Taulia

JANUARY 16, 2025

The story so far The existing EU Late Payment Directive, adopted in 2011, attempted to address the challenge of late payments, but many argued that it had significant shortcomings, including a lack of monitoring tools and enforcement mechanisms. Either way, the proposals have prompted many questions from our customers.

Negotiate Pricing

Precoro

JULY 4, 2025

Additionally, since the supplier focuses solely on your product, if they become overwhelmed with orders, it can cause delays that disrupt your supply chain and operations. Limitations can impact cost, supply reliability, and operational flexibility. Thus, you’ll ensure compliance and keep your supply chain on track.

Purchasing Skills

Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This Supply Chain Matters industry commentary highlights reports of suspected E-coli related illnesses linked to certain McDonald’s menu items. states has been linked to global wide fast food chain McDonald’s. McDonald’s Brand the Subject of U.S. Wide Headlines U.S. Coli outbreak. “

Food

Jaggaer

MARCH 20, 2025

The company, headquartered in Herborn, Hesse, initially selected JAGGAERs platform JAGGAER ONE in 2011. To this end, the platform is integrated with Sphera’s risk management solution and IntegrityNext for supply chain monitoring.

Optimal Sourcing

Freight Waves

JUNE 7, 2025

Here’s what matters from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals report and what you need to take away from it now: Logistics Costs Are Still High Based on the report , the industry spent $2.6 In 2011, Yo-Yo was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and eventually had to park her rig for good. She drove for 39 years.

Purchasing Skills

Cathy Roberson

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Rethinking supply chains is a reader-supported publication. China was also marketed as a low-cost labor option for many US supply chains twenty to thirty years ago and now we’re seeing similar mentions about Southeast Asian countries. 😉 Rethinking supply chains is a reader-supported publication.

El Paso

Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 17, 2025

next year the weakest since 2011 aside from the initial Covid pandemic hit suffered in 2020. Additional Data Points In our previously published Supply Chain Matters posting relative to the imposition of U.S. Copyright 2025, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters blog.

Forecasting

Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Litecoin smart contract capabilities Litecoin is a cryptocurrency that was created in 2011 as a fork of Bitcoin, with a focus on improving its speed and efficiency for transaction processing. Originally written for Supply Chain Game Changer and published on May 13, 2023. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™.

Supply Chain Network Software

ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In the era of the global supply chain, many companies think about risk management in terms of “ macro agility ”—their ability to anticipate the likelihood of, and develop readiness plans for, major crises that impact the chain, like geopolitical instability and extreme weather.

Supply Chain Risk Management

Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 28, 2025

One of their most remarkable accomplishments was clinching the inaugural League of Legends World Championship in 2011. Invictus Gaming : Established in 2011, this leading Chinese team boasts a rich history in various esports titles. Originally written for Supply Chain Game Changer and published on June 9, 2024.

Dallas

Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2021

Each year, we compile a list of top-performing Supply Chains, termed the Supply Chains to Admire. This week, while all my friends are on vacation, I am writing the final report for the Supply Chains to Admire. Our goal is to continually redefine the definition of supply chain excellence.

Supply Chain Planning Software

GlobalTranz

MARCH 4, 2015

Editor’s Note : It is clear from several articles around the Skills Gap that we need programs that keep the next generations interested in one of the most vital parts of business today: mastering the supply chain. Franklin Center for Supply Chain Management at the Martin J. We hope you enjoy!

Gartner

Kinaxis

MAY 21, 2015

by CJ Wehlage On May 29, 2014, I posted a blog about the Top 25 Supply Chains predictions for 2015. The 2015 Top Supply Chains were #1 Amazon , #2 McDonald’s, #3 Unilever. The 2015 Top Supply Chains were #1 Amazon , #2 McDonald’s, #3 Unilever. Seven from 2011 are not on the 2015 ranks.

Gartner

Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

states, obvious disruptions to supply chains and supply chain risk management were a given. Many of the states affected contained key ports and supply destinations, as well as transportation and logistics hubs. The human links of the supply chain were stressed. These ports accounted for 18.3%

Supply Chain Risk Management

Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 27, 2023

Investors, customers, and other stakeholders are paying closer attention to the companies they do business with, asking that they not only make decisions that improve operations, but also decrease the negative effect on their environment and community: a supply chain with a conscience.

Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Executive teams strive to drive improvement in supply chain results; yet, sadly, only four percent of public companies succeed. The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. Now, I view the company as a supply chain laggard.

Procurement Analytics

Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

7 Principles of Supply Chain Management Explained. Would you like to understand supply chain management concept but dont have time to study from a supply chain textbook ? The good news is, this article will explain to you the key principles of supply chain management that you can finish within 5 minutes.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

Social media has been adopted by supply chain management professionals as a mechanism to express opinions and disseminate knowledge. Then, this article will show how the influencers in supply chain management can be identified. " in the attempt to identify top social media writers and experts on Twitter.

Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In February, Klaus Niebur, the director of global supply chain risk management at Autoliv, and Jan Thiessen, the managing director at targetP!, spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. The implementation was not trivial.

