When it comes to sustainability in the supply chain, the one consistent thread is that companies are facing increasing pressure to be as...
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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...
Customer Spotlight: FREJA Transport and Logistics
FREJA’s story might sound familiar to any number of organizations in any number of industries: for a long time, the company had a business...
How Stamps Can Help You Make More Informed Business Decisions
Everyone has his or her unique way of analyzing data to find the right answers. This is why self-service in a business intelligence tool is so...
3 Critical Metrics for Distributors
There’s no shortage of data and information. It’s everywhere. But how can you make data useful in order to make better decisions? That’s the hard...
How Analytics Saved Fieldale Farms $170K Per Year
The tight U.S. labor market and uncertainty about corn and soybean prices are dual challenges for U.S. farmers and food producers this year....
The Magic Bullet for Designing Better Dashboards
Have you ever looked at a dashboard and been overwhelmed by the various dials, charts and gauges? Did you spend more time deciphering than...