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Revisiting Supply Chain Segmentation

Jennifer Baljko on EBN asks an important question about supply chain segmentation strategy in a recent post on the site. As in, is its time past? Read more...

Time-to-Survive Explained

When any supply chain manager looks at risk, he or she typically starts to sweat. Now, imagine you're running one of the world's biggest manufacturing companies that's dependent upon multiple tiers of suppliers world-wide. Yikes! Read more...

Omnichannel Fulfillment Options

Omnichannel continues to be on most supply chain managers' radar. There's still no consensus, though, on how to best handle processes like fulfillment. Read more...

What's Better for Performance: Lean or Tech?

What's the better approach to improving supply chain performance: process improvements via Lean, or technology implementations? It's an interesting question whose answer might depend on which part of the supply chain you support. Read more...

3 Steps to Ensure Continuity

According to Sean Rollins on the EBN site, there are 3 'must-haves' for supply chain managers to ensure continuity in their operations. Visibility, intelligent response, and collaboration are all necessary to anticipate and fix problems before they get out of hand. Read more...

Attacking the Supply Chain Talent Problem

We've written several times this year about the difficulty in attracting and retaining talent in supply chain roles. Now, Deloitte has looked at the problem in detail and proposes a few ideas on how to improve. Read more...

Leveraging Big Data in IBM's Supply Chain

For a company with such a storied history, IBM continues to find ways to innovate, especially in its supply chain arena. Using its big data capabilities, the company is reducing supply chain risk and providing other valuable capabilities to users across the organization. Read more...

Procurement Mojo Anyone?

Procurement is the 'Rodney Dangerfield of the organization'? Haven't heard that one, but it makes sense if you look at the traditional view of the function. Read more...

Forecasting is Top Supply Chain Problem

In a recent study, supply chain executives named forecasting as its top challenge. It appears that companies are looking internally for ways to reduce costs. Read more...

Thoughts on WMS Development

I don't know about you, but I enjoy reading first person accounts of the development of new systems. In a recent Supply Chain Digest article, editor Dan Gilmore discusses the WMS sector with a pioneer of that technology, John Hill. Read more...

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