One of the most complex industries when it comes to supply chain management is healthcare. Some of those complexities were brought to the public’s...
A Healthy Healthcare Supply Chain Could Save Lives
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How Data Can Navigate What Could Be a Difficult Summer for Shipping
From the pandemic to extreme weather to human error – for example, a large container ship ending up blocking the Suez Canal - the past few years...
The Supply Chain Relies on AI For Data-Driven Decision-Making
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has played a role in the supply chain for years. Like any technology, though, it continues to grow, and that can lead...
How Your Organization Can Benefit from the FLOW System
Due to the global uncertainty over the last several years, many organizations turned to data to shore up their supply chains. They mapped their...
New Technology Assists Supply Chain Transparency
Organizations rely on transparency in their supply chains for any number of reasons. Following the pandemic, companies that did not have their...
Using Data and Analytics to Manage Inventory
A retailer’s goal is to sell what it has in stock. It may sound simple, but as in any aspect of business, there are complications to that formula....
How Data Can Help Make The Supply Chain More Sustainable
When it comes to sustainability in the supply chain, the one consistent thread is that companies are facing increasing pressure to be as...
How Organizations Can Use Analytics for Supply Chain Agility
When the pandemic hit, the companies that found the most success were the ones that could pivot the most quickly. Instead of closing their doors and...
Inventory Analytics: Two Sets of Metrics that Really Matter
Distribution is an intensely competitive business and inventory is key to determining profitability. Applying advanced analytics to inventory...
Logistics Trends That Are Impacting Your Business
The supply chain has seen a lot of turbulence over the last couple of years, with fluctuating shortages and inventory gluts. Logistics companies...
How Data Can Help Supply Chain Disruptions
More than two and a half years after the onset of a global pandemic, the supply chain continues to experience disruption. What started out with the...
The Complete Package: Why Packaging Matters In Supply Chain Analytics
The ordinary person doesn’t think much about the supply chain until something goes wrong. It’s the product that doesn’t reach them that draws the...
Taking Links Out of the Supply Chain to Improve Efficiency
For most industries, the scariest thing about a disruption to “business as usual” is the unpredictability of it. It’s hard to control every aspect...
Supply Chain Presents an Olympian Hurdle
Featured image source: rarrarorro—stock.adobe.com. For organizations that deal with the global supply chain, making an adjustment at this time of...
The Infrastructure Bill’s Impact on the Supply Chain and its Data
When President Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law on November 15, a number of industries stood to benefit. Organizations that...
How Supply Chain Snarls are Hitting Close to Home—and Schools
For a while now, the difficulties the supply chain has been facing have been at a higher level than the average American might be paying attention...
Rethinking Logistics and How the Government is Getting Involved
Over the past year-plus, the supply chain has seen a remarkable number of changes. Organizations have had to adjust to various disruptions, and many...
The Data You Need to Look for in the Omnichannel Era
A global semiconductor shortage. Bare supermarket shelves. Shipping containers backed up at ports. The focus on the supply chain over the past...
How Analytics Can Help Make the Food Supply Chain Safer and More Efficient
One byproduct of a disruption is that it forces organizations to look at the way they do business through a lens they might not have used before....
Looking on the Bright Side of Logistics
So much of the news over the past year regarding the supply chain and logistics has been negative. Everything from bare supermarket shelves at the...