- 1. Grocery Stores Lag in Supply Chain Tech
- (News)
- Management of the grocery store supply chain in 2020 looks surprisingly like the management of the 70s which is why stores are having a hard time launching online shopping, reports the Atlantic. Brandon ...
- 2. Lack of Collaboration Slowing Down Adoption of Tech
- (News)
- A new report from American Shipper sheds some light on why companies are slow to adopt supply chain innovations, reports PYMNTS.com. Surprisingly, the biggest hurdle is the collaboration necessary to bring ...
- 3. We were the machines
- (Integration)
- ... and doing a surprisingly good job at it. Does that mean supply chain professionals need to find other areas of employment? Probably not, but those who are intent on developing in their professions need ...
- 4. Chatbots in the Chain
- (Technology)
- ... questions and deliver answers and act surprisingly like human operators… except they’re much more quickly available. That’s because they’re computer versions of the trained phone agents and there are ...
- 5. Procurement's Future is Brigh
- (News)
- If you want to know where the procurement function is heading, why not talk to an industry leader? Jason Busch recently interviewed Ariba's Alex Atzberger and came away with some great information.Not surprisingly, ...
- 6. Key Drivers for Supply Chain Transformation
- (News)
- Supply chain management is undergoing a transformation, and the folks at Logistics Viewpoints are on the scene to identify the important players for us. The 'sharing economy' is surprisingly one of the ...
- 7. All Hail to the Cloud
- (Technology)
- ... gone for most of us. Simply downloading the interface at the same time as the message works surprisingly well, and the software we use is updated as frequently as needed to add features, remove bugs, ...
- 8. Clouds Defined
- (Technology)
- ... installation. This chart shows (not surprisingly) that more than 80% use locally installed systems, with about 1/3 using hosted services. SaaS and Cloud services nearly tie with around 25% of responses ...
- 9. How Much Does an EDI Transaction Cost?
- (EDI)
- ... there ways to cut costs? Surprisingly, many small and mid-sized business don’t know that answer, according to experts. Typically, suppliers have set up their EDI systems per the requirement of the ...
- 10. The Inventory Challenge
- (News)
- Our favorite Shaman has her sights set on inventory optimization. It's a long-standing supply chain challenge, but Lora Cecere has done the research to help us face it.Not surprisingly, technology is a ...
- 11. Who Has a Supply Chain Strategy?
- (News)
- Having a supply chain strategy that's linked to overall company strategy sounds like something all companies should have, right? Well, Dan Gilmore of the Supply Chain Digest took a quick survey on the ...
- 12. Scorecards vs. Continuous Compliance Monitoring
- (Management)
- ... buyers to indentify and fix problems before they show up in the vendor scorecard. Not surprisingly – because continuous monitoring is an enormous, complex task for most retailers – outsourced systems have ...
- 13. The Unnecessary Costs Of EDI Document Errors
- (EDI)
- ... of product numbers into a computer system. Not surprisingly, human error is the most common reason for supply chain errors. Overall, challenges can be divided into three categories: • Wrong data (product ...
- 14. IoT and Logistics
- (News)
- On the Industrial Distribution site, Mike Hockett takes us through some recent research by Forrester on the state of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the transportation and logistics sectors of the supply ...
- 15. Locally Installed Software Is Dead
- (Management)
- ... the interface at the same time as the message works surprisingly well, and the software we use is updated as frequently as needed to add features, remove bugs, and generally make our experience better ...
- 16. The Re-Shoring Trend
- (News)
- We've read quite a bit recently about 're-shoring', or moving manufacturing back to the US from overseas. Surprisingly, one technological advance of recent years has been a contributor to this trend.Cloud-based ...
- 17. The State of Supply Chain Risk Planning
- (News)
- Adrian Gonzalez, on his Talking Logistics site, spins through some recent data on supply chain risk management. It's a topic everyone agrees is important, but a surprisingly large number of companies aren' ...
- 18. Competition for the Last Mile
- (Blogs)
- ... Surprisingly, the US Postal Service (USPS) is getting involved, providing Sunday delivery for some vendors and getting into same day service for some ecommerce suppliers (see recent Forbes article HERE). ...
- 19. GXS - A New Start? Again?
- (EDI)
- ... time, recovery for the VAN was a long shot. But I'm surprisingly (even to myself) encouraged about the prospects of the combination of OpenText and GXS. But first to the finances. According to OpenText ...
- 20. Sustainable Packaging
- (News)
- Supply chain sustainability covers a lot of ground. Not surprisingly, packaging is a big area of emphasis.In an article on the Packaging World site, Dr. Karli Verghese talks about how companies approach ...
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