Enhancing the Role of Strategic Sourcing for Supply Chains amid Tariffs Trade War
By Guilherme F. Frederico
The beginning of 2025 has brought uncertainty to global supply chains due to the new US administration’s tariffs on global trade....
How STAR’S TECH ECO-ST de-icer is Taking the Ice-Melting Business by a Storm Using...
The world is all about sustainability, and rightly so, but many might be surprised to find that sustainability and environmental responsibility are crucial to...
Private Label Or Dropshipping: Which is the Better Option for You?
Thinking of starting your own e-commerce store? If so, you may have been wondering whether drop shipping, private label or private label drop shipping...
Leveraging Collaborations to Create Shared Value
By Hervé Legenvre, Francois Bacalou & Hugues Schmitz
In this article the authors discuss how the competitiveness of an organisation and the health of the...
Demand Chain Management: Enhancing Customer Value Proposition
By Pankaj M. Madhani
DCM creates strategic assets for the firm in terms of the overall value creation as it enables the firm to implement...
5 Steps for Safe Primary Meat Processing System
The modifications brought about in meat to make its texture better, taste enhancement, and increase its shelf life can be summed up as a...
AI in Logistics and Supply Chain: Implications for Managers
By Yingli Wang and J. Mark Munoz
For supply chains, AI’s promise lies not in adoption alone; it is about redesigning processes, capabilities, and governance...
Technology Innovation the New Currency of the Digital Age
By David Stokes
The advent of the internet changed modern day lives irreversibly but the new game-changer is already here: mobile digital technology is changing...
The Digital Revolution is an Evolution for the Outsourcing Industry
By Mike Salvino
Digital technology has transformed virtually every industry, affecting the way companies serve customers, manufacture products,
5 Warehouse Automation Trends For 2021 And Beyond
The advancement of technology has not spared the warehouse industry. The quest for more efficiency and the global COVID 19 pandemic has led to...
Reshoring and New Globalization: The Future of Supply Chains
By Luigi Gentili
Reshoring is an economic phenomenon that has increased during the pandemic crisis. Many governments and businesses decide to repatriate their production lines...
What You Need to Know About Supply Chain Disclosure
By Lucy McCarthy, Paul McGrath, and Donna Marshall
Our study examined twenty multinational companies and their supply chain disclosure decisions. We found a number of...
Rethinking Your Supply Chain During the Pandemic Uncertainty
Until the early part of 2020, many manufacturers were riding the high seas in blissful ignorance of the typhoon that was soon to envelop...
How to Choose a Reliable Supplier of Soybean Oil in Bulk?
Finding a reliable and stable supplier of soybean oil is not always easy. Price alone should not drive purchasing decisions—consistency in product quality, dependable...
Battery Supply Chains and Buenos Aires Role in the Lithium Boom
The move to a greener economy depends on one crucial part: the battery. Electric cars, home storage, and big grid systems all need reliable...
The Procurement Call for Agile, What does it mean?
By Andressa Reis and Hervé Legenvre
Today, Procurement teams need to embrace the agile ways of working in order to work in synch with their...
Introducing One-Stop-Shop Home Service Provider Utility Warehouse
Running a home isn’t easy in today’s world. Taking care of several home services can be daunting, especially for those who’ve just moved house...
How Tariffs and Trade Agreements Impact Global Shipping
Global shipping operates as the lifeblood of international trade, connecting countries and industries worldwide. However, the constantly evolving nature of tariffs and trade agreements...
4 Logistic Optimization Tips For Small Businesses
If you are having a business and need an effective business strategy, you can look for a few tips. First, every company must learn...
Full Electronic Data Integration: How a review of Business-to-Business transactions processes can help save...
By Steve Hill
In his 2010 study into business-to-business payment processes, Alessandro Perego said that electronic invoicing was a “competitiveness lever.”
His study, which was carried...
The Invisible Intelligence Reshaping Global Logistics
Global logistics used to be about giant cargo ships, wooden pallets, and sheer brute force. Now, the real heavy lifting happens invisibly. The actual...
International Facility Management
By Kathy O. Roper
Kathy O. Roper discusses the growing field of Facility Management and charts how it has evolved over the last 25 years...
PDF Documents Now Accessible to Enhance Supply Chain Integration
By Steve Hill
For years the benefits of electronic integration of supply chain integration documents have been clearly identified by businesses, consultants and acknowledged in...
Decoding Chrysler Corporate Success: Why is Lee Iacocca the Greatest Leader on Earth?
By Michael Provitera and Mostafa Sayyadi
Lee Iacocca is famed for turning round the fortunes of ailing car giant Chrysler. It was not a mission...
How Supply Chain Managers Can Benefit From Real-Time Production Monitoring
Supply Chain Managers play a significant support role in today’s manufacturing environment. They are responsible for supporting strategic decisions that heavily influence the profitability...
What is Lead Time in Truck Shipping?
