Construction leaders know efficiency is the name of the game in today’s competitive landscape. Now more than ever, with state-of-the-art equipment and modern technology like live field data platforms, contractors have access to a myriad of tools to streamline their business processes.But what

For retailers of all sizes, delivering a positive customer experience starts with strong backend supply chain operations. Many supply chain organizations are only focused on orders, but without prioritizing and managing their overall customer experience (CX), organizations risk disgruntled clients a

In March, an unexpected supply chain disruption occurred, affecting the global supply chain for six days. The Ever Given, one of the world’s largest container ships, became lodged in the Suez Canal, obstructing the entire passageway.At least 420 vessels had to either take long detours around A

On its face, the pandemic-era mantra for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) is a simple one: adapt, adapt, adapt.Over the past year, SMBs have been forced to rapidly shift their operations in order to survive. Those that decided to make the switch to digital found that the pivot brought them g

Human resource is an integral part of the supply chain. As more people become conscious of how the products they consume come to be, the way you handle your employees can make or break your business. Supply chain laws exist to regulate all aspects of the enterprise, ranging from sourcing raw materia

Faster, safer, better: these consumer expectations for e-commerce delivery are driving a speed-focused freight market. This need for speed has inspired e-tail giants like Amazon.com to set new delivery standards with shipping services that put orders on doorsteps in less than 24 hours. The only way

The shift to supply-chain digitization over the past year has drastically changed the relationship between brands and consumer purchasing behavior. The world’s growing reliance on e-commerce has been accelerated by a variety of factors, including new technological developments, the purchasing

It may seem that today’s increasingly unpredictable supply chains have finally bested professional planners, but the reality is that legacy planning software hasn’t caught up to our ever connected and interdependent world. Traditional tools rely on rules-based prescriptive solutions: We

Cybersecurity experts scramble to stay a step ahead of hackers looking to exploit weaknesses in millions of internet of things devices worldwide. But maybe they’re focusing on the wrong problem.IoT devices permeate virtually every aspect of business today, and are making rapid inroads into the

Artificial intelligence is enabling big-box retailers to create hybrid physical-digital environments — and that could be just what brick-and-mortar retailers need in order to compete with e-commerce.E-commerce hasn’t been friendly to big-box retailers. Ever since Borders bookstore realiz

From pork sausages to pet food, hardly a week goes by where consumers don’t hear about a dangerous product recall. And it’s not just food manufacturers. Ninety-six percent of manufacturers surveyed, including those in the life science and beverage industries, have experien

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we live, work and, most notably for consumer goods manufacturers, the way we shop. And it has forced brands and retailers alike to adapt their business models and supply chain practices.Shoppers showed that they were largely ready to make the switch to online co

With a projected 85% of Americans being fully vaccinated by August 2021, all eyes are now on what happens post-pandemic. Consumer patterns shifted due to the pandemic, supply chain leaders faced significant challenges like transporting available inventory to areas away from quarantine zones, updatin

The vision of what broad adoption of global data standards could do for improving the efficacy of our healthcare system isn’t new, nor are efforts to achieve it. The Department of Defense first sought to standardize its supply chain in the early 1990s, to ensure high-quality products in suppor

The fallout from the global pandemic lowered occupancy and usage for some large facilities, yet energy bills didn’t necessarily decrease at the same pace to alleviate the cost burdens of maintaining base operations and systems. As the economy recovers, this makes now an ideal time to consider

The benefits of harnessing the enormous volume of data captured by transportation and logistics industries cannot be overstated.One very important and frequently overlooked benefit for this carbon-intensive industry is the ability to use analytics for carbon footprint reduction, which has both finan

What might well be the most important supply chain in the world today is also one of the most backward, when it comes to automating key processes.The life science supply chain gave us the vaccines that are now rolling out on a global basis to combat COVID-19, not to mention any number of other drugs

Collecting data and trying to maximize time efficiency in business is similar to budgeting in your personal life. That $6 coffee might seem like a relatively inexpensive purchase, but over time, if you buy a coffee at a dollar less every morning before work, you’ll find yourself saving around

The road to a warehouse management system (WMS) looks and feels different for every distributor. For some whose operations were entirely paper-based before deciding to hit the gas on an implementation, the journey might have seemed daunting at the outset. Others may have been eager to push the ignit

March's Suez Canal crisis amazed a global audience by dramatically illustrating how a single event could disrupt supply chains around the world. But its message was no different than that of the COVID-19 pandemic: It’s time to reevaluate the interconnected ecosystems of businesses everywhe