2020 Supply Chain Management Resource Guide | SupplyChainBrain

2020 Supply Chain Management Resource Guide

Take a look inside our annual supply-chain toolkit — featuring 70 reports from top minds in technology, logistics and distribution in a variety of industry verticals.

Supply Chain Brain Magazine 2020 Supply Chain Management Resource Guide

Education & Professional Development

Online Courses in Supply-Chain Risk Management: An Analysis

New risk-management software solutions are coming online every few months. Here's where the industry is headed.

February 12, 2020

Source: Bloomberg

Regulation & Compliance

Overcoming Key Gaps Hurting the Hazmat Supply Chain

Analyst Insight: The growth of e-commerce, coupled with continuing evolution of the supply chain, has made moving dangerous goods in a safe and compliant manner more important than ever. Unfortunately, several key gaps exist within many organizations’ processes and infrastructure that make maintaining a reliable hazmat supply chain challenging, and put their operational efficiency, reputation and bottom line at risk.

February 12, 2020

Technology Helps Boost Transparency in Food Distribution

Increasingly sophisticated technology helps to quickly respond to food contamination outbreaks — and prevent them in the first place.

February 12, 2020

Packaging and Co-Packing: Value-Added Services Help Retailers Compete in an Amazon World

In the battle to make their product more attractive to consumers, packaging is a crucial element. Here’s why many brands and manufacturers turn to third-party providers to gain an edge.

February 12, 2020

Breaking the Cycle: How Tech Can Balance the Freight Market

The freight industry has tools at its disposal to solve the root causes of market volatility.

February 12, 2020

SC Planning & Optimization

A Dead 20th-Century Retailer Got a Lot Right About Shopping in 2020

Former retail chain Service Merchandise nailed fulfillment and omni-channel in the 1980s with its innovative showroom-catalog approach. These three strategic approaches put the company ahead of its time.

February 12, 2020

The New Age of Inventory Planning

Today’s endless-aisle mentality requires inventory solutions that understand customer preferences.

February 12, 2020

Parcels with tracking codes are stacked. Photo: Leonid Iastremskyi/ Alamy.

Decade of the Cloud: How Supply-Chain Applications Are Maturing

Cloud-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions have grown from outliers to commonplace for supply-chain systems.

February 12, 2020

0304 Decadeofthe Cloud

Business Strategy Alignment

How to Align Business Strategies for Supply-Chain Success

In the new world of digital commerce, business strategies are outpacing the operations needed to enable them.

February 12, 2020

Photo: Bloomberg

ERP & Enterprise Systems

‘Ecosystem Commerce’ Could Be the New Supply-Chain Management

As companies experience the benefits of digital collaboration, they realize they’re not a “supply chain” at all. They’re a “supply network.”

February 12, 2020

0221 Ecosystem Commerce

How Sustainable Strategy Fits Into the Digital Revolution

The transition toward “Industry 4.0” offers a number of opportunities to rethink and reinvent global supply chains with sustainability in mind.

February 12, 2020

0214 How Sustainable Strategy Fits

Cloud & On-Demand Systems

A Risk Maturity Model for the Modern Supply Chain

These steps offer a roadmap for organizations to establish their risk maturity level, and then build expertise.

February 12, 2020

0218 A Risk Maturity Model

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