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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Preview In his 2019 Foresight article, Niels van Hove examined eight technological hurdles that must be overcome to enable autonomous or ‘lights out’ supply-chain planning. He reasoned that to support such planning we need to implement a third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software. Key Points.

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Avoiding Stagnation: How Ratioform Stays Agile with Supply Chain Automation

ToolsGroup

Mathias takes us through Ratioform’s journey from manual planning to an automated system that could adapt to uncertainty. The following transcript was created using a combination of automated and human transcription. So what were the biggest industry and supply chain challenges that Ratioform was facing?

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Can Supply Chain Visibility Make Your Company King?

Enterra Insights

1] When it comes to supply chain operations, this principle certainly holds true. Business consultant John Stanly explains, “Modern-day supply chains are complex and expansive, thanks to diverse supplier networks, customers peppered across the globe, varying compliance requirements, and logistical challenges.

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Big Ideas in Supply Chain | Keysight Technologies: Risk recovery after a natural disaster

Kinaxis

by Sarah Harkins Imagine that three natural disasters hit your global supply chain within three years. For Keysight Technologies, this isn’t a hypothetical scenario. Between 2015 and 2016, earthquakes in Japan and explosions at a container storage station in China affected parts of the company’s supply chain.

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ToolsGroup Acquires Evo for Industry Leading Responsive AI

ToolsGroup

The integration of Evo’s responsive AI solutions with ToolsGroup Service Optimizer 99+ (SO99+) and JustEnough® solutions will offer customers the most efficient, real-time supply chain and price optimization solution available.

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My Failure Of Using Design Thinking To Drive Supply Chain Innovation

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain management is a team sport. Just as there are many flavors of sports teams, there are many types of supply chains. The supply chain is also a team sport needing clear goals, rules, and coaches. When a company attempts to automate processes without clarity, problems ensue.

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Business Competition in the Digital World

Enterra Insights

“There is no denying it,” writes the staff at Easy Communication & Technology, “competitiveness moves the market. Companies understand they need to meet the challenge, but most of them are struggling.” You can’t simply implement a system or a technology and be done. As Bain analysts, Michael C.