Supply chain leaders have been using technology to design and optimize their supply chains for decades. These days, they’re trying to understand the best way to integrate artificial intelligence and ...

The characteristic that distinguishes successful teams is not a high headcount, but a direct line to the experienced leadership team. Their role is to provide detailed guidance to make sure the ...

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Supply chain design was once seen as an activity to be endured every few years — a strategic exercise that wasn’t tied to operations. Now, however, competitive companies are realizing that every ...

Per $1 billion in company revenues, no supply chain application has a better return on investment (ROI) than network design! The larger the supply chain, the bigger the payout. Further, these projects ...

In an increasingly uncertain world, the strategic worth of network design will continue to rise. It is not only the pace of change driving network design’s value, it is also the scale of the changes ...

Charan Lalwani has held leadership positions at Amazon, and in 2018, he devised a groundbreaking network design that enabled the company to launch its “Amazon Shipping” product. Photo by Bjoern ...

The pandemic has wreaked havoc on the world’s supply chains for a number of reasons — from a lack of raw material to labor shortages — but whatever the reason, the problems are persisting, and ...