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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. Predictive analytics will quicken demand response and involve product-use insights to improve accuracy against external factors affecting demand (e.g. Efficiency and cost management.

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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. In parallel, I have been hard at work on a report on multi-tier inventory optimization for the last two weeks. It will delay my report. ILOG was then purchased by IBM for $340 million in 2008.

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50 Online Resources for Aspiring Supply Chain Scholars

Supply Chain Opz

The good point of this database is that it visualizes data for you so you can understand more quickly. Resource: Google Public Data 3. Track public policy development on Pew Research Center At Pew Research Center, you can browse the report related to public policy published since 1983. Need more analytics power?

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

When you think about the product lifecycle from cradle-to-cradle through the moments of truth of purchase, usage, and disposal, what are the opportunities to improve corporate social responsibility? Explore how you can capture, harmonize and analyze this data to inform upstream processes. Bio-engineering? Customization?

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

NC State SCRC

Examples include the multiple layers of approvals for purchase orders, delays in decisions when a forecast deviation occurs, or the lack of response when a major disruption shuts down shipments to customers. Some organizations have invested in very expensive systems called “control towers” to manage their “bigdata.