Software

The sustained success of Internet powerhouses such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, and eBay provides evidence of a fourth production factor in today’s hyper-connected world. Besides resources, labor, and capital, there’s no doubt that information has become an essential element of competitive differentiation.

The latest digital advance won’t necessarily cure your supply-chain woes - in this video interview, McKinsey’s Alex Niemeyer outlines the technologies that can help companies grapple with heightened supply-chain volatility.

Enabling the flexibility to choose and source value chain elements from anywhere - and change strategy as the market demands - is a key component of the future of work.

Several factors are conspiring to create potentially ideal conditions for a mini-renaissance of domestic manufacturing, including the emergence of additive manufacturing, the forces of social, mobile, analytics and cloud, and ever-rising energy costs.

Having embraced the new tactics and tools, such as social media platforms and virtual communication, companies now face the challenge of integrating them into an organizational structure.

It's all about the Code Halos, baby. To better meet and react to hyper-active market demand, companies need to move from the hard-coded supply chains to a flexible, demand-driven value webs.

What separates today’s high-flying outliers - such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Netflix and Pandora - from fast-followers and wannabes?

A Five Step Plan to Implement Container Management Solutions and Improve Supply Chain Visibility.

Billionaire software mogul Larry Ellison announced that he's stepping down as the CEO of the company he founded and has led for 37 years.

Products including the Apple Watch and Google Glass, which include sensors and health apps, are going to impact pharmaceutical supply chains in the future.

This paper examines the use of social media to capture the impact on supply chain events and develop a context for those events. This paper also analyzes the use of social media in the supply chain to build relationships among supply chain participants.

Big data is more of an opportunity than a problem. Companies need to mobilize now to build new processes and differentiated services. The focus needs to be on what the end-to-end supply chain can be. To do this, companies need to free themselves from the limited definition of what it is today. As a result, some organizations are calling it the “digital supply chain.”

According to Gartner, supply chain management software revenues will grow 12% in 2014, the highest rate since 2011.

Five ways an outsourced maintenance program can provide the most efficient and cost-effective answer for your operational challenges automation.

Today’s high-speed order fulfillment operations work prolonged hours to meet tight schedules and short order cycles, leaving little time for required repairs, preventive maintenance and benchmarking the relative health of a system.

The market for supply chain management software continues to expand, highlighting the importance of software in today’s supply chains.

There will be three times as many internet-connected things on Earth as there are humans within the next 10 years, according to a new look at the future of the internet of things.

The Current State of Satisfaction with Supply Chain Software - With the rise in complexity (products, markets and rate of change), supply chain excellence is more important for companies to effectively compete.

Why risk building you own business analytics solution from scratch? How long will it take you, how much will it cost to support and how confident will you be in the data?

We believe that the adoption of new concepts for big data is a step change for supply chain teams. It is not about force-fitting new forms of data into applications based on relational databases. It cannot be treated as an evolution.