U.S. manufacturers recognize the potential of the digital technologies known collectively as Industry 4.0 to create value, but they are largely approaching the opportunity in piecemeal fashion and may miss out on the significant business benefits these technologies offer, according to new research from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
A conversation with retail industry thought leaders about how they're adjusting to the age of the omnichannel, and providing consumers with multiple options for ordering, picking up and receiving deliveries in a timely, efficient fashion.
After curing the ills of its founder's broken supply chain, ROi set out to remedy supply chain problems throughout the healthcare industry, and now services more than 100 hospitals.
A conversation with leaders in logistics and transportation management, as well as academia, about the capacity crunch vehicle OEMs feel as manufacturing and sales sometimes threatens to outpace the ability to get product to market efficiently or on time.
The world's largest designer and retailer of maternity apparel saw the need to revamp its warehouse and fulfillment systems to reflect the modern-day needs of omnichannel customers. A brand new, automated facility was the result.
Uber recently announced it's buying the artificial intelligence group Geometric Intelligence, to form the core of the ride-sharing giant's own research center.
Supply chain managers are constantly bombarded with offers of technology that will transform supply chain efficiency, trim order cycles and eradicate stock-outs, but they rarely focus on order management solutions. That's a shame, because the right order management tools can give supply chain executives incredible control and agility over order fulfillment - the ultimate goal of supply chain excellence.
Retail and supply chain technology company SML plans to open its sixth RFID solution innovation center in 2017, and to further its pop-up store deployments in an effort to educate customers about its radio frequency identification products. The firm opened a center in Texas in August of this year, followed by another in China in October, and a third in Germany this month.
Mondelez International Inc., trying to adapt as more shoppers buy food outside of traditional grocery stores, is diving deeper into online retail with a holiday-season website that is selling tins of Oreos directly to consumers.