Supply Chain Strategy

This report comes at a time, when United States-bound import levels are down, due, in large part to higher-than-normal inventory levels, reduced consumer demand, and still-stingy inflation levels. But, as the report observes, much of the supply chain normalization is viewed through the lens of where things stand now compared to where things stood prior to the onset of the pandemic.

Let’s stop taking our supply chains for granted and be prepared to meet the forthcoming challenges.

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently spoke with Rob Handfield, Professor at North Carolina State's Poole College of Management and Bank of America Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management. Handfield also serves as Executive Director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, which addresses thought leadership and research in the area of supply chain management, within the Poole College of Management, and a member of INFORMS, an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research, management science,...

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continuing to impact supply chain operations a new study issued this week, which was commissioned by supply chain software and services provider BluJay Solutions and conducted by Adelante SCM, in partnership with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), examined how shippers have worked their way through COVID-19-driven supply chain disruption and also what they plan to do in order to have more resilient supply chains.

A survey recently issued by Scottsdale, Ariz.-based GlobalTranz Enterprises LLC, a full-service 3PL focused on freight brokerage and technology, examined myriad aspects of how the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is impacting things like e-commerce order volumes, supply chain decision making and what shippers are doing to meet changes in consumer demand, with peak season rapidly approaching

With the coronavirus, or COVID-19, dominating just about every facet of everyday life, its impact on all things supply chain cannot be understated. That was made clear in a recent Logistics Management readership survey of more than 120 buyers and users of freight transportation and logistics services.

These are the stories that best summarize the events of 2019 in logistics and transportation management.

This white paper is an entertaining, quick read about Paul McGuire’s experiences in turning around supply planning processes.