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Innovations in last-mile delivery and their strategic impact

Innovations in last-mile delivery are more than just technological advancements; they are strategic tools that businesses can leverage to enhance customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.

Embrace resistance for greater success with change management

Most companies manage change as a point in time. This approach does not engage and support stakeholders throughout the duration, often resulting in a failed initiative. There is a better way.

Is your supply chain performance part of your branding?

Businesses can use their supply chain to build trust and improve brand performance, providing a boost to the bottom line.

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Innovations in last-mile delivery and their strategic impact

Thursday, August 29, 2024 · Moonmoon Rathod
Innovations in last-mile delivery are more than just technological advancements; they are strategic tools that businesses can leverage to enhance customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.

Embrace resistance for greater success with change management

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 · Lorraine Gavin, principal analyst, Gartner Supply Chain
Most companies manage change as a point in time. This approach does not engage and support stakeholders throughout the duration, often resulting in a failed initiative. There is a better way.

Is your supply chain performance part of your branding?

Monday, August 19, 2024 · Norman Katz
Businesses can use their supply chain to build trust and improve brand performance, providing a boost to the bottom line.

China’s growing impact on global new energy vehicle supply chains

Friday, August 16, 2024 · Chunan Tong
China’s new energy vehicle industry’s transformation from product export to capacity and industrial chain export is significantly impacting global supply chains. By localizing production and diversifying supplier networks, Chinese NEV companies are creating a more…

Solving supplier traceability in modern supply chains

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 · Venkat Maddila, Travis Wolf, Carl B. March and Anthony Mubarak
As traceability programs become a business requirement, the appropriate platform combining publicly available data and AI tools can enable companies to move beyond base-level traceability.

Taking the temperature of the supply chain

Friday, August 9, 2024 · Jeff Berman
A new report from S&P Global finds that more people are feeling positive about the supply chain as the second half of the year moves forward.

The modern face of disruption: Navigating beyond natural disasters to IT outages

Thursday, August 8, 2024 · Mihir Patel
The Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage is a clarion call to broaden traditional risk management within supply chains to now include the digital realm, where IT outages pose an equal, if not greater, threat to operational continuity.

Cybersecurity as a major supply chain risk domain

Monday, August 5, 2024 · Seongkyoon Jeong
Similar to traditional Bill of Materials practice, the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) details the required software modules for a product, helping organizations understand the components within their software and better track vulnerabilities.

AI-driven sourcing: Why the speed of change is going to only accelerate

Friday, July 26, 2024 · Seth Catalli
From sourcing and supplier management to price negotiation and compliance, procurement leaders are waking up to the power of AI-powered spend management in their daily operations.

A Silk Road city

Thursday, July 25, 2024 · Rosemary Coates
While attitudes toward Americans have changed in the big cities along China’s eastern seaboard and eastern regions due to geopolitics, the people of Lanzhou were welcoming to U.S. trade mission.

Expand supply chain metrics to cover the complete customer experience

Tuesday, July 23, 2024 · Michael Dominy
Supply chain leaders must work within the supply chain organization and across the enterprise to manage customers’ perceptions. Delivering excellence in terms of the CX requires a team effort to break down functional walls and collaborate across the company on…

Leadership development for supply chain leaders

Friday, July 19, 2024 · Dan Pellathy
Senior leaders should be concerned about the challenges facing their planning functions. Today’s value creation systems are severely constrained by insufficient talent and ineffective processes for developing leaders. Yet many companies fail to recognize this critical…

A smarter approach to sustainability is vital for healthy, resilient supply chains

Thursday, July 18, 2024 · James Payne and Henrietta Hunter
Procurement teams the world over face unprecedented volatility from geopolitical conflict, climate crisis and more. To ride the headwinds, a shift towards a smarter, sustainable approach to supply chains is needed. Forum for the Future’s Global Head – Purpose of Business…

Why we can’t ignore inventory rightsizing in industrial sectors

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 · Jason Miller
Bloated inventories were not confined to retail post-COVID, and while the retail sector has brought inventories under control, the industrial sector has not.

Is your enterprise suffering from too much data?

Monday, July 15, 2024 · Norman Katz
Closing transactional gaps in supply chains, increasing operational effectiveness, and enhancing your competitiveness with data collection is helpful. But doing so without a good data policy is costly, and probably confusing too.
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