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Digital Megatrends – Shaping Supply Chain Innovation

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Digital megatrends – Shaping Supply Chain Innovation. Confronted by supply chain disruptions, companies were mired in deep uncertainty in 2021. Manufacturers and suppliers who ensure timely visibility of actual demand and clear communication across supply chains have been at an added advantage during these trying times.

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Arena Fall 2021 Release Helps Manufacturers Drive Faster Product Innovation

Arena Solutions

Arena’s recent Fall 2021 quality management system (QMS) and product lifecycle management (PLM) software release was all about helping manufacturers remove these bottlenecks and drive faster product innovation. Reprogram manufacturing equipment including robots. Request a demo to experience the Fall 2021 Release. .

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2021: Manufacturing, a Year in Review

QAD

The Oxford Languages and Merriam-Webster dictionary folks have advanced “Vax/vaccine” as 2021’s word of the year, but we think it really should be “disruption.” 2021: A Year of Continued Disruption…for All Industries. Raw materials shortages, for example, of aluminum and wooden pallets. Fragile planning and production processes.

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My Failure Of Using Design Thinking To Drive Supply Chain Innovation

Supply Chain Shaman

This post focuses on my failure to use design thinking to spark innovation with supply chain teams and my lessons learned. Today, six years later, I reflect on the gaps of the methodology as it applies to supply chain innovation. In the design thinking workshops for multiple manufacturers, these were conspicuously absent.

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Philip Morris Drives Manufacturing Insights Using A Digital Twin

Supply Chain Shaman

The goal is to transition from fads to drive true innovation. In our pandemic research, we interviewed thirty manufacturers. To gain insights, we interviewed Alexandros Skandalakis, Director of Manufacturing Capacity, reporting to operations/manufacturing globally within Philip Morris. Let’s take some examples.

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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

Logistics Viewpoints

They view their implementation of a tightly integrated suite of applications delivered in a public cloud infrastructure from Oracle as a platform on which they can build to help drive continuous innovation. HarbisonWalker International Manufactures and Distributes Refractory Products. HWI employed a crawl-walk-run methodology.

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Digital Manufacturing and the Smart Factory in 2021

Unleashed

From operational intelligence to additive manufacturing, mass customisation and speed – digital manufacturing is changing the way companies manufacture products through the use of digital technologies that allow for far greater control and adaptability to the way things are conceptualised and produced. in manufacturing.