Network Design Practices: How Sophisticated is Your Supply Chain Network?

Major changes in network design practices are more common now than ever before, according to a recent survey by the Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium. How will your network respond? Download the report for more on network optimization risks, goals and strategies.

Tax-Effective Supply Chain Management: A Critical Factor that is Frequently Overlooked

Representing a complex yet great opportunity for cost reduction, Tax-Effective Supply Chain Management (TESCM) is important to any company, and particularly to those with international operations. Download the TESCM Survey Report to learn more about how companies view TESCM, and determine companies' level of comfort and use of TESCM principles in their supply chain decision making.

Supply Chain Core Benchmarks: Understanding Key Metrics

The goal of benchmarking is to use data to help identify specific, actionable tactics for improvements that align with your company’s goals. This Supply Chain Consortium report provides meaningful data in sufficient detail to allow you to compare your organization’s relative performance to the survey population as a whole, as well as by industry and/or segment. Download the Supply Chain Core Benchmarks Report to reap the benefits of benchmarking and best practices. Download the report here.

International Shipping and Incoterms

The Supply Chain Consortium recently conducted a survey to understand the proliferation and sophistication of international shipping by its members. Take a look at the International Shipping and Incoterms Hot Topic Report to learn more about the new revisions and how your international shipping processes compare to others. Download the report here.

Finished Goods Inventory Management Hot Topic Report: New Views on an Old Issue

Inventory issues impact operations substantially, especially when it comes to finances. Saving money by managing inventory efficiently is a major focus for most industry and market segments. This report from the Supply Chain Consortium details the results of the Finished Goods Inventory Management survey. Findings include how companies are organizing to manage their finished goods inventories, how they benchmark, their best practices, and how finished goods inventory and customer service were impacted in 2009. Download the report here.

Facility Sustainability - Leading Practices for Green Facilities.

Building environmentally friendly facilities is truly a hot topic across the globe today. Innovative technologies are underway to improve green facilities, and many basic practices can jumpstart companies as they begin greening their facilities. See what top companies are doing to improve their facility sustainability in this report, which focuses on the key findings from the Building and Facility Sustainability survey administrated by the Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium. Download the report here.

The Structure of Today's Supply Chain Organizations: Charting How Companies Organize Their Supply Chains

A great supply chain organization structure depends on a number of factors -- mergers and acquisitions, people movement, and major supply chain shifts. Add to this mix the trend toward matrix organizations in which people are expected to wear a variety of different hats. The Supply Chain Consortium developed this Executive Briefing to benchmark supply chain organizations and reveal leading practices, using data collected from the Consortium’s Supply Chain Organization Survey of leading retail and manufacturing organizations. Download the executive briefing here.

Domestic Transportation: The Industry is Moving Once Again

Last year was about as rough as it gets for the transportation industry, and reports are coming out about how supply chain organizations dealt with the challenges. This executive briefing from the Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium examines how the lessons learned might affect supply chains as the economy gets back on track, with the goal of identifying the most likely outcomes of how the industry will re-shape itself in the wake of a (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime recession. Download the executive briefing here.

Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning: Crossing Organizational Boundaries

This executive briefing from the Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium provides an overview of one aspect of the movement toward world-class inventory management -- from the theoretical and technical approaches undertaken within small planning groups to the multi-disciplinary, management, strategy-oriented approaches of fully evolved organizations. Download the executive briefing here.