Jan 19, 2023 Smart factories: Easy-to-implement technology can have a rapid impact on your P&L By Abhinav Agrawal As world leaders gather in Davos for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum to discuss a business environment that is so...
Jan 03, 2023 How to grow your top line in a down market By Jason McDannold Yale Kwon As the economic outlook continues to be murky, plenty of companies are making cuts. But you can’t cut your way to prosperity. There are...
Dec 05, 2022 No easy way out: The challenges in diversifying your supply chain By Akshay Balachandran Paul Rogofsky Increased tensions between the two largest economies, a recent war, and a pandemic have caused the economic and geopolitical world order...
Nov 04, 2022 Future of infracos in SE Asia: Conversation with Suresh Sidhu, CEO EdgePoint Infrastructure By Sai Tunuguntla In the last three years, over 25,000 towers in SE Asia have changed hands from telcos to TowerCos. The telcos have been cash constrained...
Oct 31, 2022 Fashion in Focus Survey Report 2022 – Sourcing Journal By Murali Gokki Jon Langman Naomi Buie Jeremy Lambert Ryan Poole +2 more... Show less After a few turbulent years, the apparel industry is settling into a new normal that looks nothing like it did before. Rather than...
Sep 30, 2022 Is the warehouse cost crunch sticking around? By Steve Scales Andrew Talerico Costs are spiking in the US warehouse sector, as the heightened demand for storage space sustains, but the above-trend rent increases are...
Sep 21, 2022 Wanted: a supply chain strategy for an era of disruption By Brian Nemeth Derek Knueve Kyle Lynch In simpler times, supply chains were designed to optimize for two variables: cost and service performance. And for a long time that...
Sep 08, 2022 Revisiting Mexico, again By Parmeswaran Bhaskaran Dan Hearsch Foster Finley Sudeep Saxena Bhavik Mistry +2 more... Show less As supply chain disruption persists, the case for nearshoring grows Recently, AlixPartners published a comprehensive report on the trend...
Aug 22, 2022 The basics are the game changers in manufacturing By Sreedhar Vangavolu “I prefer to attend this meeting when I am half asleep….then go eat my breakfast to get ready for the shift” – overheard by a production...
Aug 22, 2022 Industrial action at Felixstowe could offer a window to the world of supply chain-focused cyber attacks By Edd Hardy The potential disruption caused by seven days of industrial action at one UK port is making headlines all over the world. This single...
Aug 09, 2022 How can Sourcing and Procurement teams elevate their impact in inflationary times? By John Benson Companies doubled down during the pandemic on securing the supply of goods and materials that would allow them to continue to operate...
Aug 04, 2022 Feeling the squeeze, Part 3: Warehouse storage By Joe Cubellis Mark Scales Kevin Trembach Disruption has gone from buzzword to everyday reality for wholesale distributors in recent years. From manufacturer shortages to port...
Jul 20, 2022 The issues driving the global automotive industry By Mark Wakefield I recently joined Bloomberg Radio to touch upon some of the issues and challenges facing the global automotive industry. Learn more about...
Jul 18, 2022 Delivering on demand: How many days is too many? By Chris Considine Bryan Eshelman Marc Iampieri Raj Konanahalli Brian Nemeth +2 more... Show less As e-commerce became ubiquitous over the last few years, consumers consistently kept lowering what they considered an acceptable delivery...
Jun 24, 2022 If you're going to "do ESG"...mean it. By Josh Tecchio I don't think I'd be saying anything revolutionary in stating that there are components of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance)...
Jun 23, 2022 Automation Part 2: One size doesn't fit all By Derek Knueve Chandan Singh We recently argued that automation’s move from the experimental phase to necessity phase has accelerated amid the pandemic, supply chain...