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

NC State SCRC

Examples of visibility include demand visibility, market visibility, and supply visibility. Examples include the multiple layers of approvals for purchase orders, delays in decisions when a forecast deviation occurs, or the lack of response when a major disruption shuts down shipments to customers. These principles are not new.

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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). Open Source Technologies (Examples include Hadoop, Spark, Kafka). As growth slowed post 2007 recession, companies fought back. Blockchain/Cryptocurrency. Analytics (Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing). 3D Printing.

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16 ERP implementation risks that vendors WON’T tell you

Unleashed

But, to effect such serious change you need everyone to be on board, and that’s one of the big challenges of an ERP implementation. Updates are the most common example – imagine trying to update the software but there are sixty different versions all running at once because most are custom jobs. Confused about the difference?

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

Explore how you can capture, harmonize and analyze this data to inform upstream processes. For example, should customer sentiment data feed into quality systems? For example, in the recession of 2007, DuPont missed the downturn in the market. Into warranty systems? Trade promotion decisions?

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

EcoVadis

Additional data such as sustainability indicators, can be attached at each step in the chain. Big Data : the diversity and volume of sustainability information being made available on social media, labor unions, environmental watch groups and other NGO’s is also generating mountains of data.

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

NC State SCRC

However, in 2005-2007 wholesalers’ position in the channel was challenged due to increasing pressure for pricing controls, lower inflation, ASP regulation, and other external variables. Examples of services wholesalers provide to manufacturers: Sophisticated ordering technology. Daily consolidated deliveries to health care providers.

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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. Commodity Flow Survey is one way to understand supply chain of every industry in the United States. Resource: SSRN.com 12.