Whether we like it or not, every company on the planet with any significant supply chain operation has an inventory reconciliation problem. It doesn’t matter if you are a retailer, manufacturer or logistics service provider, or if you have the latest…
Have we reached the point where we should just focus on executing better with the systems and processes we have than chase the next technological or process innovation? Translation: There’s still plenty of juice to squeeze in the fruit we…
In a previous posting, I wrote about how Kraft leverages downstream data to drive supply chain collaboration, based on a talk given by Ron Volpe, Customer VP of Supply Chain at Kraft Foods, at the CSCMP Annual Global Conference last…
Traditional retailers were fairly slow to wake up to the huge threat posed by Amazon. But my recent visit to “Retail’s BIG Show,” put on by the National Retail Federation (NRF), convinces me that they are now wide awake. One…
Meet Google, your new supply chain and logistics technology provider. According to a New York Times article, Google has started to test a same-day delivery service in San Francisco with some Google employees and their friends. At least one national…
