Supply (220)
GPS Tracking for Food Production
- Monday, 18 March 2019
- Supply
- Written by Scott Koegler
You’re familiar with GPS as it is being used for different navigation purposes. It has made its place in many industrial sectors. Another revolution the GPS tracking system has brought is food safety. Food safety is a global concern. People across the world do care pretty much about whether the food they’re eating is healthy or not. But is it possible? With GPS attached to your poultry, you can find out about the production of the food presented to you. A complete historical record of the product can be available to you.
Read more...Is Amazon a Supply Chain Company?
- Monday, 11 March 2019
- Supply
- Written by Danielle Loughnane
"The fact is that Amazon has always been a logistics and supply-chain company," argued Michael Zakkour, Vice President of Global E-commerce Practices at Tompkins International while being interviewed by Business Insider. When you think about Amazon’s rise to fame as the most beloved e-commerce store around the world, Zukkour is definitely on to something. Amazon has arguably been successful since its inception in Jeff Bezos’ garage in 1994. But it was their introduction of free two-day shipping in 2005 that really got businesses and customers’ attention.
Read more...How Can Supply Chain Managers Assess and Manage Risk in 2019
- Friday, 08 February 2019
- Supply
- Written by Scott Koegler
Supply chain management is a complicated process owing to the simple fact that its variables outweigh its constants at every stage. Success at each of the many stages is crucial. However, with so many factors at play, it’s most likely that something will go wrong.
Self-replicating 3D printers will Disrupt the Supply Chain
- Tuesday, 24 April 2018
- Supply
- Written by Scott Koegler
The advent of 3D printing for production at scale seems to be getting closer to reality. Sure 3D printers have been used for prototyping and remote delivery of pre-production items. And creating one-off parts and custom designs is becoming increasingly common. But forward thinking companies see a future in which goods are delivered by high volume 3D printers that can match manufacturing quantities and lower costs by using generic production materials that are printed in the shapes and quantities needed. That vision is not yet a reality but at least one company is delivering the first wave of production scale printers.
It’s a Bird, it’s a Plane, it’s a Walmart Blimp!
- Wednesday, 13 September 2017
- Supply
- Written by Super User
Walmart’s recent patent application seems like something out of a 1959 issue of Popular Mechanics. Who would conjour up a mixture of last century tech to fill modern supply chain demands? Turns out it may be Walmart who mixes and matches blimps, drones, mechanized warehousing, and wireless communication to bring near-instant delivery to the masses and do better than Amazon’s Prime 2 day delivery service.
Don’t Drive Without a Dashboard
- Tuesday, 04 October 2016
- Supply
- Written by Scott Koegler
Supply chain processes throw off a lot of data. If you’re a successful supplier who fulfills a significant number of orders then you understand that the detail of the transactions generated by orders, shipments, receipts, and all the miscellaneous transactions associated with every order is just too much to be able to read through, much less make sense of. But every part of your operation from your suppliers to your customers demand some kind of accountability, and it’s your responsibility to know of any problems or even potential problems long before everyone else. But with all the data flowing through your systems, is it even possible to separate the standard data from the trouble signals?
Read more...
Supply chain visibility is key to success
- Thursday, 03 September 2015
- Supply
- Written by Tami Kamin Meyer
Supply chain visibility is of paramount importance to all the players who rely on it, says Ken Jones, director of Executive Education at Western Michigan University’s Center for Integrated Supply Management and an instructor on supply chain matters.
Read more...
Omnichannel Marketing, Visibility, and the Perfect Order
- Thursday, 20 August 2015
- Supply
- Written by Jeff Merron
One of the biggest business changes wrought by the rise of the Internet is omnichannel retailing – the ability for consumers to make purchases at any time in any place, and then have the product directly delivered to any address in the world.
Read more...
Report To Reveal Strategic Insights For Marketing Supply Chain Management
- Monday, 30 March 2015
- Supply
- Written by Tami Kamin Meyer
Global expansion might mean greater profits for international companies, but if their supply chain marketing materials are unorganized or unclear, bottom lines suffer, according to a study to be released soon by InfoTrends, a worldwide market research and strategic consulting firm for the digital imaging and document solutions industry. The study, entitled The Future of Global Marketing Supply Chain Management, is designed to provide a clear understanding of the current state of and trends impacting the marketing supply chain for companies and the providers who serve it.
Read more...
Top Ten Concerns For Global Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Analyzed
- Monday, 02 March 2015
- Supply
- Written by Tami Kamin Meyer
The global pharmaceutical supply chain can now boast its own Top Ten list, ala comedian David Letterman. That’s because following nine months of extensive research on the topic, a report delineating and explaining the industry’s top concerns has been released.
Read more...
Most Read
-
-
Feb 17 2012
-
Written by Scott Koegler
-
-
-
Jul 18 2017
-
Written by Super User
-
-
-
Feb 13 2019
-
Written by Scott Koegler
-
-
-
Feb 13 2013
-
Written by Scott Koegler
-