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Logility to Acquire Network Optimization Provider Starboard Solutions

Logility

a Traverse City, Michigan based innovator of supply chain network design software. ATLANTA (June 28, 2022) – Logility, Inc., a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Starboard Solutions Corp.,

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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.

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How Proper Label Controls Can Help Your Manufacturing Plant

IQMS

You’ve heard the labeling horror story, now let’s take a look at a success story from an IQMS customer: Custom Profile is a profile extruder based in Grand Rapids, Michigan and has been an IQMS customer since 2002.

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The Digital Twin is the Next Big Technology Enabler

Requis

Much later, in 2002, Michael Grieves of the University of Michigan used the concept of “mirrored systems” for a product lifecycle management course , and coined the term “digital twin” in a 2011 book on the topic.

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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. TomTom has presented a 3D map of Germany and Michigan, in support of the German and US car industry. Only 15 years ago we still used paper maps in our car. The first commercial GPS systems were launched in the 80’s.

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Why Learning Technologies will Fundamentally Transform Retail and Supply Chain

BlueYonder

In 2002, the University of Michigan gave Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin an estimate of 1,000 years for scanning the library’s seven million volumes. Again, performance improves with experience. The good news is that there is an abundant and growing bounty of content (Big Data) on practically anything and everyone.

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How Supply Chain Strategy Misalignment is Killing Kmart USA

Logistics Bureau

The problem of supply chain strategy misalignment has always been there for Kmart, ever since the first of its concept stores opened in Garden City, Michigan. This includes the supply chain strategy, which Kmart has never successfully developed to support its place in the bargain shopping category. I would say “probably not.”