The supply chain is no longer a back-office function that consumers have never heard of. Over the past ten years, it’s taken on a more forward-facing role that’s a competitive…
As plants in China began to shut down early last year due to COVID-19 outbreaks, manufacturers all over the world were left without needed component parts and materials. Then as…
Customer experience is disrupting and changing the supply-chain world from the inside out. New delivery models and e-commerce are causing customers to expect immediate, accurate and flexible product delivery at…
What is direct-to-consumer retail? Direct-to-consumer retail is a strategy whereby businesses sell their products directly to the end-user without wholesalers, third-party retailers, and other middlemen. As consumers continue to embrace…
The future of supply chain holds a place for a permanent hybrid work model for its frontline workers, a new Gartner study has found. Gartner, Inc. unveiled in its latest…
In recent years, supply chains have become substantially more challenging to manage. Longer and increasingly interlinked physical flows reflect the rising complexity of product portfolios. Market volatility, which has been…
The pandemic has upended almost every aspect of our personal and business lives. And now we’ve heard talk about this “new normal” for what seems like forever. Today, uncertainty is…
There’s only one word to describe today’s state of supply chains across the globe. Unstable. The economic turmoil caused by the pandemic and subsequent disruptions has exposed vulnerabilities in supply…
Over the last few years, COVID-19 and the social justice movement have been stark reminders about the importance of diversity, equality and inclusion (DE&I) in all aspects of society, and…
Two years ago, when many of us first experienced the supply chain impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, some situations were unprecedented, like empty store shelves, lack of availability of common…