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Gartner's Top 25 Supply Chains 2014

Every year the researchers at Gartner publish their Top 25 supply chains list, and it seems Apple is always at or near the top, technology companies are highly rated, and everyone complains about the metrics. 2014 is no exception. Read more...

Visibility and Performance in an Omnichannel World

Michael Allen, in a post on the Retail Gazette site, takes a look at recent data from the Retail Systems Research group about omnichannel retail. Forrester has also contributed some analysis he reviews as well. Read more...

What's the Manufacturing Outlook?

The big consulting firm KPMG has produced their 2014 Global Manufacturing Outlook. In case you haven't noticed, complexity for manufacturers is increasing, but that's only one of the challenges. Read more...

Visibility and the 3PL

Omnichannel, visibility needs, and a host of other supply chain requirements may seem to be at odds with the practice of outsourcing logistics to 3PLs. However, there are ways to succeed in spite of the challenges. Read more...

Thoughts on the Gartner Top 25

As you know, Gartner recently revealed their top 25 supply chains for this year. Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, is not impressed. She sees a number of issues and limitations with their methodology, and as usual she's pretty much spot-on. Read more...

IoT and WebRTC

Ready for a new acronym? I don't know about you, but I sure am! Introducing WebRTC, or web real-time communications. With all the talk of the Internet of Things (IoT), this API is closely related and can be talked about in the same realm. Read more...

Gartner Supply Chain Conference Summary

Dan Gilmore from the Supply Chain News does us a huge favor by compiling his thoughts from the various presentations at the recent Gartner supply chain conference. There's a lot going on that Gartner is tracking and they're pushing their demand-driven supply chain concepts.

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What IoT Means to Business

At this point, most folks have heard plenty about the Internet of Things (IoT). The people at MIT are thinking ahead about the coming tsunami of devices and data and are trying to think about how businesses will react. Read more...

Procurement and its Stakeholders

In a guest article on the Spend Matters site, Sanyam Khurana looks at the key metric of procurement and proposes one that might actually make more sense. Saving money is always key, but how it's saved can do a better job articulating value to stakeholders. Read more...

Distribution Technology Survey Results

Supply Chain Digest recently conducted a survey of 150 firms in an attempt to identify and rank the most important distribution-related technologies. Those that garner a lot of press (RFID, robotics) are growing in usage but are not yet very commonplace. Read more...

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