For twenty years I’ve preached the simple but powerful idea of sourcing with respect. In terms of supply chain strategy, this means working from the premise that suppliers are business partners. You ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Although the inciting incident of these disruptions is different, they’re the same in that ...

Earthquakes that have wracked southern Japan in recent days have had a major impact on companies such as automaker Toyota, which is renowned worldwide for its lean manufacturing processes. Toyota is ...

In simpler times, a company needed only to worry about its own operational reliability, and its profitability and customer satisfaction would take care of themselves. But in a world of complex ...

Let’s talk about the Super Bowl. But first, let’s talk about sales and operations planning (S&OP). To optimize their financial, customer service and sustainability goals, companies need an S&OP ...

Discover how India's 2025 rare earth supply chain shocks led to disruptions in the automobile industry and prompted a shift ...

The 7.4 magnitude earthquake that hit Taiwan on April 3 had the potential to be a disaster both in loss of life and for the infrastructure of a nation responsible for producing more than 60% of the ...

Staking infrastructure provider Staked said it had learned “an expensive lesson” after 75 of its Eth2 validators were slashed on Feb. 4 from the staking pool as punishment for producing competing ...