A company's supply chain stretches from the factory where its products are made to the point the products are in customer hands. Supply chain strategy determines when product should be fabricated, ...

Until 2001, the world of supply chain management, especially in retail, had been driven by what we call the "push system," a very linear and slow-to-move-forward process. This approach, historically ...

(This is part two of the Supply Chain Risk Management in the Fashion Industry series. Part one focused on the seven variables of operational performance and vulnerability.) In June, Inditex SA, Zara’s ...

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.

Recent months have already produced a decade’s worth of disruption in global supply chains. Like a stone thrown in the middle of a world trade lake, the circles went far beyond the U.S. market and ...

Supply chain leaders increasingly rely on data science to navigate disruptions, optimize operations and drive decisions. Yet data, like crude oil, holds no value unless refined into usable insights.