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Autonomous Planning in Supply Chain: 4 Must-Haves for Next-Generation Platforms

Logistics Viewpoints

When my fiance heard about the price, he advised that I find a local hairdresser and set up a frequent-shopper account with them for a few months until the tool is back in stock. When the pandemic started in 2020, no one could foresee the impacts of the global supply chain disturbances would last this long.

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Scaling a FreightTech Business with Mark McEntire

The Logistics of Logistics

Founded in 2016, and located in Fort Wayne, IN, Princeton TMX provides an intuitive user experience, configured to meet specific business requirements and streamline, automate, and optimize all modes of transportation. In 2017, Mark was awarded the Supply Chain and Demand Chain Executive “Pro To Know”. Mark earned a B.S.

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

In business conversations, the term supply chain excellence rolls off the tongue frequently in meetings, but what does it mean? Supply chain excellence is harder to define than to say. We designed the Supply Chains to Admire Methodology to help companies define supply chain excellence.

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Intelligent IBP – a new role for supply chain planners

Supply Chain Trend

Intelligent automation will change this. In this blog : a new role for supply chain planners. Similar to the continuous automation of physical assets in the supply chain over the last 100 years, we’ve now reached the era where the knowledge worker will be augmented or automated by a machine.

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My Quest to Build Holistic Thinking

Supply Chain Shaman

In the 1990s, I transitioned from managing an emerging supply chain organization at a mid-sized manufacturing company to working for a supply chain planning company. When I joined the software company, I had just finished my MBA at Wharton School of Business. And “Companies do not have one supply chain, but many.

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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%. Brands that don’t use advanced technology for marketing, sales, and operations are missing out on opportunities for success. Challenges in the CPG Industry.

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Technology Can Help Feed the World, Part 2

Enterra Insights

Some experts are now referring to the technological revolution unfolding in agriculture as “Farming 4.0.” “Experts caution,” they write, “that if history is anything to go by, technological revolutions typically result in greater inequality as the rich capture most of the benefits.” ”[1]. .”