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Digital Transformation of the Supply Chain

Logility

Supply chain practitioners are asked to accomplish more with less, to be involved in more business processes and deliver more value-added capabilities while lowering costs and ensuring high customer service. To gain executive buy-in develop a business case showing substantial hard and soft benefits.

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Building the Business Case for Digital Transformation of Supply Chain Planning

Logility

Supply chain practitioners are being asked to accomplish more with less, to be involved in more business processes and deliver more value-added capabilities while lowering costs and ensuring high customer service. Often to gain executive approval requires a business case showing substantial hard and soft benefits.

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Conquering the Explosion of Supply Chain Planning Data

Logility

Structured and unstructured data including that from social media, Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain sources continue to stream in but much is left untouched. A bigger challenge is the need to transform traditional supply chain operations to a digital landscape where big data is embraced and used by a new breed of supply chain talent.

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Go Green or Go Home: Why Sustainability in the Last Mile is Crucial for Your Business

Locus

Business and supply chain executives are also incentivized to spread awareness and come up with sustainable strategies. Download the Ebook: Supply Chain Sustainability and Profitability with Green Logistics. Want to create rich sustainability metrics and minimize emissions with effective batch planning?

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Supply chain risks in the spotlight: Effects of Hanjin Shipping filing bankruptcy protection

Kinaxis

According to sources, Stevedores are demanding advance payment in cash. How long will you be able to recover your supply through alternate sources or from the impacted supplier? However, by having well-documented contingency processes, it will likely help you recover faster than your competition when impacted by a disaster.

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3 Initiatives Driving Sustainable Transportation and Logistics Management

BlueYonder

Recent studies have shown that transportation is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Department of Energy calculated that CO2 emissions from transportation surpassed two billion metric tons ; it’s hard to imagine what that number looks like today. In 2007, the U.S.

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Why Logistics and Transportation Should Digitize

3rdwave

A best-case analog scenario is that information is maintained in “Word”, spreadsheet, or PDF documents. Digitization is more than email or a scanned document. Logistics is a highly procedural function with clearly defined responsibilities and performance metrics. Analog information is mostly static.