The global trading environment has been changing. From China as the “factory of the world,” companies have been evolving towards nearshoring – bringing production to a nearby country – led by both ...

For your small business to have a competitive edge, certain fundamentals must be in place to succeed. Those fundamentals comprise the value chain analysis, a concept developed and advanced by Michael ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover logistics and supply chain management. The idea behind value chain segmentation is that not all customers or consumers ...

Value chain management, also known as supply chain management, has come a long way to become what it is today. In the past, value chain analysis was focused more on logistics, on the manual aspect of ...

On first inspection, the card payments industry appears to be a mismatch of service providers covering similar functions. However, each firm has an important role in the card payment process. From ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SpendEdge, a leading provider of procurement market intelligence solutions, has announced the completion of their latest article on the key steps to achieve a successful ...

This combination of technology and on-the-ground decision-making is expected to improve delivery speed and customer ...

Process intelligence that improves key supply chain, distribution, product, finance and customer operations has brought enormous, lasting business value to organizations across the globe. BMW, Allianz ...

For many years, enterprises have sought to automate their processes by making them digital. But in the past, that automation has often left gaps, either because the designers of the automation omitted ...

Value stream map vs. process map, which is better for you? As with many tools and methods in Six Sigma, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach to mapping things out. Both of these tools have ...