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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. Procurement will play a key role in monitoring supply base conditions.

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Guest Commentary: Is Your TMS Pulling Its Weight?

Talking Logistics

Like Santa’s reindeer-powered conveyance, your Transportation Department has options available to get the job done. Drive savings across your enterprise by using your TMS to manage your transportation network, domestic and international, inbound and outbound. T’was the month before the Christmas season, when all through the warehouse.

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Logistics Imperatives to Manage Uncertainty and Disruptions in 2022: Part 2

BlueYonder

The entire world owes a huge debt to the drivers , warehouse associates and other essential logistics workers who kept supply chains moving during the worst months of the pandemic. By implementing a warehouse management solution that automated and optimized processes, the company reduced its annual consumption of bond paper by 40%. .

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U.S. West Coast Dockworkers Enacting Multi-Day Job Actions

Supply Chain Matters

The most significant news in global transportation and logistics circles late last week and this week are U.S. Dockworkers, truckers, rail and warehouse workers in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. Dockworkers, truckers, rail and warehouse workers in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. Further, as we indicated in a prior commentary, the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- May 12 2023

Supply Chain Matters

This merger will reportedly include lithium mines and deposits located in Australia Canada , and South America and result in the third largest global lithium producer. In this edition, we include six added news capsule events that has occurred across the supply chain technology spectrum: Livent Corp. to Combine with Allkem Ltd.

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Three Logistics Imperatives for Managing Uncertainty in 2022

Logistics Viewpoints

We watched as customers adopted new warehousing and transportation processes, new delivery modes, new technology tools and even entirely new network models that helped them succeed in the constantly changing “next normal” state that characterized 2020 and 2021. million employees.