‘New Normal’ Consequences: Soaring Container Shipping Rates
Just a couple of months out from the Suez Canal blockage, companies are still trying to get a handle on reacting to the aftermath while bracing for further impact. The temporary logjam created a domino effect of disruptions, battering an already strained supply chain. If…
Bayer Crop Science’s Next Wave of Logistics and Distribution Transformation
During Blue Yonder ICON 2021, I had the pleasure to speak with Johnny Ivanyi, the Global Head of Distribution Excellence of Bayer Crop Science, and Kishore Yarlagadda, Global Distribution Deployment Lead of Bayer Crop Science, for the session “Next Wave of Logistics and Distribution Transformation.”…
How a Unified Logistics Approach Drives the Customer – Centric Supply Chain
What a year it has been! Glad to see the back of it… ‘New normal’… ‘Online schooling’… ‘Have you been vaccinated yet?’ Pandemic… Unprecedented… Zoom fatigue… three-day delivery isn’t fast enough… I shudder to think how many times we have heard, read, or even spoken…
The Strategic Business Value Offered by a Carrier Marketplace Services, Part 2
The supply chain execution and logistics market has been transitioning to one that is supported by a broader range of networks. We recently had two supply chain and technology veterans discuss how Blue Yonder is taking the meaning of carrier marketplaces to the next level…
The Strategic Business Value Offered by a Carrier Marketplace Services, Part 1
The supply chain execution and logistics market has been transitioning to one that is supported by a broader range of networks. A major shift we see is that companies are becoming comfortable in tapping into networks and platform business models to procure space, resources, freight…
From Lab to Arm: Supply Chain Journey of the COVID-19 Vaccines
Distributing the COVID-19 vaccines is a mission critical action that will no doubt save more lives and relieve the much-pressured medical system. If the actions are done well throughout the supply chain, the vaccines will be distributed to all the desired destinations, on time and…
Putting the Smart in Smarter Logistics
This blog also ran on the “Let’s Talk Supply Chain” blog. It is not a secret that technology evolves at an accelerated rate. As an example, I have seen the progress of vinyl records to cassettes to compact discs to playable digital files and finally…
Unified Logistics: The Need for Agile Resiliency
Someone recently mentioned that “resiliency” seems to be one of my favorite words. As words go, it’s not a bad one to have as your favorite. The ability to adapt, to quickly recover from disruption, to be elastic; it’s fitting for what we all need…
Digital Transformation in Freight
I have been in the supply chain solutions space for a long time. Closing in on my 26th year, I have been fortunate to witness an ever-accelerating evolution of technology and capability. Long gone are the days of analog lines and green screens. In today’s…
2020 Is Redefining What Customers Want from Their Next Warehouse Management System
As early as February 2020, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, 94% of Fortune 1000 companies were facing supply chain disruptions. It only got worse after that, as most of us can attest to from experience. After many months in which to update, re-tool, and…