Papers

In recent years, Africa has emerged as a particularly attractive manufacturing option for U.S. apparel and footwear companies.

Now in its eighteenth edition, the Robert Walters annual Global Salary Survey is the most comprehensive review of professional salaries and recruitment trends from around the world.

This report uncovers the reasons that top performers migrate to Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning, the benefits they receive in functionality and performance and provides a guide for taking this essential leap.

Many companies have made strides in demurrage and detention but more can be done.

In this paper, we demonstrate how a new paradigm leveraging innovative technologies overcomes fundamental flaws in current approaches and offers the opportunity for disrupting the Fine and Casual Dining industry.

In this guide we’ll help you determine if it’s time to upgrade your high bays and the five considerations you need to be aware of when evaluating your LED high bay options.

From responsible sourcing to recycling, every aspect of how Apple makes their products is deeply considered, this 11th annual Supplier Responsibility Progress Report details the advancements Apple made in 2016 throughout their supply chain.

In this paper we discuss four key areas of disruption transportation and logistics companies need to focus on now, including new technology, new market entrants, new customer expectations, and new business models.

More and more employers want their employees to take charge of their plans, their shifts, their holidays. Sound like a pipe dream? Bernd Horsman says it’s possible with mobility ― a key trend in workforce planning today.

To help you seize the AI opportunity, this e-book explores; What AI, machine learning, and deep learning actually mean, how AI has evolved, and why it’s suddenly a hot topic, what AI means for business, including key challenges and opportunities, and how AI will impact specific business functions.

Every year, companies spend massive amounts of money on parcel shipping with carriers like UPS and FedEx, but as massive as those parcel spends may be, they're just the tip of the iceberg; what is even more costly is what is under the surface - the hidden, unnoticed dollars that impact parcel budgets without ever being seen.

This report analyzes disruptive retail models that have emerged over the past decade, in an attempt to identify winning business strategies and their underlying consumer behaviors.

FinTech is a dynamic segment at the intersection of the financial services and technology sectors, this report assesses the rise of new technologies in the financial services sector, the potential impact of FinTech on market players and their attitudes to the latest technological developments.

This white paper discusses the competitive advantages of supplier diversity programs, the evolution of supplier diversity, statistics on the growth of woman & minority owned businesses in the U.S., demographic shifts impacting the supplier and consumer base, and the business case for supplier inclusion.

McKinsey has been examining diversity in the workplace for several years, our latest report, Diversity Matters, examined proprietary data sets for 366 public companies across a range of industries in Canada, Latin America, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

In this white paper you’ll learn how, with preconfigured solutions, implementation support, and strategic guidance, Deloitte and SAP Ariba can help transform your direct materials procurement processes to realize new value.

Find out how Yusen Logistics develops supply chain solutions that deliver competitive advantages and improved business performance for its customers in the automotive, retail and aerospace industries.

Merchants should carefully design their logistics strategy to promote the greatest efficiency and profits while addressing customers’ expectations and needs, based on factors such as their product mix, target geography, demographic segment, product price points, returns strategy, and more.

As part of APICS and PwC's continued efforts to help clients adapt and improve operations and achieve a competitive advantage, this paper examines the trends in supply chain operational performance over the past 15 years.

Automation using artificial intelligence might be the next game changer in terms of process efficiency in the financial industry.