Commentary
Ecommerce Networks: An Insider’s View
A few years ago, I sat with a midmarket retailer who admitted something I hear more often than most people might expect: “We built our network for a world that doesn’t exist anymore.”
You Diversified Your Suppliers, But What About Your Robots?
We often think about supply chain risk as something that happens upstream: an extreme weather event delaying a shipment from a single-source supplier or a carrier battling a data breach. That’s no longer the whole picture here. There are risks just as serious much closer to home.
Macrologistics & Micrologistics: A Modern Framework for Unlocking Logistics Performance
In today’s competitive landscape, logistics has evolved from a back‑office necessity into one of the most powerful levers for business performance and differentiation. Yet despite its potential, many organizations still struggle to extract meaningful value from their logistics operations. The reason is straightforward: logistics is often treated as a single, monolithic function—broad, complex, and difficult […]
Case Studies
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.
Elevating Supply Chain from ‘Necessary Evil’ to C-Suite Influence
Heidi Hoffman leads the supply chain practice at ON Partners Executive Search.
How-To
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 […]
10 Tips to Optimize Warehouse Automation
Warehouses are rapidly deploying automation, yet many fail to achieve their full return on investment. The challenge isn’t the hardware but poor coordination, creating “islands of automation” that worsen bottlenecks instead of synchronizing systems.