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Seeing Beyond the Firewall

Supply Chain Shaman

The supply chain is safely tucked behind the firewall, operating on data that is late and out of sync with the market. With strong Indian outsourcing capabilities, they are pushing the automation of processes through labor arbitrage strategies for cheap labor for manual data manipulation. In 2004 Compuware purchased Covisint.

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A vision for a transparent global Rare Earth Element system using blockchain technology

Provenance

China’s low prices have historically undercut global prices and pushed out foreign competitors –– such as the Mountain Pass mine in California, which closed in 2002. The lack of reporting and standardised data collection. . Since the 1990s, China has supplied the lion’s share of the world’s demand for REEs. What are blockchains?