With increased global demand, shortages, significant disruption, and other challenges, businesses have never valued time more. But like other disciplines, traditional supply chain management has relied on disconnected supply chain components, manual processes, spreadsheets, and verbal agreements that take valuable…
Many years ago, as in-house IT platforms and infrastructure gave way to cloud-based SaaS systems, security was a more substantial concern than the efficacy of the software itself. While cloud-based systems offer a host of advantages in cost, updates, reduction…
Massive disruptions have been impacting businesses for the past several years. Gone are the days of stable and predictable supply chains that allow companies to adopt long-term lean and JIT replenishment to manage costs. To combat this new reality, supply…
By Olusola Oduntan, Sr. Product Manager. With unprecedented disruption in today’s supply chains, demand and supply planning are more challenging than ever. Trade wars, tariffs, the pandemic, and a host of other significant events that were once rare or generational…
It would be an understatement to say the last few years have been challenging for supply chain management professionals. Trade wars and tariffs, the COVID-19 pandemic, stuck cargo ships, and port backups have stretched many supply chains and those who…
Modern manufacturing operates successfully using software applications across a wide range of functions. These include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), and more. Today, many of these platforms are designed to work with automation…
Recent disruptions such as trade wars and COVID-19 have caused many professionals within supply chain management to rethink and redesign many core SCM practices. With longer lead times and port congestions, these professionals have had to embrace buffer stocks, reshoring…
The road away from spreadsheets, human intuition, and handshakes for supply chain management has been a long one. And a collection of best practices and standards for the SCM field has grown alongside amazing technological innovation. As technology has advanced…
A handshake, a phone call, a fax, or an email. Put the results of these communications into a spreadsheet, and the ship sails. While this paradigm of supply chain management was long the standard model, disruption, the new challenges of…
To say that 2020 brought record global supply chain challenges would be a gross understatement. With COVID-19, trade wars, weather events, port congestion, and other significant upheavals, many companies saw more disruption in a year than they had seen in…