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The introduction of E-Procurement.

ModusLink Corporation

Organizations in both public and private sectors are adopting systems such as the Electronic Data Interchange tool (EDI), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and of course the internet to benefit them when sourcing their goods (Adebayo, Dec 2015). & (Dec 2015). Contact one of ModusLink’s Industry experts by clicking here.

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Time for a Supply Chain Metrics Cleaning

Logility

Fewer meaningful and insightful metrics that lead to a common knowledge base and clear understanding on how to make improvements are better than many metrics that lead to conflict and confusion. 1 The Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics: Diagnosing Your Supply Chain Health - Gartner, 26 June 2015.

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Doing Business in Switzerland

QAD

Switzerland has a highly developed manufacturing industry specializing in high-tech and knowledge-based production. In 2015, Switzerland had 40 airports with paved runways and moved 1,322,379.468 Mt-km by air. Switzerland is east of France and north of Italy, also bordered by Austria, Liechtenstein and Germany.

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Industry 4.0 Success Depends on Cognitive Technologies

Enterra Insights

While these analytics provide a competitive advantage for businesses, they lack knowledge-based insights to help in decision-making. Mankins and Lori Sherer, “ Creating value through advanced analytics ,” Bain Brief, 11 February 2015. [5] In other words they are mathematical in nature. ”[5]. .” ” Footnotes. [1]

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Is Every Company a Technology Company?

Talking Logistics

“Given the decreased likelihood that DHL Global Forwarding will be able to realise benefits from the New Forwarding Environment system in its current state, the group will recognise, in the result of the first nine months of 2015, one-off effects of a total of €345m,” it said in a statement today.

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A Great Tree of Artificial Intelligence has Fallen: Douglas Bruce Lenat

Enterra Insights

As journalist Cade Metz reported, “[His vision was] creating a ‘knowledge base’ called Cyc that can endow computers with something approaching common sense.”[1] 2] Ernest Davis and Gary Marcus, “ Commonsense Reasoning and Commonsense Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence ,” Communications of the ACM, September 2015. [3]

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Artificial Intelligence and Common Sense

Enterra Insights

Its initial proposed methodology was to encode the knowledge in 400 sample articles in a one-volume desk encyclopedia together with all the implicit background knowledge that a reader would need to understand the articles (hence the name). ” MIT Technology Review , 17 December 2015. [5] ” Footnotes. [1]