Supply Chain

Commerce in Motion.com is the centerpiece of a multi-faceted campaign designed and sponsored by RedPrairie to deliver content, commentary, and conversation to and between executives from all walks of commerce as they try to streamline and expedite the flow of goods from raw materials in to the hands of the customer.

2012 marks the eighth year of our annual Supply Chain Top 25 ranking. The list includes some perennial leaders, but also offers up four new companies from which to learn, including two industrials, and an interesting newcomer to the top five.

Why are millions spent on implementing a new ERP solution only to find an inability to meet the original objectives or take advantage of future benefits via upgrades? We hear these stories daily. The solution is as simple as having a sound strategy, effective management and efficient execution.

Aberdeen benchmarked the supply chain software investment and roadmap strategies of over 130 Consumer Industry companies to identify the abilities of supply chain applications in managing risk and ability to change and adapt business processes over time.

Amber Road’s new global trade management (GTM) overview video explains the opportunities of going global, the challenges of building and managing a global supply chain and how GTM solutions can help.

Are you “Ready for the Future?” It’s a complex question, one that’s best addressed in parts. One part certainly has to do with the managerial and leadership skills needed to succeed in the job going forward. In their feature article on tomorrow’s leadership challenges, Edgar Blanco and Chris Caplice of MIT’s Center for Transportation and Logistics argue that a first step in developing the necessary skills is to understand that the skills themselves will change.

As individuals climb the career ladder in supply chain management, what leadership skills are important? Advice and comments from from industry executives from Dow AgroSciences, Caterpillar, and General Motors.

CFOs strongly believe that good supply chain performance is vital to financial success. Studies show that a majority of CFOs believe the supply chain is directly linked to their ability to meet corporate objectives. One third of C-level supply chain executives view supply chain management as a market strategy differentiator.

There is broad agreement that inventory should be optimized to properly match demand. Yet achieving this continues to prove difficult for many companies. The insight and best practices offered here will help you understand the importance of sound inventory practices and put your inventory optimization initiative on a success track.

Think about all of the paperless technology you have come to rely on in your personal life which dramatically improves efficiency, but has never been applied to operations in cyclic applications at your workplace… we enable real savings in the enterprise by applying our leading technology in e-paper, mobility integration and RFID combined with domain knowledge coded into integrated software solutions.

UPS commissioned a study by comScore polling more than 3,100 online shoppers to gain insight into the consumer online shopping experience. Unlike most customer experience surveys, the study evaluates consumer shopping habits and preferences from pre-purchase to post-delivery, including areas such as free shipping and returns.

Using UPS customized logistics, this e-retailer improved its bottom line and customer experience, becoming an industry leader in the process.

This report focuses on gaining visibility into critical elements across the end-to-end logistics network for improving cost and service. But before a company can reduce inventory or landed cost, it needs visibility into them. Only then can it apply tools to agilely adapt to the information it collects.

Nearly 10 years of collaboration between MIC and Panasonic Europe have led to one of the most extensive customer in-house implementations among MIC's customer base.

Nearly 10 years of collaboration between MIC and Panasonic Europe have led to one of the most extensive customer in-house implementations among MIC's customer base.

Trade professionals face many challenges when trying to stay compliant to International Trade law. As globalization increases, so does the complexity associated with doing business across borders. Here are the top five challenges affecting International Trade today.

A Global Trade Management (GTM) solution is characterized by software and services that integrates and synchronizes the end-to-end global trading process. Spanning the services provided by point software solutions and logistics partners, next generation solutions must focus on providing business benefits across the entire international transaction. Enabled by new technologies based on open standards, the integration of legacy systems, and new web-based services, Global Trade Management will open information flows and enable new business strategies.

Dynamic Operations refers to global networks that respond to changing events by smoothly reorienting themselves. When market opportunities arise or disruptions occur (supply interruptions, financial turmoil, market shifts, weather disturbances), processes at any node can be modified.

A very similar concept to a measure of a business’s sustainability is its assessed ability to readily weather its business environment and prosper in that environment. Paralleling the good quality of ‘hardness’ means you must also have a measure of ‘toughness.’

The Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index looks at the world’s most dynamic economies and the forces powering them. It ranks 45 major emerging markets and identifies the attributes that make them attractive for investment by logistics companies, air cargo carriers, shipping lines, freight forwarders and distribution property companies.