For businesses today, merely surviving the pandemic and economic downturn is tough enough — but not enough. Getting through this latest crisis is more than a matter of staying afloat, critical though that objective might be. Companies need to be taking an entirely fresh look at their business planning and execution strategies, with a particular
Undoubtedly, the recent global health crisis has changed the world, particularly in terms of retail and the way people shop. E-commerce has become a lifeline to the nation in more ways than one, from essential grocery deliveries to games and toys for home entertainment, causing online sales to jump 18% percent this year. More recently,
In just a few short months, the coronavirus pandemic has transformed how supply chains are run. Companies are adapting to a new remote-work environment, and the crisis has come with a surge in shipping demand as well as constrained capacity, causing rate spikes across the industry. From February to March alone, the average rate to
End-to-end supply-chain visibility is tough enough to achieve in the best of times. But the coronavirus pandemic has greatly exacerbated the problem, says Bart De Muynck, vice president analyst at Gartner. It’s no surprise that visibility solutions have been among the most popular technology acquisitions over the past few years. Now, disruptions caused by the
“There is a tool for every task, and a task for every tool,” says the doomed patriarch Tywin Lannister in George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire. Admittedly, he wasn’t talking about supply-chain management, but I’m comfortable appropriating his words to make a point about that particular discipline. Because executing on