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Reflections on Hard Hats and Safety Shoes…

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, using the Internet of Things, companies can sense equipment status and predict failure. When the added costs of transportation and inventory working capital impacts are added, there is a solid logic to bringing manufacturing back to North America. Today, companies can see volume, but they cannot see patterns.

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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

Logistics Viewpoints

Run” will include using the platform for inventory optimization and to support interesting internet-of-things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) projects. They also have 20 sourcing locations across North America from which they can ship make to stock products. HWI employed a crawl-walk-run methodology.

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Building the Network of Networks

Supply Chain Shaman

There is an active group in Europe and North America. The group is working on case studies to test new technologies like blockchain, cognitive computing, supply chain operating networks, and open source analytics. If companies use streaming data through Internet of Things to drive replenishment, do we need customer orders?

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9 Ways Manufacturers Can Develop More Sustainable Products

Arena Solutions

Increase the lifespan of goods and materials while converting waste into resources by making technologies like PLM, AI, and the Internet of Things (IoT) key components of circular economy. Using renewable energy sources that can create long-term sustainable energy consumption.

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Real-Time Monitoring Fuels IoT Growth In Manufacturing

IQMS

This month IQMS interviewed 151 manufacturers in North America to understand the current and plans for analytics and manufacturing intelligence, mobility, quality and real-time monitoring. Source: Capgemini Internet of Things (IoT) study, Unlocking the business value of IoT in operations.

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Supply Chain Leadership Series VI: Pam Heminger, Senior Vice President of Procurement & Planning, Caterpillar

NC State SCRC

During her 24 years at Honda of America, she helped implement many of the supply chain best practices that have now become renowned, including cost modeling, supplier development, supplier quality assurance, lean manufacturing, and many others, which evolved under the original North America leadership of Dave Nelson.

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Managing Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) For Future Growth

IQMS

Across the wide spectrum of technologies that enable real-time monitoring, IQMS is seeing growing interest in and adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) to bring even greater accuracy, speed, and scale into warehouse management. Gillett January 14, 2016.