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Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Supply Chain Shaman

In Figure 1, I share a composite orbit chart of progress of Cisco Systems, Intel, Samsung and Flextronics on the Effective Frontier at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin for 2006-2012. 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. As a result, companies like AstraZenca, BASF, Colgate, Reckitt Benckiser, Seagate, and Taiwan Semiconductor outperformed their peer group in the period of 2006-2014, but sustained improvement becomes more and more difficult. Our current enterprise solutions are slow and inflexible. 3D printing.

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Carter’s: A Story of Supply Chain Leadership

Supply Chain Shaman

Orbit Chart of Carter’s: Intersection of Inventory Turns and Operation Margin for the Period of 2006-2015. Driven by the business, our teams, in IT/IS and in the business find creative ways to invent solutions. We redeployed the DIM code solution for all points of distribution. Is it elegant? However, really effective, for sure.

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Insights from the C-Suite: Supply Chain People Are Making a Difference in the World

Material Handling & Logistics

Since 2006, Abe Eshkenazi has served as CEO of APICS, a trade association focused on offering research, education and certification programs in supply chain management. And so they’ll start impacting supply chain through their purchasing and buying power and their brand selection. Will they care about how it’s made?

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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. And the transformation isn’t just limited to bleeding-edge software companies. Take Tesla, theoretically a car company, in reality a hardware platform (the car) built around a living, beating heart of software.

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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. These include, new digital reward and market solutions capable of ensuring security and trust as well as significant infrastructural and operational cost reductions benefits. The result?