Innovation

When supply chain professionals discuss supply chain execution, their focus is typically put on transportation management systems and warehouse management systems, the yard management systems capability and importance is mistakenly undervalued.

Through adidas’s obsession with helping athletes make a difference, the brand unveils Futurecraft 4D, the world’s first high performance footwear featuring midsoles crafted with light and oxygen using digital light synthesis, a technology pioneered by Carbon.

Mike Regan, Chief of Relationship Development at TranzAct Technologies talks about the shareholder letter that Jeff Bezos recently wrote to Amazon stakeholders and the company's emphasis on innovation.

Every company considers itself an innovator. It’s time to include materials handling leaders in that category.

Innovation, new business models and new alliances were on display at Promat. It’s a whole new world.

Meet the wannabe innovator against the status quo, MIT's Andrew McAfee discusses on why the next industrial revolution is closer than you think.

Winners to be announced during ProMat 2017.

When it comes to product development innovation, failure is not an option. It’s mandatory.

How big ideas can redesign your supply chain.

Advanced analytics and decision support tools have proven to be a valuable resource for progressive supply chain professionals driving transformation in their organizations, despite this, many organizations still struggle to find the right technology to support their efforts.

On Wednesday, during Industry Night, the winners of the fourth-annual MHI Innovation Awards will be announced.

Grant Thornton survey suggests holistic approach to innovation of products, business models and processes may blaze trail for success for U.S. manufacturers.

Awards to recognize young packaging professionals and development teams.

Procurement is being asked to innovate and transform its processes. But the profession is still measured on cost reduction. Can we have it all?

In this white paper MIT CTL gives a brief description of the initial research findings, and undertakes a basic assessment of three very different innovations that have the potential to reshape supply chains: cloud computing, omni-channel retailing, and 3D printing. Each one is reviewed according to the positive changes in cost, cash, and/or service that result from its introduction, as encapsulated in the working definition of SCI.