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Global Supply Chain Management: Best Practices and Trends

HICX Solutions

This has led to organizations investing capital in and spending time on optimizing supply chains to cut lead times, improve supplier performance and increase business profitability. These tools can provide real-time insights across the supply chain while predicting future trends, ensuring organizations can remain proactive.

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7 Supply Chain Challenges That Exist Today

4WL Consulting

3 Lean Production With constantly changing market trends and shorter product life cycles, companies are compelled to adopt a lean approach to manufacturing, where the goal of every production process is to create value for the end user, otherwise it should be eliminated. . #5

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Agility and flexibility in the age of digital supply chains – Insights from the 2017 Supply Chain & Logistics EMEA summit & expo

Kinaxis

Innovation in the warehouse: Markus Kückelhaus of DHL trend research, in two separate panels gave very compelling presentations on the innovation DHL is driving in the warehouse. It was a 3 day event with some very provocative content while providing sufficient opportunities for networking and peer-to-peer learning.

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Press release: 99% of supply chain professionals concerned about the consequences of high employee churn?

Procurement Academy

Breaking the skills loss cycle in supply chain and procurement, analyzes data from over 200 supply chain professionals across the UK and US*, to uncover what’s driving employee churn, the implications for supply chain organizations, and how they can stop the trend. appeared first on Skilldynamics.

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Key Manufacturing Takeaways from FocusConnect 2016

BlueYonder

Through the course of keynotes, workshops and the flow of conversation at the event, a number of several key trends emerged: Drones in the warehouse. Supply chain segmentation in Europe. So exactly what does that change look like, and how does the industry prepare?

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Supply Chain Management Award for Adva Optical Networking

Supply Chain Movement

The supply chain solution from Adva Optical Networking is in a class of its own when it comes to planning and translating planning into production, says Krych, noting that ADVA Optical Networking found an elegant implementation of an innovative idea with its supply chain segmentation customized to the specific needs of the industry.

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Real Results Magazine: Must-Have Tips to Boost Your Supply Chain

BlueYonder

The award-winning magazine offers strategies and perspectives on current business trends through multiple articles by JDA thought leaders. For instance, Scott Welty outlines key principles for meeting the needs of omni-channel customers in “ Optimizing the Customer Experience.”