With some 30% of global container traffic passing through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea crisis is having a massive impact on global supply chains. Houthi rebel attacks on cargo ships are driving a ...

Non-connected, siloed data and rigidity of commercial production planning solutions hinder production processes for manufacturing and consumer goods businesses ...

Global supply chains are transforming from lengthy, interconnected networks to shorter, regionalized structures, driven by the prolonged US-China trade and tech conflicts and pandemic disruptions.

Effective and efficient manufacturing operations require close integration between long-run planning and short-run production scheduling. A testament to this is the decades-old field of research and ...

When production came to a screeching halt at 14 Toyota assembly plants last month, the automobile industry took notice. A fault in the parts order management system was the reason production could no ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Change is inevitable—that is one of the lessons we learned during disruptions over the past ...

Production challenges persist across key U.S. and allied defense programs despite post-pandemic recovery. A recent event hosted by the Atlantic Council, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, warned ...