Gartner

On this episode, Gartner’s Mike Griswold discusses this year’s list of the Top 25 Supply Chains. SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) aligns demand, supply and finance plans for a clear line of sight across an organization. Discover seven success strategies for your IBP journey.

For the first time in quite a while, Washington is in the chips. Computer semiconductor chips, that is. Congress late last week passed a bipartisan $280 billion package of subsidies and research funding to increase America’s international competitiveness in the high-tech sector. It is designed to make the U.S. less dependent on Taiwan for production of the ubiquitous wee chips that are critical to U.S. competitiveness.

As logistics operations seek out new or replacement supply chain management solutions, an increasing number of them are putting Cloud solutions at the top of their shopping lists.

The most successful supply chain leaders are designing business and technology strategies around mitigating risk and navigating uncertain environments with agility, and above all this, the most widely talked about topic for the event was sustainability.

Joint survey from Gartner and the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) found that at every level, representation of people or color is much higher when the company is publicly held, representing 35% of the overall supply chain workforce in publicly held companies and 13% of vice presidents.

With no end in sight to the labor shortage, companies are turning to labor management system technology for help optimizing their current labor resources.

Some of the biggest brand names across several verticals again received accolades from research firm Gartner Inc., in being named to its annual Global Supply Chain 25, which, according to Gartner, identifies leading supply chains and highlights their best practices.

However, slight dip in women in VP-level roles, while research also found retaining midcareer women hinges on advancement opportunities and pay equity

Modern's editor sat down with Dwight Klappich, Research Vice President, at Gartner to discuss MODEX and other happenings in the robotics space.

Shipper demand, vendor innovation and advances in technology have worked together to get the vision of the digital supply chain over the finish line.

Our panel says that all of the software and automation tools we need to meet the new supply chain challenges are right in front of us—all we need to do is put them to work.

Supply instability and rising costs prompt chief procurement officers to adopt new approaches to ensure enough materials such as pallets, plastics, corrugate, metal and glass.

The supply chain took center stage during the pandemic, and now 64% of shippers are evaluating or implementing supply chain risk event monitoring tools and 73% are doing the same with supply chain visibility and multi-tier mapping applications.

By working in tandem with other warehouse systems, robotics and automation, WMS has positioned itself as a must-have supply chain application for companies across the board—especially in tackling the labor shortage and adapting to change.