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At St. Luke’s, Supply Chain Excellence Depends Upon Doctor Involvement

Logistics Viewpoints

President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010. This lowered hospitals’ margins and created an impetus for hospital chains to begin to tackle costs, but to do so in a manner that did not compromise patient outcomes. As vice president of supply chain and procurement, Mr. Wengert was brought in to drive change.

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CONA Services Embraces Supply Chain AI

Logistics Viewpoints

CONA Services Provides a Common Platform for Supply Chain Collaboration CONA Services LLC is an IT services company owned and governed by the 11 largest Coca-Cola bottlers in North America. Its main applications include SAP for backend transactions, Blue Yonder for supply chain management , and Salesforce for sales.

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Autonomous Business Planning Is Not Only Possible, It Has Already Been Achieved

Logistics Viewpoints

During my current supply chain planning market research, I have received briefings from several SCP companies. The people who work with us are those who really, truly believe in what we believed in from the start, that is, autonomous supply chains are possible. That was our vision, even starting back in 2010.

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3PL Value Creation Asia Summit 2025 Summary

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

3PL Value Creation Asia Summit 2025 by Brett Marshall Editor-In-Chief LogiSYM Magazine Last week in Singapore, Armstrong & Associates, in partnership with The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society and CargoNow, hosted its annual 3PL Value Creation Asia Summit. 2010 to 2024, projected 4.8% for 2025-6 Expected.

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If Only 2020 was 2020

Supply Chain Shaman

Normality evaporated for supply chain leaders around the world. Global Supply Chain Pressure Index September 1997 through June 2025 Why We Need to Look Backward to Look Forward On Friday, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics released revised data showing that, over the past three months, the U.S.

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Supply chain gaming

Supply Chain Movement

Jane McGonnigal, an American developer of video games and social simulations, predicted the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic back in 2010. The simulation revealed the various supply chain disruptions as well as the emergence of all kinds of conspiracy theories. She asked them questions such as How would you change your habits?

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10 Catastrophic Man-Made Supply Chain Disasters!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe The Single Point of Failure in Supply Chain – Semiconductor Fabrication! My fear is that Supply Chain leaders are getting lazy. But I do mean lazy in terms of making the strategic improvements necessary to create more robust and resilient Supply Chains. The result was 205.8