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For over a decade, since founding SupplyChain Insights in 2012, I have pounded the keyboard, asking business leaders to think more holistically about the impact of supplychain decisions on the firm’s value, the improvement of a value chain, and the impact on the environment. Note the fall in 2014-2019.
So say the analysts at Gartner in a new blog post on logistics technology. SupplyChain Digest Says. Gartner says that, with the exception of high-performing organizations, 40% of logistics leaders cite the struggle to realize value from existing technology investments What do you say?
We always start with a check on the US and global economy, as that has such an impact in the end on supplychain practice. What is your reaction of 1H supplychain 2025 in numbers and charts? Editor's Note: You are right, Internet of Things (IoT) was at the top of the Garter new technology hype curve not long ago.
SupplyChain Digest Says. Click here to send us your comments Just recently, Gartner itself did an interesting look at what supplychain execs were saying at the Orlando conference as well as a similar event in Europe. Below are some highlights from the Gartner blog post. This shift was accompanied by a change in tone.
SupplyChain Digest Says. Click here to send us your comments Aronow observes that many supplychain organizations are perpetually chasing their commercial partners to engage and improve the demand forecast. Aronow says to start by investing in organizational storytelling skills. What do you say?
Or, we could look at the Gartner top 25 supplychains list. That famous ranking used to be released at a dinner the Gartner SupplyChain Executive Conference in May (now called the SupplyChain Symposium), but this year it was again released in a webinar a few weeks after the conference. Gilmore Says.
Company warehouses buzz with metallic arms plucking items from shelves and wheeled droids that motor around the floors ferrying the goods for packaging,” the article this week says, adding that “In other corners, automated systems help sort the items, which other robots assist in packaging for shipment.”
The on-going conflict creates risks to critical raw materials and the continued flow of finished goods, Garter says, requiring supplychains to conduct cost-benefit analyses of mitigation actions in partnership with finance leaders. SupplyChain Digest Says. Prepare CFOs for continued supplychain cost volatility 3.
SupplyChain Digest Says. In the first facility management was focused on controlling the workforce through individual metrics. The differences continue: In my rough estimate labor productivity in the second facility is about twice that of the first even with less automation. That’s respect for people.” What do you say?
What I failed to do in any of those three columns was mention what in some ways may have been the biggest to news items: the retirements of sorts of Gartner analyst Dwight Klappich and groundbreaking, inaugural Gartner analyst, and famous inventor of the Three V’s of SupplyChain, Art Mesher.
SupplyChain Digest Says. Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006.
SupplyChain Digest Says. Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006.
Click here to send us your comments January New that supplychainsoftware provider Logility will be acquired by Aptean. The disgraced executive was eventually convicted of wire and securities fraud in 2022 for misleading investors about Nikola’s operations and zero-emissions technology. What do you say?
This week we review the performance of supplychain stocks, and next week we will provide our popular take on the 1H 2025 in numbers and charts On to the stocks, I am ending my numbers with the closing bell on July 3. In early 2021, SCDigest re-launched this weekly supplychain and logistics stock market index.
of GDP The Council of SupplyChain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and partners Kearney and Penske Logistics are out last week with the 2025 State of Logistics Report, looking primarily at 2024 data. Editor's Note: You are right, Internet of Things (IoT) was at the top of the Garter new technology hype curve not long ago.
SupplyChain Digest Says. Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. month-over-month.
A strange as it may seem for todays generation, in the early days of bar coding (1980s and through much of the 1990s), the technology had many pitfalls. SupplyChain Digest Says. The company had to re-apply the labels in distribution, at enormous costs. This can be a pleasant experience (it is most of the time) or controversial.
Any F eedback on our SupplyChain Graphic of the Week? Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006.
Fred Smith was the founder of FedEx, SupplyChain Digest Says. RIP Fred Smith, one of the most consequential figures in the history of supplychain. Editor's Note: You are right, Internet of Things (IoT) was at the top of the Garter new technology hype curve not long ago. at over 5,000 facilities worldwide. --Its
Click here to send us your comments That according to Rob Mortimer, CEO of Fuelre4m, a Dubai-based firm that uses fuel technology to cut emissions, writing this week on the web site of the Maritime Executive “That’s not a long-term projection. Not technologically. So why isn’t there a stampede for this technology?
In recent years, Klappich has turned some his attention to research on warehouse automation generally and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) specifically, where he has carved out a similar thought leadership position. Editor's Note: You are right, Internet of Things (IoT) was at the top of the Garter new technology hype curve not long ago.
SupplyChain Digest Says. Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. a little up from 48.5
Writing on the research firm’s blog post, Ash Sharma, Chief Commercial Officer & VP of Research - Robotics & Warehouse Automation for Interact says that “The mobile robot industry, previously marked by rapid expansion and investment, is now undergoing a period of challenges and readjustment.” year-over-year out to 2030.
SupplyChain Digest Says. TuffAir’s strategy was novel, integrating small-aircraft logistics, FAA exemptions, Ohio-based test zones and proprietary software and flight routing technology.” Editor's Note: You are right, Internet of Things (IoT) was at the top of the Garter new technology hype curve not long ago.
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SupplyChain Digest Says. With market maturity for zero-emissions vehicles losing momentum in North America, we’ve reshaped our capital allocation strategy to refocus on further developing our internal combustion technology,” O’Leary said during a speech at the event. What do you say? An y reaction to t hese stories?
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Today, we kick off our annual year end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 7 main categories: Manufacturing , SupplyChain , Logistics , 3PL , Business , Transportation , Freight. We will feature over the next 7 business days each category’s top 10 most viewed posts over the course of 2014.
Decades later and a sizable amount of that technology has hit the mainstream market (can anyone say Apple Watch ?) So what does my nostalgic look back at my childhood have to do with the future of supplychains? The WEF report focuses on five shifts that will directly influence supplychain. Apparently everything.
We continue our top blog posts of 2014 from our main categories today by focusing on something at Cerasis we are experts in : Logistics. We’ve already listed the top 10 manufacturing blog posts and the top 10 supplychain blog posts last week. Top 15 Logistics Blog Posts of 2014. Read the full Post.
We trudge on with our top posts from our main blog categories by page view for all of 2014 from the Cerasis blog by featuring another area Cerasis is an expert in: Transportation. Top 16 Most Popular Transportation Blog Posts of 2014. Finally, as expected, technology and transportation management systems were also a popular subject.
” Here is an excerpt from the article: “…it isn’t by becoming more efficient that the supplychains of Wal-Mart, Dell, and Amazon have given those companies an edge over their competitors. According to my research, top-performing supplychains possess three very different qualities. The gap was large.
Many companies talk about SupplyChain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supplychain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supplychain excellence to fitness. He felt that supplychain excellence was analogous. As a goal, it is easier to say than to define.
I am speaking this morning at the Terra Technology conference and doing a book signing of my new book, SupplyChainMetrics That Matter. The world of supplychain is active on my iPhone. The news from SAP Insider is a continued drumbeat on the HANA rewrite of SAP’s supplychain applications.
In the presentation, I shared data on the evolution of supplychain planning and the results on user satisfaction. The use of best-of-breed planning technologies was small at 15%. Neither technology vendor is an industry leader in delivering a solution that fits the needs of the supplychain planner.
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That was my opening question to the executives attending last month’s Elemica reveal 2014 Conference in Frankfurt. Meanwhile, the Red Sox won the World Series in 2013, going from worst to first in one year — and then back to worst in 2014. What do the Germany World Cup Team and the Boston Red Sox have in common?
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