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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. During the pandemic, the supply chain discussions take new importance. While the supply chain technology market lost its allure at the start of the last decade, it is now cool again. The supply chain career is new. Reflection.

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A New Decade: Give Science A Chance

Supply Chain Shaman

When I started my business in 2012, I frequently wrote about the future using the moniker of Supply Chain 2020. We had just recovered from a recession, and my goal was to help supply chain leaders create a better supply chain by the end of the decade. At that time, Supply Chain 2020 seemed so far away.

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Analyzing Supply Chain Risk

Enterra Insights

Supply chains are a mess, inflation is on the rise, the pandemic lingers, natural disasters are intensifying, fraud is growing more prevalent, and global tensions are increasing. This is a big problem. When it falters, the knock-on effects can be tremendous. One answer is advanced analytics.

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The Changing Face of Retail

Enterra Insights

Putting on make-up? According to Collins English Dictionary , to “change face” means “to rotate the telescope of a surveying instrument through 180° horizontally and vertically, taking a second sighting of the same object in order to reduce error.” When you hear the term “changing face,” what springs to mind? Dawning a mask?

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Transforming Supply Chains During the Pandemic and Beyond

Enterra Insights

The pandemic has forced many companies to rethink their supply chain strategies. Fully redesigning the supply chain starts with envisioning what it needs to become. Fully redesigning the supply chain starts with envisioning what it needs to become. However, Shanton Wilcox ( @ShantonW ), U.S. ”[2].

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How CPG Brands Can Beat Disruption with Digital Manufacturing

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Today, the choice for CPG manufacturers and supply chains is clear: future-proof with digital manufacturing technologies that can meet the customer where they are or be left behind. Many of the trends driving CPG forward in 2023 aren’t new, but may have fallen to the wayside during the pandemic and are back with renewed power.

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Is Technology Revolutionizing or Simply Changing Logistics?

Enterra Insights

According to the Cambridge Dictionary , to revolutionize something is “to make a big change or improvement to the way something works or looks, or to the way that people do a particular activity.”[1] Based on the dictionary definition, they are correct. These technologies generally have one thing in common: Big data.