A new cloud enterprise resource planning software supplier guide from ARC Advisory Group includes both selection criteria and guided workflow steps for choosing the correct cloud ERP system and supplier.
We live in a time of incredible technological progress. Self-driving cars and self-flying drones have already arrived, and more intelligent machines are surely just over the horizon. For many in the supply chain management community, the next big technology is the "control tower". Millions of dollars have been spent marketing the idea that a control tower is the "intelligent" system of the future and the solution to your problems. What is a control tower and should you invest in one?
The long-term infrastructure developments unveiled by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at a recent National Day Rally include plans to expand Changi Airport and relocate the country's seaport.
To address supply chain threats, 28 percent of respondents in a recent survey said they have shifted from overseas to domestic suppliers in the past 12 months, according to BBK, an international business advisory firm with roots in the automotive manufacturing industry. Nearly 70 percent of these respondents cited transportation, shipping and logistics costs as the most significant factors in decisions to re-shore.
The Supply Chain Management Association (SCMA), Canada's largest association for supply chain professionals, has officially launched. Representing nearly 8000 members working in all facets of the supply chain, SCMA is the country's principle source for education, training, professional development and networking in the field.
The disposal of computers and other electronic and electrical goods, e-waste, is a growing global problem, with much of the often dangerous junk winding up in emerging countries.
The counterfeiting of electronics (as well as the exporting of e-waste, which has been demonstrated to directly enable this type of counterfeiting) is currently seen as only a minor crime, even though it has been extensively proven to cause financial loss, injury, and death. That may be changing.
The Panama Canal Authority, or ACP, says the $5.2bn widening of the Panama Canal is more than 60 percent complete. The first four of 16 gates for the canal's third set of locks marked a construction milestone. Locks are nearly 50 percent finished; concrete work is two-thirds done; and water-saving basins are about 40 percent complete.