Innovation

Supply chain executives should reflect on past challenges to identify potential areas of weakness and continue innovating for the future, with a resilient supply chain top of mind.

Today’s supply chain design processes must capture both structural and organizational complexities that have emerged over the past two decades, with a focus on emphasizing value creation based on the ability to serve customers speedily and flexibly.

Optimizing your supply chain, responding to customer needs, and managing risk and quality control are three essential strategies to consider along with the innovation that automation could bring to your operations.

Innovation is a journey. The 2021 MHI Annual Industry Report looks at where we are and where we’re going with automation and emerging technologies.

Listen in as DHL’s Gina Chung discusses her role at DHL Americas Innovation Center.

Complexity is a fact of life in today's supply chains. JSCM research also shows that it can drive innovation and improve performance.

Innovation is a journey. The 2021 MHI Annual Industry Report looks at where we are and where we’re going with automation and emerging technologies.

This paper details how new technologies are presenting promising opportunities for improvement across the supply chain and how autonomous robots and drones are poised to change the game.

The Gartner Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Planning Technologies publication assesses technologies that executives should consider leveraging to stay relevant to their various stakeholders and to gain or maintain their competitive advantage in the marketplace - in this article we detail 4 technologies supporting supply chain planning innovation.

Kenco Logistics releases the fourth edition of its annual State of Supply Chain Innovation Survey

During the pandemic, stay-at-home consumers switched to online buying, and the 2020 roll call of bricks-and-mortar bankruptcies reads like a “who’s who” of retailing, however, the pandemic has also unleashed a wave of unparalleled supply chain innovation.

Building on the three aspects of corporate culture; collaboration, trust, and learning, companies can attempt to continuously innovate and create new and valuable services or products through applying new ideas and knowledge.

Join Bart de Muynck, Matt Yearling, Jett McCandless, Robert Leachman, and Ashish Chona, in this expert webinar/roundtable, moderated by Aleks Gollu, as they discuss reevaluating the supply chain and how transportation execution will be driven by innovation, especially in these uncertain times.

In this paper, Boston Consulting Group details how facing turbulent and fast-changing markets, innovators need a well-tuned innovation system that can spot emerging product, service, and business model opportunities - and then rapidly develop and successfully scale them - over and over again.

According to Boston Consulting Group, these companies are serial innovators and have managed to create innovation systems to perpetually foster creativity and agility, it’s an intentional, laborious process - but when done right, the payoff can be huge.