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Will Warehouses Eventually Go Dark?

Enterra Insights

1] “The explosive growth of e-commerce and the competition among retailers to deliver goods quickly,” she writes, “is running hard up against the scarcity of warehousing near population centers, triggering a land grab for distribution space that experts say is accelerating.” The Internet of Things and Big Data.

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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. leaders’ solid data analytics and interpretation skills emerge from obscurity during crisis.

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

NC State SCRC

Real-time data is enabled by the emergence of cloud computing and mobile devices, which creates “big data” technology platforms that process higher volumes of internal and external data from multiple sources. Much of the data is “integrated” (e.g.,

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

NC State SCRC

Those days of hefty prices using “Next Best Alternative are gone – and pharmaceutical distribution is a cut-throat business with very tight margins. As a result, pharmaceutical distribution companies had to adopt a different model, one identifying a Fee For Service model.

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Growing Challenges in Supplier CSR Monitoring are Being Met with Powerful Digital Solutions

EcoVadis

Transparency & Traceability : new technologies, such as “ Block Chain ”, can track the provenance of goods throughout the supply chain from raw materials, to factories, laborers, logistics, and through branding and distribution. Additional data such as sustainability indicators, can be attached at each step in the chain.

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50 Online Resources for Aspiring Supply Chain Scholars

Supply Chain Opz

Compare logistics infrastructure using Logistics Performance Index World Bank has produced Logistics Performance Index (LPI) report since 2007 to aid policy makers to benchmark logistics infrastructure in their countries. For business people, LPI is the way to help them evaluate the location of new production and distribution facilities.