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Improve Supply Chain Strategies with Digital Twin Technology

Enterra Insights

Supply Chain Planning and Digital Twins Chap Achen , Vice President of Product Strategy & Operations at Nextuple, explains, “A digital twin allows a business decision-maker to test and validate a complete set of strategies and objectives across teams and make smart decisions that improve the customer experience and maximize profitability.”[1]

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Supply Chains and the Chinese Economy

Enterra Insights

”[2] Posen traces the origins of China’s weakening economy back to 2015, when the government began to tighten its control over the economy. Private-sector consumption of durable goods is down by around a third versus early 2015, continuing to decline since [China’s post-Covid] reopening rather than reflecting pent-up demand.”

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

Supply Chain Shaman

We stubbed our toe in supply chain management at the beginning of the decade. Facing The Issues of Supply Chain Performance. As I work through this year’s Supply Chains to Admire , I cannot help but shake my head. The black veil of the pandemic is a supply chain wake-up call to build better.

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Executing Customer-Centric Supply Chain Strategies

Supply Chain Shaman

(Included in this post is Cummins’ digital award for the 2016 Supply Chains to Admire. I want to understand why some companies outperform on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter while others do not. About twice a month, companies ask me to review their strategy documents. I am on a mission.

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Blockchain in Supply Chain: 2 Ethereum-Based Projects That Demonstrate How Blockchain Can Improve Supply Chains

GlobalTranz

Supply chains are messy. Blockchain in Supply Chain Can Help. WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. The inefficiencies that plague supply chains have seemingly been around forever. Blockchain in supply chain changes that.

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2015 Harold E. Fearon Best Paper Award Winners

SCM Research

The Journal of Supply Chain Management has recently announced the winner of the 2015 Harold E. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 51 (3), 61-86 DOI: 10.1111/jscm.12081. Examining Absorptive Capacity in Supply Chains: Linking Responsive Strategy and Firm Performance. Kim, Y., & Choi, T.

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Google Will Acquire a 3PL – And Other Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2015

Talking Logistics

“We will see $300 a barrel — or roughly $250 in today’s dollars — because oil supply will be so short. That will be in 2015, after the peak of oil [supply].”. 2015 is less than three weeks away, and a barrel of Brent crude oil is $65.70 million bbl/d in 2015.” . The Google TMS?