Analyst Insight: Today's chief supply chain officer (CSCO) is beset by pressures on all fronts, struggling to understand and meet customer demands for cheaper, faster and efficient logistic processes from source to final delivery. Under omnichannel competitive pressures, web and mobile orders tendered by 2 p.m. must be fulfilled and shipped in the same. These growing B2C fulfill-to-deliver flows add shipping and labor costs and, if not optimized, impact margins and profitability. This constitutes a call to action! - Bob Heaney, Research Director and Principal Analyst, Aberdeen Group

An efficient supply chain is one of the most crucial predictors of a company's success. The supply chain affects almost every marker for industry leadership, including costs, delivery performance and overall customer satisfaction. It's understandable then that the majority of supply chain executives consider visibility to be the most important aspect of any supply chain solution.

The global automotive electronics control unit management market is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 6.3 percent from 2014 to 2020, meaning that the market's 2013 value of $28.6bn and should reach a net worth of $43.7bn by 2020.

The UK construction sector expanded at its slowest pace for 17 months in December against a background of concerns around supply chain pressures and skills shortages, according to a survey of buyers.

The tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers arrive year-round by the ton, with peel-off stickers proclaiming "Product of Mexico."

Forty-six percent of leading companies report achieving more than four percent post-contract financial benefits from better supplier relationship management, according to research conducted by State of Flux. The research is in its sixth year and includes responses from more than 500 global companies across more than 20 industry sectors.

More than two-thirds (68 percent) of B2B buyers now purchase goods online, up from 57 percent last year, according to a recent report from the Acquity Group.