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Supply Chain Executives Face Growing C-Suite Complacency

Logistics Viewpoints

According to research by Ernst & Young LLP, the global consulting firm, as the Covid crisis recedes, supply chain executives are losing the strategic gains they made with their C-suite counterparts. While supply chain executives largely realize how critical collaboration and effective supply chain technology are.

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Trust More: A New Year’s Resolution for Supply Chain Executives

Talking Logistics

Last January, I updated the list and added a couple of more things to stop doing in 2024 and beyond (see Supply Chain New Years Resolutions: Things To STOP Doing In. Read more The post Trust More: A New Year’s Resolution for Supply Chain Executives appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Importance of Ensuring a Data Management and Supervisory Control Framework Spanning Supply Chain Execution Decision Making

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides the first of a two-part market education series addressing what we term as broadening the context from warehouse control layer or accelerator to that of supply chain execution orchestration.

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A Supply Chain Executive Asks: Is Supply Chain Technology Making a Difference?

Talking Logistics

Read more A Supply Chain Executive Asks: Is Supply Chain Technology Making a Difference? The post A Supply Chain Executive Asks: Is Supply Chain Technology Making a Difference? We have spent the money and we see unprecedented delays, shortages, and disruptions.

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8 Questions to Rate Supply Chain Platform Needs and Capabilities

Download ' A Buyer’s Guide for Supply Chain Executives’ by TadaNow. The specific line of business, its maturity level, and the complexity of the interconnected networks, internal and external, all play a role. Asking the right questions is crucial to navigating these waters and finding the best solution.

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Bridging the Supply Chain Planning & Execution Gap

Talking Logistics

Historically, there has been a disconnect between Supply Chain Planning and Supply Chain Execution processes and applications. As a result, companies tend to plan, optimize, and execute their inventory, labor, transportation, and warehousing operations separately (that is, in a siloed manner).

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Reimagining Transportation Procurement: Leveraging Data and Technology for Smarter Freight Decisions

Talking Logistics

In a survey we conducted in October 2020, 91% of our Indago supply chain research community members, who are all supply chain executives from manufacturing, retail, and distribution companies, either Agreed or Strongly Agreed that the time had come to transform the traditional transportation procurement process.

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How Chip Shortages Impacted Supply Chain and Solutions to Fix This

This infographic outlines the global chip shortage crisis in an easy-to-read format, perfectly suited for busy supply chain executives. Read this infographic to learn: The lasting impact of chip shortages. What caused this sudden chip shortage issue. How to better understand the chip industry.

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How to Prepare Your Supply Chain for Future Shortages

This infographic outlines the global chip shortage crisis in an easy-to-read format, perfectly suited for busy supply chain executives. Read this infographic to learn: The lasting impact of chip shortages. What caused this sudden chip shortage issue. How to better understand the chip industry.

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S&OP Reimagined: Overcoming the New Normal with a Revamped S&OP Process

Speaker: Fernando Penteado, CPSM - Supply Chain and Logistics Executive, Global Markets Expert, and International Speaker

Now, as a variety of disruptive events cause supply chain challenges, companies are contemplating bold moves to keep business moving, including moving sourcing and manufacturing closer to home markets and maintaining a larger reserve stock to help manage the fluctuations in supply and demand.

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TMS+: Go Beyond Transport to Optimize Cost, Service, & Resiliency

It’s a supply chain execution technology that recognizes companies today operate as multi-party ecosystems, and that transport management activities are just one component of high-functioning supply chains. Today’s question becomes: How do you leverage data to automate and optimize across the full order lifecycle?