Category: Industries

Introduction  Supply chain agility is essential for organizations to remain competitive. Consumer demands, new technologies, and economic conditions can disrupt the balance between supply and demand. Supply planning, or accurately estimating the quantities of products, raw materials, or components needed to meet customer demand, represents one key supply chain challenge. Effective supply planning helps organizations […]

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic prompted organizations to reevaluate their supply chain strategies to ensure they could meet rapidly changing customer needs. Companies are shifting away from traditional push or pull inventory approaches toward more dynamic, complex models that can better match customer demand. In this rapidly evolving landscape, the ability to experiment and validate new […]

Introduction For industries like Telecommunications, Utilities, Oil and Gas, and Mining, ensuring the right products arrive at the right place and time is mission-critical. Failure to do so can result in operational delays, poor labor utilization, increased costs due to unplanned asset/product movements, and irreversible damage to an organization’s reputation and financial performance. Organizations in […]

Introduction Supply chains are vast, interconnected networks spanning multiple tiers of suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and customers across diverse geographies. These complex, multimodal networks involve numerous internal and external players operating at different consumption points. The multitude of participants, disparate systems, and lack of seamless data sharing challenge demand and supply planning processes, making it difficult […]

Supply chain management is rapidly evolving, with consumer-packaged goods (CPG) and retail organizations facing unprecedented challenges driven by dynamic customer demands, geopolitical disruptions, and market volatility. To stay ahead in this highly competitive landscape, organizations must embrace innovation and leverage advanced technologies that enable agility, resilience, and operational excellence. The AWS Summit New York, will […]

Organizations face a complex challenge in maintaining sustainability compliance across their vast, global supply chains. Managing complex regulatory requirements, collecting data from suppliers worldwide, and auditing that data for accuracy using traditional email and fragmented messaging tools proves inefficient and error-prone. As organizations navigate the modern supply chain landscape, embracing digital and physical transformations will […]

Persistent supply chain disruptions have exposed the vulnerabilities caused by siloed data and disjointed processes that impact supply chain visibility, agility, and resilience. The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group’s comprehensive research advisory report addresses these critical challenges and provides a roadmap for enhancing end-to-end supply chain synchronization. It emphasizes establishing a broad, interconnected supply chain […]

Organizations are pursuing leaner operations and new strategies to meet customer demands, lower costs, and increase resiliency against external forces. Every industry has faced an increasing number of supply chain disruptions over the past decade due to natural disasters, weather events, labor shortages, trade disputes, and geopolitical issues. The rate of supply chain disruptions is […]

AWS customers can now leverage Amazon solutions to design more efficient Fulfillment Centers This blog describes the processes and technology by which Amazon approaches new fulfillment center design, and how AWS is now externalizing this solution to customers through a new professional services offering called Warehouse Automation and Optimization (WAO). Warehousing is a critical, yet […]

The Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo arrives at a pivotal juncture for supply chain leaders confronting an increasingly turbulent landscape. Heightened customer expectations, geopolitical uncertainties, and economic volatility pose formidable challenges. This premier event provides a vital forum for addressing these complexities and identifying actionable strategies to outperform and drive long-term success. With over 3,500 CSCOs […]