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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. Using Analytics In the World of Gray.

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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Existing data and information might be incomplete and inaccurate, feedback from the team might be delayed. It enhances communication and information sharing, along with real-time data collection not only through the supply chain but also from internal processes. In such situations, leaders need to be very well organised.

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Top Automotive Mobile Barcoding Software Success Stories

RFgen

One solution is to automate data collection with mobile barcoding software. They were looking to modernize their data collection for better inventory control and in-house self-sufficiency. As an automotive part supplier, Brabant Alucast’s hybrid data collection processes were error prone, slow, and costly. Read the Full Story ».

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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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The expanding scope of procurement analytics: Some initial thoughts

NC State SCRC

Even today, emerging research finds that managers observe the non-negligible level of inaccuracy in data for physical goods challenges and that such inaccuracy requires time-consuming practices to be corrected. Since such data is typically first-hand data generated during operations, the accessibility of the data is high.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

This includes: Sensors coupled with data from the Internet of Things (IOT). The world is no longer just about rows and columns and transactional data. As growth slowed post 2007 recession, companies fought back. It is about more than data sharing. …or pretty visualization on enterprise data. 3D Printing.