Supply chains are messy. Prices rise abruptly, products or raw materials become unavailable, shipping and transport are overloaded, and competing vendors struggle for customers. Integrating ...

My first encounter with enterprise integration dates back to the early 2000s. Remember those days when Enterprise Service Buses (ESB) emerged as the antidote to the convoluted labyrinth of closely ...

I have talked about, and written about, “Demand and Supply Integration” (DSI) for quite some time. Many call it “Sales and Operations Planning” (S&OP), while others like the term “Integrated Business ...

Too many CIOs wire systems together and hope for value; real integration works when business goals, data and resilience come first. In my experience with large-scale enterprises, I have seen ...

Ever Since the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Defined Supply Chain Management and the Council of Logistics Management (CLM) adopted the definition of logistics in 1984, the ...