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Logistics and the IoT

If you're trying to determine aspects of the supply chain that may be affected by IoT in the future, look no farther than logistics. During the next decade, sensor-based technology will drive huge operational savings and process improvements in transportation and related functions. Read more...

Learning SRM From Luxury Brands

There's a lot to learn from how luxury brand organizations interact with their supply chains. According to a recent study, they're often 'customers of choice' for their suppliers. Read more...

Omnichannel Procurement

In a gues blog on the Procurement Leaders site, Doede van Haperen has an interesting view of how procurement and technology are becoming intertwined. It looks like the omnichannel phenomenon is having yet another effect. Read more...

Choose Best-of-Breed for Supply Chain Software

As usual, Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, shoots straight when discussing supply chain software. She's seeing some issues with HANA-based SAP implementations, and other large vendors seem to struggle with supply chain technology as well. Read more...

Don't Delay Your Supply Chain Improvements

Upgrading your supply chain software solution used to be dependent on your ERP implementation status. That's no longer the best case scenario according to Donna Fritz on the EBN site. Read more...

Supply Chain COE Research

The Supply Chain Shaman, Lora Cecere, is looking at some recent research on supply chain centers of excellence (COE). She's identified some common themes that are interesting to review. Read more...

IoT Home Security Concerns

The more we learn about the Internet of Things, the more we can envision the benefits and potential issues. Security has been a big concern all along, but it's getting a little more real now as products are rolled out. Read more...

Is Your Reality Augmented?

The supply chain continues to become more and more technologically advanced. But augmented reality (AR) in the warehouse, really? Read more...

Supply Chain Risk Assessment

Supply chain risks are a little different animal than other types of risk your business may face. Their risk evaluations must be different, accordiing to John Cascone and Kate Ferrara from Deloitte in an article in the Wall Street Journal. Read more...

Automate to Keep Pace

John Hinchey, on the Manufacturing Business Technology site, describes how the challenges of ecommerce have accelerated investment in supply chain automation. Read more...

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