Commodities

Decision Velocity Is A Form Of Supply Chain Capacity

Supply chain capacity is normally discussed in physical terms. Companies count trucks, trailers, dock doors, warehouse ... Read more

The Long Tail Of Supply Chain Decisions Is About To Become Economically Accessible

Most supply chain organizations do not optimize every decision, and historically that has been rational. Human attentio... Read more

Amazons Drone Expansion Is Really A Last-Mile Orchestration Story

Amazon says Prime Air will expand to nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns by the end of 2026. That is the headline, but it ... Read more

The Economics Of Decision Latency

Supply chain executives spend enormous amounts of time thinking about lead time. Supplier lead time, manufacturing lead... Read more

What Rising Private Credit Stress Means For Supply Chains

Private credit is not normally a supply chain topic. Supply chain executives spend their time thinking about invento... Read more

Why B2B Thought Leadership Needs A Market Narrative, Not A Content Calendar

Most B2B thought leadership programs are organized around deliverables. A company plans a few articles, an analyst brie... Read more

The Enterprise Workflow Is Becoming More Important Than The Enterprise Application

Enterprise software has traditionally been organized around applications. Companies buy an ERP to manage transactions, ... Read more

Automated Storage & Retrieval Systems — Orlando

Warehouse automation is moving quickly from a specialized investment to a core component of modern distribution strateg... Read more

ARC Forum – What Is The Forum And How Do I Get Involved?

The ARC Industry Forum brings together executives, technology suppliers, manufacturers, infrastructure operators, analy... Read more

Supply Chains Need An Execution Architecture, Not Another Intelligence Layer

Supply chain technology has become extraordinarily good at producing information. Companies can forecast demand, monito... Read more

When Every Function Has An AI Agent, Who Optimizes The Company?

The first wave of enterprise AI has been organized largely around functions. Sales gets an assistant, procurement gets ... Read more

The Coordination Premium: Why AI Makes Organizational Design More Important

Artificial intelligence is usually presented as a technology story. Better models arrive, inference costs decline, appl... Read more

Sustainable Transportation Management Drives Performance

Supply chain leaders face a growing mandate to improve operational performance while navigating rising transportation c... Read more

The Marginal Cost Of Intelligence Is Collapsing. Supply Chains Will Never Be The Same.

For most of modern business history, intelligence has been expensive. A transportation planner has only so many hours i... Read more

AI Is Beginning To Take Responsibility For Work

For most of the past decade, the story of artificial intelligence in supply chain management has been relatively straig... Read more