Business Strategy & Alignment

Digital Supply Chain Management: What's the Cost of Doing Nothing? Learn Why a Digital Supply Chain is Critical for Manufacturing and Wholesale Distribution Businesses.

April 28, 2021

Why it's more important than ever for manufacturers and distributors to automate their supply chains, or pay the high costs associated with not going digital.

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Watch: What Is a Continuous Supply Chain?

September 11, 2020

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Bernard Goor, senior vice president of sales with Infor, explains the concept behind the continuous supply chain, and reveals the biggest obstacles that companies face when trying to achieve that goal.

Supply Chain Disruption: The 2020 Version

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Watch: Supply Chain Disruption in 2020

November 18, 2019

SupplyChainBrain

In the age of supply-chain disruption, who are the winners and the losers? Martin Verwijmeren, chief executive officer of MPO, lays out the keys to success in a time of great uncertainty.

Gartner Releases Yearly Top 25 Supply Chains Report

May 25, 2012

Gartner Inc.

Gartner Inc. has released the findings from its eighth annual Supply Chain Top 25, its initiative to raise awareness of the supply chain discipline and how it impacts the business, and once again Apple topped the list. The supply chain top five included two other mainstays; Dell and P+G; and two that are newer to the ranking, but have been rising steadily; Amazon and McDonald's.

Growing E-Commerce Forces Transformation in Distribution Networks, Report Finds

May 25, 2012

Jones Lang LaSalle

With 92 percent of retailers selling online, 68 percent maintaining brick-and-mortar stores, and 64 percent utilizing catalogs, retailers are embracing a multichannel approach to meet buyer expectations and battle for market share, according to Jones Lang LaSalle's latest report, Retail 3.0: the evolution of multi-channel retail distribution.

Revamping Inbound Transportation at Sysco

May 25, 2012

SupplyChainBrain

Sysco Corp. has operated very successfully for many years as a decentralized company, distributing $40bn annually in food and associated products to restaurants, schools and other meal-serving organizations. The company felt that it could do better in terms of logistics, however, and decided to centralize inbound transportation operations that previously were distributed among its 70 business units.

Unlocking Cash Flow in the Supply Chain

March 30, 2012

SupplyChainBrain

The efficiencies and cost-containment initiatives that the physical supply chain has seen have not been brought to the financial supply chain by most companies, says Robert Kramer, vice president for working capital solutions at PrimeRevenue. That's unfortunate because there are literally trillions of dollars in accounts receivable in corporate supply chins that can be freed up, he says.

True Collaboration Could Cause Certain Metrics to Improve By Half, Report Finds

March 30, 2012

E2open, SCM World

In "truly collaborative" trading relationships, targeted operational metrics, such as inventory days, total landed cost, and cash-to-cash cycles, can be expected to improve by 50 percent over those without collaborative execution capabilities, according to a joint research project of E2open and SCM World.

New Marketing, Retailing Strategies Have to Emerge for Success in Emerging Markets

March 30, 2012

Boston Consulting Group

The center of gravity for consumer-focused companies is subtly but unmistakably moving toward developing economies, such as Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia. The middle class in emerging markets will make up 30 percent of the global population by 2020. These customers represent the future.

Canada, Japan Say Free-Trade Agreement Would Greatly Benefit Both Nations

March 30, 2012

Progressive Railroading

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda have announced plans to begin negotiating a free-trade agreement aimed at deepening trade and investment ties between the two nations.