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7 Supply Chain and Logistics Trends to Watch in 2018

Logistics Bureau

My post on key trends to watch in 2017 received a lot more attention than I anticipated, so I figured it can’t hurt to gather my thoughts and pull together another collection for 2018. The 7 Trends for Supply Chain Pros to Watch in 2018. 2018 Trend #1: Increased Focus on Cost-to-serve.

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Welcome 2019

Supply Chain Shaman

You made it through 2018. Companies cannot save their way to supply chain excellence with cost-cutting and inventory management — customer back capabilities. Machine learning will redefine master data management. Welcome to a new year. Congratulations. The bears are starting to chase the bulls from the field.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

The report further indicated that Anthropic has committed to spend upwards of $4 billion on Amazon’s various Cloud infrastructure, data management software applications or custom graphics processor chips over the next five years. Added participation included Tribeca Venture Partners , Dundee Venture Capital , Expa , and Bling Capital.

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Collaboration Technology for a More Sustainable Supply Chain

Turvo

Another study by the EPA, titled Fast Facts on Transportation Greenhouse Gas Emissions , noted that “according to the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks 1990–2018 (the national inventory that the U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2018.”. Get Even More Logistics Insights Now.

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Supply Chain 4.0: The Supply Chain of the Future

Enterra Insights

Jennifer Overstreet, Director of Digital Content at the National Retail Federation, reports Li & Fung, CEO Spencer Fung, told participants at a 2018 NRF conference, “The supply chain will become faster, digital and more innovative. ” But digital transformation requires more than simply gathering and analyzing data.

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Highlights of Kinexions 2022 Customer Conference- Part Two

Supply Chain Matters

Risk aware was described as more dynamically flexible supply networks, the optimization of specific buffers such as capacity as well as inventory, or flexibility in supply chain network design. Many of the panelists discussed the ongoing talent management or brain drain challenges of supply chain management.

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Cognitive Computing in the Digital Era

Enterra Insights

sales reports, inventory tracking). When all data is structured, numeric and predictable. 3] Sue Feldman, “ Cognitive computing and AI begin to grow together ,” Information & Data Management, 26 March 2020. [4] Not People ,” Supply Chain @ MIT, 20 December 2018. [6] 8] Michael C.