August 11, 2022
The Future of E-commerce Shipping & Supply Chain
The COVID-19 pandemic forever changed the e-commerce supply chain. To be sure, it amplified its existing weaknesses. The pandemic presented companies across all industries...
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Supply Chain Management
January 24, 2022
Building Supply Chain Resilience to Mitigate Disruptions
The COVID-19 pandemic shined a bright light on the fragility of many businesses’ supply chains. During the first nine months of 2020, there were 4,200 supply chain...
December 13, 2021
How Supply Chains Can Improve Demand Forecasting
Demand forecasting is one of the most difficult parts of supply chain management, especially when you consider the number of factors that can affect it. Natural disasters,...
December 10, 2021
Best Tools for Supply Chain Security
Between January 2020 and July 2021, 32 percent of cyberattacks that targeted supply chain businesses resulted in data theft and breaches of internal processes. Supply chain...
December 3, 2021
Protect Your Company Against Panic Buying and its Effects on the...
In the early half of November 2021 there were 111 cargo vessels waiting near California’s southern coast to be docked so that consumer goods could get unloaded and shipped...
July 20, 2021
Creating an Omnichannel Supply Chain: A Macy’s Case Study
In February 2020, Macy's announced their Polaris plan, a three-year strategy created to stabilize profits and create growth. This plan included closing 125 underperforming...
July 6, 2021
SAP vs Oracle: Clash of the Tier 1 ERP Titans
Enterprise resource planning software has been around nearly as long as commercial software has been available to businesses. Both SAP and Oracle have long invested in ERP...
May 19, 2021
5 Ways to Repair Your Supply Chain
COVID rocked the supply chain world. The Institute for Supply Management found that 75 percent of US businesses experienced supply chain disruptions during COVID. Lack of...
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January 12, 2021
What Is Supply Chain Management (SCM)?
Supply chain management (SCM) is the collection of tactics and tools that help companies understand and optimize the performance of their entire supply chain from raw...
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June 9, 2020
The Best ERP for Supply Chain Logistics
Supply chain ERP (enterprise resource planning) is meant to address the unique challenges of supply chain optimization. Many broader ERP solutions offer features that are...
September 26, 2018
Taking a Balanced Approach to Procurement Technology
A leading procurement organization – or any organization looking to join those ranks – knows the importance of technological innovation. Advancements in ERP modules, P2P...
August 24, 2018
3 Technologies that are Driving Change in the Supply Chain
The supply chain is facing a wave of innovation as a variety of technologies converge to drive change at some of the deepest levels of operations. From highly-specialized...
June 27, 2018
A Guide to Phased Procurement Technology Investments
When procurement sets out to become more effective and efficient, a new technology often looks like the obvious solution. In 2017, the Hackett Group found that a whopping 84...
December 5, 2017
Why and How to Gain Executive Buy-In to an ERP Solution
In today's highly competitive economy, manufacturers and distributors are continually searching for that elusive "competitive edge." The latter may be an exclusive product, a...