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Don’t Wait for Standards Before Moving Closer to Smarter Manufacturing

GlobalTranz

download ebook. However, as of 2014 , 87% of U.S. It is basically a term highlighting the different technologies used in manufacturing to make the processes more efficient and more effective. The Trends that Will Forever Shape Manufacturing in 2018 & Beyond.

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6 Supply Chain Disciplines to Enable Profitable Growth

Talking Logistics

In a survey of retailers conducted by RSR Research in May 2014, 72 percent ranked “system-wide inventory visibility” as having a lot of value (up from 45 percent in 2012), but only 47 percent reported having “a lot of visibility” in that area, virtually the same percentage as in 2012.

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Built for Yesterday’s Consumer: The Demise of Malls and Traditional Distribution Networks

Talking Logistics

Author’s Note: Below is an excerpt from Keeping Up with the Retail Consumer: 6 Supply Chain Disciplines Retailers Must Master , an ebook published earlier this year by Adelante SCM and LEGACY Supply Chain Services (see previous post for additional details). percent in 2014. percent in 2006 to 3.4

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Taking the Hill

Supply Chain Shaman

These reports will be the foundation of the new book that we are writing for 2014. We will release preview copies as ebooks over the course of the summer. I also hope that you enjoy the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter series. We enjoy writing them! We have learned a lot through this activity. Talk to you soon!

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Excel, ERP and Legacy Apps, Oh My! What Technology is Supporting Your S&OP Process?

Kinaxis

Consider the Supply Chain Insights report, Research in Review (Nov 2014), that states: “Many companies have five to 30 Enterprise Resource Planning systems and two to three supply chain planning systems. In addition, companies will have two to five S&OP processes working independently.”. Download your own copy here.

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Four Strategies What Worked

Supply Chain Shaman

This work started in 2014 when the Colgate team challenged me for giving so much admiration for the P&G team in my first book, Bricks Matter. ” I am currently working on an ebook of what I feel are the most impactful client case studies from my two decades as an analyst. They are often great fodder for my future articles.).

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What the Age of the Consumer Means to Industrial Manufacturing: A Conversation with IDC’s Simon Ellis

BlueYonder

Just as Amazon, for example, sells the Kindle reader, but then makes most of their money selling eBooks, perhaps industrial manufacturers will start to think of their products as platforms for selling services. SCN: Everything you hear today is about how consumer demand is dramatically changing the retail and consumer goods marketplace.