Commentary
Six Technologies Reshaping Logistics Execution
Faced with rising customer expectations, labor shortages, and increasing pressure to operate sustainably, shippers and their logistics partners can no longer rely on yesterday’s processes. Digital logistics technologies help organizations scale rapidly as modernizing supply chains becomes a non-negotiable, especially in high variability situations like inbound workflows. Companies that embrace this new reality are already […]
The Case Against Treating Micro-Fulfillment as a Permanent Model
Micro-fulfillment is having a moment. It is being framed as the inevitable next evolution of logistics: smaller footprints, closer to demand, faster delivery, lower risk. For some sectors, that narrative holds. For many others, it doesn’t.
Has Vendor Vetting Become Security Theater?
In 1787, Russian minister Grigory Potemkin built fake settlements along the Dnieper River to impress empress Catherine II during her tour of Crimea. The hollow facades were painted to look like thriving villages. While the empress saw prosperity, behind the walls stood empty fields.
Case Studies
Building a Healthcare Supply Chain For the Future
Philip Hampden Smith is senior vice president of supply, North America, at Reckitt, the company behind multiple hygiene and health brands, including Mucinex, Lysol, Finish, Biofreeze, Airborne, Durex, K-Y, and Neuriva.
Kindness, Curiosity, and Featherweight Sewing Machines
Bill Stankiewicz, the veteran managing director of Savannah Supply Chain, shares the personal lessons that shaped his compassionate and disciplined leadership style–from saving for college to famously saving an employee’s job.
TMS and DRP: The Recipe for Resilience
Ajinomoto Foods North America (AFNA) worked with EY Consulting and Blue Yonder to digitize its largely manual resource planning system and logistics processes that were hampering AFNA’s visibility, service, and efficiency.
How-To
10 Tips for Managing Supply Chain Risk
These strategies help CPG brands minimize disruption, protect in-stocks and maintain compliance with increasingly complex retail requirements so they can navigate uncertainty with confidence.
10 Tips for Supply Chain Leadership Lessons
Behind every supply chain decision are real people balancing speed, cost, risk, and relationships. Effective leaders recognize that technology matters, but success is ultimately defined by how they support people, make tradeoffs, and handle change.
10 Tips for Maximizing the Value of Technology in Your Supply Chain
Since 2020, supply chains have been in a period of transformation. Companies first sought to maintain continuity in the face of massive disruption and then pivoted to improve resiliency and manage growth in emerging channels, all while contending with persistent labor shortages and shifting customer expectations. The DHL Supply Chain Insight 2030 report indicates the […]