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The Future of Analytics in Integrated Business Planning

Supply Chain Trend

TomTom , a Dutch mapmaker and traffic company launched their first portable GPS system in 2002. We can easily imagine a prescriptive analytics phase where the optimization model is automatically updated with macro assumptions and constraints like GDP, consumer spend, oil prices and total market capacity. Multi-dimensional prescription.

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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

capacity to keep pace with needs of manufacturing. For example, in China alone, where the last decade brought millions of new participants into the workforce, a skills gap is expected to cause a deficit of 23 million sufficiently skilled workers there by 2030. Increase in manufacturing — Modest expansion of the U.S. Annually, 3.2 - 3.5