The global logistics and shipping industry's top technology priority is improving supply chain visibility capabilities to integrate higher quality data, according to a survey conducted for INTTRA, the multi-carrier e-commerce network for ocean shipping.
Amber Road, the vendor of global trade-management (GTM) software, has once more achieved ISO 9001:2008 quality certification for its Global Knowledge Update Process.
While the majority of respondents (72 percent) feel culture is extremely important to organizational performance, only 32 percent say their company's culture aligns to a great extent with their business strategy, according to a survey by Korn Ferry, a leadership and talent consulting services.
The Affordable Care Act is having a huge impact on the healthcare industry. And supply-chain is at the leading edge of the transformation. Vance Moore, vice president of operations with Mercy, talks about how the discipline is helping healthcare providers to adapt.
The exact moment when computers got better than people at human tasks arrived in 2011, according to data scientist Jeremy Howard, at an otherwise inconsequential machine-learning competition in Germany.
The title of chief supply chain officer has only been around for about five years. But the importance of that individual to the organization is growing exponentially, says Michael Burkett, research vice president with Gartner.