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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. is beyond information technology and more about exploring what the customer wants. Machine learning and big data analytics augments critical roles in supply chain efficiency, problem solving and cost saving.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

Net/net, the current architectures are hard-wired into back-office Information Technology deployments with layers of security and integration, and batch processing. As such, they serve the business leaders as a system of record for planning information, but they do not serve the core user very well. Lockdowns and Disbelief.

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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

Thus, procurement analytics in this scope typically worked as a part of resource planning systems, digitizing and managing the information of resource inputs. better order timing), the digitized information typically entails information quality issues. visualization and decision support).

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Top Automotive Mobile Barcoding Software Success Stories

RFgen

With the help of Oracle E-Business Suite, Toyota contacts suppliers via email to collect data on specified parts. The supplier’s IMDS contact person then fills out a datasheet, which is sent to Toyota’s internal database, and the system cross-checks the information to ensure the parts are meeting requirements.

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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

Several good friends in consulting roles are sharing information on SAP HANA from SAP Insider; and this morning, LLamasoft announced the acquisition of the LogicTools assets from IBM. The LogicTools product was purchased for $15 million in 2007 by ILOG. It is my seventh year of speaking at this small, and intimate event.

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Mapping Product Genomes: The Life Blood of Supply Chains

NC State SCRC

By 2007 it was $10M, and it has now dropped to $1000, and is expected to drop to a penny by 2020! The importance of tracking and measuring all goods, including the possibility of counterfeit goods, must be estimated using data tracking. How we interact with the data will determine how useful it is. 1] [link].