Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 21, 2021

Procurement drowning in data article and permission to publish here provided by Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. At the same time, the global availability of information & data has grown at 4x the speed of global trade ( hbr.org 2019 ). Is Procurement drowning in data? Source: PwC 2019. Source: Deloitte CPO Survey 2018.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

8 Freight Shipping Trends Shippers Must Know for 2017. With the official deadline for implementing electronic logging devices less than one year away, more freight shipping providers will be upgrading technology and systems in 2017, reports Matt Sullivan. Freight Shipping Providers Will Focus on ELD Implementation.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

For example, one often reads about companies collecting an ocean of big data; and, it’s a fitting comparison. ”[1] The same can be said for companies that never delve deep into the ocean of data they collect. The growing ocean of data. Companies are often compared to swimmers in an ocean of data.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Learn how to organize your data operations in alignment with supply chain strategy. Complex supply chains generate more data, which companies can use to drive greater efficiency or engage in innovation that disrupts an entire industry—think Amazon. More data is coming in than ever before.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

LevaData to Transform Strategic Sourcing for Global Procurement and Supply Chain Leaders. Strong Software Bookings Growth Highlights First Half 2017 Results for JDA. MacroPoint uses this data to help transportation brokers, logistics service providers and shippers track the locations of deliveries in trucks. Convey Closes $8.25

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 6, 2017

2017 started right where 2016 left off: with plenty of supply chain and logistics news. Right before Christmas, Descartes announced that it had acquired Datamyne, a leading provider of cloud-based trade data content solutions for customers to analyze import and export trade activity, for about $52.7 Happy New Year! million in cash.

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2018

In his 2017 annual shareholder letter , Bezos lauded “divinely discontent” customers as innovation drivers. Amazon is at the nexus of ecommerce, data, and logistics, with a drive to constantly improve their logistics network. Source: Amazon.com. And the career data below spells out a strong ocean slant. At over 243.5

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Last month, I attended and spoke at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference , where I learned many things about the Heavy Building Materials (HBM) industry. So, what are some of the data challenges the industry faces? Cement is one of the raw materials that goes into making concrete, which is the finished product.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2018

Again and again, digitization and data were at the heart of panel and networking conversations. Even headline speakers were professing “data got sexy” and data is now a core strategy for companies looking to succeed. Supply Chain Analytics Maturity Model (Source: Hackett Group).

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 21, 2017

Manhattan Associates Reports First Quarter 2017 Performance. Source: Amazon patent. With features such as collaborative booking, a tracking notification system, and full document management capabilities, Haven TMS allows users to pull data out of siloes and turn logistics into a competitive advantage.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Data sharing sounds good in theory – but there is a lot more to it, as we shall see. Supply chain partners have been using EDI , a standard electronic format, to share data and transact business for more than sixty years, and it continues to evolve. Data scientists know that to build accurate machine learning models (e.g.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Heura® Foods was created in 2017 as a social mission-turned-business, focused on changing the current food system to one that fosters better health, nutrition, and sustainability. That’s why, before even starting the solution selection process, we cleaned up all our master data.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

2017 was the year that blockchain technology finally made world headlines, but it was mostly for the wrong reason. Ethereum shares some common features with Bitcoin, including how it’s mined by computers and codifies unique data that can be used to track everything from transactions to an exchange of goods (more on that below).

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Procurement teams are combating complexity in multiple dimensions, one of which is a digital complexity; figuring out how in the world they’re going to leverage data , digital platforms, and emerging technologies to become more intelligent — more data-driven — in their strategies and operations.

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Arkieva

JANUARY 17, 2017

What supply chain technology trends are set to revolutionize your supply chain in 2017 and beyond? As 2017 comes into focus, several key technological initiatives are topping corporate agendas. Here are 7 Supply Chain Technology Trends for 2017. Big Data Analytics. Read Also: Will Big Data change the world?

