This month, the world lost one of the most important supply chain pioneers you probably never heard of when George Laurer III died at 94.  As an engineer at IBM in the early 1970s, Laurer invented the basic barcode. In doing so, he also provided a

The Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam School of Business has just published an important white paper that explores the secrets to supply chain success. In all, the authors described more than 250 documented best practices of high performance organizations (HPOs).  The research studied

Business creates an ocean of data to navigate, but enterprise managers increasingly are adrift and drowning. That’s the premise of Anne Fisher’s latest must-read Fortune story, “Now Hiring: People Who Can Translate Data Into Stories and Actions.”  It’s particularly relevant to our readership. Nowhere are the waters