For decades, businesses across industries have faced a particularly thorny problem: the disconnect between demand, procurement and supply chain management. Many companies have trouble delivering goods ...

Historically, in its most simple definition, the “supply chain” division of retail was the one in charge of getting stuff in, maybe storing it for a while — maybe not (cross-docking) — and then ...

Procurement Leaders recently surveyed our community of procurement executives in which we asked about their plans to reform their functions. In one of the most surprising findings of the research was ...

A decade after releasing its landmark national cybersecurity framework, the National Institute of Standards and Technology on Monday released version 2.0, an updated document that emphasizes ...

Through the Center for Supply Chain Excellence, the Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business at Saint Louis University offers executive education programs that provide every member of the supply chain ...

In the following article, from 2014, I discussed an organization-related issue that limits the overall positive impact the purchasing function can have on company financials. Specifically, the article ...

Supply Chain Management is how business gets done. Supply chain management spans all movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from point-of-origin to ...

Recent declines in the price of oil, along with more than a decade of steeply rising costs in upstream oil and gas, have influenced E&Ps toward more focused and cautious capital spend. Some E&Ps have ...

Coty, Inc., the global beauty company, is going through a transformation. The supply chain transformation is a key part of ...

Over half of companies in Gartner survey said turnover has disrupted their function’s ability to operate over the past three ...

The Supply Chain Management curriculum is divided into different areas, building on the Rutgers Business School core courses. Supply Chain Management is how business gets done. Supply chain management ...