Challenge: With more than 40 acquisitions in 30 years and regularly changing customer requirements, this global supplier of innovative non-woven, flexible and rigid products needed an integrated business planning process and platform to keep its supply chain running smoothly — and to stay ahead of its competition.

Given the complexity of doing business today, supply chain managers have their work cut out for them.

Instead of displacing American workers, robots may soon make many of their jobs more efficient.

Over the past year, a group of top global retailers and food companies have been working with IBM on testing blockchain technology to improve traceability in their supply chains. The companies include Nestlé, Unilever and Walmart.

Customer expectations are continuously evolving, and every business wants to innovate and differentiate itself to grow revenue without compromising margins. A customer experience-driven supply chain is an absolute necessity toward achieving these seemingly divergent goals.

Recent years of lackluster performance and the most significant profit drop in six years has fast-fashion retailer H&M looking for a road to profitability.

Facing the barrage of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, Steve Katz is ducking for cover in the trade-war version of a demilitarized zone.