Business

This white paper focuses on the effect that rapid, unpredictable, paradoxical, and tangled changes will have on the talent landscape, and it explores how organizations and individual leaders can adapt to and leverage these changes to turn what could otherwise be an overwhelming experience into an opportunity to thrive amidst the turbulence.

This survey report focuses on compensation, benefits and career satisfaction and includes many demographic factors such as industry tenure, professional responsibilities, company size, certification, and gender.

A compensation and career survey by APICS, the association for supply chain management, reveals a healthy outlook for those employed in the supply chain, with wage increases and high job satisfaction reported across the profession.

Scott Galloway, clinical professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business, public speaker, author, and entrepreneur, discusses Elon Musk’s $3.5B tantrum and what it means for Tesla’s shareholders, plus American technology business journalist and co-founder of Recode Kara Swisher weighs in.

Over the past few years, we’ve used our June issue to address the importance of continuing education and the steps logistics management professionals can take to help recruit, nurture and retain the single most valuable asset of any organization—its people.

This white paper addresses ways to reimagine existing obsolete warehouse space, and in an uncertain future, one thing’s for sure: the era of the vast, single-use, single storey, plain-vanilla warehouse is over.

Los Angeles Pacific University announces the launch of two new online programs in Fall 2018: a Bachelor of Science in Supply Chain Management and a Master of Business Administration.

Robot co-workers and artificial intelligence assistants are becoming more common in the workplace, could they edge human employees out? What then? In this article, we discuss the Fourth Industrial Revolution, an age that will require a new set of skills.

Amazon.com Inc. said it’s hiring 2,000 people in Boston, expanding an existing technology hub that focuses on everything from machine learning and speech science to cloud computing and robotics.

Japan's largest home furnishing chain was looking for a warehouse automation solution. In an increasingly difficult workforce environment; efficiency and speed in operations were needed to fulfill increasing volumes of online orders for same and next day deliveries. Hence there was a need for an innovative solution that can support expansion.

The Internet of Things, or IoT, is moving beyond a catchword to real-world utilization, however, not all stakeholders fully understand this transformative technology, enterprises must lay a solid foundation to ensure success into this rapidly evolving landscape.

Enterprise Sensor Integration or ESI integrates myriad sensor technologies that track, monitor and control assets and workflow processes, ESI also integrates smart Internet-enabled devices, or Internet of Things technologies, into one intelligent and interactive network.

This paper provides information about five new innovative technologies that could greatly impact the supply chain, it delves into the many benefits of each technology as well as some challenges, and it gives you a peek into an amazing future.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0 and the Factory of the Future all point toward a digitally connected environment where manufacturing is based on actual customer demand, this paper reviews these strategies – along with how and why manufacturers are enabling them today.

A recent study shows 63% of “best in class” manufacturers still used spreadsheets for planning, consequently, it's probably safe to say that there's a lack of trust in planning tools like Enterprise Resource Planning and Manufacturing Resource Planning even in the best-run companies.

It’s little surprise that the best-paid MBA graduates are from American universities, however, what is unexpected is just how many U.S. schools dominate the overall rankings.

Today, Thursday, March 8, 2018, is International Women's Day which commemorates the movement for women's rights throughout the world, and while there are numerous topics of conversation to discuss, we wanted to acknowledge why women are opting out of the technology sector and why it's so important to bring them back.

We know ecommerce is reshaping the logistics landscape, but what are the technologies managers can leverage to meet evolving requirements and shifting operational constraints? We’ve rounded up insights from leading experts to share tools that are available now as well as what’s on the horizon.

Walmart is getting bruised in its battle with online leader Amazon, and the world's largest retailer yesterday reported a smaller-than-expected fourth-quarter profit as it wrestled with slower ecommerce sales during the busiest time of the year.

In what would be one of its biggest overseas deals, the U.S. retailer is looking at buying new and existing shares in Flipkart, a direct challenge to Amazon in Asia’s third-largest economy.