals for the year. These are different than “resolutions” as I fully intend on meeting them. Some of these goals are the same from year to year: get ...
- 32. Smart Manufacturing and Supply Chain Innovation
- (News)
- ... changes via manufacturing innovation.Presentations made at a recent conference meeting on the topic discuss a variety of factors that will help drive innovation in supply chains. Read about them on the ...
- 33. How's Your Trading Partner Meeting Working Out
- (Management)
- "Both sides would get what they wanted; that has always been our mantra." That sounds like a worthy goal in any relationship. How successful in real-world practice, though, is cultivation of the retailer-supplier ...
- 34. Omnichannel Marketing, Visibility, and the Perfect Order
- (Supply)
- ... often automatically. In addition, the validation process enables the retailer to take preemptive actions that wouldn’t have been possible in a non-transparent system. Simply meeting 20 criteria that ...
- 35. Survey: Meetings with Your Trading Partners: How can they be improved?
- (Management)
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- 36. Suppliers in the Chain
- (Supply)
- ... and haven’t interviewed enough retailers or suppliers lately to get a solid opinion, but I believe there are cases in which retailers push their suppliers beyond what is reasonable in terms of meeting ...
- 37. Improve Your Chances of Project Success
- (News)
- Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, provides some interesting statistics on the success rate of IT projects in a recent post on her site. Looks like your chances of meeting objectives are roughly a coin ...
- 38. Money for Nothin'
- (Management)
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- 39. DC Metrics
- (News)
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- 40. Omnichannel Inhibitors
- (News)
- Retailers have their hands full in trying to satisfy the new breed of omnichannel consumers. Challenges are around every corner.On the RIS site, Iain Watson walks us through the major inhibitors and discusses ...
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