Why does the supply chain that served you so well yesterday seem designed to end your company today? Don’t be surprised; that’s how nature works. Yesterday’s design is optimized for yesterday.

Once a rising star among athletic wear retailers, Lululemon has been plagued by financial setbacks, some of them directly related to dysfunction along its supply chain. A spokesperson for the company ...

Seafarers operate the cargo ships and tankers on which global trade relies – Copyright CN-STR/AFP – Nearly half of manufacturers say 10% or more of their annual ...

The global cobalt supply chain is more interconnected—and more vulnerable—than previously thought, with disruptions capable of triggering far-reaching cascades across multiple countries and industries ...

Poor supply chain planning can expose businesses to breach of contract claims, consumer complaints, regulatory scrutiny and ...

For the last few years, the global supply chain has felt like it’s permanently on edge. One delay turns into another. A missing component stalls an entire production line. A factory halfway across the ...

Most companies pursuing supply chain AI are making a critical mistake: They start with technology before fixing the data foundation that makes AI reliable. Lenovo took the opposite approach, spending ...

Take my own industry, supply chain. According to Gartner, just 7% of supply chain teams currently make decisions in real time—and that means less agility, less resilience, and more disruption when ...

Overstocks and out-of-stocks are both long-standing problems in the retail industry, where empty store shelves drive customers to look elsewhere and burgeoning stockrooms are expensive. And with a ...

The biggest story of the week is a new massive supply chain breach, which appears to be unrelated to the previous massive supply chain breaches, this time of the Axios HTTP project. Axios was created ...

Supply-chain leadership is still about problem-solving with the best tools available. Like lean, AI and machine learning are problem-solving tools. AI can be particularly helpful in modeling design ...

Manufacturers already coping with surging shipping rates are bracing for costs to keep going up, and experts say fears are emerging about prices reaching highs from the COVID-19 pandemic that could ...