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Supply Chain Planning & Optimization Projections for 2018 - Back to the Future

Logility

Therefore, it is with a bit of trepidation that I toss my hat in the arena and make my 2018 supply chain planning and optimization predictions. From all indications, 2018 should be a very interesting year for supply chains and supply chain practitioners. Supply Chain Data Quality and Ownership. The answer might surprise you.

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Supply Chain Diagnostic: A Four-Step Process

Supply Chain Shaman

In the period of 2010-2018, within the chemical industry, margins fluctuated, largely driven by the price of crude, but inventory turns plummeted. Orbit Chart for the Period of 2010-2018 for Ecolab Showing the Trend at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns. Imagine Supply Chain 2030. inventory turns.

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Announcing the Supply Chains to Admire for 2019

Supply Chain Shaman

Industry-by-industry, I compiled data for the period of 2010-2018. Imagine Supply Chain 2030. The focus is on Imagining Supply Chain 2030. At the event, technologists and business leaders work shoulder-to-shoulder to Imagine Supply Chain 2030. Click the link to see the detail.) What is different? The format is unique.

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

Supply Chain Trend

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has admitted that too much automation was slowing down Tesla’s Model 3 production (Allen, 2018). AI and in specific Machine Learning (ML), can become the focus when discussing Intelligence Augmentation (IA) to improve human capabilities in decision making (Makridakis, 2018). Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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A Purpose-Driven Series: The Line Between What’s “Right” and What’s Profitable

BlueYonder

With recent social movements and the world’s nations committed to promoting quality life for all through the adoption of the United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, being transparent about making ethical, social and environmentally responsible business decisions is critical to trust. .

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A Story of Throwing the Baby Out With The Bathwater in Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

The focus was on margin and quality. In 2018, a new CFO took the reigns at the meatpacking Company and was intrigued with a lightweight planning technology to improve the visibility of supply chain plan output to the financial forecast. The goal of the conference is to Imagine the Supply Chain of 2030.

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How Trace.ai Enhances Supply Chain Visibility

Bristlecone

If you are a supplier catering to the food value chain, you know how difficult it is to deliver perishable goods to their ultimate destination in the right quality, quantity and condition, at the right time and place. It’s estimated that, by 2030, these numbers will hit 2.1 That’s one-third of the food volume produced globally.