Cloud & On-Demand Systems

How Mindnumbing Office Tasks Made One Man $360M

Stop Using Spreadsheets to Manage Your Global Supply Chain

August 10, 2022

Maintaining your organization’s dependence on collecting, tracking and sharing supply chain data with Excel is perhaps the biggest threat to agility, resilience, visibility and profitability.

Case study

Palo Alto Networks Enhances Forecasting and Demand-Planning Function

August 8, 2022

SupplyChainBrain

Global cybersecurity leader Palo Alto Networks, Inc. needed to implement a new tool for supply as well as sales and operations planning functionality — and time was of the essence.

Five Supply-Chain Challenges and How Process, People and Technology Can Help Overcome Them

August 5, 2022

Why Suppliers Must Be Part of Cyber-Risk Strategy

July 28, 2022

Helen Atkinson, Managing Editor

Cybersecurity risks are rising fast, and it’s not enough for you to secure your data and IT systems within the four walls of your enterprise; you need to make sure your suppliers are not exposing you to attacks as well.

How to Make the Most of Supplier Rebate Programs

July 14, 2022

Derek Gittoes, SCB Contributor

Wholesale distributors are facing a wide range of global supply chain disruptions — ongoing shortages, longer lead times, higher logistics costs and more — forcing many businesses to seek new avenues to drive revenue.

Before AI, Warehousing Must Catch Up to Cloud

June 12, 2022

Joe Blazick, SupplyChainBrain Contributor

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are among the hottest topics in supply chain innovation at the moment, but if your company is resistant to using the cloud, you’re going to struggle to take advantage of these new technologies.

Four Ways a Cloud-Native WMS Can Solve Retail Supply Chain Pain Points

May 25, 2022

Podcast | Companies Are on a Shopping Spree for Supply Chain Software

May 13, 2022

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

The wallets are open: Companies are investing heavily in software for optimizing the supply chain. But will the trend continue?

Less Paper, More Power: How AI Helps Carriers Meet Their SLAs

March 3, 2022

Bruce Orcutt, SupplyChainBrain Contributor

The challenge of meeting service level agreements (SLAs) can often be the cause of sleepless nights for shipping directors.

The Rising Stars of Digital Risk Management

February 8, 2022

Gregory Schlegel, SCB Contributor

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed risk to the top of virtually every corporate agenda, according to research by McKinsey & Co.

Cloud & On-Demand Systems

The latest news, analysis, trends and solutions for cloud, software as a service (SaaS) and on-demand systems and their impact on supply chain management. New technologies in cloud computing are transforming the way companies do business — and allowing them to stay ahead of the competition in their industries. As these solutions continue to evolve, businesses are discovering new ways to increase efficiency and cut costs. Learn how companies around the world are improving operations through their strategic use of cloud computing and on-demand systems for supply chain management.