Companies that place their entire focus on new supply-chain technologies are in danger of losing sight of their larger business goals, warns Roger Thomas, industry principal with SAS Institute.
Sean Elliott, global chief technology officer with HighJump, describes his view of the supply chain of the future -- as well as the obstacles that stand in the way of that vision becoming a reality.
The glass company's plans for a digital supply-chain makeover changed radically when a new customer presented two major challenges: extremely large order volume and nonstandard labeling requirements.
For companies looking to simulate and optimize their supply chains, technology is getting ahead of organizations' ability to manage it. Bill Benton, chief executive officer of GAINSystems, has a solution.
Just as modern vehicle technology is spurring the development of driverless cars, supply chains are moving toward autonomous decision systems, aided by analytics and artificial intelligence, says Fred Laluyaux, president and chief executive officer of Aera Technology.
Lithium miners are bulking up for a booming future when electric cars go mainstream. But speed bumps loom, with prices tumbling on a burst of new production and demand growth slowing in China.
The old days of the Quality movement seem quaint in retrospect: the banners, the slogans, the prizes and team-building events. Today, quality management is all about information — or, more to the point, how to keep from getting buried in it.
