
Advanced Logistics in the Factory of the Future
Higher levels of automation and flexibility help manufacturers offset labor shortages while boosting service and safety.
Higher levels of automation and flexibility help manufacturers offset labor shortages while boosting service and safety.
The brewer launched a supply chain transformation program to reduce complexity, build new ways of working, and reduce its carbon footprint. Here’s how it succeeded.
Companies often struggle to match decision-making speed with changing dynamics. That’s why a decision-led approach to end-to-end planning transformation is key.
In the face of disruptions, from natural disasters to pandemics, how do we make sure supply chains can keep up? Dustin Burke, BCG managing director and partner, offers a combination of solutions to help create a more resilient, efficient tomorrow.
Manufacturers need to optimize for increased productivity, improved sustainability, greater resilience, and a stronger workforce. How can they harness the latest technologies to realize these goals?
To slash their substantial greenhouse gas emissions, chip manufacturers must focus on turning their upstream supply chain green.
As stakeholder expectations around ESG continue to rise, organizations cannot ignore the importance of building inclusive supply chains. BCG's DEI experts share how businesses can meet this imperative and put supplier diversity at the heart of their ESG strategies.
Public procurement accounts for 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions annually. Because governments can create demand for clean energy technologies, they can have a direct impact on reducing the world’s carbon footprint.
For procurement organizations, today's uncertainty has made risk mitigation and cost reduction tougher than ever. Learning lessons from the pandemic will be key to survival and sustainable competitive advantage. See below for the critical steps that teams can take to overcome current shocks and withstand futures ones.
このシリーズでは、不確実性下でどこに機会があるかを理解できるよう、今日のビジネスリーダーが直面している破壊的な潮流について考察します。
Building resilience and promoting sustainability while maintaining cost efficiency, service levels, and growth requires redesigning your network—and that will take several years. Better get started.
Combining distributed and additive manufacturing mitigates supply chain risks by enabling fully digital interactions, better economics for producing small quantities, and flexible capacity.
Producers can address critical challenges by designing flexible factories, sharing assets, and decoupling factory ownership and use.
The technologies needed to overcome many longstanding barriers to shop floor automation—and the skills needed to use them in combination—are finally available.
To succeed in challenging times, CEOs must do the seemingly impossible: capture cost savings while achieving additional competitive advantages, including innovation, sustainability, and resilience. CEOs can do all of this by taking what may seem like a surprising step: empowering their procurement function to liberate new value from their top supplier relationships.
Learn MoreGiant call centers, commodity offerings, and rigid scripts for dealing with customers will give way to agile, AI-enabled organizations that combine hyperpersonalization with ultraindustrialization.
Now is the time to reduce complexity in GBS. This can help companies achieve excellence and transform customer experience.
Leaders who have stabilized their contact center operations must now think about harnessing the positive changes unleashed by the crisis.
Excellent functional level strategies can yield cost savings, offer greater customer satisfaction, provide a more responsive platform for driving transformation—and sharpen your company’s competitive edge.
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To keep projects on track, managers must excel on multiple fronts–including fostering transparency into project challenges, encouraging collaboration among all stakeholders, and candidly assessing project risks.
Behind Think Big is transparency and collaboration. That's how BCG conceives a successful large capital project. Let’s think big to make big things happen.
In a turbulent, fast-changing world, innovation success means getting it right over and over again.
Artificial intelligence can provide optimized solutions to three key retailer concerns: rising cost of goods, declining consumer spending, and supply chain volatility.
By gaining deeper insights into the status and efficacy of their climate initiatives, companies can accelerate efforts across the value chain.
Half the battle in transformations is overcoming mental roadblocks to change in the organization. Here’s what leaders can learn from behavioral science to improve the odds of success.