Empty shelves, higher prices, longer shipping times, and even weeks-early Black Friday deals have thrown the relationship between consumers and producers into limbo. The often-cited reason? A global ...

As consumer facing companies go head to head in an increasingly competitive marketplace, the risks of doing business are higher than ever before. Whether you are marketing your products to generate ...

At their essence, there are three uses for emoji: expressing care to people who have long been in your life, flirting with new ones, and making jokes. Rarely does a little character come along that ...

Supply chains, especially consumer-facing supply chains in the CPG space, are struggling to understand their demand and rationalize their inventory as they move from traditional to online sales ...

It’s the perfect storm, but without George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg to entertain us. The supply chain in America has broken yet again, with many reasons for its demise. Climate change has caused ...

This is causing companies to rebuild their supply chains in different ways depending on whether they expect the current problems to persist or to be a temporary inconvenience. Ellen Kullman, chief ...

COVID-19 has taught manufacturers a bitter lesson. The global supply chain doesn’t adjust well to unexpected or unusual incidents — so-called black swan events. Extended lockdowns, changes in consumer ...

AR AR C has done research and writing on supply chain collaboration networks. A supply chain collaboration network (SC SC CN) is a key technology for improved collaboration across an extended supply ...

America faces a previously unthinkable conundrum: a surfeit of animals on farms but shortages of meat products available to consumers. Incredible as it may seem, the threat of a toilet paper shortage ...