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New Research Shows Improvement in Working Capital Optimization

The latest Hackett Group survey of cost and working capital performance reveals a marked improvement in that area, at least when it comes to accounts receivable and inventory levels.

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Why Most Companies Aren’t Meeting Their Cost-Cutting Goals

According to research from CFOShare, more than 80% of organizations aiming to cut costs in 2020 and beyond will fall short in that effort.

1217 Meeting Cost Cutting Goals

Unleashing the Power of the Industrial Internet of Things

The industrial internet of things is still considered a cost-containment strategy rather than a revenue driver, recent research shows.

1216 Unleashing Powerof Industrial

Energy Storage Company Saves $50 Million With Demand Planning

Challenge: A global energy technologies company needed a digital supply chain that could support its aggressive growth and innovation goals. Key challenges included managing seasonality, improving lead times, optimizing inventory and linking operational and long-range plans. The company also wanted to boost customer service and accelerate new product introductions.

Lime's Chinese-Made Scooters Get Caught Up in Trump's Trade War

Paying new tariffs on Chinese vehicles would require Lime either to absorb significant new costs, charge customers more or fundamentally reshape its supply chain.

Source: Bloomberg

How an Investment Banker Views the Market for Logistics and Supply-Chain Tech

Even in the devilishly complex world of investment banking, logistics and supply-chain technology can be a tough sector to comprehend.

1209 The Marketfor Logistics

Three Digital Manufacturing Trends for 2020

As we come to the end of 2019, the technologies behind mass-scale digitization aren’t slowing down at all.

1209 Three Digital Manufacturing Trends

Podcast | How Global Traders Can ‘Plan for Crazy’

These are “crazy times” for global traders. Have the old methods of planning become useless?

1206 How Global Traders Plan

Watch: Enabling the 'Shipper-Shipper-Carrier' Relationship

Shippers can save money and optimize transportation by collaborating with one another to share truck space. Robert Garner, vice president of supply chain with Republic Plastics, explains how it works.

1206 Enablingthe Shipper Carrier

Watch: How to Fill Those Empty Backhauls

Shippers and carriers have struggled for years to reduce empty backhauls and optimize truck loading. New developments in collaboration are finally making it possible, says Chandler Hall, executive vice president and chief operating officer of LaneHub.

1204 Fill Those Empty Backhauls

One American CEO’s Tortuous Path to Surviving Trump’s Trade Wars

Perhaps no corporate executive in America has been whiplashed more by President Trump’s trade wars than Tom Werner.

1127 Surviving Trumps Trade Wars

Small Data, Big Impact

For operations with lift truck fleets, telemetry programs can produce a wealth of small data insights for quick conversion into actionable business intelligence.

Small Data, Big Impact

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