Quality & Metrics

Retailers Are Haunted By 'The Ghost Economy'

July 17, 2015

It's enough to scare the daylights out of retailers: $1.75tr in lost revenue due to overstocks, out-of-stocks and preventable returns. Welcome to "The Ghost Economy."

Supply Chain Quality: Challenges and Benefits

July 16, 2015

Laurel Nelson-Rowe, Managing Director, ASQ

Secrets of Supply-Chain Segmentation

July 15, 2015

SupplyChainBrain

What is supply-chain segmentation? How can it help companies to better manage the flow of product and services, both upstream from suppliers and downstream to customers? Jennifer Loveland, research director of Gartner, has some answers.

Transparency is the New Visibility

July 14, 2015

Nancy Marino, Partner, Columbus Consulting

Supply-Chain Alignment: Finding Meaning in a Buzzword

July 13, 2015

What is this thing called supply-chain alignment?

The Workforce Disruptions Stress Test

July 8, 2015

Quintiq

APICS SCC Launches SCOR Mobile App

July 8, 2015

APICS Supply Chain Council

APICS Supply Chain Council has launched a Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) mobile application.

Three Challenges Impacting Automotive Supply Chains

July 6, 2015

SupplyChainBrain

Can West Coast Ports Act to Reverse Their Slide in Market Share?

July 6, 2015

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Shippers are still steaming over delays caused by West Coast dockworkers during contract negotiations with terminal operators in late 2014 and early 2015. But problems at the region's ports extend well beyond union intransigence.