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Technology can change or even improve work. We are not designing work with the human factor in mind. The goal of human factor process design is to make it easy for employees to do the right thing (and hard to do the wrong thing). Today, in supplychain planning, this could not be further from reality.
Kristina is the Director of Operations at Bettaway, a privately held, family-owned SupplyChain Services company headquartered in South Plainfield, New Jersey. About Bettaway Bettaway is a privately held, family-owned SupplyChain Services company headquartered in South Plainfield, New Jersey. Bettaway West, Inc.:
” At that time, the sales organization used more point-of-sale data than their competitors, they had an impressive and innovative IT team, and their supplychain processes were what I considered best-in-class. The use of the supplychain as a functional organization within the organization to reduce costs.
Organizations in these sectors face constant pressure to uphold the highest standards for quality and compliance, all while managing global supplychains, evolving regulatory frameworks, and increasing demands for operational efficiency. Our auditor really enjoys seeing everything centralized in one tool,” Drouin shared.
Organizations in these sectors face constant pressure to uphold the highest standards for quality and compliance, all while managing global supplychains, evolving regulatory frameworks, and increasing demands for operational efficiency. Our auditor really enjoys seeing everything centralized in one tool,” Drouin shared.
So say the analysts at Gartner in a new blog post on logistics technology. SupplyChain Digest Says. SupplyChain Digest Says. Gartner says that, with the exception of high-performing organizations, 40% of logistics leaders cite the struggle to realize value from existing technology investments What do you say?
We always start with a check on the US and global economy, as that has such an impact in the end on supplychain practice. What is your reaction of 1H supplychain 2025 in numbers and charts? This week, we offer our popular look at the first six months of 2025 in numbers and charts. Gilmore Says. What do you say?
SupplyChain Digest Says. Click here to send us your comments Just recently, Gartner itself did an interesting look at what supplychain execs were saying at the Orlando conference as well as a similar event in Europe. Below are some highlights from the Gartner blog post. This shift was accompanied by a change in tone.
SupplyChain Digest Says. Click here to send us your comments Aronow observes that many supplychain organizations are perpetually chasing their commercial partners to engage and improve the demand forecast. Aronow says to start by investing in organizational storytelling skills. What do you say?
Or, we could look at the Gartner top 25 supplychains list. That famous ranking used to be released at a dinner the Gartner SupplyChain Executive Conference in May (now called the SupplyChain Symposium), but this year it was again released in a webinar a few weeks after the conference. Gilmore Says.
Amazon’s Dattatreya is leading a newly created Amazon team from the company’s Bay Area innovation lab to put more advanced artificial-intelligence systems into its robotics. I Amazon Robot” indeed. Amazon says that currently, about 75% of Amazon’s global deliveries are assisted in some way by robotics.
The on-going conflict creates risks to critical raw materials and the continued flow of finished goods, Garter says, requiring supplychains to conduct cost-benefit analyses of mitigation actions in partnership with finance leaders. SupplyChain Digest Says. Prepare CFOs for continued supplychain cost volatility 3.
First published in 2007, this classic reflection contrasts two distribution centers to show how mutual respect drives better results, stronger culture, and lower turnover. This article, originally published in 2007, offers insight into the value that problem-solving brings to corporate culture. SupplyChain Digest Says.
What I failed to do in any of those three columns was mention what in some ways may have been the biggest to news items: the retirements of sorts of Gartner analyst Dwight Klappich and groundbreaking, inaugural Gartner analyst, and famous inventor of the Three V’s of SupplyChain, Art Mesher.
SupplyChain Digest Says. Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006.
SupplyChain Digest Says. Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006.
Click here to send us your comments January New that supplychainsoftware provider Logility will be acquired by Aptean. The disgraced executive was eventually convicted of wire and securities fraud in 2022 for misleading investors about Nikola’s operations and zero-emissions technology. What do you say?
This week we review the performance of supplychain stocks, and next week we will provide our popular take on the 1H 2025 in numbers and charts On to the stocks, I am ending my numbers with the closing bell on July 3. In early 2021, SCDigest re-launched this weekly supplychain and logistics stock market index.
SupplyChain Digest Says. Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. month-over-month.
of GDP The Council of SupplyChain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and partners Kearney and Penske Logistics are out last week with the 2025 State of Logistics Report, looking primarily at 2024 data. Again this year, Penske Logistics funded the report development. Somewhere along the way, CSCMP took over the sponsorship.
A strange as it may seem for todays generation, in the early days of bar coding (1980s and through much of the 1990s), the technology had many pitfalls. SupplyChain Digest Says. The system must be user friendly. The company had to re-apply the labels in distribution, at enormous costs. What do you say?
