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Intelligent Automation and Business Continuity

Enterra Insights

This “empty space” challenge had many businesses exploring the value of automation to help them keep processes flowing when a personnel shortage was the main disruptor. This is where intelligent automation can play an important role. ” The best case, of course, is maintaining, rather than resuming, business functions.

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Robotic Process Automation and the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

I suspect robotic process automation (RPA) is not a frequently discussed watercooler topic — and, when it is, the discussion probably involves back office, white collar, swivel chair work. The connection between RPA and supply chain functions may not be clear until you realize just how much paperwork is involved in supply chain transactions.

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Creating a Conscious Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Investors, customers, and other stakeholders are paying closer attention to the companies they do business with, asking that they not only make decisions that improve operations, but also decrease the negative effect on their environment and community: a supply chain with a conscience.

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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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Digital Supply Chains Require People, Processes, and Technology

Enterra Insights

It took years of wandering for the supply chain to end up in the morass in which it currently finds itself. Although portions of the supply chain are functioning well, many consultants believe a true transformation is needed in order to make the global supply chain more resilient.

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Selecting new software for supply chain network design doesn’t have to be a hassle

AIMMS

Today’s successful supply chain networks are adaptable. Technology is part of the problem. Selecting software for supply chain network design doesn’t have to be a hassle. Technology needs to be more accessible . Technology needs to be more accessible . This needs to change.

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Big Data Analytics to Improve Supply Chain Resilience

GlobalTranz

Supply chains across the globe need a better mousetrap to keep freight spend under control and efficiently manage freight. According to a 2017 survey of supply.read More. According to a 2017 survey of supply.read More.

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