More companies are waking up to the need for change, and this year, we honor six that took a truly new approach to the way in which they moved product to market.
Tackling the job of assessing all of its contracts for indirect-materials spend, Intel Corp. scraps a laborious and outdated manual process, and puts its entire supply chain on the road to digitization.
The giant retailer undertakes an ambitious initiative to make sense of its painfully complex freight payment and reconciliation process, involving its own fleet as well as those of outside carriers, and moving more than half a million shipments a year.
The big agribusiness and food cooperative sets out to optimize truck capacity and save on transportation costs through use of a software tool that enables the sharing of space on selected routes.
To address this the challenge of finding skilled warehouse workers, The Raymond Corp. worked with Broome-Tioga Workforce New York to develop a virtual educational program — and found that innovative workplace instruction can attract and retain talent.
From smart cartonization to last-mile delivery and beyond, supply chains offer fertile ground for new technologies to improve sustainability by trimming wasted fuel, materials and time.