Supply chain optimization is a key component for any business aiming to develop or maintain a competitive supply chain strategy, enabling retailers to uncover inefficiencies in their supply chain ...

To begin, the discussion, let’s start with a retrospective. In 1982, the practice of supply chain management as a process to manage assets and flows across source, make and deliver was defined.

Supply chain leaders should note that these laws and directives go far beyond requiring pre-contract due diligence on the supplier. They demand an analysis of the potential environmental and human ...

The pandemic dislodged the global supply chain, hurling once smoothly running businesses, industries and economies into a state of disarray. After almost three years of enduring wild swings and ...

Brian Straight is the Editor in Chief of Supply Chain Management Review. He has covered trucking, logistics and the broader supply chain for more than 15 years. He lives in Connecticut with his wife ...

One of the primary reasons why there has been a recent shortage of semiconductors has been snags in the supply chain caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted production and shipping around ...

Common use cases of AI in the supply chain illustrate the benefits for companies of integrating AI into their operations. Attorneys supporting the supply chain function can similarly use ...

Dive Brief: Health supply chain costs and pharmaceutical expenses are projected to rise modestly between July 2025 and June 2026, according to new research from healthcare services company Vizient ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. — Army Materiel Command’s effort to standardize, specialize and modernize how it manages the Army’s supply chain is now in place. As of Jan. 30, 2023, AMC and its Life ...

“Supply chains are like a bowl of spaghetti,” said James McGregor, the chairman of the greater China region for APCO Worldwide, an advisory firm. “They get mixed all over.

“There were supply chain issues with some of their components on the space vehicle bus that took longer to get in-house than what was the original plan,” Tournear said during a briefing at the ...

Supply-Chain Sustainability Benefits Investors, Study Finds New research says companies that pay attention to the ESG practices of their suppliers tend to generate better stock-market returns over ...