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Our infographic highlights the benefits and importance of digitizing the supply chain and how users that deploy a supply chain management solution can analyze and act on the data derived from a fully...

The Intelligent Supply Chain 

A significant quantity of global freight transport movement is part of a multimodal transport chain, particularly for port-related containerized transport flows. 

‘That ship has sailed’: an idiom widely used to reference a situation already decided, in the past, and one that almost certainly cannot be stopped or reversed with any success. 

Last week, the Gravity team found a letter written by a CEO struggling with his company's current supply chain processes that asks Santa to help enable better supply chain management capabilities...

The Gravity team has found a letter to Santa! It appears to have been written by a CEO struggling with current supply chain processes. He asks Santa to work magic and find a way for his company to...

Sharing The Harvest

The Power Of Data

According to statistics released by the International Chamber Of Shipping, the international shipping industry is responsible for the carriage of around 90% of world trade, making it a vital...

It's highly likely you have been told you must improve your Purchase Order Management (POM) processes but do you know WHY should you do so, HOW to go about doing so, and perhaps most importantly, WHO...

It's widely appreciated that Big data plays an instrumental role in improving supply chain management and is a player that cannot get ignored. However... What is it? How can you use it? And perhaps...

Global supply chains connect customers with products and services, but sadly, all too often come with a cost to the environment - but it is a cost that can be avoided!

The need to digitize supply chains is a hot topic, and there is no wonder. Those companies that operate a fully digitized and orchestrated supply chain are enjoying dramatic reductions in costs and...

Coordinated Alignment Results In All Round Wins

Gravity's Founder, CEO, and industry thought leader, Graham Parker, gives his perspective about what running a supply chain with real time insights means when Gravity attended the Alcott Global...

LIGHTS - COVID-19 Exposes Truths

It is an essential prerequisite that for a supply chain to operate effectively, complete visibility, traceability, and accountability must be in place. Leveraging the power of data ensures you not...

The U.S. freight rail network gets widely considered as the largest, safest, and most cost-efficient freight system in the world, with the nearly $80-billion freight rail industry covering almost...

The FMCG Industry - In-demand consumer products that often get produced in large quantities and are made available at low cost to meet the needs of high volume sale patterns.

2020 

Are you one of the businesses out there who find themselves asking the question, 'Why do we need a purchase order management (POM) system'? If this is the case, you might think your business is...

Supply chain disruptions are inevitable, and this couldn't be more evident now, and during times of emergency, when medical devices and pharma products become a global necessity.  

Supply chains are complex. Lack of synchronization due to disparate systems, limited data sharing, or interconnectivity makes digitization essential.

THE FACTS

What is the real cost behind meeting your customer's needs and expectations?

There is little doubt that supply chains globally are in the midst of an evolution that is reshaping not just how they need to organize and operate, but also how the profession of supply chain...

”As COVID-19 spreads globally, we are seeing increased supply chain disruption, but also changes in consumer spending habits,” commented Sarah Watt, Senior Director Analyst with the Gartner Supply...

THE SCIENCE

Gravity Supply Chain's latest podcast unveils an exciting new enhancement to our shipment tracker and purchase order management (POM) products.

Boom! Like an explosion, it happened... 

Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs theory proposes that people get motivated by five primary categories of emotional need:

Happy Holidays! The team at Gravity Supply Chain Solutions would like to wish you Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

The modern-day supply chain is global, fragmented, and forces importers/shippers and suppliers to react to their customers’ demands in real-time. Supply chain managers continue to rely on disparate,...