Supply Chains: Lean, Mean, or In Between
As last year was ending and the new one beginning, the folks at SupplyChainBrain featured a number of articles about lean business practices. Since several supply chain analysts continue to point out
In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.
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As last year was ending and the new one beginning, the folks at SupplyChainBrain featured a number of articles about lean business practices. Since several supply chain analysts continue to point out
Summer Rayne Oakes, co-founder and CEO of Source4Style, a New York-based online fabric marketplace, told Gabrielle M. Blue that “it’s an increasing liability” for a company not to build sustainability into its
Donald Sheldon, president of D.H. Sheldon and Associates, told the staff at SupplyChainBrain that “competing successfully is all about providing the highest possible customer service with the least amount of resources.” [“Enhancing
Just before Christmas, Best Buy told some of its customers that it was canceling their online orders because they wouldn’t be able to fill them. [“Uh oh: Best Buy cancels some online
In the introduction to a study on supply chain risk management, Stephan M. Wagner, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Christoph Bode, from the WHU—Otto Beisheim School of Management, wrote,
An article in SupplyChainBrain, noted that “a report by Gartner revealed that two-thirds of businesses do not progress beyond the first two stages of the four-stage maturity model for adopting sales and
In part 1 of this two-part series, I discussed some predictions that have been made about the manufacturing sector. In this post, I’ll look at predictions made by Adrian Gonzalez and Steve
In an earlier post [Supply Chain 2012: What Lies Ahead?], I discussed some predictions made by analysts Bob Ferrari and Lora Cecere. In this two-part series, I’ll discuss what several others analysts
Just before the Christmas holiday, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced a new hours-of-service (HOS) rule that “reduces by 12 hours the maximum number of hours a truck driver can
In Part 1 of this two-part series, I discussed the views of five of the six experts interviewed by Bob Trebilcock, Executive Editor of Modern Materials Handling, regarding the impact that the
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