An international acquisition doubles the size of the industrial packaging producer overnight. It meets the challenge with a global spend database.

AMR Research again selects the best-run supply chains in the world. Amid ever fiercer competition, these 25 companies have stayed on top by embracing the concept of demand-driven supply networks. That has produced financial results that make them world-class on any list.

The big maker of printers for consumers and business observes its 10th birthday by scrutinizing the elements of its cash-to-cash cycle.

Companies need to look beyond best practices to find competitive advantage in their supply chains. A project at MIT called Supply Chain 2020 is searching for the hidden principles that will guide supply chains now and into an uncertain future.

When earnings stall, the venerable electronics retailer takes a close look at its supply chain organization-and discovers that it doesn't have one.