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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Machine learning and big data analytics augments critical roles in supply chain efficiency, problem solving and cost saving. Data acquisition and filtering and scenario analysis are time consuming practices in supply chain. Efficiency and cost management. What is the share of business in the customer-product matrix?

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. The question is, “Why?”

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The expanding scope of procurement analytics: Some initial thoughts

NC State SCRC

This inter-organizational information flow entails new challenges in procurement analytics: organizational boundaries generate information friction and lowers the visibility of information (Barratt and Oke 2007). cloud computing) has compressed the required time for data processing and gave rise to the birth of real-time data analytics.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

Then think about how the channel flows can shift outside in using these building blocks: 1) Customer Sentiment Analysis. Today, supply chains do not use sentiment data–blogs, rating and reviews, social data on Twitter and Facebook, and call center logs in supply chain processes. 4) Demand Network Visibility.

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50 Online Resources for Aspiring Supply Chain Scholars

Supply Chain Opz

Compare logistics infrastructure using Logistics Performance Index World Bank has produced Logistics Performance Index (LPI) report since 2007 to aid policy makers to benchmark logistics infrastructure in their countries. Commodity Flow Survey is one way to understand supply chain of every industry in the United States.

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16 ERP implementation risks that vendors WON’T tell you

Unleashed

Think about the difference between Microsoft Word 2007 and Google Docs. Staff with data analysis skills are in short supply. Process re-engineering costs This can be a big hidden cost of ERP implementation, which a vendor may not tell you about as it’s not quite their wheelhouse, as it were.

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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

Arkieva

View the full post or view the snippet below: I got the idea for this blog post after reading Shaun Snapp’s LinkedIn post on the topic of big data. In the post, he correctly argues that the case for big data is sometimes exaggerated. Will Big Data change the world? Read More ». Read More ». Read More ».