Supply Chain Insights

On this episode, Gartner’s Mike Griswold discusses this year’s list of the Top 25 Supply Chains. SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.

The global marketplace is volatile, fragmented, and dynamic. Supply processes are more mature than demand. There is a larger gap to fill in the redefinition of demand processes to be market driven than in any other area of supply chain management.

In this post, I share what I would wish for to help my clients. …if I only I had a magic wand, and I write this post in the form of an open letter to Charles Phillips, the CEO of Infor.

Supply chain leaders are expressing rising frustration about the gap of what they see as possible in the digital age and what they experience in their day-to-day world in their offices - it is a conundrum.

A recent Supply Chain Insights survey found that 67% of respondents were satisfied with their GTM software, reporting a ROI of 13 months. Download the resulting report for more insights into GTM software and to learn how you can achieve a ROI!

Supply chains are complex systems with complex processes with increasing complexity, through our research, we have found that many of the relationships between corporate performance metrics and supply chain processes are nonlinear.

I see greater value coming to clients that bypass hype and focus on business results through the implementation of best-of-breed products on the top of ERP backbones.

Supply chain managers must advocate for “demand-shaping with supply in mind,” meaning that demand-shaping decisions aren’t made in isolation of supply issues.

The tech giant on Tuesday announced a plan with First Solar to power all California operations with the sun, potentially becoming the budding renewable energy sector's biggest commercial deal ever.

“Supply chain sustainability” is the management of environmental, social and economic impacts and the encouragement of good governance practices, throughout the lifecycles of goods and services - United Nations Global Compact.

Tesla has taken advantage of Apple's new-found policy on poaching by hiring away staffers from the electronics giant.

If an organization is struggling to define supply chain management and gain managerial support, it is difficult to be successful in the development of supply chain talent.

Digitization transforms businesses - a digital business model uses new forms of technology to create new forms of revenue and business value - it is about the use of combinations of technologies to sense changes in real-time and shape a meaningful output.

Agility doesn’t just happen, and with most people max’d out on driving agility through traditional mechanisms, we expect more pressure on technology supply chain providers for newer solutions.

Supply Chain Management Review put the question, "what does it take to remain a supply chain leader?" to executives at four of the best performing global supply chains and asked about their plans to remain at the top of their games in the year ahead.