Product, supply chain, and procurement professionals need to ask themselves how their products have been designed and built, how they’ve been commercialized, and what markets they’re being sold to.

New technology is giving companies the visibility they need to recover materials, reduce waste, and build truly circular ...

Managing product returns has always been a headache for retailers. The e-commerce boom only increased that pain and pressure. Call it buyer’s remorse, but when customers can’t see, touch and try on ...

The companies that will thrive are the ones shifting from isolated and rigid operations toward connected networks.

At Kearney’s recent Product Excellence and Renewal Lab (PERLab) annual Future of Design conference, Robert Brunner, founder and partner of Ammunition, said, “What sets apart a great design from a good ...

The authenticity and traceability of products is now taking place at the molecular level. Do we finally have a technology that’s 100% secure? Manufacturers, distributors and retailers are forever on ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the idea that the supply chain could be a growth driver for a company was just in its infancy. Then, companies like Walmart, Amazon, Apple, and Zara, among others, ...

A supply chain is a network of all the entities involved in the creation and sale of a product. Supply chains stretch from the delivery of raw materials from a supplier to the manufacturer that ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

Businesses rely on their products making a safe journey from the warehouse to retail shelves. However, the vulnerabilities are too high to ignore the threats. Organised criminal networks constantly ...

The NGL value chain represents the bulk of Enterprise Products Partners' earnings potential. Significant growth can be realized from the current projects under construction in the NGL segment. EPD ...