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Welcome 2019

Supply Chain Shaman

It has been a while since I penned a blog post on New Year’s predictions, but today as I sit and drink my hot chocolate, I feel the itch to write. The teams in these seats did not experience the down market in 2007 or the start of the market run in 2009. The Battle For Analytics Is Waging. Descriptive analytics is mainstream.

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Major Trends Impacting the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Ecosystem

Supply Chain View from the Field

Looking at global figures, growth in the consumption of drugs has increased 32 percent from $735 billion in 2007 to $965 billion in 2012, and consumption is projected to reach about $1.2 The application of analytics to patient compliance is an important development that will result in important medical breakthroughs. In the U.S.

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Industry 3.X and TPM deciphered

KEPLER Consulting

This is the part of maintenance supported by technicians, there are different levels: the curative, the preventive and the predictive. Big Data analysis allows companies to “predict” Companies can predict events using in-depth analysis of large data sets that will be actively monitored. Scheduled maintenance.