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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

The Covid-19 pandemic tested the global supply chain. While prior risk management disruptions occurred and quickly established a new normal, in the COVID-19 pandemic, the only normal is constant change. Here, based on interviews with supply chain leaders, I share lessons learned. It will not be over soon.

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Overcoming The Barriers to Use Channel Data

Supply Chain Shaman

Here I want to address the question, “Why is the focus on the basics of supply chain a barrier to adopting new forms of analytics and supply chain processes? Why have we not improved our use of channel data in supply chain processes?” The problem is that warehouses are full.

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Supply Chain Analytics: The Times They Are A-Changin’

Supply Chain Shaman

My focus in this post is to highlight changes in supply chain analytics, and what this can mean for your business. Today, if you ask a supply chain leader about analytics, their response is all about reporting. I also believe supply chain analytics is defined too narrowly by most IT and supply chain professionals.

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Live Webcast – Supply Chain Transformation: Avaya’s Journey

Kinaxis

by Alexa Cheater We’re delighted to be bringing you a great live discussion on successful supply chain transformation based on Avaya’s first-hand experience. Join us on Thursday, April 30 at 1pm EST (5pm UTC) for “Supply Chain Transformation: Avaya’s Journey.”. VP and Group Director, Supply Chain and Operations.

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Sense, Analyze and Respond – The Supply Chain Automation Journey

Logility

I know, I sound like a supply chain person but I just can’t help myself! My experience with my pool led me to think about supply chain automation and how automation is a journey not a destination. Numerous case studies exist that show how the automation of supply chain processes can be beneficial.

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Supply Chain Can Teach Us Much About the Future of Professional  Education

MIT Supply Chain

Supply Chain Can Teach Us Much About the Future of Professional Education Labor issues command a lot of attention right now, and notably the challenge of how to find enough talent to meet current and future market demands. The supply chain industry is no exception in this sense. and hence their managers?—?need

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Supply Chain Predictive Analytics: Benefits, Use Cases and Growth Potentials

ThroughPut

Supply chains used to live in the past. Thanks to the more advanced forms of supply chain analytics like predictive analytics, supply chains are proactively looking into the future and prepping for “what is to come” rather than only ruminating over “what already happened.”