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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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50 Online Resources for Aspiring Supply Chain Scholars

Supply Chain Opz

See the real supply chain via Commodity Flow Survey Commodity Flow Survey is a survey conducted every 5 years (in the year ending in 2 and 7) by Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce and Department of Transportation. The data is grouped by industry based on North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

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

EcoVadis

This also poses challenges for suppliers, such as: Redundant surveys from each client; Questionnaires are often not adapted to their business category, size or location; The lack context for understanding their performance relative to others, or how to set expectations; An absence of feedback and guidance needed to drive improvements.

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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. We always keep our survey respondents and their responses confidential, but share the results with business leaders in private roundtables to maximize networking. So, what are the market signals to model to forecast demand at the cadence of the market?

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Public Perception of & A Brief Timeline of Moments from the American Manufacturing Industry

GlobalTranz

2007: The first iPhone is released By Apple. When we combine such other sweeping technologies like the Internet of Things and big data, the state of the American Manufacturing Industry is truly on the cusp and evolution of a public perception change. Manufacturing Enterprise Integration Act of 2002. Click for Bigger Graphic.

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

Material Handling & Logistics

Every year, in our annual MH&L Salary Survey , we ask readers to identify the biggest challenge they face in their jobs, and every year they tell us the same thing: finding, developing and retaining talent. In recent years, firms both large and small have launched new “Data Science” or similarly named groups.