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Visibility is important for supply chain management.With visibility, your business can pivot and adjust so that disruptions along the chain don’t significantly impact operations...

Supply chain management is complex, involving multiple parts of a business as well as third-party partners and logistics firms. Recent geopolitical trends have only made this...

Let’s own it: supply chain management is challenging right now. With resource nationalism, trade wars and the unraveling of the rules that have governed globalization for a...

Resiliency and efficiency are ongoing challenges for COOs and supply chain managers today. On the one hand, globalization is in retreat, compromising and complicating supply chain...

The task of managing a company’s supply chain used to be relatively straightforward: Find predictable partners that met quality and specification standards, ensure reliability,...

SAP has announced the integration of its AI copilot, Joule, into SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and supply chain management applications, enhancing user interaction and...

When consumer products companies are asked about their most important priority for reducing risk, supply chain fragility is mentioned first. This article will explore how growing...

Imagine the daily struggle of managing supplier interactions – endless email threads, chasing down purchase orders (POs), manually updating spreadsheets, and the constant worry of...

Supply chain and inventory considerations are important for most businesses. But for food and beverage manufacturers, supply chain management and inventory control are essential...

Issues within supply chains are key CPG industry challenges, where vast, global, and often complex supply chains need to be managed at every touchpoint, from material suppliers to...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions shouldn’t be overlooked. The right distribution ERP software, like the one from Navigator Business Solutions, can help you optimize...

A reliable supply chain is an art as much as a science, especially given recent geopolitical concerns that have added trade friction and highlighted the brittleness of many...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted problems in the clinical trial supply chain, necessitating a shift in the industry to keep up with the pressure to deliver quick results and...

Efficiently managing supply chains has become more challenging recently due to COVID-19 disruptions and geopolitical conflicts. It is not uncommon for manufacturers to engage a...

Anyone who runs a business knows the importance of supply chain management. Ensuring the smooth flow of the resources you need to keep your business running is crucial, especially...

In the current volatile business environment, supply chain management (SCM) is instrumental in accomplishing business growth. SCM plays a major role in determining your business’s...

Enterprise resource planning software, or ERP, is essential for larger and medium-sized organizations with complex structures or detailed supply chains. Today's supply chain...

SAP is a global leader in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, providing solutions that help growing organizations of all sizes, small, medium, and large, integrate and...

Speed, efficiency, and clear communications: these are the keys for a business of any size to stay competitive in today’s global marketplace. Unfortunately, ever-changing...

Often, demand planning and supply planning get confused with one another. While both are closely related, each is quite different. Demand and supply planners must work together...

A functional supply chain is the cornerstone of any business and it’s also a core function of a life sciences organization.

Supply chains have always been a tricky business. However, the complexities of today's global economy and the technology demands of the digital transformation trend coupled with...

Supply chain management has been undergoing fundamental changes over the last several years, increasingly becoming both automated and autonomous. Given the many challenges that...

Manufacturing products is the easy step for consumer products manufacturers. The far greater challenge businesses face is efficiently connecting a company’s manufacturing...

The trade war between the U.S. and China is real, and it has significant implications for any business with a global supply chain.

It has been a busy season for Peter Guarraia, a management consultant at the consultancy, Bain & Co.

For years, supply chain management has been high stakes, but not always high-tech.

By Jonathan Corey

Digital is only the first part, transformation is the hard part. The transformation to digital started decades ago. That transformation was more digitization rather than going...

At the end of the day, the purpose of utilizing any business tool is to simplify the processes and reduce the amount of headaches that are created by operating a successful...

Walmart is a leader in competitive pricing around the nation, thanks in large part to supply chain management and inventory control. Nightly stocking and real-time monitoring of...