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Distribution Outlook: 2018

NFI Industries

As consumers continue to shop in 2018, shippers are considering new solutions within distribution to quickly reach their customers. Warehouses today have doubled in size compared to 2002; however, even with larger distribution centers (DCs), the distribution market. Read More.

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Blockchain: Preventing E. Coli Through Enhanced Traceability

Kinaxis

Bioterrorism Act of 2002 (mandating that businesses keep records of the prior handler and the next handler) and the Food Safety and Modernization Act, food is still very hard to trace. For example, APICS 2018 features a session by the American Blockchain Council Executive Director Jack Shaw. Despite laws, such as the U.S.

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Digital Twins and Phygital Fitness

Enterra Insights

This technology took a step further in 2002 when Michael Grieves publicly introduced the concept and model of the digital twin at a Society of Manufacturing Engineers conference in Troy, Michigan. 2] Charlie Osborne, “ The rise of the Digital Twin: Why the enterprise needs to take notice ,” ZDNet, 3 May 2018. [3]

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WMS Selection: What Drives an Investment in a Warehouse Management System? 5 Considerations

GlobalTranz

WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. A 2002 Material Handling and Logistics magazine article cited multiple problems with WMS implementation. Download white paper. Will It Keep Information Secure? Cybersecurity remains a vital aspect of WMS selection.

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SAP Announces Supervisory Board Leadership Change

Supply Chain Matters

Ala-Pietilä background is noted as being the President of Nokia Corporation from 1999–2005, along with being a member of the SAP Supervisory Board from 2002–2021. He was the Chairman of the EU Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence from 2018-2020 and chair of Finland’s Artificial Intelligence Programme from 2017-2019.

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Autonomous Supply Chain: Desirable Vision or Silly Daydream?

Enterra Insights

Machines are now making predictions on trading stocks, customer purchases, traffic flows, and crime — much as we saw in the 2002 movie ‘Minority Report’ ”[1] When today’s technological wonders are looked at holistically, it was only a matter of time before someone imagined a fully automated supply chain.

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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

Welfare reform. Fed raised rates. LTCM crisis. Glass-Steagall repealed. Tech bubble burst. Bush tax cut, 9/11 attacks. War on Terror. Katrina, Bankruptcy Act. Bernanke became Fed Chair. Bank crisis. Debt ceiling crisis. Government shutdown. Sequestration. Deflation in oil and gas prices. Core inflation rate 1.7%. Core rate 2.2%. Core rate 2.3%.