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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. Business leaders force the CFO and IT organization to drive innovation to accelerate business results. Only 4% of manufacturing companies are innovators and 17% are early adopters. Let’s look at the past to forecast the future: Phase 1.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

… a group of energized innovators. In retrospect, the 1990s were an exceptional time of innovation impacts on productivity. As growth slowed post 2007 recession, companies fought back. Embrace innovation. They are free to innovate. I love the innovation happening with Microsoft Azure.

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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Innovation and supplier management calls for cloud-based integrated systems between partners and advanced predictive models. Machine learning and big data analytics augments critical roles in supply chain efficiency, problem solving and cost saving. Decision Making. Efficiency and cost management. Surviving and Thriving.

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The expanding scope of procurement analytics: Some initial thoughts

NC State SCRC

Procurement analytics, which supports decision making in procurement management, typically handles problems and decisions that are related to cost reduction, supplier management, cost modeling, procurement-led innovation, market strategies, supply chain risk, and stakeholder value improvement (Handfield, Jeong, and Choi 2019).

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Stephany Lapierre, CEO at tealbook!

Supply Chain Game Changer

I launched my second business, a strategic sourcing and procurement consulting firm in 2007. Technology and the use of Big Data is allowing procurement and supply chain to increase transparency and automation. Ask questions about actions taken to drive change and tolerance for risk associated with innovation.

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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. The cost of genome sequencing in 2001 was $100M per sequence.

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

EcoVadis

Supply chains become ever more complex and global, while at the same time the spotlight on transparency and innovation around Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is shifting to the supply chain. Additional data such as sustainability indicators, can be attached at each step in the chain. Note: This blog was originally posted on.