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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

The LogicTools product was purchased for $15 million in 2007 by ILOG. Big data supply chains Demand Market-Driven New technologies HANA llamasoft logictools SAP smartops Terra Technology' LLamasoft will begin providing software maintenance, support and services to all LogicTools customers effective immediately.

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When We Don’t Have Answers, We Need to Work Quickly To Build Them

Supply Chain Shaman

We started the pandemic with an average of twenty-one more days of inventory on average across industries than at the start of the 2007 recession. Does anyone want to wager with me how many of those ships have inventory that is not really needed in the supply chain? Could Outside-in Thinking Help? The reason?

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Preparing to Run Supply Chains at the End of the Second Global Economy

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain leaders were slow to adopt advances in Big Data Analytics. That performance so far is much stronger than Americas Great Recession recovery: four years into that business cycle (2007 Q4 to 2011 Q4), US real GDP was only 1.8% Using the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index to view volatility, we can see patterns.

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Dissecting the Headwinds and Tailwinds of Digital Transformation

Supply Chain Shaman

Public markets reward growth, and the average growth for companies for the period of 2011-2016 was 1/3 the rate of growth for the period of 1986-2007. ” The tension within an organization is growth. The political environment for globalization is worsening. Trade is tougher.

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Marketing: Opportunities and Dangers of Social Media

Enterra Insights

According to a 2007 paper by Duncan Watts, ‘large scale changes in public opinion are not driven by highly influential people who influence everyone else, but rather by easily influenced people, influencing other easily influenced people.” .”[4]

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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. This calls for an analytical thinking and decision-making mindset.

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Supply Chain Operating Networks Create Supply Chain Rockstars

Talking Logistics

With the collective power of a supply chain operating network and its big data analytics, companies can be proactive and generate additional revenues, such as having the ability to unload inventory to another business on the network that is out of stock of the same products.