In the era of ubiquitous digital technologies, operations empowers an increasing variety of organizations, ever more modular, connected, and distributed, ever more centered on software and data. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. From its earliest days, digital technology has enabled operations. MORE >>

As globalization has created longer and increasingly complex food supply chains, there has been a concomitant surge in demand for locally-sourced food. But after the chain was linked to outbreaks of E. HBR: Chipotle emphasized a shorter supply chain and sourcing from local growers. How can this be? Insight Center. MORE >>

We plan production runs based on demand signals and feed these into our enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, which, if we are lucky, will tie to our manufacturing execution system (MES), which drives the factory to pull on the supply chain and produce finished product for delivery to customers through our distribution channels. MORE >>

Some predict that a day is coming when we’ll be able to make any part at the push of a button at a local printer, which might even render the global supply lines that dominate today’s world of manufacturing a thing of the past. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center. MORE >>

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Supply could be disrupted by natural disasters, political unrest, labor strife, or lack of infrastructure investment. The team then quantified each of those probabilities in terms of the scale of supply-chain disruption they would cause. Insight Center. MORE >>