Tompkins International

Listen in as Jim Tompkins, chair of Tompkins International, discuss the supply chain as we knew it is morphing into an ecosystem. SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.

Apple's supply chain is hinting that the company "may need to contend with a supply shortage" for the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, citing vague issues with "faulty components."

Demand-driven is not a new concept, but there is a clearer focus on customer demand in realtime, it is a transformational strategy because it changes the way organizations think about the marketplace.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is in talks to buy online discount retailer Jet.com Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, in what would mark a disappointing end for one of the most ambitious challengers to Amazon.

All signs point to a major crossroads for retail companies. Download this paper to find out more about the seven tipping points that are impacting retail now, as well as the four pillars of success needed to survive long term in this changing environment.

Supply chain managers are overwhelmed with choices and information, and too often the result isn’t decisiveness, but gridlock, the answer; put in place strong leadership that gets to the choices that drive supply chain excellence.

The primary purpose of a supply chain network design is to assess company policies and programs and to meet targets to accomplish long‐term strategic objectives, and most business units or functional areas within a company are impacted by a network design project.

Schneider simultaneously acquires Watkins & Shepard and Lodeso, and becomes the nation’s leading first-to-final-mile-delivery provider of over-dimensional goods for omnichannel retailers and manufacturers.

As customer expectations continue to evolve and competition intensifies, final delivery’s importance within a retailer’s technology landscape will only increase.

Chinese E-commerce giant Alibaba Group has officially become the world's largest retailer, with its gross merchandise volume surpassed three trillion yuan, or 475.89 billion dollars, in the last financial year ending in March.

For last mile fulfillment, true convergence is still a work in progress, and more established players will continue to close the gap while smaller, niche players will continue to require supply chain execution integration.

The necessity of having a supply chain strategy to help frame the network design is becoming understood and executed by a growing number of Consumer Packaged Goods companies.

As the data on sales continues to be made public by retailers of all types and sizes, we can expect debates at this month’s NRF conference, and way beyond, about what happened over the 2015 holiday season.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Friday that it was pulling the plug on its smallest store format, Walmart Express, and closing 269 locations globally, including 154 in the United States, in a restructuring that will affect 16,000 workers.

There are less than 24 hours until Christmas and the annual last minute shoppers are not the only people feeling the heat, FedEx, UPS and the USPS are all racing to have millions of packages delivered for products ordered in the still ongoing holiday season.