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Why “Distributed Order Management” is a top retail trend and why you should care

The Network Effect

While companies may focus on transforming the customer-facing experience, they are constantly challenged on the back end to optimize inventory management and their supply chains, thereby enabling real-time, enterprise-wide insight into inventory, as well as a flexible supply chain that supports dynamic inventory movement across channels.

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A shift in philosophy: basketball and your demand forecast

The Network Effect

UMass, at the time, was almost unbeatable and hadn’t lost a game at The Cage for almost 2 years. The only person who learned the real lessons from that game was a skinny guard on the UMass team named Rick Pitino. The game was played in Amherst, at the legendary arena known as the Cage. He was mesmerized by the full court press.

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Six keys to achieving advanced container monitoring

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Containers have increased in popularity and adoption ever since the release of Docker in 2013, an open-source platform for building, deploying and managing containerized applications. To achieve this, organizations can utilize container monitoring solutions that provide organizations with real-time visibility into container performance.

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11 Great Procurement Tools for Manufacturing Companies

Procurement Software

This exciting trend persuaded us that it’s about time we featured an article on these procurement tools specifically. It ensures they know in real time, with push notifications in one platform, all about the latest status of delivery times, any quantity discrepancies and logistical challenges.

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Experts Reveal Top Transportation Trends to Watch

Supply Chain Opz

Given the costs of infrastructure development, I suspect these tight capacities to remain for some time and drilling companies will be looking to other alternatives (namely pipeline, truck, or ship) to move oil around the country. This has been a priority of shippers for a long time in order to optimize their supply chains.

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No-Code Automation: Definition and Top 5 Tools

Pipefy

In the realm of business process management, it’s a solution that many organizations are adopting to address business challenges caused by rework, errors, and time-consuming and inefficient manual workflows. But imagine the time savings of 15 employees newly relieved of sending 10 confirmation emails per day.

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The 10 Hottest Nordic Procurement Startups

Procurement Software

It generates insights on bottlenecks, variants, and cycle times to drive process improvements. Workfellow offers a next-generation end-to-end visibility into workflows, systems usage, and tasks. It aims to deliver a one truth approach, bringing real transparency to your costs and savings.