“Disruption” is the word of the year. Alan Amling, distinguished fellow at the University of Tennessee's Global Supply Chain Institute, explains what it means to supply chain professionals — and why they keep "getting in their own way."

Every supply consists of two crucial elements: physical goods, and the digital systems that make it possible to move them. How can they be made in work in harmony?

Supply chains are a bit like utilities: nobody notices them until problems arise. And here’s no escaping notice these days.

Interest in supply chain and logistics technology is on the increase and will continue to grow, says Alex Yeager, senior vice president of Redwood Logistics.