EDI, Punchout, and API What’s the Difference, and Why is Each Important?
It wasn’t that long ago that far too many processes involving sharing data, accessing products, and connecting within the supply chain were performed
Digitalisation
Sourcing Strategies
Procurement vs. Sourcing: A Symbiotic Relationship
According to Kearney, just two years ago, 30% of a service company’s revenue and at least 50% of a manufacturing company’s revenue was
Digitalisation
ERP and SCM is all About Risk
Increasingly, businesses are discovering the internal benefits of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to manage business data, maximize systems and working processes while gaining
Sourcing Strategies
How Procurement is Evolving and What You Can Do to Prepare
A spotlight has been shone on all aspects of our supply chains lately, mainly due to recent disruptions due to world events. Cascading
Industry Insights
The Advance of Collaborative Robots
Collaborative robots, or cobots, designed to share a workspace with human colleagues and physically interact with them, deliver productivity at lower production costs
Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain-gers
For supply chains, it’s often knee-jerk reactions to the disaster-du-jour that point out the need for rapid, tangible change. But, as we’ve recently
Sourcing Strategies
What You Should Know About Selecting 5G Antennas for Your Designs
Where 5G is concerned, antennas can no longer be taken for granted. Directionality, latency, increased transmission rate, antenna size, higher frequencies, and shorter
Digitalisation
Machine Learning Already Optimizes Supply Chains
Doesn’t it seem that on some level machine learning is still “out there,” somewhere in the future like quantum computing? AI-based applications, machine-learning
Supply Chain Management
Rare Earth Elements and the Supply Chain
Rare earth elements are not necessarily rare but are precious and difficult and expensive to mine and separate. Essential to many emerging technologies,
Industry Insights
Labor Shortage Robots, Millennials, Government Interference and Rethinking Work
I started researching this article on labor shortages to find out why they are an increasing and dangerous thorn in the side of