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Mapping Product Genomes: The Life Blood of Supply Chains

NC State SCRC

The genome contains genes, which are packaged in chromosomes and affect specific characteristics of the organism. By 2007 it was $10M, and it has now dropped to $1000, and is expected to drop to a penny by 2020! But unlike the calls for “Big Data”, we must “de-mystify” the view that Big Data is the answer for supply chain improvements.

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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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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

Arkieva

View the full post or view the snippet below: I was talking to a director of demand planning for a big chemical company at a trade show a few months ago. She shared that her business had implemented a statistical forecasting package from one of the leading vendors during the previous year. Will Big Data change the world?

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Supply Chain Management:SAP acquired Ariba, what does it mean.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Consumer Packaged Goods. Cloud & Big Data. Over the past few years, Ive watched Aribas stunning repositioning as a serious on-demand player (yes, cloud hadnt become so fashionanble in 2007-08) with a lot of admiration, though as an SI, this meant a steadily eroding revenue pie. Contact Us. Newsroom Investors Careers.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling & Logistics

In recent years, firms both large and small have launched new “Data Science” or similarly named groups. As the phenomenon of Big Data has taken hold in the private sector, many firms which as recently as 10 years ago devoted minimal resources to large scale database mining and analytics have reversed course.