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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Team re-building, split of responsibilities/tasks, border closure challenges, quick navigation of stock management, prioritisation of logistics to consumer needs and coordination with partners upstream and downstream. Machine learning and big data analytics augments critical roles in supply chain efficiency, problem solving and cost saving.

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Will Warehouses Eventually Go Dark?

Enterra Insights

Major retailers who are choosing to expand their omni-channel platforms are transforming underperforming retail properties into e-commerce-driven logistics spaces. According to Adam Mullen ( @AdamPMullen ), senior managing director, industrial and logistics, for CBRE Group Inc., The Internet of Things and Big Data.

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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. Companies invested in improving visibility capabilities to improve functional efficiency of logistics, manufacturing, and supply. Let’s look at the past to forecast the future: Phase 1. Lockdowns and Disbelief. Spring 2020-February 2021.

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

NC State SCRC

Real-time data is enabled by the emergence of cloud computing and mobile devices, which creates “big data” technology platforms that process higher volumes of internal and external data from multiple sources. Examples of visibility include demand visibility, market visibility, and supply visibility.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

Last week I spoke at the CLX Logistics Conference in Philadelphia on the future of Supply Chain Management. As growth slowed post 2007 recession, companies fought back. My speech also focused on how current technologies are rapidly becoming obsolete due to market demands to do more with less and make better decisions.

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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. Resource: Logistics Performance Index 8. Resource: Jobs in Logistics 38.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City. For example, in the recession of 2007, DuPont missed the downturn in the market. It is a week where I would pack yet another bag to spend the week on the road.