Category: Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain Management market research reports by IDC
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IDC PlanScape: IoT/RFID for Condition Intelligence in the Perishables Supply Chain
IDC PlanScape: IoT/RFID for Condition Intelligence in the Perishables Supply Chain This IDC PlanScape addresses how Internet of Things (IoT)/Ambient IoT and radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, when combined with connectivity networks that allow transmission of temperature and humidity ... Read More
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NRF 2024 Big Show: Top 5 Retail Supply Chain Takeaways
NRF 2024 Big Show: Top 5 Retail Supply Chain Takeaways This IDC Perspective distills five key supply chain takeaways from the NRF 2024 Big Show, reflecting the retail industry's current priorities and innovations. These focus on:ReturnsProduct life-cycle managementTracking and tracingVisibility acro ... Read More
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IDC MaturityScape: Digital Supply Chain Resiliency 2.0
IDC MaturityScape: Digital Supply Chain Resiliency 2.0 This IDC study describes the IDC MaturityScape for digital supply chain resiliency. It provides a framework for executive leadership and IT and supply chain managers to identify the stages, critical measures, outcomes, and actions required for o ... Read More
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So What Do I Do with All This Visibility? From Seeing to Acting, and the Tool Gaps That Still Exist
So What Do I Do with All This Visibility? From Seeing to Acting, and the Tool Gaps That Still Exist This IDC Perspective highlights the importance of leveraging use cases to assess cross-functional visibility and gaps effectively. Companies have spent years and significant time and investment in vis ... Read More
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Roundup of Recent Federal Guidance and Requirements for Securing the Software Supply Chain
Roundup of Recent Federal Guidance and Requirements for Securing the Software Supply Chain This IDC Market Note discusses the software supply chain security–related actions taken by the U.S. federal government in February and March 2024. Recent directives and initiatives by U.S. federal agencies lik ... Read More
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U.S. Printer and MFP Market Shares, 2023: Economic Uncertainty Weakens Demand Following Supply Chain Recovery
U.S. Printer and MFP Market Shares, 2023: Economic Uncertainty Weakens Demand Following Supply Chain Recovery This IDC study provides vendor market shares for the printer and MFP market for 2023."Print vendors faced a year of mixed blessings in 2023. The year began with pent-up demand as vendors wer ... Read More
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Are We Going in Circles? What's Next in Sustainable Operations?
Are We Going in Circles? What's Next in Sustainable Operations? This IDC Perspective looks at three broad areas of opportunity to operationalize sustainability and then focuses in on reverse logistics, which offers opportunities to find gains in resource efficiency, consumer relationship and insight ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Operationalizing Sustainability in the Supply Chain
IDC PlanScape: Operationalizing Sustainability in the Supply Chain This IDC PlanScape endeavors to articulate a journey for the operationalization of sustainability in the supply chain and help companies envision, design, manufacture, and distribute products in full consideration of this principle. ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices for Real-Time Tracking and Traceability in Business-To-Business Supply Chains
IDC PeerScape: Practices for Real-Time Tracking and Traceability in Business-To-Business Supply Chains This IDC PeerScape examines the role of Internet of Things (IoT) and real-time tracking technologies in refining supply chain management (SCM), highlighting their application from intralogistics to ... Read More
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Operations Priorities in Transportation and Logistics
Operations Priorities in Transportation and Logistics This IDC Market Perspective examines operations priorities in the transportation and logistics industry. "Although not new, the importance of operational efficiency in transportation and logistics may be at an all-time high, driven by inflationar ... Read More
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Navigating the Future: How AI and Internet of Things Are Revolutionizing Fleet Management Systems
Navigating the Future: How AI and Internet of Things Are Revolutionizing Fleet Management Systems This IDC Perspective explores the challenges and opportunities in global fleet management within the transportation and logistics (T&L) industry. It discusses issues, such as rising fuel costs, main ... Read More
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AVEVA's Industrial Intelligence Powers Engineering, Operations, and Optimization Solutions and Services
AVEVA's Industrial Intelligence Powers Engineering, Operations, and Optimization Solutions and Services This IDC Vendor Profile examines and evaluates AVEVA's evolution, strategy, vision, product, and solutions in context of current market trends and how AVEVA provides value to its customers. It als ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices to Optimize Inventory Across Omni-Channel Retail
IDC PeerScape: Practices to Optimize Inventory Across Omni-Channel Retail This IDC PeerScape is one of a two-part series that aims to home in on specific practices retailers can enable through improved processes and technology to improve customer experience, profitability, and sustainability outcom ... Read More
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Worldwide Supply Chain Warehouse and Inventory Management Applications Market Shares, 2022: Inventory Refocused
Worldwide Supply Chain Warehouse and Inventory Management Applications Market Shares, 2022: Inventory Refocused This IDC study provides the worldwide market shares for supply chain warehouse and inventory management applications. This market grew nicely in 2022, paced by accelerating investment in ... Read More
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Worldwide Supply Chain Management Applications Market Shares, 2022: Growth Maintained
Worldwide Supply Chain Management Applications Market Shares, 2022: Growth Maintained This IDC study provides the worldwide market shares for supply chain management applications. This market grew nicely in 2022, paced by accelerating investment in public cloud deployments. Growth in the supply chai ... Read More
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Worldwide Supply Chain Logistics and Transportation Management Applications Market Shares, 2023: Logistics Visibility
Worldwide Supply Chain Logistics and Transportation Management Applications Market Shares, 2023: Logistics Visibility This IDC study provides the worldwide market shares for supply chain logistics and transportation management applications. This market grew nicely in 2022, paced by accelerating inv ... Read More
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Data Quality and Supply Chain Innovation: Which Comes First?
