2020 Supply Chain Innovator of the Year

Supply Chain Brain Magazine

2020 Supply Chain Innovator of the Year

Volume: 24

Edition: 4

More companies are waking up to the need for change, and this year, we honor six that took a truly new approach to the way in which they moved product to market.

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Innovation 2020: Some Bright Ideas in a Difficult Year

November 1, 2020

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

More companies are waking up to the need for change, and this year’s crop of candidates was especially strong.

Case Study

Intel Puts Its Indirect-Materials Spend on the Road to Digitization

November 1, 2020

SupplyChainBrain

Tackling the job of assessing all of its contracts for indirect-materials spend, Intel Corp. scraps a laborious and outdated manual process, and puts its entire supply chain on the road to digitization.

Case Study

Walmart Uses Blockchain to Fix ‘Broken’ Freight Audit and Payment Process

November 1, 2020

SupplyChainBrain

The giant retailer undertakes an ambitious initiative to make sense of its painfully complex freight payment and reconciliation process, involving its own fleet as well as those of outside carriers, and moving more than half a million shipments a year.

Case Study

Land O’Lakes Shrinks Empty Miles Through Industry Collaboration

November 1, 2020

SupplyChainBrain

The big agribusiness and food cooperative sets out to optimize truck capacity and save on transportation costs through use of a software tool that enables the sharing of space on selected routes.

Case Study

Reimagined Communication Boosts Cisco's Product Quality

November 1, 2020

SupplyChainBrain

Digitizing communications used to issue alerts and share data helped Cisco Systems Inc. reduce recall costs by 80%.

Case Study

Virtual Reality Helps Solve Real-World Workforce Challenge

November 1, 2020

SupplyChainBrain

To address this the challenge of finding skilled warehouse workers, The Raymond Corp. worked with Broome-Tioga Workforce New York to develop a virtual educational program — and found that innovative workplace instruction can attract and retain talent.

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