Items Tagged with 'supply chain'

Robotics has the potential to solve many of the challenges that modern distribution centers face in today’s multifaceted retail sector. But what do you need to consider before implementing them? How can you realize the full potential of robots while avoiding potential pitfalls?

Many supply chains have struggled recently to procure critical parts such as semiconductors, metals, and construction materials. Here are five actions that procurement can take to help improve supply chain resiliency in the face of constrained supply. 

Which digital technologies should your company be investing in to make your supply chain operations smarter? This five-step roadmap can help guide your decision and make sure you are extracting the most intelligence out of your supply chain.

Research from Gartner reveals top supply chains respond better to disruption, are aggressively pursuing sustainability initiatives, have an expansive CSCO role, participate in ecosystem initiatives, and focus on human-centric automation.

The opening keynote address for analyst group Gartner’s virtual Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo outlined an ambitious vision for the future of supply chain management that goes beyond focusing on profit.

Companies are currently responding to the turbulence in the freight market in a very tactical and reactive way. But to make their supply chain more resilient in the long term, they may have to make strategic changes to their freight network.