Supply Chain

In this 3 part blog series, we look at the Top 3 Supply Chains of 2017 as ranked by Gartner. In the last blog, we talked about Inditex (Zara) which holds the third position. In this post, we will look at the No. 2 Supply Chain of 2017. If you haven’t already guessed it (…from the title and […]

Gartner recently released its list of Top 25 supply chains of 2017. These supply chains are evaluated on many factors like: ROA (Return on Assets), Inventory Turns, and Revenue Growth. In this 3 part blog series, we will take a look at the Top 3 Supply Chains of 2017 and what they are doing right. At […]

With the rapidly changing business climate, supply chains need to be more flexible and reliable. In the past supply chains were labor heavy, but now they are more information intensive. Recent changes have led to the automation of supply chains due to three main benefits: Reduce costs Increase sustainability of products Increase rate of flow […]

The comparison of a supply chain to a value ‘web’ is a topic that’s hard for us to not talk about. It is correctly said that supply chains, if built right, can span out like a (Clear) Spider’s web to connect all the suppliers and their partners in the chain. In fact, that is what […]

Global healthcare spend is expected to increase to a whopping $8.7 trillion by 2020!  This means that the healthcare industry needs to implement better supply chain management tools to keep up. However, supply chain for healthcare organizations is more complex. They involve multiple stakeholders such as insurance companies, group purchasing organizations (GPO), and health regulatory […]

In our last blog article, we discussed the importance of change management in the supply chain. Continuing on, we will share some ideas in this article on how to successfully implement change management. Change management in any organization should be an ongoing process. Just like the supply chain industry in general, business processes should be […]