Supply Chain Management Best Practices

The fast-changing demands and whims of consumers are perhaps most apparent in the retail industry: One week, an item may be in style or trending – and then what seems like just days later, sales fall and consumers have moved on to something new. To keep up, retailers need a supply chain that helps...

Bain & Company teamed up with the World Bank to examine the top global supply chain barriers that impeded business around the world, and identify global best practices for each. Market access, telecom and transport infrastructure, border administration and business environment are the most common...

Deloitte just released the results of a cost survey of Fortune 100 companies. It found that although businesses are continuing to cut costs in any way they can, the strategy for cost-cutting has shifting away from mere survival to one of driving growth. Interestingly, the survey found growing...

Supply chain management is becoming more global and complex, and in addition to rising customer expectations, companies must reassess priorities to stay efficient. In a recent video interview, SupplyChainBrain reports on three priorities for supply chain and logistics technology: Ensure visibility...

The benefits of supply chain and logistics technology are well known: Automation and speed increase, assets are used more efficiently, costs are lowered and customer satisfaction improves. But what’s far more difficult – and less understood – is determining which technology to invest in order to...

Our own Chuck Fuerst and Dan Radunz contributed commentary on supply chain management to this month’s Food Logistics magazine. In the cover story about warehouse automation, Fuerst is quoted on the success of HighJump’s App Station. In the article “Six Ways WMS Can Improve Operations,” Radunz...

  Chuck Fuerst’s latest commentary on the Logistics Viewpoints site discusses the macro-level lifestyle trends influencing supply chain management and software solutions. The consumerization of IT has changed how the entire business world interacts with data. This holds true for the supply chain...

HighJump’s senior vice president of product strategy and development, Dan Radunz, was asked to participate in a roundtable discussion of supply chain software challenges and solutions. That discussion can be found in Part 1 and Part 2 on Manufacturing Business Technology’s website. Dan notes some of...

In Inbound Logistics, our own Chuck Fuerst recently discussed how 3PLs can make their business more attractive to current and potential clients by proactively responding to market demands and distinguishing themselves in a commoditized logistics industry. For example, providing clients access to...

A recent SupplyChainBrain article reported on “supply chain segmentation” with Chris Gordon of Wipro Technologies explaining the idea and its benefits.   Companies segmenting supply chains based on category are common, though the less common approach is the “cost to serve” concept. This is when a...