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Blockchain: Preventing E. Coli Through Enhanced Traceability

Kinaxis

Food traceability remains a political challenge, with officials seeking to resolve outbreaks quickly and growers and shippers refusing to invest in technology. However, in Japan and the European Union, food traceability is the norm. IBM, Walmart, Nestle and others have already started piloting the technology.

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Industry Leaders Partner with o9 Solutions to Support Executives on their Digital Transformation Journeys

o9 Solutions

The council’s mission is to help executives navigate and accelerate their digital transformation journeys through curated content around leadership, strategy, change management, and how to leverage new technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to reach business goals. Hiroshi Nishikawa.

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Lean Six Sigma for SMEs: A Path to Continuous Improvement

SCMDOJO

While Lean focuses on eliminating waste and optimizing processes to achieve seamless workflow, Six Sigma targets reducing variation and improving quality through data-driven analysis and statistical tools. – DMAIC methodology links tools and techniques in a sequential manner. – Comparatively simple deployment tools.

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Professor Yossi Sheffi on Resilience, Visibility, and Biggest Risks this Holiday Season

Elementum

Welcome to the second installment of Supply Chain Spotlight, Elementum’s interview series. We speak with the most influential people in today’s global supply chain. Each interview is a conversation about the most important topics and tasks facing supply chain professionals all over the world. Another issue?

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Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree

The Logistics of Logistics

Ron Crabtree , CPIM, CIRM, CSCP, MLSSBB, SCOR-P is the founder and CEO (2002) of MetaOps , Inc. Mr. Crabtree is a Master Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, a Certified Supply Chain Transformation Architect and an expert in effective change management, facilitation, and communications. About Ron Crabtree. High Responsiveness.

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Bristlecone Ranks in Leadership Zone in Zinnov Zones for Engineering R&D Services 2020

Bristlecone

11, 2020 – Bristlecone, a leading provider of supply chain transformation and product engineering services, today announced that it has earned a leadership position in Enterprise Software and Software Platform Engineering in Zinnov Zones for ER&D Services – 2020. SAN JOSE, Calif., Data Engineering, IoT and Analytics.

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

Provenance

Provenance has partnered with the Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis Agency (Growth Analysis) , to explore how blockchain technology can help to valorise sustainable practices in the Rare Earth Elements mining sector. Interested in understanding how supply chain transparency could benefit your business? The result?