The value chain depicts all of the key profit-building activities a company engages in, beginning with inbound logistics and moving through operations, outbound logistics, marketing and sales and ...

Discover how value chain analysis enhances business efficiency, optimizes costs, and delivers competitive advantage through step-by-step assessment.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lora Cecere is the Founder of Supply Chain Insights. The supply chain facilitates trade. It is an engine for growth. A value chain ...

In multi-tier supply chains, trust is often the first casualty of complexity. Blockchain is helping to restore it by creating ...

A Value Chain is a set of activities that a company performs in order to deliver its product or service for the market. The concept was introduced by Michael Porter in his 1985 best-seller, ...

SWOT is an acronym that stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. SWOT provides a framework for analysis of the internal and external business environment. The value chain is ...

Constant disruptions, geopolitical challenges, climate change and emerging technologies have driven manufacturing companies to rethink their value chains. However, despite the strategic intent to do ...

Industrial activities are one of the main causes of the depletion of natural resources. Earth Overshoot Day marks the day when the planet consumes more natural resources than the biosphere can ...

WASHINGTON, October 8, 2019—In an era of slowing trade and growth, developing countries can achieve better outcomes for their citizens through reforms that boost their participation in global value ...

It is difficult to locate value within the conventional notion of the petroleum industry, especially in the upstream. A holistic approach to the much broader petrochemical and petroproduct value ...

Written by Nicholas Little, Director Railway Education, Center for Railway Research and Education, Michigan State University Eli Broad College of Business (ret.) Railways, passenger and freight, need ...