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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007. Let’s look at the past to forecast the future: Phase 1. Lockdowns and Disbelief. Spring 2020-February 2021. As consumer buying behavior patterns shifted, the focus was on the design and execution of the middle and last mile.

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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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Will Warehouses Eventually Go Dark?

Enterra Insights

According to Patrick, the right kind of warehouse is big and technologically advanced. Today’s warehouses are 143% larger than they were in 2007. The Internet of Things and Big Data. “These high-tech, modern warehouses,” she writes, “are much bigger than they ever were before.

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Top Automotive Mobile Barcoding Software Success Stories

RFgen

Automotive brand Aston Martin recalled a total of 17,590 cars, which equates to approximately 75 percent of the vehicles made between November 2007 and May 2012. How Ford is Implementing Big Data into its Supply Chain. Bringing big data into the supply chain is not always as simple as buying the right software.

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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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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). The advanced scope of procurement analytics will move beyond current events.

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Mapping Product Genomes: The Life Blood of Supply Chains

NC State SCRC

By 2007 it was $10M, and it has now dropped to $1000, and is expected to drop to a penny by 2020! The importance of tracking and measuring all goods, including the possibility of counterfeit goods, must be estimated using data tracking. The cost of genome sequencing in 2001 was $100M per sequence.