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E2open Acquires Zyme: A Bridge Too Far?

Supply Chain Shaman

It is a larger acquisition than the prior purchases of Terra Technology , Steelwedge , or SCM-Icon. Founded in 2000 as a consortia exchange by IBM, along with H itachi, Matsushita, LG Electronics, Nortel Networks, Seagate Technology, Solectron and Toshiba, E2open has weathered the challenges of time. Investors moaned.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

According to the annual survey released by the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) and Prosper Insights & Analytics, consumers plan to spend a collective $24 billion on Easter this year, up from $20.8 Spending is growing across several categories, and the top Easter items consumers say they are planning to purchase include candy ($3.3

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This Week in Logistics News (December 7-11, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Electronic Logging Devices to be Required Across Commercial Truck and Bus Industries. October 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). According to a report in Re/code: The trailers won’t be used to deliver packages to customer doors. China Approves Merger of Cosco, China Shipping (WSJ- sub.

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You Can’t Spell Agriculture without AI

Enterra Insights

Like other business executives, they need to be able to make a business case for any new technology they purchase. He writes, “Artificial intelligence promises to bring the same heat to agriculture that [electronic calculators] did to math classes decades ago.”[2] ”[4]. Concluding Thoughts. Footnotes. [1]

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Welcome Puff, The Magic Dragon, to Your Team

Supply Chain Shaman

How do we harness the power of data with new forms of analytics? Today, technology providers are selling analytics. This week, I received this email from a financial institution questioning why business leaders are not harnessing more insights and redesigning processes based on analytics. S&OP Challenges. Reflection.

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New challenges for electronics Supply Chain

EcoVadis

The IT and telecommunications sectors have long been at the forefront of sustainable procurement, yet the pressure to successfully actualize sustainable practices along each stage of the supply chain (raw materials, manufacturing and end-of-life recycling) is intensifying.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 21-25, 2015)

Talking Logistics

In transportation news, the American Trucking Associations reported that its advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index declined 0.9% Manto said that had she been making a similar purchase today, she would have first had to study reams of data to determine how similar cameras had been selling and at what price.