Strategic sourcing has long been organized around a seemingly straightforward objective: identify the “best” supplier.

Companies increasingly recognize that supplier integration into new product development (SINPD) is critical for innovation, speed to market, cost reduction, and competitive advantage. Yet many ...

The origins of SCM, rooted in the concept of orchestration by a focal firm, have disproportionately favored organizations ...

Storytelling has been described as a “social glue” that enables human beings to maintain large, cohesive communities—a ...

Christopher A. Boone, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Mississippi State University; Karl B. Manrodt, Ph.D., Professor, Georgia ...

The American Transportation Research Institute’s annual survey ranked fuel prices as trucking’s top issue after a 17-place ...

Inventory handling is becoming more complicated with the rise in the number of products, customers, and logistics issues. A ...

Understanding the metrics best-in-class operations use to benchmark performance can be the key to helping your warehouse identify challenges and compete more… If you’ve brought a WMS proposal to ...

The North Dakota Mill and Elevator, commonly known as the North Dakota State Mill, has been operating since 1922. Originally ...

Research has consistently shown that supply chain risk management is often late to new risks1. It is part of human nature: we learn from experience and calibrate our risk tolerance based on what we ...

The company was a simulation created by Knut Alicke, a partner emeritus at McKinsey & Company and professor of supply chain management, and Ida Hedman, director of supply chain planning and logistics ...

America’s advanced-manufacturing base—and the economic and industrial security that rests on it—depends on a handful of foreign sources for critical minerals. A single country controls roughly 70% of ...