Intermodal transportation is environmentally promising, but infrastructure, competition, regulatory, and network efficiency barriers still remain.
July 7, 2023 | By Matt Waller and Andrew Balthorp
Inflation impacts healthcare supply chain infrastructure and creates asymmetrical price stickiness. Could SCM education be key to fighting these effects?
December 1, 2022 | By Ryan Sheets, David Dobrzykowski, Claudia Rosales, Andrew Balthorp
Employees are wary of automation, but a streamlined supply chain is a huge asset to most companies. How does robotic process automation respond to this problem?
September 15, 2022 | By Ryan Sheets, Remko van Hoek, Mary Lacity
Necessity's the mother of invention, but is scarcity the mother of innovation? Hunger relief NFPs' response to dire operating circumstances prove it is.
July 19, 2022 | By Miranda Stith, Iana Shaheen
Gartner ranked U of A's undergraduate supply chain program #1 for two consecutive cycles. Find out why students, and the companies that hire them, should care.
June 23, 2022 | By Stephen Caldwell
Policies addressing highly visible e-commerce problems may do more harm than good, especially if they reinforce the status quo and foreclose on new ideas.
June 21, 2022 | By Mitchell Simpson, Robert Jensen, Brent Williams
For some firms, a more horizontally complex - aka diversified - supply chain allows them to more efficiently turn inventory over and provides needed resiliency.
May 17, 2022 | By Mitchell Simpson, Claudia Rosales
New research discusses the benefits of women’s inclusion in the supply chain team dynamic and shows that women supply chain professionals are more collaborative.
March 30, 2022 | By Ryan Sheets, Evan Wordlaw, John Aloysius
The pandemic is global, and our efforts to mitigate its effects must also be global. Find out how marketing, retail, and other sectors can act effectively.
March 15, 2022 | By Emilija Sarma, Scot Burton
From the outside, supply chains can seem simple and straightforward. Find out how recent events have affected them and why they can be so hard to safeguard.
February 23, 2022 | By Travis Tokar, Andrew Balthrop, and Ron Gordon
Sometimes the way to a shopper's heart is a good recommendation. Read this article to see the effects product recommendations can have on consumer trust.
January 10, 2022 | By Emilija Sarma, John Aloysius
Read about the latest star in the field of supply chain management and see how the University of Arkansas has used the opportunity to reach and teach.
January 6, 2022 | By Stephen Caldwell
Trucking has never mattered more in Arkansas - and trucking research expertise has never been higher than now, thanks to the Walton College's efforts.
November 4, 2021 | By Ron Gordon, Andrew Balthrop, Brian Fugate, Rod Thomas, Stephanie Thomas, Donnie Williams
It's not just virtue signaling: shippers prefer carriers to invest in environmental & social sustainability - so long as it doesn't hurt economic sustainability.
October 29, 2021 | By Ron Gordon, Rodney Thomas
Ever wonder if a different approach would energize a team? Same here - these product mindset and product management changes have helped us have better meetings.
October 22, 2021 | By Ron Gordon, Brent Williams
Instead of focusing on short-term wins & route profitability, JB Hunt succeeded by analyzing the whole trucking system & by constantly innovating its operations.
September 28, 2021 | By Stephen Caldwell
Nobody doubts the value of supply chain resilience; but have policymakers fully considered the tradeoffs for incentivizing or coercing greater resilience?
September 14, 2021 | By Ron Gordon, Brent Williams, Brian Fugate, Andrew Balthrop
Northwest Arkansas is a very different place than it was 90 years ago.
May 13, 2021 | By Ron Gordon
Many of the developments that boosted Arkansas’ national profile were inseparable from the growth of its northwestern corner’s supply chain cluster: a concentrated set of supply chain-related business activities.
April 16, 2021 | By Ron Gordon
Between 1930 and 1975, the seeds were sown for Northwest Arkansas to emerge as a global business powerhouse.
April 5, 2021 | By Ron Gordon
The implications are that beyond just diversity initiatives, there may be a business case for more women in supply chain roles that span firm boundaries.
March 5, 2021 | By John Aloysius
With the critical role supply chains are playing in the success of modern organizations, a master’s-level education in the field provides a competitive advantage.
March 4, 2021 | By Stephen Caldwell
As hospitals face unprecedented challenges, hospital managers and physicians now more than ever must work together to improve operational efficiency and patient satisfaction.
