- 1. 4 Best Practices to Improve Supply Chain Efficiency
- (News)
- Improving supply chain efficiency is critical for companies to remain competitive in the market. This article provides some suggestions on how to enhance the efficiency of logistics processes and boost ...
- 2. Biden signs executive order to address chip shortage through a review to strengthen supply chains
- (News)
- ... for policy recommendations to strengthen supply chains, with the goal of quickly implementing the suggestions, Biden said at a press event Wednesday before he signed the order. The action follows calls ...
- 3. AI is now a necessity
- (Technology)
- ... their data and developing processes to extract meaning from it. That’s provided some interesting dashboards and suggestions. But those insights still need to be evaluated by people and then processed and ...
- 4. Will Digital Tech Save Your Supply Chain?
- (Integration)
- ... Intelligence is making real inroads turning all that big data we’ve been collecting into actionable suggestions. The tech behind AI is the new ‘rocket science’ in that it requires training and experience ...
- 5. Raise Your Data Management Standards
- (News)
- Good data management is expensive but extremely valuable. Your technology and processes must be able to meet the highest standards when data is shared with others.In an article on the Spend Matters site, ...
- 6. Surviving a Natural Disaster
- (News)
- How can you best plan for a natural disaster if you don't know what it is or when it'll hit? Supply chains are always at risk, but preparedness is a key to making it through catastrophes.In an article ...
- 7. Getting Started With S&OP
- (News)
- Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is an undeniably important part of supply chain management. Lora Cecere has studied the process and provides suggestions on how to get started in a new post on the ...
- 8. Modernize Your Supply Chain
- (News)
- CEO's expect perfection from their supply chains. Since that's a given, it's time to modernize your processes, people, and technology.On the Forbes site, Margaret Harrist provides 11 great suggestions on ...
- 9. Reaping ERP Benefits
- (News)
- ... Insights article in the CIO Journal on the Wall Street Journal site, several reasons for ERP underperformance are identified and suggestions are proposed on how to do a better job reaping ERP benefits. ...
- 10. B2B Steams Ahead
- (News)
- B2C electronic commerce gets all the publicity, but in reality B2B is where it's at. Growth is hefty and investment in ecommerce platforms is increasing.B2B is the more complex animal, but according to ...
- 11. A Supply Chain Career For You?
- (News)
- On the Supply Chain Insights page, Alison Crawford looks at what it takes for a newbie to succeed in a supply chain role. Her suggestions aren't nebulous- she gets right down to the nitty gritty.Read her ...
- 12. Improve Your Demand Planning
- (News)
- Demand planning is always one of the bigger challenges in the day-to-day operations of the supply chain. Are there any tips on how to make it more accurate?In a blog on the 21st Century Supply Chain site, ...
- 13. Supply Chain Opportunities for Big Data
- (News)
- We read so much about how Big Data will improve every aspect of our lives, it's great to see an article that gets into specifics on how supply chains can use the technology.On the Boston Consulting Group ...
- 14. How to Ask for Help
- (News)
- Everybody needs a little help sometimes. It's tough not only to ask for it, though, but to do so in such a way that you'll actually be helped.Wayne Baker, in a recent article on the HBR bog site, provides ...
- 15. Soft Issues Hinder Procurement
- (News)
- Sometimes, the best laid plans are knocked off the rails by unexpected problems. Procurement often seems to be affected by what Sigi Osagie considers to be 'soft issues' of an organizational nature.In ...
- 16. Prepare for the Holidays
- (News)
- It seems like I just finished paying off last year's holiday purchases and it's now starting all over? If you're a retailer, I hope you are well down the path with your preparations.Rudi Lueg, in an article ...
- 17. Slave Labor Plays Prominent Role In Worldwide Supply Chain
- (Supply)
- ... also includes suggestions for tackling cases of modern slavery while creating incentives for suppliers to improve methods for overseeing their workforce. According to Peter Nicholls, the CEO of global ...
- 18. Drive Quality With Value Stream Mapping
- (News)
- A backbone of Lean process improvement is Value Stream Mapping (VSM). There are right ways and wrong ways to approach process mapping, and documenting the current state is a step that will put you on the ...
- 19. Make Your Re-Shoring Project Work
- (News)
- Re-shoring, or bringing back manufacturing and other processes that had been performed overseas, sounds like a great idea. The problem is, you have to have a plan and execute it, which sometimes doesn't ...
- 20. Where's the Slowdown in EDI
- (EDI)
- ... (the author of the article) is mainly interested in providing suggestions to CIOs, the take-away from the story is that complex ERP implementations continue to take a long time and experience both cost ...
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