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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

Executing an event in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic is challenging. We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007. At this event, we challenge teams to think differently and drive new outcomes. We will hold the event at the Westin, Dulles in Washington, DC.

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The expanding scope of procurement analytics: Some initial thoughts

NC State SCRC

This inter-organizational information flow entails new challenges in procurement analytics: organizational boundaries generate information friction and lowers the visibility of information (Barratt and Oke 2007). The most basic temporal scope is a set of previous events.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

As growth slowed post 2007 recession, companies fought back. Next year’s event will be in Philadelphia on September 4th-7th. Committed to our purpose, we are downsizing the event. While you can expect the same strong content and fun, it will be a smaller, and a more focused event.

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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

It is my seventh year of speaking at this small, and intimate event. 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' The world of supply chain is active on my iPhone.

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What € 30M funding really means to us: Accelerating sustainable procurement

EcoVadis

But it is important to note that the most significant aspects of this event are not just about money, but about the new resources, partnerships, technologies, initiatives, team members, and collaboration that it will bring to accelerate EcoVadis’ growth. A Year In Events: Looking Back At 2016 (US Edition). Bravo, and thank you!

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

NC State SCRC

The ability to respond to real-time data and derive supply chain performance improvements is closely linked to prior work in organizational information processing theory (OIPT). Some organizations have invested in very expensive systems called “control towers” to manage their “bigdata.