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Supply Chain Sustainability Survey Results

The topic of supply chain sustainability seems to wax and wane in popularity, but it's apparent sustainability is no longer considered a 'luxury'. Read more...

Urgent B2B Needs

B2B companies have identified a few items on their technology Christmas list they'd like to receive. There are not only new technologies popping up and convergence between them becoming more common, but the existing stuff is getting a bit dated as well. Read more...

Automation and Our Jobs

Let's face it, a lot of us who have worked in ecommerce and procurement have jobs based on automation. However, in our own shops there's often resistance to it from a number of sources. Read more...

Operations and IT Partnering Needed!

When you're in the middle between operations and IT, Puga Sankara has a great idea: don't pick a side. When you partner, you'll have a much better outcome. Read more...

Amazon Jumps Into IoT

Is it any wonder that Amazon is jumping in now that IoT is heating up? Their AWS group has developed an ioT platform that is generating interest. Read more...

Barriers to Effective Big Data Use

Pretty much everyone agrees that Big Data can have Big Impact. Coupling analytics with Big Data looks like it's the secret sauce, but there are barriers in the way that can have negative effects. Read more...

Supply Chain Agility and Customer Service

One of the less publicized effects of the rise of the omnichannel customer is on customer service. Consumers want answers, and that puts pressure on supply chains to communicate better. Read more...

Millennials in the Supply Chain

Talent attraction and management continue to be ongoing challenges for the supply chain. How to make the function interesting to millennials joining the workforce is the subject of a recent article on the EBN site by Abe Eshkenazi. Read more...

Cisco's Real IoT Examples

I don't know about you, but I'm always on the lookout for real-world applications of technologies that are climbing the hype cycle curve. IoT, for example, is something we've all read a lot about, but may not have seen in action. Read more...

Reasons to Love Hadoop

In a typically well-informed analysis, Lora Cecere takes a look at what the Big Data technology called Hadoop has to offer. According to her article on the Supply Chain Shaman site, there are compelling reasons for supply chain managers to be excited. Read more...

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