Supply Chain Risk Management

Talking Logistics

MARCH 23, 2015

For years, I’ve been telling supply chain executives to think beyond Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter when thinking about the role of social networking in supply chain management. As I wrote last December in Facebook for Supply Chain Communication and Collaboration? Post a comment and share your perspective!

Supply Chain Software

Supply Chain Opz

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Current logistics and supply chain management trends are discussed very often on social media sites. In the year 2000, Journal of Business Logistics published the article named " Ten Mega-Trends That Will Revolutionize Supply Chain Logistics ". How can we identify them really? What''s Next?

Supply Chain Planning Software

The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 27, 2023

Barry Conlon and Joe Lynch discuss supply chain risk management, which is exactly what Barry and his team at Overhaul provide to Fortune 100 companies across the world. Barry is a dedicated supply chain security professional with more than 30 years of experience within that discipline.

Supply Chain Risk Management

AIMMS

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Interview with Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights and Author of Supply Chain Metrics that Matter ( published December 2014 ). Lora Cecere is the founder and CEO of the research firm Supply Chain Insights. So I sat down at my kitchen table in the winter of 2011.

Metrics

Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

These consumer products global leaders paved the road for supply chain excellence by defining new supply chain practices. Today, each leader wants to take their empowered team to new supply chain heights. At Supply Chain Insights, we published a report card yesterday. Who is poised to win?

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 9, 2023

Jim Saponaro and Joe Lynch discuss the life sciences and healthcare supply chain. Jim is the President, Life Sciences & Healthcare DHL Supply Chain North America. About Jim Saponaro Jim Saponaro is the President, Life Sciences & Healthcare DHL Supply Chain North America. ft in warehousing space.

Pharmaceutical

Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 7, 2013

6 Sigma Supply Chain: The Brief Introduction for Non-Statisticians. Even though there are so many articles about six sigma supply chain, most of them are all related to the application within certain functions in supply chain. Supply Chain Case Study: Executives Guide. best of supplychainopz.

Six Sigma

Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Working in supply chain is like starring in a Rocky movie. You don’t need to go back any further than a decade to understand the many challenges supply chains have endured over the years. Supply chains had to deal with squeezing margins and dramatically cut costs, which included significant downsizing.

Supply Chain Risk Management

Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Now more so than ever, corporations understand the tremendous impact logistics and transportation can have on their overall business performance and are taking meaningful strides to optimize their supply chain operations. increase over 2011, according to Capgemini’s 2014 18th Annual Third Party Logistics Study. billion (U.S.

Transportation Management

ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

If this challenging past year has taught us one thing, it is the value of connections–not only in our lives, but in supply chains. Indeed, when customers contact us for planning support through our COVID-19 Action Center, they are usually grappling with similar supply chain disruptions–or disconnections. .

Supply Chain Planning Software

GlobalTranz

AUGUST 17, 2016

IoT Tech is Driving Sustainability in the Supply Chain. But perhaps the most far-reaching changes will center around the use of large data systems to drive sustainability in logistics and supply chains. billion tons of oil in 2011, worth approximately $743 billion. Using IoT Tech to Make us More Fuel Efficient.

Waste Reduction

GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Our previous discussion on augmented reality revealed a new trend in supply chain management , the use of computer-simulated imagery to enhance production and efficiency. However, artificial intelligence is poised to radically change the supply chain in profound ways. Artificial intelligence is everywhere.

Supply Chain Design Software

Kinaxis

AUGUST 16, 2018

Take for example Volkswagen’s 2011 “People’s Car Project” in China for which the aim was to inspire the imagination of its followers by allowing them to design their own cars. But how could gamification be applied to a supply chain? Here are three scenarios where gamification could foster a more efficient supply chain.

Supply Chain Design Software

SCM Research

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

In his recent Nature article, Climate Economics: Make Supply Chains Climate-smart , Anders Levermann argues that supply chains need to adapt to extreme weather. Links in global economic chains and world markets mean that flooding or heat-waves in one place can have repercussions elsewhere. Levermann, A.

Supply Chain

The Network Effect

AUGUST 12, 2014

In the US, healthcare expenditure per person has risen by almost 78 per cent since 2000 to USD 8,700 in 2011 (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 2012). The post The supply chain implications of rising healthcare costs… appeared first on The Network Effect. in 2008 to 7.6 per cent by 2020. .

Pharmaceutical

Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Financial balance sheet improvements cannot be driven by traditional supply chain processes. In the words of a supply chain leader yesterday, “Lora, please give me stories of success. When I first met Nick, he was driving a supply chain transformation at VTech Communications. Price to Tangible Book Value.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Talking Logistics

JUNE 24, 2020

In March 2011, I wrote a post making the case that, like in baseball, the supply chain and logistics industry needed a farm system to attract and develop the next generation of leaders. As I wrote at the time: Sure, there are a number of universities (but certainly not enough) with supply chain and logistics.

Supply Chain

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 23, 2020

Reimagine Supply Chain of the future: There are many facets to imagining Supply Chain of Future. What are the learnings from Covid disaster that leaders will incorporate into future supply chains? Let us study major highlights of Supply Chains of the future. . — Jeff Bezos, CEO, Amazon.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain