David Parker, director of strategic partnerships with Architech, lays out the major pain points that companies are feeling, as they seek to boost connectivity and integrate disparate systems within I.T. infrastructures.
The shift toward omnichannel distribution has both positive and negative unintended impacts. On the positive side are opportunities to blend and leverage channels; on the downside are organizational and operational gaps. Steven DeFazio, executive vice president at Fortna, offers insights on both.
Lora Cecere, CEO of Supply Chain Insights, discusses new research from her company designed to identify the top 15 supply chains as measured against their peers, including capabilities and strategies that these companies share.
SAP AG has made generally available the BILT mobile app, which provides interactive, 3D, voice-guided assembly, repair and instructions in an application for iOS and Android tablets.
The goal of intelligent transportation planning is to enable decisions based on what is happening across the entire supply chain, from upstream demand to downstream constraints, in order to create both value and resiliency, says Fabrizio Brasca, vice president of solutions strategy at JDA Software.
Having a visual map that overlays a company's key facilities, suppliers and lanes with actual or potential risks helps enable faster reaction to supply chain disruptions, says Chris Kushmaul, director of supply chain solutions at IDV Solutions.
The Amazon effect is raising consumer expectations for delivery services - expectations that logistics providers are struggling to meet without degrading margins, says Robert Lieb, supply chain management professor at Northeastern University. Lieb discusses this and other trends revealed in the annual survey of global 3PL CEOs.
Retailers are moving away from liquidating outdated inventory for a set price of pennies on the dollar, says Jeremy Witte, COO of Genco Marketplace. Instead they are looking to partners to maximize liquidation returns through a network of secondary merchants.