Common Misconceptions About the Summer Supply Chain
All Things Supply Chain
JUNE 24, 2018
As we enter the summer months, professionals all over the globe start to prepare for one of the slowest times of year.
All Things Supply Chain
JUNE 24, 2018
As we enter the summer months, professionals all over the globe start to prepare for one of the slowest times of year.
Supply Chain Trend
JUNE 23, 2018
In a bit of an attention-grabbing title – The Death of Supply Chain Management – some pretty well-established supply chain people got away in the Harvard Business Review with a sales pitch kind of article. The main premise of the article is that technology, digitalisation and will take over the supply chain and take peoples jobs. They talk about sensor data, digital control towers, real time data, robotics.
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Supply Chain Collaborator
JUNE 26, 2018
Aurora Organic Dairy (AOD) is a vertically-integrated producer of private label organic milk products. Like many other successful enterprises, AOD faces the challenges of rapidly changing consumer trends and evolving market conditions, prompting the organization to digitize logistics processes in order to boost efficiency, grow scalability and improve customer service.
EazyStock
JUNE 25, 2018
You’ve heard about robots in the warehouse and self-driving trucks, but automation is taking over even more areas in the supply chain. The most surprising? Inventory management. Automated inventory management is nothing new to huge, enterprise-sized companies. However, small- and mid-sized businesses have only recently been investing in this new automation for their inventory management – and many SMBs are still hesitant about investing in this new technology.
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The Network Effect
JUNE 29, 2018
The folks at Exporta Global must have had some time on their hands. They decided to go for a new. The post Video: When Pallets Fall… Like Dominoes appeared first on The Network Effect.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 29, 2018
Companies large and small are susceptible to data breaches. In fact, it’s highly likely that your organization will suffer one at some point in time. So how should you respond? Should you follow the example of a company like Equifax , which did everything wrong in a wake of a cybersecurity breach and incurred hundreds of millions of dollars in costs, not to mention a stain on its reputation?
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Supply Chain Opz
JUNE 24, 2018
Are you trying to build a dream team? We will show some books that inspire CEOs and business leaders which are considered to be the best team building book. Why is Team Building Important in an Organization? Team building has become an integral part of the company's success. To build strong products and services, you need a great team who understands the customer's requirement, execute the process flawlessly and solve after-sales issues timely.
The Network Effect
JUNE 27, 2018
Understanding How a Network Can Create Shared Value for All If you’re like many organizations, you are looking for progressive. The post What Constitutes a True Network? appeared first on The Network Effect.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 27, 2018
David Blanchflower , professor of economics at Dartmouth College and member of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee from June 2006 to May 2009: The fallout from the disastrous Brexit vote and the even more calamitous negotiations are scaring businesses to death, and continuing apace. House of Fraser has announced it will be closing down 31 out of 59 stores.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 26, 2018
For sheer global commercial stakes, however, these epic clashes have nothing on the battle between the two heavyweights of the Chinese Internet industry, Alibaba and Tencent. Both have market capitalizations that hover around half a trillion U.S. dollars. Both command sectors of the rapidly growing Chinese digital landscape: Tencent owns the leading gaming and messaging platform, while Alibaba rules e-commerce.
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As early as next year, procurement and supply chain operations will begin to adopt AI agents, often called “agentic AI,” to work alongside employees to make and execute decisions with precision across procurement and even the most complex global supply chains. Unlike LLM-based generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, these AI agents do not require prompts from humans.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 25, 2018
Businesses today are getting caught out for any number of violations relating to regulation, safety, security and immoral behavior. It’s more than any fallible human can manage. So it stands to reason that artificial intelligence can help. The old-fashioned way of ensuring compliance — with armies of individuals spread across functions and locations, who might never speak with one another — is clearly broken.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 28, 2018
The U.S.-China trade war is escalating by the day and the U.S. relationship with NAFTA countries Canada and Mexico is increasingly tense. E.U. — U.S. trade is heating up with imminent E.U. tariffs on the horizon. In these wars, it's not only large multinational corporations but smaller businesses with supply chains extending into China and other countries that could incur increased tariffs, losses due to pre-contracted prices and investments overseas.
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