This Week in Logistics News (February 11-15, 2013)
Back in November 2008, I shared with you my fear of asteroids– see “All Greened Out (Until the Asteroid Comes).” Since then, various asteroids and meteors have come “near” our planet, but I suspect...
View ArticleAltera’s Customer Driven Supply Chain
I had the pleasure of attending JDA Software’s user conference late last month. I found a few user presentations to be especially informative. Perhaps most informative was a presentation by David...
View ArticleThis Week in Logistics News (July 19 – 25)
I finished my first ARC Market Study this week, looking at the Transportation Management Systems market. On top of that, my colleague, Clint Reiser, and I are wrapping up our omni-channel fulfillment...
View ArticleShelf-Level Collaboration Should be seen as Foundational to Omni-channel...
The hottest trend in supply chain management is omni-channel. Five years ago it was shelf-level collaboration. But really, these initiatives should be seen as mutually reinforcing. Omni-channel is...
View ArticleThis Week in Logistics News (August 16 – 22)
I’m sure everyone’s Facebook feed has been jammed with friends and family members (and links to celebrities) taking the ice bucket challenge. For those of you who don’t know what the ice bucket...
View ArticleGoogle’s Robot Strategy
Google was in the news today. Google has signed a 60-year lease for part of a historic Navy air base, where it plans to renovate three massive hangars and use them for projects involving robotics as...
View ArticleAre Driverless Trucks the Solution to the Driver Shortage?
Things are certainly changing in the trucking industry. Even though demand is rising, the industry is facing a monumental challenge in its shortage of qualified and licensed drivers. The driver...
View ArticleFAA Proposal Puts Limits on Commercial Drones Use
Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a remote controlled drone delivering a package to my house? It appears as though the future is here. Well, not so fast. As noted in last Friday’s...
View ArticleThis Week in Logistics News (August 16 – 22)
I’m sure everyone’s Facebook feed has been jammed with friends and family members (and links to celebrities) taking the ice bucket challenge. For those of you who don’t know what the ice bucket...
View ArticleGoogle’s Robot Strategy
Google was in the news today. Google has signed a 60-year lease for part of a historic Navy air base, where it plans to renovate three massive hangars and use them for projects involving robotics as...
View ArticleAre Driverless Trucks the Solution to the Driver Shortage?
Things are certainly changing in the trucking industry. Even though demand is rising, the industry is facing a monumental challenge in its shortage of qualified and licensed drivers. The driver...
View ArticleFAA Proposal Puts Limits on Commercial Drones Use
Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a remote controlled drone delivering a package to my house? It appears as though the future is here. Well, not so fast. As noted in last Friday’s...
View ArticleAn Innovator’s Journey to a Segmented Supply Chain
Kehat Shahar, the Vice President of Supply Chain Planning at SanDisk, spoke on the journey that SanDisk has taken to improve their supply chain operations at the eft conference on June 18th in Chicago....
View ArticleON Semiconductor’s Supply Chain Risk Management Program is a Competitive Weapon
I talked to Brent Wilson, SVP of Global Supply Chain Operations at ON Semiconductor, about their supply chain risk management program. ON Semiconductor is a premier supplier of energy efficient...
View ArticleDell’s Perfect Order Journey
Dell has a complex supply chain. And, this complexity has, over time, had a corrosive effect on Dell’s order fulfillment performance. In Dell’s case, when they dug into this by talking to customers,...
View ArticleXilinx Outsources their Demand Management Process
Outsourcing is very common in supply chain management. But one thing very few companies outsource is demand management. In fact, until I talked to Lori Pouquette, the vice president of global customer...
View ArticleIBM Continues to Improve their Supply Chain Control Towers
IBM manages more than $30 billion a year as part of its supply chain, with thousands of supply chain managers and analysts worldwide. IBM is using Watson and huge troves of weather and location data -...
View ArticleGTM Research Update: Merchandise Trade Analysis
In March I provided a brief overview of the global trade management (GTM) solutions market and discussed some of the factors that encourage companies to invest in these solutions. There are a few...
View ArticleHow A High-Tech Manufacturer Navigated The Pandemic
A Hi-Tech Company’s Control Tower Helped It Better Manage Air Cargo During the Worst Days of the Pandemic In 2014, one of the world’s largest high-tech manufacturers started thinking about a digital...
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How Pure Storage Withstood the Pandemic
Mike Fitzgerald, Vice President of Operations at Pure Storage Pure Storage never stocked out during the pandemic. That was not because demand for their products tanked. Product sales were down by 8%,...
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