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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

One of the goals of the conference was to challenge the audience to redefine work. Similarly, after the conference, I started working with a chemical company to formulate a supply chain strategy. We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007. Allyson’s presentation was just that.

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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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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

Last week I spoke at the CLX Logistics Conference in Philadelphia on the future of Supply Chain Management. As growth slowed post 2007 recession, companies fought back. My speech also focused on how current technologies are rapidly becoming obsolete due to market demands to do more with less and make better decisions.

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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 attended the Gartner conference in Phoenix and heard from many speakers and analysts. The key theme of the conference was that of a bimodal supply chain. View the full post or view the snippet below: I was lucky to attend the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix last May.

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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. The conference will be live streamed. So, what are the market signals to model to forecast demand at the cadence of the market? How can you build market-driven forecasting processes? This is critical in a volatile economic environment.

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Industry 3.X and TPM deciphered

KEPLER Consulting

The analysis of Big Data, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, and cyber-physical systems are considered the main levers of the next digital upgrade. Big Data analysis. 1999 IEEE International Conference on (pp. Cyber-physical systems. Baber, C., & Steiner, S.

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A Brief Look Back at Clayton Christensen’s Innovative Ideas

Enterra Insights

He once told participants at an Economist conference, “When I die and they’re going to interview me outside of heaven to decide whether…to let me in. Although it may sound like Christensen and his colleagues were skeptical about the value of big data analytics, I don’t believe that’s their message. Footnotes. [1]