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What Lessons a Table Fable Teaches About Supply Chain Orchestration

Logistics Viewpoints

I work in supply chain. Even worse, I work for a company who makes solutions to help companies solve these kinds of problems, which I listen, speak and write about for a living! The combinatorial factors disrupting supply chains persist, but in this case the problem was completely preventable.

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Supply Chain Matters Last Week in Supply Chain Tech March 27 2023

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog features our March 27, 2023 edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news. Raleigh, North Carolina based First Citizens , is ranked as the 30 th largest U.S.

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Shipping Containers and Supply Chain Snarls: Is There a Way Out?

Enterra Insights

A recent episode of CBS’s “60 Minutes” ran a segment on some of the issues involved in the current global supply chain crisis — focusing primarily on U.S. For the supply chain to work smoothly, a complex and highly choreographed dance, involving both full and empty shipping containers, must be performed.

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ERP Sustains Manufacturing during COVID-19

IQMS

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed manufacturers to rapidly shift gears, from addressing work-from-home policies to managing extreme swings in demand and uncertain supply chains. Modern ERP solutions have even minimized the need to have IT professionals onsite since many of today’s solutions are hosted or managed in the cloud.

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7 Hospital Inventory Management Techniques to Reduce Costs

AFFLINK

Proper hospital inventory management can be tricky: administrators and healthcare supply chain professionals must make sure their facilities have enough product to meet demand from doctors and nurses, but not too much that it negatively impacts the hospital’s budget or takes up too much space. Collect Data from the Supply Chain.

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Off to another exciting year of student-industry engagement at NC State on cutting-edge supply chain projects

NC State SCRC

In a prior post on 2018 supply chain predictions, I shared how NC State’s Poole College of Management engages directly with industry through student-led projects. And everyone I know has issues and challenges with their supply chains! Our students are executing and making them happen in these projects.

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Here is what I expect to see next year: Global supply chain footprints will continue to expand.