Ratelinx interviews article with Mike Mortson originally appeared on ratelinx.com. If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that the importance of supply chain management cannot be understated. After watching customers scramble to source household toiletries and life-saving PPE, supply chains are left wondering, “What comes next?”
As we prepare for whatever comes next, it’s clear we need leaders ready and able to reinvent the supply chain.
Everyone experiences an overload of ads daily. YouTube, Facebook, and even your email inbox are full of them.
They’re effective, and for companies, digital marketing methods are efficient. Unfortunately, that’s led many people to look past the high value of offline marketing.
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This year was supposed to be the year of recovery. Instead, we’ve seen the supply chain system go from bad to worse with extensive Supply Chain disruption.
Like any other industry, Supply Chain Management comes with its own Supply Chain myths and misconceptions that can easily mislead many businesses.
This is especially true when people try to seek out the best way to optimize their Supply Chains – only to actually be slowly sabotaging them and making them more inefficient than they should be when they fail to do ample research.
Here, we break down some of those Supply Chain myths that you should watch out for and avoid.
In April, 2022 I was invited to present at Unicorn Partners’ Supply Chain Intelligence Summit. They wanted to have “an intensive and critical examination of the reality and the dream of end-to-end supply chain visibility”.
For anyone who follows Supply Chain Game Changer, you know that we view end-to end Supply Chain connectivity and visibility as the foundation to create the Digital Supply Chain of the future.
Further, we believe that we are now at a massive inflection point in the history of Supply Chain Management. This was a great opportunity to share our view of the current reality and our vision of the definitive Supply Chain of the future.
Having a productive and efficient supply chain is very important for a business. In supply chain management, it is essential to keep all unnecessary costly errors mitigated. However, common mistakes can happen that lead to higher overhead.
Missing opportunities that make your chain more efficient will make your supply chain sub-optimal. By locating the mistakes and correcting them, you can optimize your supply chain.
There was a time, not so long ago, when Supply Chain was viewed merely as a necessary, but unimportant, back office function. And for many people they still work in an environment where Supply Chain is not given the respect that it rightly deserves. They haven’t known why Supply Chain Management is important.
However the Coronavirus pandemic, if nothing else, has proven the absolutely critical nature of Supply Chain. The fragility of the global Supply Chain, and the impacts when Supply Chains fail, were exposed by the pandemic. Unlike any time before government leaders, CEOs, and people from every corner of the globe were talking about Supply Chain.
I’ve always believed that Supply Chain is perhaps the most pivotal function in any organization as it pertains to the successful operation and survival of that entity.
It’s time to recognize the undeniable, irrefutable importance of Supply Chain. In this article we present our 10 best articles corroborating the esteem which we should bestow on this amazing field.
It has been over 40 years since the term “Supply Chain Management” was coined. Over that time period, especially in the last few years, the term has served to create a general understanding of what the field involves.
But what “Supply Chain” has come to symbolize in the past may not be adequate to describe what it will need to mean in the future.
Has the time come to find a new name to describe this field? Has the time to come to rename and reinvent Supply Chain Management?
In September 2019, the U.N. climate summit convened in New York. It saw leaders from around the world pledging new initiatives to address the ongoing climate crisis and sustainability, including a $60 Billion renewable energy commitment from Germany, and 15 countries including Britain, Norway and Costa Rica pledging to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
World leaders are responding to massive climate protests and strikes around the world, with students inspired by activist Greta Thunberg and others demanding more action.
Around the world, people are demanding more from their governments, business communities, and their fellow consumers to help create a more sustainable future. None of these three communities can solve the crisis alone, but all have a part to play.
Economists have done a lot of analysis on the rise of the so-called “gig economy.” More workers are using short-term contracts and other forms of hire on contract employment to provide additional income to supplement or replace permanent jobs – think Uber, DoorDash, etc.
But more and more companies in a variety of industries are also bringing on high-skilled contingent labour for white collar positions in a number of impactful business functions like Technology, Procurement and Supply Chain.
Here at Supply Chain Game Changer our fundamental mission has been to share experiences and expertise in the areas of Supply Chain, Logistics, Distribution, Procurement, Business, Human Resources and more. We now present our 2019 Top 10 list.
In our 3rd year at Supply Chain Game Changer we have had the tremendous opportunity to share more content created by ourselves and a growing number of Guest contributors.
With new articles provided to us every week our audience is allowing us to share ever more engaging content and their incredible intelligence for the benefit of all. We extend our thanks to all and invite everyone to submit articles for our consideration.
Here at the midpoint of 2019 we would like to share the 2019 Top 10 List of our most viewed articles of 2019!
A winery supply chain is like no other in the food and beverage industry. The acts of nature that can cut a grape harvest in half and the threat of floods that can destroy an entire field add to supply chain disruptions.
In addition, the warehousing of wine is a sensitive compendium of targeted movements to produce the wine itself. Another factor to consider is the distribution of wine, which requires thoughtful and secure planning.
In a recent article on CIO Dive, The state of AI across 5 industries, I read that “retailers now have a call to action to use AI. They want to improve middle and back-office functions, including improved financial forecasting and supply chain management.”
This article resonated with me quite well, as it coincided with my recent panel at last week’s BGSA Supply chain conference. The panel “Managing Technology in This Era of Disruption” covered how to leverage new technologies like artificial intelligence and advanced analytics so companies can enable customer success strategies.
The Coronavirus situation has now been declared a pandemic. With over 750,000 cases, over 36000 deaths the expectation is the number of infections will continue to grow at an incredibly rapid rate.
Countries and companies are taking extreme measures. Millions of people have been quarantined, travel has been restricted if not prohibited, and events of all kinds are being cancelled or deferred.
The economic and Supply Chain impact has been, and will be, enormous with employees unable to work, factories shut down, and modes of transportation idled in record numbers. It will take enormous intelligence and expertise to get the Supply Chain back on track throughout, and after, this crisis.
Supply Chain leaders now belong at the head of the Boardroom table like never before.
