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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. 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'

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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. billion (based on 2018 sales). Oxford Economics and SAP (2020).

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Managerial Practice Will Need to Catch up with the Emergence of Real-time Supply Chains

NC State SCRC

In my new book “ The Living Supply Chain ” co-written with Tom Linton, we reflect on the new capabilities required to be able to work with the evolving imperative of real-time data. Some organizations have invested in very expensive systems called “control towers” to manage their “bigdata.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

For example, in the recession of 2007, DuPont missed the downturn in the market. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. So, what are the market signals to model to forecast demand at the cadence of the market?

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Walgreen’s Acquisition of Amerisource Bergen is based on the need for integration to survive

NC State SCRC

However, in 2005-2007 wholesalers’ position in the channel was challenged due to increasing pressure for pricing controls, lower inflation, ASP regulation, and other external variables. As a result, pharmaceutical distribution companies had to adopt a different model, one identifying a Fee For Service model.

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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 ».

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A Brief Look Back at Clayton Christensen’s Innovative Ideas

Enterra Insights

The Economist notes, “The book, published in 1997, popularized the idea of disruptive innovation. The premise of Christensen’s groundbreaking book was that many companies’ hubris causes them to ignore disruptive innovations that can eventually lead to their downfall. They add, “This is a book about progress.