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"New" Purchasing Technology

It's a fact of life that a lot of purchasing now, and even more in the future, will take place via smartphone. New technology is out there that takes the complexity out of that process. Read more...

Mitigating Risk

Managing risk is a constant for supply chains across the globe. In an article on the EBN site, Bruce Gain reviews a recent study by BSI that provides a number of solid recommendations for supply chain continuity. Read more...

Gartner's Top 25 Supply Chains

Gartner's annual rankings of the top 25 global supply chains has been released. Are there any changes at the top? Read more...

Build a Customer-Centric Strategy

In the latest in a series of article on how to build supply chain strategy, Alexis Rotenberg on JDA's blog site talks about moving to a customer-centric model. Read more...

SCM Sortware Purchases Rise

Continuing the trends empowered by best-of-breed and cloud technology approaches, a recent survey from Gartner shows strong growth in purchases of supply chain management and procurement software. SAP retains its lead, but other nimble competitors are close behind. Read more...

The Growing Significance of Sustainability

In the past few years, supply chain sustainability has changed from being a 'check box' item on a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) scorecard to an approach with strategic significance. A vast majority of Fortune 500 companies now publish separate sustainability reports, a reflection of the prominence of the concept. Read more...

Positive Outlook for IoT and Supply Chains

We're constantly on the prowl to find real-world examples of how new technology affects supply chains. On the Logistics Viewpoints site, Matt Yearling made a case for the strong impact of the Internet of Things on business processes. Read more...

SAP's Evolution

As you'd expect of an ERP juggernaut, SAP continues to evolve as the technology landscape changes. At a recent conference Charlie Bess of the Enterprise Irregulars viewed some of their recently developed functionality. Read more...

Industrie 4.0 and IoT

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology that is affecting firms worldwide. It's a broad concept, though, and the Germans (and other Europeans) do it a bit differently. They call it Industrie 4.0, and it's IoT and then some. Read more...

Demand and Fulfillment Planning

You can usually learn a lot by drilling down into company or segment specific case studies. On the JDA Supply Chain Nation blog site, Shai Garber writes about an implementation in the grocery industry that had big inventory considerations for the supply chain. Read more...

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