Resources

Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States is the tenth annual report on the state of online learning in U.S. higher education. The survey is designed, administered and analyzed by the Babson Survey Research Group.

Imagine designing a world-class supply chain on a touch-screen tablet and easily sharing it with colleagues or customers. Together you can explore options and visualize their impacts on cost, service, complexity, risk and sustainability. Could this new tool transform and facilitate the way you approach supply chain design?

Elevate Supply Chain Design from an Individual Activity to an Enterprise Function

In this eBook, we outline the benefits of Fulfillment by Amazon for third-party sellers, share tips for getting started and show you how ChannelAdvisor’s latest technology can help.

What if treating all products the same in your supply chain ultimately costs you money and diminishes your service level?

Building a supply chain design center of excellence within a business often begins with a small group finding tactical quick wins and leveraging those results to justify a greater business function.

The further growth of online retail, coupled with an increasing drive to reduce order delivery times, will lead to a significant increase in demand for logistics facilities including large and smaller e-fulfillment centers, sortation centers and parcel hubs / spokes and online food ‘dark stores’.

Supply Chain Guru features the Visual Modeler to make network set up easy and intuitive. Project Navigator allows you to quickly move from scenario to scenario or model to model. Reporting is quick and easy, in a variety of maps, graphs and charts. Supply Chain Intelligence Database

The decision of whether to buy or build ERP software will require an honest assessment of the needs of your organization, and what it will take to meet those needs. Sometimes the nature of the software project dictates the necessary direction.

The scenario proposed in this paper is that treasury TMSs can provide the right technology solution to support the execution of complex business problems. The document will also demonstrate that the integration between TMS technology and SCF solutions is today not a nice-to-have option but has become almost a necessity.

Our outlook provides a distinctive analysis of seaport-centric industrial space in gateway U.S. real estate markets, and observes the influence of global economic drivers, including trade and cargo flows, socioeconomic and political factors, as well as port capacity and infrastructure investment.

UPS commissioned research with comScore for the second consecutive year on what elements of the online shopping customer experience drive brand preference, customer loyalty, and recommendations.

A GAME CHANGER changes the way that something is done, thought about, or made. Henry Ford was the epitome of a game changer. His revolutionary new mass-production methods, including the world’s first moving assembly line for cars, made automobile ownership affordable for many middle-class Americans. In this white paper, we’ll discuss the game-changing supply chain trends that you need to squarely face today, and we’ll suggest how to make progress toward the desired end state.

This white paper is a guide to 2D bar code imaging technology, including an overview of capabilities and how 2D imagers perform in traditional applications, the beneficial new business processes that imaging enables, and the advantages 2D imaging provides compared to laser scanners.

This white paper identifies the features that save time for users, and those that simplify integration and management for IT support staff, so the printer will return maximum value for long-term, low-cost reliable operations.

This report shows how a commitment to continuous improvement in logistics operations can provide value for companies and their customers.

To understand how the competitive landscape of the Electronics industry will change and how these technologies will impact real-world, financially driven enterprise investment decisions, we conducted the 2013 IBM Electronics Manufacturing Study.

This white paper highlights how LTL carriers, courier services, 3PLs and other transportation & logistics companies have married technology and process changes to reduce costs, provide more visibility and increase efficiency, and presents other ideas for how companies can innovate to produce business value using technology solutions that are available today.

Evolving economic conditions, rapidly changing global and industry dynamics and the maturing of the industry suggest the capabilities and uses of 3PLs have evolved considerably over the sixteen years of this study. To assess these changes, the study team uses four complementary channels of research.

As one of the leading business networks in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability since 1992, BSR has conducted numerous engagements with member companies and their stakeholders focused on sustainable supply chain management.