If we didn’t know what real supply chain disruption was before, we do now. Events over the past 18+ months (COVID-19, Brexit, Suez Canal blockage, India-China border conflict, natural disasters, cyberattacks on pipelines and shipping lines) forced companies to find new ways to deliver goods and services, secure alternative sources
After a long year of hardship and loss, the world economy seems set to rebound. There’s hope that COVID-19 will be vanquished through mass vaccination campaigns. Economic activity is set to return to some semblance of normality. The IMF anticipates that world GDP will grow by 5.5% in 2021 and 4.2% in
At the same time, the Deloitte’s Global Chief Procurement Officer Survey 2019, released in October, shows businesses are increasingly concerned about their vulnerability to growing political and economic risks. Specifically, they are concerned about a possible downturn along with how to handle ongoing trade uncertainty. In this context, Deloitte has
What many don’t realize is that a significant percentage of their total costs are tied up with the supply chain, especially for those businesses that outsource manufacturing. These include:
The supply chains of omni channel retailers operating brick-and-mortar and online stores need to simultaneously fulfill multiple, sometimes conflicting, requirements. Here are nine things you may not have known about an omni channel supply chain.
