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Businesses are in an arms race to create low-touch collaborative supply chains
In the HFS Horizons: Supply Chain Services 2024 study, 18 supply chain services providers are analyzed and profiled. Seven of these providers are identified as leaders in Horizon 3, focusing on ecosystem collaboration. Seven are identified as innovators in Horizon 2, excelling in cross-functional alignment, and four are identified as disruptors, primarily working on function-level transformation. Read More
Retail and CPG firms turn to innovation to combat the digital dichotomy
The HFS Horizons: Retail and CPG Service Providers, 2023 report covers 24 leading providers helping their clients embrace innovation, devise new value streams, and realize value during these challenging times of rising costs, interest rates and rapidly changing consumer expectations.Read More
Supply chain customers embrace agility and resilience — HFS Horizons, Supply Chain Services 2023
The HFS Horizons report on supply chain services features 18 providers across three Horizons manifesting incremental business value for enterprise clients. Horizon 1 focuses on a linear supply chain driving functional optimization, followed by Horizon 2, which retains the values of Horizon 1 plus drives circular supply chains with end-to-end transformation capabilities, creating unmatched stakeholder experience with a “OneOffice” mindset. At the pinnacle is Horizon 3, which encapsulates all values of previous Horizons plus encompasses a networked and autonomous vision of the supply chain, driving completely new sources of value with a “OneEcosystem” approach.Read More
Sustainability in 2023: Business continues to outpace politics. But not by enough
We’re still clueless about sustainability. Key people, in key organizations, in key rooms, still need help with contextualizing their roles and where to best spend their time and energy. Here we run over some musing across the global context, sustainability services, the energy and utilities industries, and the supply chain. If you make it to the bottom, you’ll find the last sources of optimism in the hand of both services firms and the increasingly powerful coalitions of the willing hoping to overcome the failures of politics and apologize later.Read More
EY, Accenture, Infosys, TCS and IBM lead the unchaining of supply chain services
The scope of innovation is expanding beyond the functional silos. It needs to extend beyond the four walls of your organization, and requires collaboration across multiple organizations with common objectives around driving entirely new sources of valueRead More
Welcome Ram… he’ll get you out of a jam
Ram Rajagopalan joins HFS' India operations as Consulting DirectorRead More
Ariba And Everledger Want Blockchain To Help Supply Chains Become More Ethical And Make The World Better
When people source ethically they can reduce a lot of bad in the world – child labor, human trafficking, working conditions that harm and kill people, and a host of other problems.Read More
