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.
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.
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.
Supply-chain visibility is just the first step in the journey toward enabling a digital supply chain, says David McCarty, vice president of customer solutions with TransVoyant.
Daniel Taylor, product manager-routing with Ortec, discusses a new approach to the age-old practice of time-slot booking — both at the e-commerce customer's door and the warehouse dock.