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AFFLINK

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Here are the five supply chains that exemplified these qualities and shined brightly in 2017. By analyzing the data they collected through various smart technologies, they were able to introduce new, desired products and services to their clients, improve customer engagement, and increase web traffic by 16%. Cheers to 2017.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

What do you want from your data? Data is often described as an asset as valuable as oil or gold. Yossi Sheffi ( @YossiSheffi ), the Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT, asserts data is a company’s most valuable asset. Today, it’s not people but data that tops the asset value list for companies.”[2]

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group, via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog calls reader attention to two recently published research papers that address evidence of ongoing shifts in global supply component and end production sourcing. The data is quite extensive in terms of scope and activity levels. imports peaked at 21.6

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 7, 2017

In other transportation management news, MercuryGate announced the launch of MercuryMart, “a dynamic information exchange providing TMS users with access to a broad range of sources of available capacity.” And when it comes to last-mile and home delivery operations, mobile technology has become indispensable.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The introduction of E-Procurement: Price and availability are not the only factors to be considered in a purchasing decision, especially now that a strong supply chain has become an unmissable element for every company in today’s business climate (Namulo, 2017).

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Many-to-many can also refer to many participants in a network accessing many, many sources of event data critical to supply chain operations through a public cloud network. Real-time location and IoT data such as condition statuses (e.g., In February 2017, Koch Equity Development LLC invested $2.68 billion in Infor.

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Logility

DECEMBER 29, 2020

By using advanced analytics for manufacturing, to understand the valuable information concealed within the data they already have! Here it is again: there’s an asset that many manufacturers have not yet optimized – their own data. Managing Your Data. The term of art is data warehousing. It’s a high bar.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 8, 2021

Target acquired Shipt in 2017 to provide the foundation of its same-day delivery. Whether considering where to start or what they have to gain, most merchants find the necessary insights to move forward with business intelligence tools that mine their own fulfillment data and customer interactions. Critical data to track.

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ivalua

JUNE 29, 2020

According to OECD and National Health Expenditure data, US healthcare spending per person was approx $10,224 in 2017. According to 2019 Definitive Healthcare data, U.S. Across this supply chain there is typically a lack of visibility due to siloed information and data. The only way to really understand that is data.

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Logility

DECEMBER 28, 2020

By using advanced analytics for manufacturing, to understand the valuable information concealed within the data they already have! Here it is again: there’s an asset that many manufacturers have not yet optimized – their own data. Managing Your Data. The term of art is data warehousing. It’s a high bar.

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RFgen

APRIL 18, 2018

Modern data collection solutions are critical for organizations hoping to leverage advanced warehouse management systems. However, contemporary technologies are heavily reliant on strong data architectures. Businesses that want to innovate need mobile data collection tools. percent from 2017 through 2025.

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RFgen

APRIL 18, 2018

Modern data collection solutions are critical for organizations hoping to leverage advanced warehouse management systems. However, contemporary technologies are heavily reliant on strong data architectures. Businesses that want to innovate need mobile data collection tools. percent from 2017 through 2025.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

The answers were revealed at the SummerCon 2017 conference a couple of weeks ago where LLamasoft introduced “Planning by Design” and SupplyChainPlanning.com, which the company describes as “building blocks to improve your current planning capabilities through design technology.”. Source: LLamasoft.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Exclusive: Wal-Mart to tear down walls between store, online buying operations – sources (Reuters). And you’re doing demand planning with data that is old. The data you see on the graph on the third week of the month is already obsolete. Amazon’s delivery drones may drop packages via parachute (CNN).

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The discipline, first defined in 1982, includes source, make, deliver, and planning functions. On September 30, the big data company Palantir went public in an initial 22B$ market valuation. I am frequently asked, “Can a big data data science company help to alleviate the current market pain in the supply chain?”

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Those industries include data communications, medical, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics. In one major case in 2017, the Hanjin Shipping company was declared bankrupt by South Korean courts. The data from Infor Nexus also helps the transportation teams do better carrier sourcing.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

To know the most difficult challenges as perceived by supply chain professionals, we turn to the SCM World’s 2017 Future of Supply Chain survey. Here are the complete data representing how many supply chain management professionals perceived these threats as significant. The same could be said about natural disasters.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 12, 2019

As you implement supply chain analytics and use control theory with well-defined reference data with clear bands for control, process improvement ensues. These sources while functional are difficult to connect. In my experience, usually only 1/3 of data needed for visibility is transactional data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

They also have 20 sourcing locations across North America from which they can ship make to stock products. The sourcing centers are key to just-in-time, same-day, next-day deliveries. The sourcing centers shipped over 130,000,000 pounds of product last year. The implementation journey began in mid-2017.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

Before boarding the plane, I watched a traveler pull a diet Coke from the bin and thought about the struggle to source sweetener with the rise of COV-19. As I poured the dog food into the bowl for my pups, I wondered if I was going to have to switch kibble due to the looming issues of sourcing taurine—a health additive in many pet foods.

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