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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. Using Analytics In the World of Gray.

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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Machine learning and big data analytics augments critical roles in supply chain efficiency, problem solving and cost saving. Data acquisition and filtering and scenario analysis are time consuming practices in supply chain. Efficiency and cost management. This calls for an analytical thinking and decision-making mindset.

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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

In the research for my inventory optimization report, the lowest level of satisfaction with multi-tier inventory optimization is with clients of the SAP inventory solution (previously purchased from SmartOps). The LogicTools product was purchased for $15 million in 2007 by ILOG. A hard sled… Buyer beware. What do I see?

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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

Even today, emerging research finds that managers observe the non-negligible level of inaccuracy in data for physical goods challenges and that such inaccuracy requires time-consuming practices to be corrected. The advanced scope of procurement analytics will move beyond current events.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

For example, in the recession of 2007, DuPont missed the downturn in the market. A critical look at supply chain processes impacting supply chain financial results through the Supply Chains to Admire research. With the completion of each study we share the research results. How can you build market-driven forecasting processes?

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What € 30M funding really means to us: Accelerating sustainable procurement

EcoVadis

First of all, on behalf of the team here, we can thank our Co-Founders and Co-CEOs Pierre-François Thaler and Frédéric Trinel for their tireless dedication, and who have devoted their intelligence, passion and seemingly endless energy to building EcoVadis since 2007. Bravo, and thank you! The market has spoken.