Gartner

This year’s summit shows attendees how to kick their company’s digital transformation into overdrive in 2020.

New research confirms that the current risk mitigating trend in the third-party arena will continue this year. Indeed, eighty-five percent of supply chain managers expect that their outsourcing budget will increase by more than 5% in 2020, according to Gartner, Inc., with a sizeable portion of that aimed at choosing multiple third-party-logistics (3PL) partners.

Modern's editors sat down with Dwight Klappich, Vice President of Supply Chain Research at Gartner to discuss warehousing fulfillment technologies.

Session topics include strategies to adapt to shifts in the supply chain industry and identify areas for improved shipping processes.

Kuebix improved position on both axes in Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for transportation management systems compared to the previous year - complimentary report available.

AWESOME and Gartner, have collaborated on research that sheds light on and tracks progress toward the advancement of women’s supply chain leadership.

While the top of the list remains stable, up-and-comers are mixing up the software landscape with Cloud capabilities that traditional vendors are working to replicate.

Uniquely positioned to assist companies with their digital transformation initiatives, E2open ranked as the leader with the highest overall score in Gartner’s magic quadrant for multi-enterprise supply chain business networks report.

A Big Picture look at the inroads women are making in the supply chain field and what still needs to happen to increase their numbers in employee and senior leadership roles.

Voice-directed picking and other types of voice solutions are proven in warehouse environments. But suppliers are now out to make voice-directed work even more productive with analytics and optimization, as well as improvements to the voice recognition engines.

Leading industry analysts observe that there’s a host of new technologies opening up fresh emerging market opportunities for U.S. shippers. How to properly harness these solutions and third-party partners now becomes the chief challenge. When Gartner released its annual “Supply Chain Top 25” report last May, it did more than simply identify global industry leaders and best practices.

As the e-commerce juggernaut creates more complexity for today’s logistics managers, finding the right mix of 3PLs with the essential integrated services has never been more important. Experts agree that this is a shared journey with new rules of engagement. Top Third Party Logistics Provider in 2018, Top 3PL Companies 2017, Top Grossing 3PL Company.

Gartner, Inc.’s annual Supply Chain Executive Conference held last week in Phoenix, AZ provided the platform for the release of its Supply Chain Top 25, which identifies industry “best practices.” Rankings of the top 25 supply chain, companies with the strongest supply chain, supply chain reliability rankings, Top 25 Supply Chain Companies 2018, Gartner Supply Chain Rankings

Four of our top technology analysts offer their perspective on the latest buzz driving the next phase of the digital transformation.

With demand for supply chain visibility at an all-time high, a growing number of shippers are powering up their track and trace capabilities in order to meet the needs of their upstream and downstream stakeholders. Track and Trace devices for trucking, Trucking with Electronic Logging Devices, ELD mandate Trucking, Trucking Regulations, Hours of Service for Trucking