December 18, 2020 | By Ryan Decker, David Dobryzkowski
A degree in supply chain management provides a broad range of career opportunities – inventory analysts, demand planners, purchasing managers, warehouse supervisors, logistics specialists and account representatives, just to name a few.
November 12, 2020 | By Stephen Caldwell
The report – Truck Driver Burnout: Ways Carriers Can Fight Stress-Related Turnover – is a collaboration of SCMRC Executive Director Donnie Williams; Stephanie Thomas, an associate professor of practice in the Department of Supply Chain Management; and communications specialist Ron Gordon.
October 21, 2020
Supply chain management has played a critical role in the pandemic, coordinating shipments of life-saving PPE and medical devices to hospitals around the world – but not without complications. Improving the resilience of these supply chains by closing the gap between literature and practice will help us greatly when the next crisis comes around.
October 16, 2020 | By Ryan Decker, Remko Van Hoek
Online shoppers want their cake and to eat it, too; they want premiere logistics services, but they don’t want to pay for it.
August 28, 2020 | By Michael Adkison, Brian S. Fugate, Brent D. Williams
When Gartner announced that it had ranked our undergraduate program No. 1 in North America, we were pleasantly surprised, to say the least.
August 13, 2020 | By Brian Fugate
A full two-thirds of the world’s supply of cobalt is found in the Congo, and tech companies need it to make the lithium-ion batteries in phones, computers and almost every other rechargeable gadget.
July 8, 2020 | By Cindy Moehring
Supply chain managers are connect-the-dots sort of people, so they tend to understand just about every aspect of a business and how they fit together.
May 29, 2020 | By Stephen Caldwell
The challenges that have emerged with the COVID-19 pandemic are unlike anything the healthcare supply chain has seen in our lifetimes.
April 17, 2020 | By David Dobrzykowski
Spring Break typically finds me in China, but this year I was relaxing on the farm – until an unexpected opportunity arose to contribute to a unique collaboration that now is helping supply hospitals with nearly a million dollars’ worth of much-needed equipment in their fight against COVID-19.
April 16, 2020 | By John Kent
The demand for environmental sustainability is high enough that shippers will choose carriers who use green weigh station and tollbooth bypass technology in their trucks, even when those carriers charge slightly more than their less environmentally friendly competitors.
April 10, 2020 | By Ron Gordon, Rod Thomas
Stock analysts aren’t yet fully applying network theory in their work, but they do understand the importance of digging deeper into the connections that form a supply network.
March 5, 2020 | By Marat Davletshin
By applying network theory to the challenges of modern supply chains, we can better understand and manage the information and systems that move products from source to market.
February 25, 2020 | By Marat Davletshin
Greg Smith has witnessed a great many groundbreaking innovations in supply chain management over the past 35 years, but not as a passive observer.
February 4, 2020 | By Donnie Williams
Information Disclosure Programs provide great information to consumers, but often present challenges for supply chain managers. The pressures and effects were the subject of a research project by Walton College professors.
January 24, 2020 | By Jeff L. Wright, Jason W. Miller, Brian S. Fugate, Susan L. Golicic
Procurement is a maturing field that faces challenges with meeting its changing (and growing) roles in organizations. One of those challenges is changing the perceptions about the value procurement adds to an enterprise.
January 23, 2020 | By Ryan Decker, Remko Van Hoek, Carlos Mena, John Gattorna
Many new companies have been founded by applying data science, predictive analytics, and big data to supply chain management.
January 23, 2020 | By Matt Waller
Great people have made J.B. Hunt a great company. Those people represent many different disciplines, but as a leader in the supply chain industry, we obviously depend heavily on leaders with expertise in supply chain management.
January 21, 2020 | By Kirk Thompson
Although it is just a date and string of other numbers, a “Sell By” date matters to grocery shoppers and affects their purchasing decisions.
December 20, 2019 | By Jeff L. Wright, Brian Fugate
Drive for convenience puts great pressure on suppliers and manufacturers.
November 15, 2019 | By Jeff. L. Wright and Ryan Sheets
The future identity of procurement and its place at the strategic table depend on these proactive efforts.
September 11, 2019 | By Ryan Sheets, Remko Van Hoek
The supply chain involves a wide range of business activities – transportation, customer service, inventory management, order processing, payments, warehousing, packaging, purchasing, and maintenance, to name few.
August 5, 2019 | By Matthew Waller
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