ModusLink Corporation

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Supply Chain Management In the ever-evolving world of freight and logistics, volatility has become the new normal. Container rates in late July 2023 reached $1323 per TEU, significantly surpassing the late-2019 rates of $1236.87 before the COVID lockdown ( Freightos ).

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 17, 2019

Below are some of the predictions pundits are making about how the manufacturing sector will change in the years ahead. technologies that interact, communicate and create lakes of vital freight information is now entering the supply chain and these will be instrumental in bringing about the smart supply chain.”[2]

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

If you’ve read up on the latest topics in the field of data analysis, then you’ve probably encountered the term Prescriptive Analytics. Prescriptive Analytics is a type of Advanced Analytics that results in a recommended action. Supply chain teams are curious about adopting Prescriptive Analytics and exploring the benefits.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 31, 2022

2] As a result, experts have, for years, encouraged businesses to transform into digital enterprises and employ digital supply chains. But in an increasingly digital world, extending beyond enterprise boundaries from sourcing to customer engagement is now essential to achieve sustained competitive advantage.”[3].

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In today’s business environment, you can’t remain competitive without mastering supply chain analytics. S till, most companies are “not very far” when it comes to implementing analytics and garnering benefits from data, as a recent survey from CSCMP suggests. Source: CSCMP.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 1, 2021

Vaibhavi Tamizhkumaran, a Digital Marketing Executive at Indium Software, writes, “The retail industry is constantly changing and will continue to evolve, from concentrating efforts on website growth and online retail to needing faster shipping speeds. Cognitive computing technology taps into social media to make this a reality.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2021

The Introduction of Smokeless Tobacco Products Complicated Philip Morris’s Supply Chain. This was done at a stock keeping unit level and for the entire manufacturing supply chain. At the end of 2019 that supply chain covered 38 PMI owned factories, 28 third party manufacturers, and more than 180 markets.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

If you’ve read up on the latest topics in the field of data analysis, then you’ve probably encountered the term Prescriptive Analytics. Prescriptive Analytics is a type of Advanced Analytics that results in a recommended action. According to Gartner’s Forecast Snapshot , the Prescriptive Analytics software market will reach $1.1

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 6, 2019

Company executives are increasingly aware of the importance of supply chains in making companies successful. A couple of years ago, however, a McKinsey study concluded companies weren’t investing enough in supply chain transformation technologies. Technology and supply chain transformation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 2, 2020

Supply chains were ill-prepared for the pandemic. As shown in Figure 1, based on data collected in the period of September-October 2019 from over 600 business leaders, at the start of the year, the likelihood of a pandemic was low risk. As supply chain professionals, we have never managed the supply chain through a pandemic.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

”[1] Many pundits claim new technologies are revolutionizing or transforming logistics. Like Nahata, Gurcharan Singh, Founder of LogixGRID Technologies, believes disruptive technologies are transforming the logistics arena. Disruptive technologies transforming logistics. ” Cognitive technologies.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 30, 2023

In this August 30, 2023 edition of Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Technology we provide capsule highlights of investments announced by supply chain management focused tech providers. He later resigned from the EV automaker in 2019 to assume leadership of the start-up.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 22, 2016

by Melissa Clow This guest post comes to us from Argentus Supply Chain Recruiting , a boutique recruitment firm specializing in Supply Chain Management. We’re always trying to stay on top of Supply Chain developments at Argentus. They might be hard to predict, but they also might be massive.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 14, 2021

She writes, “For many businesses, especially e-commerce platforms, a lot of the focus and investment goes toward building technology infrastructure. ”[2] What companies might not realize is that some of the technologies used in marketing, e-commerce, and supply chain operations can also help them with customer service.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Technology advancements were among the most exciting topics to watch through 2016. Newer technologies have created entirely new methodologies for improving manufacturing, and the outlook is brighter than ever. Predictive Analytics Became Commonplace to Manufacturing.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 21, 2020

When the move toward supply chain digitization began, the control tower analogy seemed like a natural step in the process. Here’s the rub: Beyond the name, airport and supply chain control towers have little in common. ”[2] His answer, “From my perspective it must be a holistic supply chain solution.”

