Four- or five-level pay systems are considered more productive, straightforward, and simpler to manage. Four-level pay ...

QSPC data through Q3 2024 shows that approximately 20.6% of manufacturing plants in the U.S. that failed to produce at their ...

The eBook, "6 Strategies for Building an Adaptive Supply Chain," provides valuable insights into how businesses can proactively prepare for the unexpected. It explores three critical pillars of an ...

Muhammad Ali was the greatest boxer, but he also learned tough lessons along the way about being just “good enough.” Supply chain managers can take… A resilient and agile supply chain is vital in ...

As the title of this column suggests, things appear to be the same for quite a while in the oil/energy markets, while climate ...

The pandemic and Red Sea crisis have once again revealed how disruptions in one part of the world can ripple through the entire system, exposing significant vulnerabilities within the global supply ...

A resilient and agile supply chain is vital in today’s volatile market—start by assessing your current position with our Self-Assessment tool. Procurement Pulse: Disruptions continue to worry ...

This is an excerpt of the original article. It was written for the January-February 2025 edition of Supply Chain Management Review. The full article is available to current subscribers. As much ...

Measures for operational innovation examine the effectiveness of adjustments to organizational processes. Common measures for this type include selling, general, and administrative expenses (SG&A) as ...

With an increasingly diverse workforce and society, companies are embracing diversity, realizing its importance from both economic and social justice perspectives. Several large companies, such as UPS ...

Amidst reporting that manufacturing firms are stockpiling intermediate inputs before potential tariffs and threats of a second East and Gulf Coast port strike, it’s important to emphasize that chronic ...