Eight in 10 supply chain and manufacturing executives believe digital supply chains will predominate in the future while 16 percent believe they already do, according to a survey.

If Amazon's latest clothing manufacturing plans become a reality, air cargo companies could stand to lose billions in revenues. Last week, the e-commerce giant was awarded a patent for a localized manufacturing setup that eliminates much of the traditional supply chain, bringing manufacturing closer to consumers than ever before.

There are three basic conditions if you want to work for Jack Stack, and they go for everybody from senior executives down to the people who clean his company's bathrooms. The first is you have to learn how to read and understand the company's financials, the second is you really have to believe there is no "I" in "team," and the third is you have to get into the habit of asking, "What could go wrong, and what are we going to do when it does?"

Chicago has been a food and beverage manufacturing hub since the days when James Kraft delivered cheese by horse and buggy and the newborn National Biscuit Company went on a bakery-buying bender. In 1914, the city became "hog butcher to the world" and "stacker of wheat" in Carl Sandburg’s poem. Sandburg, had he had more wind left in him, also might have added "palace of sweets" - as Brach's called itself - and "citadel of Cracker Jacks."

It only makes sense that The 3M Company, with a business model resting almost entirely upon technology, would eventually get around to applying it to the supply chain.

Human rights abuses are present in the mining of minerals widely used by technology firms, according to a new report.

With robotics making great strides and more companies welcoming robots into the workforce, IT managers need to start prepping for the changes coming their way.