For several years, visibility and its associated technologies have been at the top of Gartner’s “User Wants and Needs” and “Gartner Predicts” surveys.  In the current time of COVID-disrupted supply chains, those “wants and needs” have gotten a lot less theoretical and a lot more real. With

One of COVID-19’s unanticipated supply chain effects has been to reveal the shortcomings of just-in-time inventory models.  Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reported surging warehouse demand as companies caught without adequate goods near consumption sites in the crisis work to adapt.  “Rapid adjustments

 Suddenly, everything has changed in supply chain. In coming issues, we’ll share strategies to adapt, digitize and transform your operations for a COVID-19 world—and the supply chain shifts that come afterwards.  This week, though, we complete our three part series on building better supply chain

In our last newsletter, we introduced the concept that “data” is an inadequate term to describe all the various types of supply chain information. Not all data is the same. Unless we recognize the subtle differences in how events are reported, we can’t fully understand them.

 “Data is the new oil,” The Economist proclaimed in a widely quoted 2017 article. In an information economy and a digital age, the companies that have the best data and the most sophisticated tools for parsing it will win.  Since that story appeared, there has been lots