The eBook, "6 Strategies for Building an Adaptive Supply Chain," provides valuable insights into how businesses can proactively prepare for the unexpected. It explores three critical pillars of an ...

Though U.S. manufacturers are not facing the endemic challenges with recruiting labor that they suffered in 2021 and 2022, ...

Muhammad Ali was the greatest boxer, but he also learned tough lessons along the way about being just “good enough.” Supply chain managers can take… A resilient and agile supply chain is vital in ...

As the title of this column suggests, things appear to be the same for quite a while in the oil/energy markets, while climate ...

The pandemic and Red Sea crisis have once again revealed how disruptions in one part of the world can ripple through the entire system, exposing significant vulnerabilities within the global supply ...

A resilient and agile supply chain is vital in today’s volatile market—start by assessing your current position with our Self-Assessment tool. Procurement Pulse: Disruptions continue to worry ...

Measures for operational innovation examine the effectiveness of adjustments to organizational processes. Common measures for this type include selling, general, and administrative expenses (SG&A) as ...

This is an excerpt of the original article. It was written for the January-February 2025 edition of Supply Chain Management Review. The full article is available to current subscribers. As much ...

The results indicate that pick-to-zero improves product freshness by 25% but increases inbound logistics costs by 34% and warehouse operations costs by 20% due to higher labor requirements.

’Tis the season of giving back. I am on the board at the Supply Chain Management Institute at the University of San Diego and ...

With an increasingly diverse workforce and society, companies are embracing diversity, realizing its importance from both economic and social justice perspectives. Several large companies, such as UPS ...