Cold food supply chains continue to face significant disruption as geopolitical risks, transportation challenges, labor shortages, and changing customer expectations reshape the industry. Building resilient supply chains, improving visibility, leveraging advanced technologies, and strengthening demand and supply planning are becoming essential for companies looking to maintain service levels and [...]
With sustainability increasing in popularity and the carbon footprints of end-to-end supply chains evaluated, innovation and manufacturing will skyrocket.
Sustainability remains in the news; however, the technology doesn't always keep up. For example, Lego has abandoned its most high-profile effort to ditch oil-based plastics from its bricks after finding that its new material led to higher carbon emissions, according to the Financial Times.
In an era defined by disruption, organizations must be able to respond quickly to changing business needs and customer demands. In the past few years alone, a trifecta of events—the pandemic, political turmoil, and natural disasters—have wreaked havoc on the supply and demand equation, challenging organizations to rethink their [...]
Despite all of our hopes for a post-COVID future, in 2022, the world did not return to normal. New disruptions slowed the recovery significantly and inflation created new complications. According to a 2022 report from Interos, supply chain interruptions have cost companies an average of $182 million in lost revenue this year.
With the increase in interest in the three P’s of the triple bottom line (people, planet, and profit), packaging rises to the forefront. It is controllable, and there are several options for how packaging can contribute to the triple bottom line.
Sustainable manufacturing can reduce waste, energy use and costs while improving operational performance. Learn how manufacturers are leveraging process improvements, technology and innovation to advance sustainability and strengthen U.S. manufacturing.
Sustainability requires looking beyond individual initiatives to understand the impact of the end-to-end supply chain. Manufacturers and supply chain organizations can reduce waste, improve energy efficiency, leverage technology, optimize logistics, and incorporate sustainability into SIOP to drive meaningful improvement.
In this discussion we explore some of the challenges and remedies that companies across the sectors are encountering as they face into the post-COVID future and the challenge of a never normal world with ongoing supply chain disruptions, geopolitical tensions, and climate change.
The most successful organizations are resilient, collaborative, and innovative comments Manufacturing and Supply Chain Expert, Lisa Anderson, MBA, CSCP, CLTD, president of LMA Consulting Group Inc.
