Papers

This paper details why channel data management (CDM) is a fast-growing discipline among large manufacturers that increases visibility into the fine details of what is happening within their sales and distribution channels.

To better focus on their core competencies, more and more manufacturers recognize that outsourcing is an effective and economical way to manage their direct-to-customer (D2C) eCommerce channel.

The response to the challenge was unprecedented - we received 78 applications. Cities from Albuquerque to Anchorage and Providence to Portland took the Challenge as an opportunity to create blueprints of their cities’ transportation futures.

This white paper shows you how to have a valuable relationship with an IT consultant and how to ask the right questions about their qualifications, verifying their experience in your industry, and following up with a written contract to protect your business.

Download a complimentary copy of Nucleus Research's Supply Chain Control Towers Value Matrix for 2017, and learn what control towers are, what they can do to boost visibility and efficiency in your supply chain.

In this excerpt from their complete 2016 Vendor Assessment, Simon Ellis, Program Vice President for IDC Manufacturing Insights’ Global Digital Supply Chain Networks and Planning Strategies shares why Quintiq has the expertise and technologies to deliver higher optimality in any planning scenario.

As robots, automation and artificial intelligence perform more tasks and there is a massive disruption of jobs, experts say a wider array of education and skills-building programs will be created to meet new demands, but there are two uncertainties: will well-prepared workers be able to keep up in the race with AI tools? And will market capitalism survive?

This white paper describes how to achieve a sophisticated level of connectivity and how companies will increasingly need to partner with vendors who can put together the intelligent network skeleton on which the virtualized, cloud computing enterprise can grow.

This white paper describes how the best load boards are those that implement security protocols and offer due diligence tools to create a secure and transparent marketplace for their customers and provides all the tools a carrier needs to qualify new partners, minimizing paperwork and streamlining the negotiation process.

This paper describes why digital capabilities are critical to meeting the challenge of digital disruption successfully, and how incumbents need to consider and drive this “rotation to the new” as a conscious and deliberate act of renewing and transforming their core business.

In 2015, a small team of lean leaders at the Customer & Logistics Services-North America (CLS-NA) group of Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems wanted to develop a network of professionals focused on continuous improvement.

The supply chain team at Carlisle Interconnect Technologies (CIT) experienced a period of rapid growth, and leaders knew a strategic talent development program was needed to drive success.

This paper looks at what private label manufacturers can do to become more effective and organized to effectively compete with, more often than not, larger national brand manufacturers.

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This report identifies how business leaders are failing to deliver equally across the four strategic elements needed for digital transformation; people, actions, collaboration, and technology.

Within this report, McKinsey is releasing new findings from a global survey on consumer attitudes toward EVs that include plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles, McKinsey analysis reveals current pent-up consumer demand for EVs with some stubborn and well known barriers, but also provocative and unexpected opportunities.

This paper takes a deep dive into SMC³’s CzarLite XL, an advanced pricing system solution that gives shippers, logistics service providers and carriers a new neutral benchmark choice when negotiating LTL shipping rates.

In this PwC 2017 Holiday Outlook you will find out when and where consumers will shop, what drives their purchasing decisions and how retailers are preparing for the season.

This study identifies major challenges that fashion industry supply chains will face in the future as well as areas where action must be taken, and it also proposes various solutions.

The Human-Centered Supply Chain Playbook aims to make sense of the new landscape while addressing the overarching challenges experienced by designers and supply chain partners alike.