This column will introduce a lead-time metric that has seen 20 years of successful application in industry and fits-to-a-T what is needed for Next Generation Lean. This inclusion of suppliers and ...

The supply chain industry is at a crossroads. Once upon a time, when most products and components were in abundance, a lean supply chain was a miracle of efficiency. Lean principles were used in every ...

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Vendors can use retailers’ own performance metrics (and chargebacks) to guide them on what they should be on the lookout for, not just within their own enterprises, but as they monitor their contract ...

The world is investing heavily in supply chain resilience. Re-shoring or near-shoring factories, “just-in-case” inventories, and qualifying alternative suppliers are among the most common ways that ...

Gurdip Singh is Chief Product Officer at Blue Yonder, a leading AI company for end-to-end digital supply chain transformation. Supply chain management is a numbers game. Companies track countless key ...

Procurement teams facing tighter budgets and higher expectations in 2026 can unlock real value from AI by focusing on practical, modular use cases—GenAI… Resources December Edge Report: Freight trends ...

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The healthcare supply chain industry has evolved over the last 15 years in five significant ways, Eric O’Daffer, a Gartner research vice president, wrote in a Dec. 4 piece in Supply Chain Management ...

Toyota, a half century ago, pioneered the just-in-time strategy for supply chains—and was celebrated for its ingenuity and efficiency. With just-in-time processes in place, companies match supply with ...

Replacing hazardous chemicals with safer alternatives across supply chains is one of sustainable business’s biggest challenges. The Safer Chemistry Impact Fund reveals an actionable roadmap to address ...