- 21. XPO Logistics Expands Use of Intelligent Robotics in the UK Ahead of Holiday Shopping Season
- (News)
- XPO Logistics (NYSE: XPO), the largest outsourced e-commerce fulfillment provider in Europe, has increased its use of intelligent robotics in the UK in anticipation of holiday retail volumes. The robots ...
- 22. Mix Technologies and People to Maximize Your Supply Chain Efforts
- (Technology)
- ... tasks which require strategic thinking such as communication with customers, and those such as resolving customer delivery issues cannot be automated fully. To optimally conduct operations in the supply ...
- 23. Selling Cloud Based Supply Chain Services To Non-Technical Clients
- (Management)
- ... about technology, gives you the deep seeded issues they have with modernization. Below we’ve provided sample questions to get you started thinking and then creating your client audit questionnaire. We ...
- 24. Self-replicating 3D printers will Disrupt the Supply Chain
- (Supply)
- ... parts and custom designs is becoming increasingly common. But forward thinking companies see a future in which goods are delivered by high volume 3D printers that can match manufacturing quantities and ...
- 25. Be a Supply Chain Hero by Jumping Ahead of the Pack
- (Management)
- ... generally amount to keeping the business running on schedule - in other words, doing what they were hired to do. Supply chain managers can make themselves more important to their organizations by thinking ...
- 26. Expanded Payment Options Can Help Merchants Boost Customer Loyalty and Satisfaction
- (News)
- ... asserted Monica Eaton-Cardone, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Chargebacks911. “Forward-thinking retailers understand that consumers want options, and dictating the ways customers can pay ...
- 27. Reverse logistics will trash your inventory plans
- (Retail)
- ... in how consumers consider their own purchase strategies will play havoc with retailers. The problem is with product returns and how consumers now consider their purchases to be temporary. Thinking ...
- 28. Digital Transformation in the Supply Chain
- (Technology)
- ... is a way of thinking and a process. Digital transformation tools Here are a few of the tools and technologies that are being put to use in the supply chain. Which of them might be useful in changing ...
- 29. Questions About Supply Chain Productivity
- (News)
- The Supply Chain Shaman is thinking about productivity in the supply chain and wondering why we're not seeing the same growth patterns we experienced in the past. As the next generation of technology innovation ...
- 30. Improving Partner Communication
- (News)
- More effective communication between supply chain partners can yield big benefits, according to Palvashah Durrani on the 21st Century Supply Chain site.Thinking out of the box to involve partners in aspects ...
- 31. Amazon's Trucking Move
- (News)
- Amazon created a lot of buzz (pun intended) with its testing of drones for customer order delivery. But Wired magazine's Davey Alba thinks their real logistics future is elsewhere: in self-driving trucks.Lots ...
- 32. Executing Customer-centric Strategies
- (News)
- Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, has been doing some thinking about customer-centric supply chains. Lots of companies think they're executing their strategies well, yet Lora sees some gaps.She provides ...
- 33. Becoming a Procurement MVP
- (News)
- Everybody wants to be a star, but do you have what it takes to be an MVP? Of Procurement? Becoming a 'trusted advisor' may be the key to stepping up into that role, according to Chris Sawchuk of the Hackett ...
- 34. Thinking About Supply Chain 2030
- (News)
- As supply chain managers think about what the world will look like for them in the year 2030, who better to ask for thoughts on the subject than the Supply Chain Shaman?In a recent article on her site, ...
- 35. Supply Chain Managers' Concerns
- (News)
- It's always interesting to hear what the people on top of the supply chain pyramid are thinking. The writers at the Supply Chain Management Review interviewed a number of long term supply chain managers ...
- 36. Last Mile Delivery Discussion
- (News)
- The battle to determine the winners and losers for control of the 'last mile' continues. A recent Q & A session with an experienced consultant and an industry veteran by the Supply Chain Digest staff uncovers ...
- 37. Horizontal Thinking
- (News)
- Most of us are products of 'siloed' organizations- even Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, admits to it. Siloes may have been useful back in the day, but they definitely impede progress toward 'outside ...
- 38. Designing a Meticulous Supply Chain
- (News)
- We're nearing the end of Jonathan Lofton's series on Supply Chain design, and his latest principle is one of the most important. Supply chains must be thorough down to the last detailaccording to Dieter ...
- 39. Big Data Rules in the Supply Chain
- (Management)
- ... often mentioned for analyzing big data is to discover patterns and answers we haven't yet developed questions for. I think we should be thinking about big data in 2 distinct categories. Category 1 can ...
- 40. GM Changes Approach to Risk Mitigation
- (News)
- When you consider risk management for supply chains, it can be helpful to learn how the big automotive manufacturers view the problem. The well-publicized issues related to the tsunami in Japan in 2011 ...
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