The biggest gap in supply chain technology right now is not at the top of the market or among smaller businesses, but the middle. If you run supply chain execution for a business between US$100m and US$2.5bn in revenue, you know the squeeze. You are carrying enterprise-grade complexity — multiple regions, multiple systems, constant disruption — without an enterprise-sized team or budget to absorb it. You earned that complexity one reasonable decision at a time: a new channel

Industry leaders from Baringa, Amazon and Infosys took to the stage at Supply Chain LIVE: The London Summit, hosted at the QEII Centre in Westminster, London, on the 8th and 9th of September to discuss the future of AI in supply chain. Sameer Mohammed, Partner and Supply Chain Practice Lead at Baringa, Umesh Rangasamy, Leader of Private Brands Supply Chain Technology at Amazon, and Ambeshwar Nath, Executive Vice President and Industry Head of Consumer Goods, Retail and Logist

I’ve written many supply chain and logistics research reports in my 27 years as an industry analyst. These reports have covered a wide range of topics, including transportation management systems, supply chain operating networks, third-party logistics, and global trade management. I’ve also read a lot of reports from other industry analysts and consulting firms. There is a set of learnings and recommendations, typically found at the end of these reports, that have remained co

Organizations across manufacturing, retail and distribution are deploying artificial intelligence to optimize individual functions, including demand forecasting, warehouse slotting, carrier selection and last-mile routing. The results at the node level are often impressive, but something unexpected is happening at the network level: The constraints are moving instead of disappearing. When AI is deployed function by function, each team improves its own performance in relative

As supply chain disruptions have become near-constant occurrences across virtually every sector, companies are unquestionably getting better at predicting the next big shock. But a gap still exists between knowing what's coming and actually using that knowledge to move quickly and make critical, time-sensitive decisions. Much of the emphasis in recent years has been on having the right tools to predict disruptions before they arrive. According to an MHI survey of more than 70

Investments in logistics, real-time inventory visibility, and AI-powered forecasting are at an all-time high. Yet despite all this progress, production delays remain stubbornly common and, in many cases, they aren’t caused by transportation issues or late shipments. They’re the result of bottlenecks upstream in the procurement process, long before a single part or product gets ordered or delivered. Slow, manual onboarding workflows, especially those involving contract redlini

According to this article by Supply Chain Brain contributor Vitalii Savryha, when it comes to arranging logistics, small and medium-sized enterprises are at a huge disadvantage: They pay substantially more for identical shipping services compared to Fortune 500 companies, purely due to volume-based pricing structures. While large corporations negotiate directly with carriers using guaranteed monthly volumes, smaller businesses operate in a spot market designed to extract maxi

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