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Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Supply Chain Shaman

It is one thing to write it, but it is a horse of another color to defend it. I think about this discussion with Keith often as I work on the Supply Chain Index and edit the chapters of Metrics That Matter. I think three things: 1) A Hard-Fought and Tough Journey. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus.

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Using the Bits: Building Digital Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

The Internet of Things. Transmitted perfectly, replicated indefinitely; and with a one-time investment in network infrastructure, a digital task performs well with zero marginal cost. As shown in the 2015 Supply Chains to Admire report , over time, top performing supply chains plateau. 3D printing.

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Carter’s: A Story of Supply Chain Leadership

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. (As As a group, these metrics have the highest correlation to market capitalization. As a group, public companies want to make progress to both drive and sustain metrics performance, but they cannot. Improvement.

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution and why cash flow is at its center

Taulia

What was first coined in Germany in 2006 as a manufacturing initiative, is now a global technology-led revolution. Internet of Things (IOT) The Internet of Things is a natural extension of the development of wireless networks – but this time it’s not just computers that are internet-enabled, it’s everything.

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

Provenance

A report proposing three system solutions that could reshape the industry and set the clean energy technology sector on a path to sustainability. Read the short version of this report on Medium. Chapter 2 of this report outlines some of the barriers observed to play a prohibitive role to transparency for REE mining and processing.