Supply Chain Optimization

Advantus Health Partners’ Dan Hurry builds supply chains for his clients, and it’s not as easy as you think.

If your company is like most, it has invested a lot in legacy systems, and those who routinely modernize pour money into upgrading their individual systems believing these systems are good at what they do and the most practical option for keeping abreast, but they're not for the long term, so it's extremely important to start now on a transformation because it’s tough to get there.

Organizations must ensure they have the right foundation in place – one that brings together the right technologies, platforms, and data to sail smoothly through peak periods.

COOs are now using supply chain software that offers advanced analytics and KPI capabilities that interconnect and take the tedium out of common goal sharing and tracking, making a supplier seem like part of the customer.

Armed with the right set of data in the digital twin of their supply chain, Microsoft planned for cutting its carbon dioxide emissions and its Environmental, Social, and Governance, ESG, initiatives by 40% through data-driven insights and artificial intelligence, AI, for its supply chain management operations.

Quloi, a technology firm focused on quantified logistics, has launched its innovative supply chain platform that responds directly to the needs of manufacturers, suppliers, and freight forwarders with its first-mile focus and delivery of order and shipment visibility, lead time accuracy and collaboration opportunities.

Whatever the business, perfect order fulfillment is the ultimate aim of any supply chain practitioner, the problem is, it’s easy to get caught up in what others are doing or define progress through misleading metrics, in this article, we demystify some of the most common misconceptions about the perfect order.

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Chris Jones, Executive Vice President, Industry and Services, for Descartes, a Waterloo, Ontario-based provider of logistics based on-demand, software-as-a-service offerings.

Find out what 1,000 supply chain decision-makers across four major markets plan to do to optimize costs and business spend across their organizations, manage risk, build resilience, and improve their supply chain agility.

The supply chain is comprised of the market and socio-economic-political conditions, but it is also comprised of people, people who can intelligently plan and continuously optimize execution across the network to enable your company to be resilient.

This is a time of evolution, grounds for optimism, and visionary opportunities in the role of a supply chain professional, and the focus will be shifting toward greater decision-making and progress toward sustainability goals.

Businesses must respond to a new digital, agile and resilient reality, but the key question for their leaders becomes to what extent are today’s supply chain initiatives aligned with broader digital transformation?

For logistics service providers, expanding into new markets and geographies can mean competitive differentiation through diversified product and partner portfolios, but business growth, especially through enlarging networks, comes with its own complexities.

In this paper, we detail how to navigate supply chain complexity via reliable logistics forecasting, and why supply chains are becoming more complex, creating deeply interdependent networks that need to balance supply, demand, and capacity.

An integrated ecosystem partnership means that the supply chain platform offers end-to-end coverage of fulfillment-related functional areas, the flexibility to personalize based on business needs, and scalability to accommodate rapid organization and demand growth.

It’s easy to think of transportation visibility as supply chain visibility, however, transportation management is just one small piece of the puzzle, one activity in the greater supply chain, and most organizations realize that without multi-enterprise visibility, they stand little chance of true visibility success.

On this episode, Larry Lapide explains why he's a fan of inventory, especially good inventory. SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.

This white paper outlines the Control Tower for Orchestration’s key differentiators and explains how its unique capabilities help industry leaders dynamically and intelligently partner with their network to stay resilient, and adaptive, and better mitigate risk and impact.

On this episode, we catch up with Rosemary Coates, host of the Frictionless podcast, and an expert on global supply chain management. SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.

According to Verusen's 2022 State of the Supply Chain Research, the top priority of supply chain industry leaders is reducing material supply risk to avoid unplanned production delays and outages.