Category: Technical How-to

Introduction  Supply chain agility is essential for organizations to remain competitive. Consumer demands, new technologies, and economic conditions can disrupt the balance between supply and demand. Supply planning, or accurately estimating the quantities of products, raw materials, or components needed to meet customer demand, represents one key supply chain challenge. Effective supply planning helps organizations […]

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic prompted organizations to reevaluate their supply chain strategies to ensure they could meet rapidly changing customer needs. Companies are shifting away from traditional push or pull inventory approaches toward more dynamic, complex models that can better match customer demand. In this rapidly evolving landscape, the ability to experiment and validate new […]

Introduction For industries like Telecommunications, Utilities, Oil and Gas, and Mining, ensuring the right products arrive at the right place and time is mission-critical. Failure to do so can result in operational delays, poor labor utilization, increased costs due to unplanned asset/product movements, and irreversible damage to an organization’s reputation and financial performance. Organizations in […]

Organizations face a complex challenge in maintaining sustainability compliance across their vast, global supply chains. Managing complex regulatory requirements, collecting data from suppliers worldwide, and auditing that data for accuracy using traditional email and fragmented messaging tools proves inefficient and error-prone. As organizations navigate the modern supply chain landscape, embracing digital and physical transformations will […]

In the fast-paced world of supply chain management, where economic shifts and evolving customer preferences pose constant challenges, prioritizing efficiency and adaptability are crucial to effectively meeting end-customer demands. Organizations are increasingly turning to automated solutions to streamline supply chain management functions that reduce manual tasks, increase efficiency, and improve overall performance. However, fragmented data […]

Product strategies are shaped by a combination of consumer demand, technology, and competition. With each variable change, the industry witnesses the introduction of new products, often accompanied by new features harnessing the latest technologies for enhanced user experience. This also initiates the phased retirement of the prior versions of the products. A prime example is […]

Customers across all industries continue to leverage autonomous and disparate systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), order management systems (OMS), and enterprise data warehouse (EDW) to store supply chain and operational data. While these systems perform their basic function well, supply chain data remains locked in these disparate data source systems. The underlying data […]

Managing a supply chain in the modern, dynamic marketplace presents numerous challenges because businesses must contend with fast-changing consumer demands, technological advancements, economic volatility, and increasing competition. These factors disrupt supply and demand balance and increase operational complexity. Supply planning, or the process of estimating the product quantities (or raw material or components) needed to […]

The global logistics market is estimated in 2022 at $10.7 T, with projected growth by 2032 to $18.2T at a CAGR of 5.5 percent. Despite a significant market size, the industry is plagued with inefficiencies. Low transport fill rates with 25–30 percent of loads being empty, a driver shortage with 2.6 million unfilled driver jobs […]

Supply chain disruption costs in the United States topped $228 million in 2021. These costs go beyond dollars with damage to brands, operational costs, delayed cash flows, customer complaints, loss of customers, and loss of productivity. A 2022 survey by The Economist found that 46% of large corporations (with more than $1B revenue) are launching […]