A new research paper from the Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee investigates the progress of companies toward achieving end-to-end supply-chain integration. Director Michael ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Mark Messina is the CEO of Addverb USA, a company that solves complex fulfillment challenges through robotics and automation solutions. Vertical integration is a business strategy where the business ...

Today’s supply chains are under extreme pressure. From transportation capacity and labor constraints to changing order profiles and more frequent disruptive events, maintaining predictable and ...

ROCKFORD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--If supply chains are the revenue-critical lifelines that enable companies to make, sell and move their products, then what exactly gives these supply chains the ...

The relentless growth of e-commerce sales, now approaching pandemic levels, has reshaped the supply chain. The continuing focus on highly personalized sales strains the pipeline by increasing delivery ...

On June 16, 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) issued a long-awaited final rule (the “Final Rule”), effective July 17, 2023, related to the Information and Communications Technology ...

Successful industry examples prove that tighter integration of information and physical flows in supply chains yield significant productivity improvements. Research suggests that the benefits range ...

Integrating a supply chain under one executive can drive value but may come with its own challenges, posits a new white paper by the Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee, ...

Given the complexity of business processes and the unique skills required, supply chain integration remains complex, and poor integration is costly. In fact, 66 percent of companies lost up to ...