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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Lockdown of cities and manufacturing plants have significantly impacted many industries’ supply chains. Predictive demand can propose prices changes, subject to stock levels and replenishment capacity. Machine learning and big data analytics augments critical roles in supply chain efficiency, problem solving and cost saving.

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Will Warehouses Eventually Go Dark?

Enterra Insights

Mark Brohan ( @markbrohan ) explains, “As business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce continues to grow, manufacturers, distributors web merchants and others are going to be competing for more modern warehouse space.”[4] Today’s warehouses are 143% larger than they were in 2007.

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

NC State SCRC

In the old model, forward buying distribution services assisted pharmaceutical companies to manage the complexities of unpredictable demand, lumpy capacity, and served as a key transition element for distributing pharmaceutical products to a wide array of fragmented hospitals and pharmacies. Emergency shipments to providers 24/7/365.

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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 ».

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

Supply Chain Shaman

Insufficient warehouse capacity and a lack of containers while supply chain shortages make headline news. Four industries–B2B Technology, Aerospace and Defense, Retail Apparel, and Food Manufacturing–grew inventory during the pandemic. .” Gary might have been right then, but not now. The end result? The reason?

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

Supply Chain Shaman

Insufficient warehouse capacity and a lack of containers while supply chain shortages make headline news. Four industries–B2B Technology, Aerospace and Defense, Retail Apparel, and Food Manufacturing–grew inventory during the pandemic. .” Gary might have been right then, but not now. The end result? The reason?

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

Supply Chain Shaman

Insufficient warehouse capacity and a lack of containers while supply chain shortages make headline news. Four industries–B2B Technology, Aerospace and Defense, Retail Apparel, and Food Manufacturing–grew inventory during the pandemic. .” Gary might have been right then, but not now. The end result? The reason?