Any F eedback on our SupplyChain Graphic of the Week? Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006.
Fred Smith was the founder of FedEx, SupplyChain Digest Says. RIP Fred Smith, one of the most consequential figures in the history of supplychain. Editor's Note: You are right, Internet of Things (IoT) was at the top of the Garter new technology hype curve not long ago. at over 5,000 facilities worldwide. --Its
Click here to send us your comments That according to Rob Mortimer, CEO of Fuelre4m, a Dubai-based firm that uses fuel technology to cut emissions, writing this week on the web site of the Maritime Executive “That’s not a long-term projection. Not technologically. So why isn’t there a stampede for this technology?
If you were in the Warehouse Management System (WMS) market in the past 20 years you knew Klappich. That also led Klappich to recently define a new category of software, which Gartner calls a Multiagent Orchestration Platform (MAOP) for managing mobile robots in warehousing and manufacturing. (
SupplyChain Digest Says. Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. a little up from 48.5
The Trump tariffs “are reshaping global supplychains and injecting a high degree of uncertainty into capital investment decisions, causing delays. Editor's Note: You are right, Internet of Things (IoT) was at the top of the Garter new technology hype curve not long ago. What is going on?
SupplyChain Digest Says. TuffAir argues that its strategy is unique and is designed to facilitate cheaper, faster regional air transit for freight. ( TuffAir argues that its strategy is unique and is designed to facilitate cheaper, faster regional air transit for freight. (
SupplyChain Digest Says. With market maturity for zero-emissions vehicles losing momentum in North America, we’ve reshaped our capital allocation strategy to refocus on further developing our internal combustion technology,” O’Leary said during a speech at the event. What do you say?
The average manufacturing company’s supplychain organization is 15 years old. Historically, the traditional supplychain focused on improving costs. Today, more mature supplychain teams focus on delivering value. Typically, it is a lack of common definition on what defines supplychain excellence.
I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, SupplyChain Metrics That Matter. The world of supplychain is active on my iPhone. The news from SAP Insider is a continued drumbeat on the HANA rewrite of SAP’s supplychain applications.
When it comes to the management of inventory in value chains, frustration abounds. Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” The supplychain is a complex system with increasing complexity.
Life for the supplychain leader is more complex. We are living in a world of rich supplychain case studies. Each day, the Wall Street Journal features a supplychain failure as front-page news. Traditional processes accelerate the bullwhip impact leaving leaders chained and forced into reactive behavior.
However, one thing that should come to mind is the prowess of the retail giant’s supplychain excellence. million employees without a focus on good supplychain management. ” The Key’s To Walmart’s SupplyChain Management Excellence over the Year. ” Walmart states early on.
Dhruv is the CEO and Co-Founder of ShipBob , the leading global omni fulfillment platformdesigned for small and medium-sized businesses to provide them access to best-in-class supplychain and fulfillment capabilities. Dhruv came to America (from India) in 2007 to pursue an undergraduate engineering degree.
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Here are three ways that crowdsourcing is revolutionizing supplychain management today—and in the future. Amazon consistently ranks on or near the top of lists touting the best supplychains—and for good reason. Crowdsourcing increases on-time, cost-effective delivery. Crowdsourcing supports risk management strategies.
Gary Nemmers , Martyn Verhaegen and Joe Lynch discuss digital freight forwarding – and the importance of a modern, data-driven logistics softwareplatform to optimize every step of the freight forwarding process. Before founding Qwyk, he served as lead for Corporate Account Technology at top global consolidator ECU Worldwide.
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Recently, I was on a panel discussing AI in the supplychain industry, and much of the conversation revolved around its applications in forecasting. A pragmatic strategy about where to concentrate efforts is also crucial in an industry as technologically slow-moving as logistics. Yes, I know that is bucking the trend.
” The storyline starts with a supplychain story of a shortage–semiconductors, rental cars, plastics–and ends with an easy answer. Nothing about the current state of the supplychain is easy. Supplychain leaders have the ability to drive change like never before. And, voila! The reason?
In my day-to-day work in supplychain management, I find more encounter more opinions than facts. …most discussions are fueled by over-zealous and self-serving marketing programs. The period of 2007-2008 was the downturn of the recession while the period of 2009-2013 marked the recovery. SupplyChain Leadership.
Energy Storage Development – A Fast Emerging Technology Needed for Sustainability. That said, when was the technology there to even make ordering from an app possible? The first iPhone only came out in 2007 – ushering in smart phone apps and all the rest in very quick succession. Charge Me Up! About the Author.
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