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

North Carolina State Poole College of Management recently produced this 28 page report entitled “ 2019 Supply Chain Data Quality and Governance Study ”. The report contains some great illustrations of the current state of Data governance across the organizations that were surveyed, with a specific focus on the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The supply chain management industry has undergone many changes in recent years. The introduction of IoT devices to the supply chain, the rise of edge computing, and its ability to increase connectivity and efficiencies, have changed how businesses operate across industries.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In many digital transformation-focused discussions, the “enterprise” and the “supply chain” are separate conversations. Lora Cecere ( @lcecere ), founder of Supply Chain Insights, insists, “The supply chain IS Business, not a department within a business.”[1]

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Supply Chain Trend

JUNE 29, 2023

It requires planning highly integrated with other business functions, a transformation of analytics , and a business partner culture, which combined lead to the requirement for modern FP&A skills in the workforce. It must be able to read multiple data sources and dynamically update those sources if required.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Do we even need supply chain planners, or can we turn out the lights and go home, because we now live in a world of autonomous planning? According to the MHI Industry Annual Report , AI and machine learning adoption in supply chains is only 12% today, but the curve is expected to rise rapidly to 60% within five years.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

.”[1] What is often overlooked in the pursuit of better customer experiences is how those experiences can be affected by supply chain operations. Customer Experience and Supply Chain Management. For some people, the relationship between supply chain management (SCM) and customer experience (CX) may not be evident.

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Logility

OCTOBER 29, 2021

With the right technology, process manufacturing strategy, planning, and management can be simplified. Manufacturers have been through a trial by fire with supply chain disruptions and changes in demand during the past two years. Real-time, actionable business intelligence for process manufacturing planning and production.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 31, 2019

The modern supply chain is mind-boggling. Much of that “paperwork” is now done electronically, which is why consultants are increasingly touting the benefits of the digital supply chain. ” This begs the question: Is the digital supply chain about digitization or digital transformation?

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 25, 2020

Joe Terino, who leads Bain & Company’s supply chain work in the Americas, insists, “The consolidated supply chain of 10 years ago can no longer meet today’s business needs.”[1] That is what your supply chain needs to be providing.” ” Agile supply chains.

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LevaData

JANUARY 23, 2020

Although there’s no shortage of annual predictions at this time of the year, we wanted to share some trends that consistently come up on our platform, across our customers and in the news. China: Tariffs aside, there are other growing concerns amongst companies whose supply chains run through China.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 23, 2023

They need to be able to work with a variety of data sources and inputs — each selected based on its ability to help answer the business question. This means a Decision Scientist needs to have a strong business acumen as well as a robust analytical mind. Decision Scientists need to make insights useable.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

From a digitally-transformed shopping experience to global supply chain disruptions and a pandemic that refuses to quit, there’s one thing retailers can count on: People are always going to shop. Data source: eMarketer. in 2019) are expected to produce over $300 per square foot on a gross square foot basis.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 1, 2019

For a number of years, business analysts have been preaching the gospel of transformation in supply chain operations. Glenn Steinberg ( @GlennSteinberg ), global and Americas supply chain leader at EY, observes, “You’ve been hearing about ‘the supply chain of the future’ for years.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Like most industries, technology has disrupted supply chain management too. The industry is abuzz with terms like IoT, cloud, machine learning, autonomous mobile robotics, analytics, and related technologies, all of which promise a future that will propel supply chain management to untouched heights of operational effectiveness.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 28, 2020

Supply chain operations are no exception. Analysts at Sprint Logistics note, “Technological advancements like the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are transforming the way we live and work, and traditional supply chains are not exempt from the digital revolution.”[2]

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 13, 2023

A key source of this problem is that the productivity of human beings simply hasn’t kept pace with the technologies we have developed to help improve our business processes.”[1] ”[1] Craig predicts that organizations that transform into autonomous enterprises will find future success. The promise?

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Business executives are always looking for a competitive edge and many have turned to advanced analytics to find that advantage. In the digital age, they often gamble their company’s future on the decisions they make, which is why advanced analytics have become table stakes in business. Descriptive analytics.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 18, 2017

What makes or breaks a new technology in manufacturing? The answer lies in how employees respond to the technology, how it benefits overall production value and if it can be leveraged directly to protect the business and consumers simultaneously. Advanced Robotics and Automation Have Boosted Production and Distribution.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 5, 2019

Moving on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Truckers gridlocked at U.S.-Mexico Supply chains are fragile systems. What should supply chain professionals do in response? The bottom line is that if your supply chain is highly dependent on cross border trade between the U.S.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 2, 2020

Analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) explain the first three revolutions were driven by steam, electricity, and automation. They write, “Industrial production was transformed by steam power in the nineteenth century, electricity in the early twentieth century, and automation in the 1970s.”[1] Connecting things (i.e.,

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 10, 2020

“Supply chains were ill-prepared for the pandemic,” writes Lora Cecere ( @lcecere ), founder of Supply Chain Insights.[1] … Based on data collected in the period of September-October 2019 from over 600 business leaders, at the start of the year, the likelihood of a pandemic was low risk.

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