Data Quality and Supply Chain Innovation: Which Comes First? This IDC Market Perspective discusses data quality and supply chain innovation. As supply chains race to innovate and to improve resiliency and efficiency, they are on a continuous journey to maintain high-quality data. AI is introducing a ... Read More
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IDC PlanScape: Supply-Driven Design
IDC PlanScape: Supply-Driven Design This IDC PlanScape highlights technology initiatives that help manufacturers design products that mitigate the inherent risks within supply chains and protect revenue and profits.“Given the current fragile environment surrounding geopolitical trade, increases in n ... Read More
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Esri Conference: Industry Ecosystem Empowerment Through Shared Geospatial Data
Esri Conference: Industry Ecosystem Empowerment Through Shared Geospatial Data This IDC Market Note provides our observations and thoughts from the Esri IMGIS Conference held recently in Palm Springs, California."The move to modern GIS data mapping, as Esri envisions, includes integration of this da ... Read More
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Hardcopy Vendor Financials, 2Q23: Supply Chain Recovery Finally Complete, Shipments Impacted by Weak Economy
Hardcopy Vendor Financials, 2Q23: Supply Chain Recovery Finally Complete, Shipments Impacted by Weak Economy This IDC Market Perspective contains excerpts from public financial disclosures by leading hardcopy vendors and details the impact of inflation, economic uncertainty, and supply chain issues ... Read More
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The Convergence of Supply Chain and Procurement
The Convergence of Supply Chain and Procurement This IDC Market Perspective examines the interrelationship between supply chain design and direct procurement."If supply chains do look to reevaluate and shift their global sourcing strategies in 2024 and beyond, or even rethink where they manufacture/ ... Read More
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Chief Supply Chain Officers Intrigued by the Potential for Automation Generally — and GenAI Specifically
Chief Supply Chain Officers Intrigued by the Potential for Automation Generally — and GenAI Specifically This IDC Market Perspective examines the priorities and challenges facing the chief supply chain officer (CSCO) from IDC's latest Worldwide C-Suite Tech Survey. "Automation sits as the most intri ... Read More
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Supply Chain Planning and Network Design: Creating Supply Chain Oases for Expanding Food and Pharmaceutical Deserts
Supply Chain Planning and Network Design: Creating Supply Chain Oases for Expanding Food and Pharmaceutical Deserts This IDC Market Perspective discusses macroeconomic pressures and societal shifts that are creating new pharmaceutical and grocery supply chain deserts. Survey data from the life scien ... Read More
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Charting the Journey from Point Control Towers to True Supply Chain Orchestration
Charting the Journey from Point Control Towers to True Supply Chain Orchestration This IDC Market Perspective highlights supply chains' maturity journey from linear-based management to end-to-end supply chain orchestration. This requires advancements in tools, capabilities, and organizational skills ... Read More
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Tech4Food: Why We Should Care
Tech4Food: Why We Should Care This IDC Perspective defines the concept of Tech4food and its main challenges that encompass all stakeholders in the value chain: production, distribution, and consumption. Engaging all industries is the road to gain efficiencies and other expanded benefits for the supp ... Read More