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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

As such, they serve the business leaders as a system of record for planning information, but they do not serve the core user very well. We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007. Software robots need adult supervision through learning systems. Lockdowns and Disbelief.

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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. Supply partners’ integrated systems provide competitive advantage through shortened supply operations and speedy decision-making. Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs) are key enablers for Industry 4.0.

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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. Robotic systems will replace the labor demands of pickers, and automated packing and shipping will put warehousing on the forefront of technology. ”[7] They are: 1.

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Top Automotive Mobile Barcoding Software Success Stories

RFgen

With the help of Oracle E-Business Suite, Toyota contacts suppliers via email to collect data on specified parts. The supplier’s IMDS contact person then fills out a datasheet, which is sent to Toyota’s internal database, and the system cross-checks the information to ensure the parts are meeting requirements.

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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

The LogicTools product was purchased for $15 million in 2007 by ILOG. While the large system integrators will push offerings from ERP Expansionists like SAP and Oracle, I see greater value coming to clients that bypass hype and focus on business results through the implementation of best-of-breed products on the top of ERP backbones.

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The expanding scope of procurement analytics: Some initial thoughts

NC State SCRC

Thus, procurement analytics in this scope typically worked as a part of resource planning systems, digitizing and managing the information of resource inputs. However, this “evidence-based decision making” is pragmatic only under the premise that sourcing organizations are able to process necessary data for evidence generation.

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16 ERP implementation risks that vendors WON’T tell you

Unleashed

Employees tend to follow the examples set by their leaders (including C-suite right down to individual team leaders), and if those leaders don’t appear to be enthusiastic about the new system, why would anyone else? For starters, you’ll have to find all of that old data. It sounds easy, but it’s a tricky process.