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Talking Supply Chain Podcast: Let’s Get Strategic
May 3, 2021
On this episode, Steven A. Melnyk discusses how managing the strategic supply chain is different, and why it calls for a new kind of supply chain leader. SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.
Fulfilling Orders When You Don’t Have Enough Product to Meet Demand
March 23, 2021
The global shortage of semiconductor chips that is disrupting supply chains in the automotive and consumer electronics industries is forcing chipmakers to decide which customers’ orders to fulfill when product is in short supply.
How Market Memory Impacts Truckload Performance
February 23, 2021
The full truckload (TL) transportation market’s dynamics in the US and non-binding freight contracts enable shippers and carriers to behave opportunistically when buying and selling TL capacity.
Making Supply Chains Sexy to Gen Z with Program Director Jack Buffington
February 16, 2021
Fundamentally, supply chains are in place to solve problems, how you define a problem is how you solve it.
Supply Chains and COVID-19: Agility, Flexibility, and Engagement the Foundation of Navigating Change
February 16, 2021
As part of the interview series, Arthur Adams, Jr., DTI board member and vice president of sales, supply chain and customer engagement at CSX, discussed leadership and his company’s response to the pandemic, as well as economic and social change.
MIT CTL’s Top Supply Chain Challenges in 2021
January 27, 2021
Which supply chain challenges will preoccupy companies in 2021? Many are reflected in MIT CTL's research agenda for the new year, so we asked our senior researchers to describe what they would like to achieve in 2021.
Governments Failure to Combat Forced Labor in Supply Chains
December 15, 2020
Media reports detailing abuses suffered by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang region of northwestern China cast a spotlight on society’s long-running failure to eradicate the use of forced labor from supply chains.
Covid-Driven Shift to Online Education Fuels Supply Chain MicroMasters Growth
November 17, 2020
The pandemic is transforming societies on many fronts; this trend, coupled with rising demand for learning platforms that are more accessible and flexible, will permanently change the education landscape.
Mitigating Risk With a Supply Chain Resilience Stress Test
October 28, 2020
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.
Covid-19 Separates Leaders from Laggards in Machine Learning-Driven Demand Forecasting
September 24, 2020
The difference between companies that continue to gain a competitive advantage from Machine Learning-based demand forecasts and those that struggle to harness the technology could become greater in a post-pandemic future.
5 Reasons Why Your Supply Chain Design Must Change with the Times
August 24, 2020
Companies need to review their supply chain design processes and adopt modern methods reflective of the volatile markets in which they now compete.
Supply Chain Education in the Post-COVID World
July 30, 2020
As the business world continues to reinvent itself, here’s a look at how supply chain executive education could evolve over the next year.
COVID-19 is Exposing Domestic Labor’s Supply Chain Risks
May 28, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis is now making it clear that the supply chain and workplace conditions closer to home may need to be re-evaluated.
COVID-19: The Supply Chain Management Professionals That will Save Our Economies and Livelihoods
April 29, 2020
Never in the history of global supply chain management has there been a challenge of the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic...when the pandemic begins to fade, supply chain professionals will face a “triple bullwhip” that has never been experienced before—a demand bullwhip, plus a supply bullwhip, plus a logistics bullwhip.
How the Pandemic Could Remake Supply Chain’s Digital Future
April 28, 2020
The need to embrace the digital transformation (DT) of supply chains remains critically important for companies, but as is the case in most areas of business, it is being shaped by the COVID-19 crisis.