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The latest blogs from Supply and Demand Chain Executive
Expert Columnists
Guidelines for Expert Columnists in Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Check out the guidelines to submit contributed content to Supply & Demand Chain Executive, www.SDCExec.com.
Warehousing
Warehouse Storage Expansion: Creating Supply Resilience with Cost Effective Options
With storage, logistics and distribution facilities strained to the limit today, managers are looking to cost effectively optimize operations without leasing more space or expanding the buildings with new construction.
Software & Technology
Mastering Negotiation with Accurate Reporting and Analysis
External challenges, internal data and overarching business goals must be carefully considered during a vendor negotiation. Automated systems can help.
Automation
Modernizing Processes Will Reduce Burden on Supply Chain Workforce
Automation can be particularly helpful for supply chain professionals, who worked around-the-clock during the first year of the pandemic to secure necessary personal protective equipment (PPE).
Trucking
How Fleet Managers Can Recruit and Retain the Next Generation of Truck Drivers
With the pandemic shifting employee expectations about work, how exactly can the trucking industry meet expectations?
Warehousing
It’s Time for Constrained Supply Chain Planning
The promise of summer is warm, sunny days ahead. Unless you’re a supply chain prognosticator. For those working in supply chain and manufacturing planning, the weather is as cloudy as ever – and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better.
Sourcing & Procurement
How To Boost Procurement Value
The time has come for the procurement function to take a leading role in addressing top-priority issues facing organizations, from unethical labor practices to getting to net-zero emissions to recruiting top talent to enabling unique customer experiences.
Warehousing
Trading in Sweatpants for Suits -- Navigating an Unpredictable Supply Chain
Despite a harsh economic climate, the war in Ukraine, and pandemic hotspots, consumers are not only out and about, they are willing to spend.
Software & Technology
How An AI-Powered Negotiation Strategy Can Hedge Against a Recession
The stock market’s recent volatility, along with U.S. gross domestic product’s surprising decline at a 1.4% pace in the first quarter, and rampant inflation has many experts believing a recession is around the corner.
Risk/Compliance
Recession on the Horizon: Enable Radical Transparency
While it’s often helpful to look to the past for ways to manage future uncertainties, unlike the financial drivers of the past recession, this time around, the issues are different, and the supply chain drivers require a unique approach.
Software & Technology
5 Questions To Ask Before You Sign a Software Renewal
The cost burdens of annual software renewals really add up over time. Whether considering support for perpetual licenses or annual renewals for software subscriptions, companies in most cases resign themselves to a life of lock-in without questioning.
Last-Mile
Tech and Last-Mile Logistics Lessons From Amazon’s Prime Day Playbook
Since its debut in 2015, Amazon Prime Day has set an example for e-commerce companies to create exciting growth opportunities outside of the traditional end-of-the-year holiday season.
Software & Technology
4 Ways Digitalization Enables Supply Chain Agility
There are no quick fixes for a supply chain that’s spent decades growing ever more complicated and interconnected, but there are some long-term remedies.
Risk/Compliance
The Opportunities and Risks From ITC Section 337
Parties found in violation of Section 337 can be barred from importing goods found to infringe into the United States.
E-Commerce Solutions
How Retailers Can Get Recession Ready
With these tools, retailers can find innovative new ways to not only protect margins, but engage new customers, identify new revenue streams, and help recession-proof their supply chain ahead of the fourth quarter.
Risk/Compliance
Weather-Proofing Supply Chains Against Climate Risk
From severe heatwaves, fire-ravaged and drought-stricken regions, record-breaking tornado strikes, to catastrophic flooding, headline-creating weather events are wreaking havoc of supply chains.
E-Commerce Solutions
Last Mile Agility is the Name of the Game for the Second Half of 2022
The fluidity of last mile logistics adapting to current and foreseeable trends is a precise process. Being steadfast, yet flexible in the last mile is crucial for success.
Trucking
Benefits of Predictive Maintenance for the Logistics Industry
Predictive maintenance models, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), can anticipate potential problems related to battery and engine performance to ensure the reliability and security of vehicles.
Software & Technology
How Decision Intelligence Can Transform Industrial and Supply Chain Operations
Let’s explore how enterprises can optimize their existing digital operations with AI and automation that can help mature capabilities of digital intelligence, including what’s required and what the process looks like.
Sourcing & Procurement
Build a Bottom-Up, Value Driven Business Case for Automating Source To Pay Processes
This article will look at the process of building your business case from a non financial point of view.
Warehousing
Securing Manufacturing During Supply Chain Disruptions
To meet increasing demand, manufacturing companies are prioritizing speed of production over necessary security modernization, creating a window of opportunity for cybercriminals to find vulnerabilities and launch attacks.
Software & Technology
Preparing Your Organization for Successful Digital Transformation and Business Growth
The difference between success and failure is the type of digital change model you deploy: is it temporary or sustainable?
Software & Technology
How the Fashion Industry Can Pave the Way for a Sustainable Future
The entire industry - from concept through to the consumer - must work together to improve the transparency of value chains around the world.
Software & Technology
5 Ways Small Businesses Can Navigate the Supply Chain Crisis
Small businesses are disproportionately affected by current disruptions. Here’s how to build more resilient supply chains with limited resources.
