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Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo™ 2023 Highlights: A Human-Centric Approach to Unlocking Productivity

Locus

To sum up According to a Gartner survey of supply chain leaders, 73% of the average Supply Chain IT Budget Will Be Allocated to Growth and Performance. Thinking differently for resilient and sustainable supply chains Enterprises are yet to find satisfactory levels of resiliency and sustainability to operations.

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E-Commerce 101: Going Cross Border, What Brands Must Know

Vinculum

The worldwide cross-border e-commerce industry is expected to develop at a 27 percent annual CAGR from 2021 to 2027, reaching $4,8 billion in 2026. You can use direct interviews, surveys, social listening, and other methods to learn about local customer buying habits.

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

Supply Chain Trend

In my benchmark survey (Van Hove, 2017), only 25% of survey participants answered yes to the question ‘ We have a relentless focus on only what is important for long term business objectives ’. Moreover, in IBP meetings, decision options, risks and financial impacts must be presented and explained to the executives. Sorensen, D.

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The Biggest Manufacturing Industry Trends in 2022

Unleashed

It also allows for the manufacturing of products without staff necessarily needing to be present, which saves on labour costs and minimises the risk of human error. According to this PwC report, a recent survey of industrial manufacturers showed more than 70% are testing or building IoT solutions in their projects.

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Food is Not Food if It’s Unsafe

Enterra Insights

The staff at Food Safety News reports that a study from the Mars Global Food Safety Center (GFSC), which, at the height of the pandemic, surveyed people in the United States, United Kingdom and China, “found 77 percent of people [believed] food safety is a top 10 worldwide problem.”[4] ” What Can Be Done?

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The Intelligent IBP Manifesto – key principles for a new planning paradigm

Supply Chain Trend

In my presentation at the 2021 International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF), I then combined decision types with augmentation and automation efficacy as per figure 4 (which I would also slightly change now: I would add augmented analytics, which is more applicable for strategic decisions than decision augmentation).

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A vision for a transparent global Rare Earth Element system using blockchain technology

Provenance

It is forecasted that by 2026, demand will mainly be linked to the rise in clean energy technology, in particular for neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets –– critical components for electric and hybrid vehicles as well as wind turbines. In Chapter 3, we presented three scenarios for a blockchain-backed sustainable REE system.