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Supply Chain Movement 20 – Trends & Consulting

Supply Chain Movement

12 | Profile Hans Willems, Vice President Supply Chain Europe, Boston Scientific. A Boston Scientific medical device is used somewhere in the world every two seconds, but the company is much more than a medical device manufacturer. Supply chain has played a crucial role in its evolution into a provider of solutions for hospitals.

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7 Ways to Strategically Elevate Freight Procurement

Talking Logistics

Smaller companies have lean shipping departments and are often focused on moving product with little time and energy remaining to negotiate contracts and analyze freight spend. It is easy to understand why strategy is often set aside to meet immediate needs of getting product shipped out the door. Keep in touch with market realities.

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Towards Causal Artificial Intelligence

Enterra Insights

To highlight that point, Tyler Vigen , a Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), created a site called Spurious Correlations that highlights some interesting, if meaningless, correlations. Mankins and Lori Sherer, “ Creating value through advanced analytics ,” Bain Brief, 11 February 2015. [3] ” OnQ Blog, 6 September 2022. [2]