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

Logistics Viewpoints

The same survey indicates that 50% of the retailers are unhappy with their existing technology solutions and are looking to enhance or replace them to bring more diagnostic and predictive capabilities, including: Current demand vs. forecast analysis and rebalancing. Can the workflows and analytics easily change over time?

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Google Will Acquire a 3PL – And Other Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2015

Talking Logistics

made that prediction in 2008 (see the Barron’s article What $300-a-Barrel Oil Will Mean for You ). Three years later, he stayed with his $300-a-barrel prediction, but shifted the timeframe to 2020 (see the CBS News article, Another $300 Oil Prediction — and Why This One Matters ). million bbl/d in 2015.” .

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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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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: The argument for creating an analytics culture

NC State SCRC

Handfield and Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo’s Dr. Marcos Paulo Valadares de Oliveira showed that an open analytics culture (OAC) strongly correlates with improved supply chain performance metrics. What is an “Open Analytics Culture” (OAC)? For some readers, it might be easier to first define a “‘closed’ analytics culture”.

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A time of transition: 3 key trends for oil & gas in 2018

DELMIA Quintiq

Natural gas is a suitable source of energy to fuel the need for heat and the power, making it an influential player on the market. The demand is predicted to be growing at a rate of 1% globally until 2050. – Bernard Looney, CEO Upstream, BP. Low carbon sources and natural gas meet 85% of the increase in global demand.

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BASF: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the period of 2009-2015 only 88% of companies made improvement on the “Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.” (The Note in Figure 1 that BASF drove great improvement in the period of 2009-2013, but then slowed in 2014-2015. Companies passing these two tests are then analyzed against the performance factors for 2009-2015: Growth.

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Use of Predictive Analytics in Supply Chain - Infosys Blogs

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. « Managing After-Sales Service by coupling CRM and Asset Management | Main | Adding intelligence in the Forecasting process to support Supply Chain Segmentation » Use of Predictive Analytics in Supply Chain.