Accenture

The new standard for proactively assessing a global supply chain’s ability to mitigate the impact of disruptive events will improve agility and help companies outmaneuver uncertainty.

Codevelopment effort aims at proactively assessing a global supply chain’s ability to mitigate the impact of disruptive events

Brands estimate that ecommerce in 2020 will represent nearly half of their sales compared to a third before COVID-19

While shippers work to overcome the challenges introduced by COVID-19 and settle into this new world, a focused approach bridged by digital capabilities will help bring some semblance of order out of the uncertainty. Here are three areas to consider on your way to stabilization.

Fast and free delivery is a race to the top. And it’s one that retailers and parcel delivery organizations must join—now.

Regardless of COVID-19 concerns, development continues to move forward as emerging markets continue to put a significant amount of investment into infrastructure of roads, railways and ports. Here’s a trip around some of the most active markets.

Clients to benefit from addition of specialized supply chain and business intelligence capabilities which help to lower operational costs and improve performance.

Consumers expect free shipping and a 20% reduction in expected delivery time during the holiday season. In 2018, consumers were willing to wait 3.9 days on average – today the expectation is an average of 3.1 days.

The acquisition is expected to support manufacturers whose customers are demanding increasingly more personalized products and services.

Shippers are starting to see the incredible advantage that can be gained through the strategic management of e-commerce—especially as logistics professionals move out of their silos and into the C-suite. Industry experts further contend that walls will continue to be torn down before this disruption reaches an advanced and fully evolved stage.

Founded in 2003, Enterprise System Partners will bring a team of 200 professionals with manufacturing, process and IT knowledge.

Acquisition includes deep experience and assets for faster, easier implementations of SAP Integrated Business Planning and SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration.

As more organizations pilot blockchain, use cases are emerging in the supply chain

Asset tracking has long been an expensive process for telecom companies. Applying blockchain can lower costs and reduce friction across the partner network.

Report explores how CEOs, COOs and CFOs must be involved in efforts to transform the supply chain from support function to competitive differentiator.