Industry Trends

What do we need to unlearn in supply chain management? I first addressed that question in a July 2017 post titled “Unlearning Supply Chain Management.” That post inspired us to ask our Indago [...]

Kevin O’Meara, Vice President, Integrated Supply Chain at Shaw Industries, tweeted the following comment recently: "Message for my [venture capital]/Angel investor friends: As a practitioner, I [...]

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, "Germany is set to force companies to screen suppliers for environmental violations and human-rights abuses, such as illegal mining and child labor...Under [...]

Generation stereotypes exist, and as the authors of a Harvard Business Review article state,  “these beliefs can get in the way of how people collaborate with their colleagues, and have [...]

There is a growing focus on last mile delivery, not only in the business-to-consumer (B2C) realm, but also in business-to-business (B2B) commerce. Is last mile delivery becoming a competitive [...]

How would you characterize your dock appointment scheduling process in terms of being able to plan and execute inbound and outbound shipments through your distribution centers as efficiently as [...]

We all know the saying "The more things change, the more they stay the same." What will stay the same in the year ahead despite all the changes in supply chain management? What trends will [...]

At an industry conference last week, Matt Connolly, VP of Global Logistics at The Clorox Company, in response to a question about demand volatility, stated, "In the past, you could leverage [...]

From a Lean perspective, there are seven forms of waste in supply chains. Which types of waste are most prevalent in your organization? How do you reduce or eliminate this waste?

In the post Hidden Suppliers Can Make or Break Your Operations (Harvard Business Review, May 2015), the authors write, “With the size and complexity of supply chains soaring, a daunting [...]