Research

According to Boston Consulting Group, these companies are serial innovators and have managed to create innovation systems to perpetually foster creativity and agility, it’s an intentional, laborious process - but when done right, the payoff can be huge.

A new information note published by the WTO Secretariat looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected global trade for services, from tourism and transport to retail and health services.

The transportation management systems market continues to grow globally, but challenges in transportation such as talent availability, visibility, and volatile delivery requirements are increasing the need for technology.

The Nucleus Research 2020 Supply Chain Planning Technology Value Matrix is intended to serve as a snapshot of the current supply chain technology market and to help inform customers about how vendors who are delivering on present and future based supply chain investments.

A report recently published by AIMMS shows how supply chain teams perceive the accuracy of their forecast and discover the tools and techniques they are using to upgrade the forecasting process.

Too often, best-laid plans are nullified by company culture, a force that supply chain managers do not anticipate, and while culture is often cast as a source of inertia and un-thinking rejection of change, it plays an essential role in executing strategy.

The G2 Grid® for the top transportation management systems are based on reviews gathered from their user community, as well as data aggregated from online sources and social networks.

A networked enterprise with a networked supply chain requires reducing the layers of complexity, providing more clarity, and the cutting away of the labyrinth and the time required for multiple stovepipe applications and enterprises.

Researchers at MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics worked with a freight services company that specializes in last-mile deliveries of large parcels to address this challenge.

Companies of all sizes have trouble competing and disrupting in a software-driven world due to a persistent shortage of developers, as well as IT funding that falls short of supporting strategic goals.

The Nucleus Research Control Tower Technology Value Matrix 2019 report recognizes One Network Enterprises for helping companies move from siloed legacy systems to a real-time business network for the autonomous supply chain.

A new study from ChainLink Research titled Supply Chain Networks Revealed explains how business network technology can be used in supply chain management to accelerate growth and performance.

Business consultancy Deloitte and the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) have announced a new next-generation supply chain model geared towards providing logistics stakeholders with the tools needed to face various supply chain-related obstacles, such as market volatility, digital disruption, and shifting consumer expectations, among others.

A study by Software Advice, a company that provides research and user reviews on software applications, revealed many shippers are still using “manual methods," which often means that buyers are still using pen and paper to manage their transportation operations.

A new report by Oxford Economics claims that robots are forecasted to replace almost a tenth of the world’s manufacturing jobs with the majority borne by lower-income areas in developed nations.

Transportation is evolving rapidly, thanks to supply chain technology powered by data and analytics, and digitization is driving big changes that can help meet the pace of change in the marketplace.

The economic and strategic benefits of digitizing procurement are real, but the proliferation of competing technologies has made it difficult for companies to figure out where to start, chief procurement officers should focus on solutions rather than products.

The inexorable advance of Amazon is creating new challenges for logistics managers who must meet heightened shipper expectations while navigating today’s complex third-party logistics, 3PL marketplace.

Hoping to gain a better understanding of the pressure retailers face, and how vendors can stand out in a competitive environment, Zipline Logistics surveyed retail buyers directly.

According to a survey by Gartner, supply chain leaders are failing to find suitable use cases for blockchain technology mainly because supply chain blockchain projects are very limited and do not match the initial enthusiasm for the technology’s application.