Supply Chain Trends
STUDY: Five Technologies to Be Aware of to Help Your Supply Chain Career
An unprecedented influx of technological innovation is swamping today’s supply chain professionals, and many are realizing they will have to keep up to stay relevant. A new study from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, recently examined five technologies that are poised to revolutionize the supply chain even further than they already have: drones, driverless vehicles,…
Read MoreHow Can Your Supply Chain Benefit From Cross-Channel Attribution?
In the past, the supply chain’s sole reason for existence was to finished products into retail stores. However, the retail ecosystem is very different today, and as a result – so is the modern supply chain. The brick-and-mortar store is now just one channel in a multi-channel retail environment. The typical range of channels now…
Read MoreWhich Skills Are Successful in Blockchain?
Known as the technology behind the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, blockchain is a distributed digital ledger that contains data or events, and holds them in a manner that makes them tamper resistant. While multiple users can open, look at or supplement blockchain data, they can’t modify or delete it. Therefore, any data put into blockchain stays there,…
Read MoreDo You Know How Blockchain Will Affect Supply Chain?
Consumers are always worried about the origins of products they buy, its authenticity and how it was handled. As controversies roil around GMOs and food labeling, shoppers want to know the food they purchase originates from reputable sources, like if the fish they buy was sustainably caught or farm-raised. One solution is blockchain technology. Blockchain…
Read MoreWhich Trends Do We Expect in Transportation Management Systems?
Last year, transportation management systems (TMS) made substantial advances toward creating “end-to-end supply chain visibility.” With vendors including much more optimization abilities within their software solutions, logistics professionals were able to simplify their supply chains while making them much more efficient. Also in 2016, Oracle and other providers of enterprise resource planning (ERP) increasingly made…
Read MoreHow Can Your Supply Chain Prepare for the New Administration?
President Donald Trump made international trade a centerpiece of his campaign, and his early decisions have shown he will spend the early stages of his presidency acting on those campaign promises. The economics of globalization are intricate and prone to widely varying interpretations. Based on their collective interpretations, those in the Trump Administration have the…
Read MoreIs Accepting a Counter Offer the Right Decision in the Long Term?
You have just accepted a job with a different company and put in your two-week notice of resignation when your manager calls you into her office and says the company actually had plans to promote you and give you a raise. Whether these offers were already in the works or spurred by your decision to…
Read MoreWhen You’re a Contract Worker, Where Is Your Loyalty?
For earlier generations, the question of employer loyalty was a simple one: Your loyalty was to the sole company that employed you. But now, things are much different. Many people work multiple jobs, and if you’re working through a staffing agency – you’re technically being employed by two different companies. So where should the loyalties…
Read MoreHow Do Supply Chain Ethics Play a Role in Your Business?
In his new book Real Food/Fake Food, author Larry Olmstead described how a range of food products, from olive oil to coffee, have been adulterated by manufacturers in an attempt to cut costs. For instance, many olive oils have been found to be diluted with other lower grade oils. Investigations have also found honey is…
Read MoreCan You Be Overly Obsessed with Customer Service?
Rising customer objectives continue to drive businesses to strengthen the customer experience across all channels, from their brick-and-mortar locations to their website. Quality in one channel is no longer enough; customers count on the same high-quality experience in a retail location as they do online. Furthermore, they are less tolerant of bad experiences; one survey…
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