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Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference 2017: A Review

Oracle SCM

The past few weeks have seen several different conferences in Supply Chain but the stand out last week was certainly the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference (GSCES) in London. And so there was no shortage of cloud vendors at the conference this year.

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Logility Partners with FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, Preparing Students to Take on Today’s Supply Chain Challenges

Logility

Technology Leader Gives Students Hands-On Experience With AI-based Supply Chain Execution Solutions. Logility recently added onto the experience, allowing students to dive further, learning how to source vendors, issue purchase orders and even track work-in-process and inbound shipments. ATLANTA – Nov.

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5 Best Logistics Books to Keep Within Reach

Supply Chain Opz

Then, we use these criteria to rank the books, - Practicality: we look closely at how each book can provide basic concepts and strategies of the "Integrated Logistics Functions", namely, customer service, purchasing, production planning, warehousing, and transportation in a clear and concise manner. Best Logistics Books are as below: 1.

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5 Best Logistics Books to Keep Within Reach

Supply Chain Opz

Then, we use these criteria to rank the books, - Practicality: we look closely at how each book can provide basic concepts and strategies of the "Integrated Logistics Functions", namely, customer service, purchasing, production planning, warehousing, and transportation in a clear and concise manner. He has an MBA from UCLA. Our Rating: 5/5 4.

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Out-of-Stock, Overstock, & Returns | The $1.75 Trillion Dollar Loss That Won't Go Away

Oracle SCM

Customers assume that when they make a purchase from their living room or mobile device or when they ask for a selection to be shipped to a store for pick up, or when they return an item purchased online, that the system in place managing their transaction is as connected and digital as the sales tool they used to make the purchase.

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Seeing the Future with Predictive Analytics

Enterra Insights

Today, in addition to those activities, new analytical tools are available to help business leaders predict what could happen in the future. Those tools became possible with the creation of large datasets (aka big data) and the maturation of artificial intelligence (AI). Each of these activities still has value. Diagnostic analytics.

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Are You Active in the Digital Transformation Drinking Game?

Supply Chain Shaman

At a fundamental level, I feel that we have not delivered on the promises of the last two decades of Supply Chain transformation; and as a result, the market interest is declining. As a conference attendee, the discussions of digital transformation for me stretches over the period of 1988-2017. This is unfortunate.