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A New Decade: Give Science A Chance

Supply Chain Shaman

By combining leadership and technology, I believed that we had the opportunity to create a better supply chain. The gap is the result of the stewpot of corporate politics, misguided consultants, and over-hyped technologies. Their supply chain results in 2019 are worse than in 2015, and this was before the pandemic. I was wrong.

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Digital Supply Chains Require People, Processes, and Technology

Enterra Insights

Too often, discussions about supply chain transformation focus on emerging technologies forgetting that true transformation involves people and processes as well as technology. During the pandemic, the Enterra Solutions ® team honed our analytics platform and created the Enterra Global Insights and Decision Superiority System.

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Why the Forecast for Supply Chain Planning has been Only Partly Cloudy

ToolsGroup

Each year more users opt for cloud-based systems and there is a lot of support in the analyst community. I have a theory as to why we are seeing some market skepticism, and it hinges on the distinction between Systems of Record versus Systems of Engagement. Supply chain management is a system of record. SORs, not as much.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 8-12, 2015)

Talking Logistics

I was at the GT Nexus Bridges 2015 conference earlier this week. In the meantime, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: JDA Software Announces Game-Changing Strategic Cloud Collaboration with Google. Delivers Tools for Improved Driver Productivity and Enhanced Route Visibility.

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Supply Chain Performance Declined In the Last Decade. The Question is Why?

Supply Chain Shaman

of revenue on information technology (IT), only six percent of manufacturers drove performance at the intersection of growth and margin. Average performance in 2016-2019 across twenty-seven manufacturing sectors on inventory turns, Return on Invested Capital and operating margin was worse than in 2012-2015. Mistake #2.

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Technology Can Help Feed the World, Part 2

Enterra Insights

Some experts are now referring to the technological revolution unfolding in agriculture as “Farming 4.0.” “Experts caution,” they write, “that if history is anything to go by, technological revolutions typically result in greater inequality as the rich capture most of the benefits.” ”[1]. .”

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Industry 4.0 Success Depends on Cognitive Technologies

Enterra Insights

Like other economic sectors affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the manufacturing sector has had to reevaluate past business strategies to ensure they remain on track to survive and thrive in the post-pandemic environment. “Talk of Artificial Intelligence in manufacturing,” he writes, “has been around for years.