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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Lockdown of cities and manufacturing plants have significantly impacted many industries’ supply chains. Relying on our experience in the industry and academic field, it is worth to say that if everything is urgent, nothing is urgent! Industry 4.0. Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs) are key enablers for Industry 4.0.

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Will Warehouses Eventually Go Dark?

Enterra Insights

David Sparkman, head of David Sparkman Consulting, reports, “Empty stores and shopping centers are increasingly being converted into warehouse and e-commerce distribution centers, according to the global industrial real estate firm CBRE, which examined in detail two dozen such projects ranging from southern California to Baltimore.”[2]

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Top Automotive Mobile Barcoding Software Success Stories

RFgen

The automotive industry manages complex inventories in addition to facing vast outside pressures. Learn why three real-life companies in the automotive industry implemented mobile barcoding solutions and their significant results. The automotive industry is no stranger to complex inventory management.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007. However, based on industry and experience, 21% of manufacturers reported struggling during the first part of the pandemic. As consumer buying behavior patterns shifted, the focus was on the design and execution of the middle and last mile.

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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. IBM has a history of purchasing supply chain assets, and despite great press release superlatives, the company has underperformed in the building and selling of supply chain industry solutions. These assets have gone through several acquisitions.

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Mapping Product Genomes: The Life Blood of Supply Chains

NC State SCRC

Genome mapping is a capability that grew out of the biotech industry, and which is proliferating, largely due to the dropping cost of genome sequencing. By 2007 it was $10M, and it has now dropped to $1000, and is expected to drop to a penny by 2020! Often, genome maps are used to help scientists find new genes.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

This impact declined at the start of the last decade, and the impact of the third-industrial revolution stopped in 2004. As growth slowed post 2007 recession, companies fought back. In retrospect, the 1990s were an exceptional time of innovation impacts on productivity. World Trade Intensity and Annual Growth.