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Data Privacy Day 2024

Enterra Insights

Data privacy is a big deal. We sit on the cusp of a new business era driven by artificial intelligence (AI); however, without data AI doesn’t work. That’s why there is a growing tension between data availability and data protection. Two years later, Data Privacy Day was observed in the United States.

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Technology Can Help Feed the World, Part 2

Enterra Insights

The editorial team at Analytics Insight notes, “The technological revolution that is currently happening in the agricultural sector became possible, among other things, due to big data. Collecting and analyzing big data can not only improve the productivity of individual farms but also help halt a global food crisis.

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The expanding scope of procurement analytics: Some initial thoughts

NC State SCRC

Procurement analytics, which supports decision making in procurement management, typically handles problems and decisions that are related to cost reduction, supplier management, cost modeling, procurement-led innovation, market strategies, supply chain risk, and stakeholder value improvement (Handfield, Jeong, and Choi 2019).

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Welcome 2019

Supply Chain Shaman

The teams in these seats did not experience the down market in 2007 or the start of the market run in 2009. The Battle For Analytics Is Waging. Descriptive analytics is mainstream. Machine learning will redefine master data management. Telematics and outside-in data redefines transportation. The teams are new.

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Supply Chain Optimization for Consumer Packaged Goods Inventory

Logility

Between 2000 and 2009, the average profit for this industry grew by over 10% year on year, but over the next decade, annual profit growth fell to just 3.2%. Data analytics to gather insights on seasonal behaviors and demand volatility. To deal with these challenges, businesses need to move away from individual planning silos.

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

We calculate the results based on public data from the period 2012-2021. They used the work built together in 2004-2009 to build a course with Georgia Tech for executive training.) Leaders invest in analytics and customer-centric innovation. Organizations are drowning in data that they cannot use.

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Let the Qs Begin

Supply Chain Shaman

While the performance rankings were based on comparisons of inventory turns, operating margin and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for the periods of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013, the concept is that to be a supply chain leader you must outperform and drive improvement. Can you help us with what you see in the data?”