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Coronavirus Highlights Fragility of Global Supply Networks

Jaggaer

A businessman, who caught the virus at a conference in Singapore, was linked to several other cases. Procurement professionals around the world are sitting up and paying attention, especially in sectors with globally integrated supply chains. Corona v irus could wreck the global auto industry.’. Telecommunications equipment.

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If Only There Were More Choices

Supply Chain Shaman

The hype cycle was my favorite Gartner model when I was a Gartner analyst in 2001-2003.) Most of the newer technologies–cognitive computing, machine learning, autonomous vehicles, cryptocurrency, the use of drones for sensing, additive manufacturing, wearables, and blockchain are early in evolution. The pressure is on.

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The Year in Logistics: Most Popular Articles from 2020

Logistics Viewpoints

Earlier this week, the death toll from the Wuhan coronavirus rose to over 1,000 people, invoking memories of the 2003 SARS outbreak. Today is day two of the HighJump Elevate user conference. Coronavirus Impacts Manufacturing Supply Chains in Southeast Asia ; Bob Gill. HighJump is Rebranding as Körber Supply Chain ; Clint Reiser.

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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

In my role as an industry analyst, I have been lucky to attend many great conferences and hear wonderful speakers. One of my favorite speeches, over this fifteen year tenure, was listening to Alan Greenspan at the AMR Research IT conference in November 2006. It requires the early adopter and visionary. Reflections. Why so long?

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

The best planning systems are implemented carefully based on conference room pilots and focus on modeling the business. However, in a subsequent article published in 2003 and titled “ Computing Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence ” Erik states that. As a result, the best implementations are usually not the fastest.

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Industry 3.X and TPM deciphered

KEPLER Consulting

This remains very important because from the beginning of the digital data creation until 2003, there were 5 exabytes of information created and now the same amount of information is created every two days. Sources : Boud, A. 1999 IEEE International Conference on (pp. Cyber-physical systems. Haniff, D. Proceedings. Gilchrist, A.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling & Logistics

The latest smart manufacturing concept that we developed and demonstrated is the robot-on-a-cart concept for autonomous assembly or conveyer tending. As manufacturers continue to expand the various applications these systems can handle, we’ll see more firms designing lights-out facilities. . Drones & Autonomous Vehicles.