August, 2017

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In Case You Missed It: Best Industry Articles and Insights this Month

ModusLink Corporation

To help keep you up-to-date with the latest trends and industry insights, we’ve created a new monthly blog series that will share the top articles from the month focusing on various sects […]. The post In Case You Missed It: Best Industry Articles and Insights this Month appeared first on ModusLink Global Solutions.

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Why Is Blockchain Not Hotter?

Supply Chain Shaman

This morning I read a Wall Street Journal article on blockchain asking “Why Is Blockchain Not Hotter?” ” I smiled as I read the article, thinking about the random-chance of meeting a United Nations representative on a Delta flight who hungered to test blockchain.

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Showing Creativity in SCM Research

SCM Research

A colleague recently recommended the following article to me: Mansfield (2003): Spatializing Globalization: A “Geography of Quality” in the Seafood Industry. Herein, the author takes a look at the quality of products in that industry.

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Walmart is Shifting Variability. Here’s What Suppliers Should Do About It.

Arkieva

If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Here’s What Suppliers Should Do About It. was first posted on August 7, 2017 at 8:10 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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Best Practices to Model Carbon Costs in Supply Chain Network Design

In this article, we share best practices about modeling carbon costs in network design. Do you want to know the environmental impact of your supply chain and make sustainable decisions?

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Plant-location decisions and potential supply chain risk

Kinaxis

that are pretty extensive, particularly for the Corolla,” Scott Vazin, a Toyota spokesman, says in an article on Bloomberg. “We as a prime location, a USA Today article reports. What’s more, a head-start on a supplier network would be particularly attractive for Mazda, which doesn’t have a U.S. We do have supply lines in the U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 31 – August 4, 2017)

Talking Logistics

A leading astrophysicist from Queen’s University Belfast has warned that an asteroid strike is just a matter of time,” states an article published this past June in Phys.org. The article also states that “some sellers noted in the forums that Amazon is allowing them to exempt a certain number of items from the automated returns process.

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5 Critical Challenges Facing Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

In this article, produced in partnership with Connected Health Pulse, we explore five critical challenges in pharmaceutical supply chains caused by a lack of visibility. Real-time visibility and tracking are critical to order accuracy, schedule reliability, inventory management and compliance in a high-value, highly regulated industry.