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Unlocking Success: Why Strategic Sourcing Is Important for Your Company

Precoro

To enhance their competitive edge, companies across industries are adopting a key tactic: strategic sourcing. Strategic sourcing is a holistic approach to supply chain management that includes tactics for optimizing the total cost of ownership, improving supplier relationships, and ensuring long-term value creation.

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Infrastructure Planning Guidelines for Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Infrastructure planning article and permission to publish here provided by Kenny Johnson. Whether you are planning to start from scratch or looking to revamp the existing infrastructure for your business, here are some guidelines to help with your infrastructure planning. The post Infrastructure Planning Guidelines for Supply Chain!

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This Week in Logistics News (May 21 – 27)

Logistics Viewpoints

Participating stores will house a DroneUp delivery hub inclusive of a team of certified pilots, operating within FAA guidelines, that safely manage flight operations for deliveries. Between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., customers will be able to order from thousands of eligible items for delivery by air in as little as 30 minutes.

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DELMIA Communities Week in Review for October 25

DELMIA Quintiq

Read the article in the Community. Robot, Conveyor & Sensor with the new Source & Sink. This video demonstrates the basic logic required for a robot to interact with parts being sourced on to a conveyor. The Source, Sink and Sensors are available in the R2021x FD08 DELMIA Robot Virtual Commissioning app.

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The Future Of The Supply Chain Starts With Sustainability.

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Feature Article by Blume Global. While it’s undeniably important to source products responsibly and produce recyclable or reusable products, companies also need to focus on making the transportation and distribution of products more sustainable. Ensure Your Materials Are Ethically Sourced. About the Author About Blume.

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Freight Market Intelligence: Data is crucial, but context is king

Freightos

In this article, Eytan Buchman, Freightos’ CMO, discusses the importance of data and context in global freight and logistics. As more data sources get legible, whether it’s container ship movements, eAWBs or carrier rates , it can have incredible ramifications. But even since July 2020, much has changed.

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Emerald Citation of Excellence 2013 for supply chain innovation article

Supply Chain View from the Field

I learned today that one of the articles I published with colleagues from the University of Tennessee, Oxford University, and Manchester University was cited for the 2013 Emerald citation of Excellence award. Authors of the winning articles receive an official certificate and logo to display on their work.