In truck shipping and logistics, lead time refers to the total time elapsed between placing an order for goods and their delivery to the...
Fast Courier is Helping Businesses Compare Courier Prices for Packages and Freight
The company’s courier quote comparison tool allows users to find the cheapest courier providers available in any given route.
There is a lot that businesses...
Supply Chain Digitalisation Management Challenge
By Richard Markoff and Ralf seifert
As part of the broader Industry 4.0 trend, the digitalisation of supply chains is happening quickly. Much of the...
Why AI Won’t Fix Procurement Without Agility First
By Nick Hudson
Most procurement leaders are buying AI tools to speed up cycle times, but the evidence suggests the sequence is backwards.
Procurement leaders are...
Top 8 Benefits of BI Dashboards in Supply Chains
In the age of digital disruption, where data is the lifeblood of business, supply chain management has transcended its traditional role to become a...
The 7% Tax Loophole: Why UK Tech Founders are Scaling their Teams in Moldova
By Marina Bzovii
Faced with slower hiring and rising costs at home, UK tech founders are rethinking how they build and where.
For years, UK tech...
Reasons Why You Should Choose a Cloud-Based Warehouse Management System
There is hardly an aspect of our lives that cloud computing has not managed to touch in some way. Almost all industries are embracing...
The Applications of Load Measuring Systems
Load measuring systems have significant applications in several industries from heavy industries to the oil and gas industry. These systems help to measure the...
How To Streamline Your Food Processing Operations
Streamlining food processing operations is crucial for enhancing efficiency, reducing costs, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality products. In the dynamic and competitive food...
The Challenges of Global S&OP
By Karin Bursa
What do you want to achieve? Where does your company want to be in 12, 18, 24 months? Do you know? If...
Executive S&OP – Put it Front and Centre for Your Organisation
By Karin Bursa
Does your company have the right S&OP process in place?
These 5 steps to success allow you to assess trade-offs between many interdependent...
How Climate Change is Impacting Supply Chains Globally
Climate change is transforming how supply chains operate around the world. Rising temperatures and extreme weather conditions disrupt transportation networks, leading to delays and...
Why the Fourth Industrial Revolution Requires More Supply Chain CEOs
By Wolfgang Lehmacher
CEOs need to transform businesses – an imperative which is increasingly relevant in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Apparently, as the supply chain...
Powering Costing with Artificial Intelligence: The case of Vodafone Procurement
By Hervé Legenvre, Gavin Hodgson and Govind Khandelwal
The present article describes how the Vodafone Procurement Company (VPC) has adopted Artificial Intelligence technology to boost its...
The Competitive Advantages of the Digital Economy Require a Digital Mentality
By Michael Gravier, Christopher Roethlein, and John Visich
In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, supply chain leaders are being challenged by the profound effects of...
The Last Mile Problem: What Executives Need to Know About Self-Driving Vehicles
By Alessandro Lanteri, Massimiliano (Max) Cappuccio and Mark Esposito
The autonomous vehicle revolution is real, but not imminent. Here’s how to navigate the gap between...
Risk Mitigation: Tips To Safeguard Your International Shipments
In the dynamic world of international trade, businesses traverse seas and skies to transport goods across borders, underscoring its role as a cornerstone of...
Lift Tables Facilitate Safe Handling of Awkward Parts
There are many parts on the assembly like that are too heavy or awkward to lift. Without a lifting system, work on the line...
The Limits to Outsourcing: Beware of the Consequences for Market Success!
By Masaaki Kotabe, Michael J. Mol, Janet Y. Murray & Ronaldo Parente
Over the past few decades, outsourcing, in particular offshore outsourcing, has become a...
The Power of Visibility/Transparency in the Textile Supply Chain
The textile supply chain is complex and global, with multiple players involved at every step. From sourcing the raw materials to manufacturing and distribution,...
How Predictive Analytics Are Changing the Maintenance Industry
By Bryan Christiansen
Predictive Analytics are being used all over today, from business intelligence to fraud detection, to even law enforcement. As manufacturing has begun...
How Companies Can Build Human-Oriented Bonds with Their Suppliers and Retailers?
Interview with Dr Bruno Roque Cignacco
Discover how to transform your business relationships with suppliers and retailers through compassionate practices. In this interview, Dr. Bruno...
Blockchain and IoT in Logistics: What it’s All About?
By Vitaly Kuprenko
Today, the introduction of modern technologies to improve the work of the logistics business is the key to its survival and development...
Market, Logistics, and Digital Technology in Yiwu: How the World’s Largest Small-Merchandise Center has...
By Zhang Shuyue, Hunter Trylch and Xiangming Chen
As geopolitical tensions and tariffs disrupt global trade and supply chains, and businesses worry about eroded markets,...
Making 3D printing work for you: Defining Business Models for Additive Manufacturing
By Matthias Holweg, Kai Hoberg, Frits K. Pil, Jakob Heinen
Companies struggle to define the value proposition 3D printing brings: While the opportunities for...
