Ralph Henderson, executive producer and promoter with SupplyChainBrain Media, sits down with Jefferson Davis, president of Competitive Edge LLC, to talk about the evolution and future of industry trade shows.

The global economy is on track for a soft landing in 2025, a scenario characterized by stable growth and managed inflation risks.

Following is a four-step approach to ensuring a smooth post-merger or acquisition supply chain integration, and setting up the new entity for success.

ThroughPut said the partnership will allow businesses to use the Project44 platform's purchase order and sales data to sense and predict demand at a local level.

The platform provides the building blocks across Azure, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Teams and Power Platform for customers to develop or independently adopt capabilities for their supply chain needs.

While the task and responsibility for managing the data supply chain is primarily the responsibility of information technology professionals, the concepts and tools we use every day directly apply to the data supply chain as well as the physical supply chain.  

,Automation of supply chain processes has rapidly enabled the globalization of supply chains and brought new efficiencies. However, these are not new techniques, and can be somewhat of a double-edged sword.

Kevin Keegan, principal with PwC Strategy Consulting, explains the concept and rationale behind the use of dual sourcing of manufactured goods to reduce supply-chain risk.

The complexity of global supply chains requires a constant effort of readjustment and re-evaluation, and in the months following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, those global connections have become even more tenuous.