As consumers become more concerned about where products come from and how they are manufactured and shipped to customers, supply chain managers are coming under increasing pressure to conform to acceptable business practices and ensure supply chain ...

In the movement to digitize the enterprise and connect all things IoT and more, a former supply chain buzzword has re-emerged with more momentum than ever… and confusion! The supply chain term “control tower” is used many ways, causing some vendors to ...

The term supply chain management implies a well-organized and managed procurement function. In reality, procurement is often a collection of disparate suppliers selected almost randomly on the basis of a perceived ability to deliver products at a price ...

A guy goes into a bar… Let’s start over. A planner goes into a corporate office... Facing a new challenge, he/she is asked to create a capacity utilization plan that not only meets demands but also optimizes profits.

DALLAS, March 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Food Logistics, the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product through the global food supply chain, has named Rohan Guthal, Senior Consultant at River Logic, to its 2019 Food ...

Developing a lean supply chain should be a top priority for any business. A lean supply chain is efficient and will take as few resources as possible to create maximum value. This sounds simple on paper, but when you apply this idea to sophisticated ...

The essence of business can be viewed as an organization's ability to deliver more value to customers than their competitors. In a global marketplace, this often manifests itself as constant downward pressure on prices, as each business struggles to ...

Over the last 50 years, US companies have been battling a decrease in their asset profitability. Despite an improved economy, higher productivity from workers and technology, and larger profits, return on assets (or ROA) has been on a steady decline ...

The Wall Street Journal recently published a report: Uber Should Share More Data with Cities, (Paid subscription required) which for this author, provides a further example for moving beyond traditional functionally based intelligence and decision-making ...