By now, all manufacturers are fully up to speed on the Securities & Exchange Commission's new rule about disclosing the presence of conflict minerals in their products ... aren't they? Read More

It was Apple CEO Tim Cook who called inventory “fundamentally evil.” But a lot of manufacturers and retailers don’t seem to agree with him. Read more.

When it comes to fashioning the optimal customer experience, the gap between dream and reality can be vast. Read more. 

Anybody with a passing knowledge of the supply chain knows how important it is to a company’s success. So why haven’t some CEOs, boards and investors gotten the memo? Read more. 

Conventional wisdom says that the forecast is always wrong. Is that an excuse for demand planners to give up? Read more. 

Do consumers place a monetary value on supply-chain visibility? Are they willing to pay more for a product that is “socially responsible”? Read more. 

Technological innovations these days seem to come and go with the speed of high fashion. Read more.