It seems quite evident that August and September have featured quite a lot of significant developments involving multi-industry supply chains and Supply Chain Matters continues in the following subsequent postings to highlight those with significance or either short or longer-term implications. We have previously alerted our readers to percolating supply chain related challenges concerning Pratt […]
Oracle has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire LogFire, a provider of Cloud-based warehouse management applications. Upon closing, the addition of LogFire will complement the logistics, warehouse management and Omni-channel fulfillment capabilities of the Oracle SCM Cloud product suite by adding augmented warehouse management capabilities. As those who deal with supply chain […]
As businesses enter the all-important final four months of 2016, news of supply chain disruptions are permeating business media channels. We, along with global media, have already alerted readers to the ongoing and quickly cascading implications of Hanjin Shipping’s financial receivership, which we have characterized as a financial shot heard across the globe. The potential […]
As businesses enter the all-important final four months of 2016, news of supply chain disruptions are permeating business media channels. We, along with global media, have already alerted readers to the ongoing and quickly cascading implications of Hanjin Shipping’s financial receivership, which we have characterized as a financial shot heard across the globe. The potential […]
Through this blog, I’ve worked to raise awareness about the critical importance of integrating information and business processes across a business-to-business (B2B), or supply chain, network. It’s important because more supply chain business processes and information flows occur and reside throughout the external supply chain network, and needs to be integrated into internal systems, applications […]
Ocean container shipping and logistics are the lifeblood of global supply chain movements. For over three years, Supply Chain Matters has continually warned of pending disruption concerning the deepening global overcapacity conditions among global ocean container carriers. This week marks a clear definitive statement of that disruption, the unraveling of the financial implications. The declaration […]
This commentary represents the fourth of our ongoing Supply Chain Matters- Llamasoft market education series directed at clarifying needs and requirements addressing supply chain wide visibility. Business media has of-late pointed out that that overall inventory levels among retailers and manufacturers has been unusually high, which is impacting both current procurement activity as well as […]
As Supply Chain Matters blog readers are aware, one of our objectives in providing supply chain management focused education is to point out and reference significant industry milestones that we believe should be monitored. Two very recent examples were the announcement of China’s first flexible display production line and our declaration of a new phase […]
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