A Reality Check on Day-to-Day Inefficiencies
St. Louis Business Journal Leadership Trust
By Robert Steward • President and CEO of End2End, LLC
St. Louis Business Journal Leadership Trust
By Robert Steward • President and CEO of End2End, LLC
A quote often attributed to Henry Ford crossed my mind while waiting to pay for a dinner bill last week: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” As we sat an extra 10-15 minutes for the bill – eager to venture on to our next stop – I didn’t wish for the waiter to pick up the pace, but rather that the restaurant would take a bold step forward…
St. Louis Business Journal Leadership Trust
By Robert Steward • President and CEO of End2End, LLC
The COVID-19 pandemic was a complete tragedy, and in no way am I trying to make light of the damage done. However, the widespread adoption of video meetings has largely been an upgrade that my team and I welcome as a “new normal” for years to come…
The COVID-19 pandemic is the most economically impactful and deadliest epidemic in over a century, and therefore, one of the biggest threats to supply chain management. With companies confirming sourcing issues throughout the supply chain, there is a need for businesses to find ways to visualize, authenticate and track their goods…
If supply chain and logistics are part of what your business does, you’ve probably considered using a GPS tracking app to track the location of your employees as they move from one place to another. It does not matter what kind of business you’re running –if you have field staff, you need to know where they are and what they’re doing so you can get the work done…
In a previous post, we talked about the future of logistics and what logistics is. But, in case you missed our last article, here’s a quick remembering pill: Logistics is the management of the flow of goods or assets from the point of origin to the point of consumption…
Supply chains are moving away from a traditional, linear, left-to-right structure with fixed inter-relationships to flexible customer-centric structures where relationships are formed to process and fulfill orders. With that in mind comes a question: Do you know who your customer is?