News (3589)
Low Delivery Drone Adoption by 2020
With all the news about delivery drones buzzing around, you'd think the concept is ready to take off. You'd be wrong, according to a recent article citing Gartner research on the Material Handling & Logistics site.
Read more...
Tagged under
Looking at Omnichannel Fulfillment Costs
4th quarter data is still being analyzed and different players in the supply chain are drawing their respective conclusions. Bob Ferrarri views the information about UPS' performance and discusses what it means in a recent blog on his Supply Chain Matters site.
Read more...
Tagged under
Benefits of Closed-Loop Supply Chains
The closed-loop supply chain seems to be a win-win for adopters who want to reduce their impact on the environment.
Read more...
Going Glocal?
What goes around, comes around, as they say.... A term from the 80's is back in fashion: glocalization. Yes, that's 'global' combined with 'local'.
Read more...
Tagged under
Best-of-Breed vs ERP Series
Spend Matters has put together a great series on the ERP vs. Best-of-Breed topic. We posted the first installment but the subsequent ones by Pierre Mitchell were just as helpful.
Read more...Procurement Research Summary
Some research on the procurement function that's hot off the press is the topic of a recent article on the Supply Chain Management Review site. Patrick Burnson summarizes key findings on topics like organizational alignment, procurement strategy, and technology.
Read more...
Tagged under
Supply Chain Digitization Research
Despite everything we've read over the past couple years, digitization of the supply chain isn't the be-all-end-all to many companies. Recent research by McKinsey tells us it's barely on the radar of CEOs.
Read more...
Tagged under
Distribution Centers in the Omnichannel World
The role of the DC has certainly changed as omnichannel consumers have taken control of the buying experience. eCommerce order fulfillment requires an unprecendented level of coordination between supply chain partners.
Read more...
Tagged under
Are You Treading Water with Cost Reduction?
The Supply Chain Shaman is using the 'treading water' anology to describe where supply chains seem to be with cost reduction efforts. There's been progress in some industries over the past few years, but others are going nowheres or backwards.
Read more...
Tagged under
Driving Collaboration
One of the biggest challenges for the supply chain is in driving collaboration among its many participants. Streamlining requires collaboration, yet your partners are all over the place, doing different supply chain functions at external companies.
Read more...
Tagged under
Most Read
-
-
Feb 17 2012
-
Written by Scott Koegler
ec-bp.com eCommerce Best Practices for the Supply Chainec-bp was established…
-
-
-
Jul 18 2017
-
Written by Super User
Add us to your Safe Sender list: We want to…
-
-
-
Feb 13 2019
-
Written by Scott Koegler
Every organization that wants to organize and manage their supply…
-
-
-
Feb 13 2013
-
Written by Scott Koegler
EDI Software and Services Providers / EDI Directory This table…
-