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Practical Drone Uses

Drones seem to be one of the more hyped technologies around, much of which is due to Amazon's potential use of them for package delivery. Although that's tied up in the FAA approval process, other uses of drones by supply chains are gathering steam. Read more...

Building an Understandable Supply Chain

The design principle of being Understandable is the topic of the latest installment of Jonathan Lofton's series on supply chain design. As supply chain complexity has increased (and who hasn't seen this?), being able to understand its many connections and data is crucial. Read more...

Is Omnichannel Making You Money?

Before a change is made, the most fundamental question a manager should ask is how the bottom line will be affected. As omnichannel consumers have forced all sort of changes to be made to supply chains, it may be a good idea to revisit that question. Read more...

Using Analytics to Improve Logistics

We all know that analytics will make a big splash for supply chains, but can we get down to specifics? BCG takes a look at the impact on logistics in a recent article on their site. Read more...

Are Green Supply Chains Important?

Supply chain sustainability is a topic you'd think would be solidly entrenched in businesses, but actions and research data show mixed results. Read more...

The Last 1000' Challenge

Remember the old days, when the 'last mile' was a huge challenge for customer fulfillment? Now it's the 'last 1000 feet'. Read more...

What's Affecting Our Sleep

Recent research of supply chain organizations by APICS provides some solid data on several themes we're following. If you're a manager and are sleeping soundly despite their findings, you must be doing a lot of things right! Read more...

Supply Chain Star Wars

We just can't pass up a good Star Wars analogy. Will The Force be with you as you strive to become a demand-driven supply chain? Read more...

Procurement Systems as Commodities

One overlooked benefit of utilizing cloud-based procurement systems is the flexibility they provide to make a quick change to a better provider. Improved functionality and lower costs can result. Read more...

Omnichannel Drives Fulfillment Costs

As retailers struggle to meet the challenges of the omnichannel consumer that wants everything now, reality is setting in: this stuff is expensive to execute. Read more...

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