Effective supply chain management ensures timely, cost-effective delivery of products. Disruptions in the supply chain can lead to significant economic impacts, including inflation. Strategic ...

Too many fulfillment networks are built for a time that no longer exists. They work when demand is predictable, but strain quickly when conditions change.

CommentaryAttorney Analysis from Westlaw Today, a part of Thomson Reuters. January 25, 2022 - With a new year underway, the climate emergency continues to impact, and draw the attention of, political, ...

In 2021, the waves of the pandemic started to quickly unravel supply chains across the world. Manufacturing plants slowed or even closed, ports experienced unprecedented back-ups, and transportation ...

Supply chains have typically been quiet enablers, optimized for cost, consistency, and scale. But in today’s volatile world, supply chains must no longer be designed solely for efficiency; they must ...

The Joe Biden administration has taken some steps to tackle the immediate challenge, opening the Port of Los Angeles to 24/7 operations and enlisting the help of private companies to move goods, for ...

Supply chain management can be regarded as being composed of different stages that represent physical locations, processing activities and/or bill of materials, or BOM. These stages can further be ...

The supply chain management world has seen huge advancements in artificial intelligence and IoT of things in recent years, writes IoTforAll.com. Companies and organizations now have the capabilities ...

This is an excerpt of the original article. It was written for the May-June 2012 edition of Supply Chain Management Review. The full article is available to current subscribers. Supply management can ...

Using a microcontroller to manage the operation of a switching power supply allows designers to implement new programmable features previously unavailable from stand-alone controller chips. Many of ...