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Digital Twins in the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

Justin Honaman , Head of the worldwide Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Food & Beverage organization for Amazon Web Services, reports that the term “digital twin” may be newly coined, but the concept has been around for years. .”[6] 12, December 2007. ”[2] What is a Digital Twin?

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Fourth Quarter Comebacks: How Dispatchers Handle Last-Minute Deliveries

Locus

The high-stakes environment of last-minute deliveries requires a similar concoction of precision, adaptability, and resolute decision-making, shaping a journey that is not merely about transporting packages, but more significantly, about delivering promises and navigating challenges with finesse.

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Measuring Up?

Supply Chain Shaman

The period of 2007-2008 was the great recession. C2C improved in retail apparel, mass retail, pharmaceuticals, chemical, food and consumer packaged goods industries. Companies that do not rate above average on the metrics or are not driving improvement faster than their peer group, do not make the list. Resiliency. What do you think?

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Staying Ahead of Supply Chain Paradigms – LogiSYM September 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Imminent fiscal recovery packages could entrench or partly displace the current fossil-fuel-intensive economic system,” states a paper of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. Important is that the packages are subject to the fulfillment of environmental protection measures and targets. “66%

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Unethical Sourcing Practices in Procurement and How to Avoid Them

EC Sourcing Group

For example, employees at Smith & Wesson entered into a series of unethical practices with foreign countries between 2007 and 2010. These are just bribes in a prettier package—don’t do business with this supplier. A perceived lack of ethics may affect your reputation and the entire procurement process and supply chain. .

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The ShipBob Story with Dhruv Saxena

The Logistics of Logistics

Dhruv came to America (from India) in 2007 to pursue an undergraduate engineering degree. Dhruv Saxena is the CEO and Co-Founder of ShipBob , the leading global Omni fulfillment platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses to provide them access to best-in-class supply chain and fulfillment capabilities. About ShipBob.

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IBM Beefing Up for Matrix Commerce in 2012

Supply Chain Network

The acquisition expands IBM’s cloud-based analytics offerings that provide supply chain intelligence leading to better inventory management and cost efficiencies. Summary: IBM to Acquire DemandTec to Expand Cloud-Based Analytics for Smarter Commerce. IBM today announced it has completed its acquisition of Emptoris Inc.