MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The inaugural post appeared on March 4, 2014, and was about the rising status of the supply chain profession. Some events and trends driving the supply chain’s standing back in 2014 remain just as influential in 2023. Reaching this milestone got me thinking about how the profession might change over the next decade.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

For those unaware of the term, shrink is an accounting term used to describe when a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded book inventory. The company created Project Gigaton in 2017 to engage suppliers and other stakeholders up and down the supply chain to reduce carbon emissions. Robots are everywhere these days.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

Functional silos define today’s supply chain organization. I did not understand warehousing and transportation until reassignment to a logistics role in 1985. I did not understand warehousing and transportation until reassignment to a logistics role in 1985. I cut my teeth on early forms of supply chain planning.

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Locus

JUNE 16, 2023

Last-mile delivery is the crucial stage of transporting goods from the retailer’s transportation hub to the ultimate delivery destination. Read also: How to Calculate the Cost of Transport 2. Emissions from urban last-mile deliveries are predicted to increase by 30% in 100 cities globally by 2030.

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Locus

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It will require a herculean effort to re-invent and redefine climate technologies to carry out decarbonization and a global net zero emission is only possible in 2050 if the production of clean hydrogen and low-carbon energy carriers increase seven-fold. How can businesses pay attention to supply chain sustainability as they scale?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2016

Today Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm, announced a definitive agreement to purchase Elemica, a provider of Supply Chain Operating Networks for the chemical industry. In 2014 Thoma Bravo acquired GHX, a Supply Chain Operating Network for healthcare. The technology market for B2B supply chain is consolidating.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In this dedicated edition of our Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech series, we highlight another announced equity infusion for supply chain execution visibility platform provider project44. That remains unparalleled in the supply chain execution and logistics segment of the market.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

Supply Chain Operating Networks: The building of supply chain applications using many-to-many architectures to connect multiple parties to multiple trading partners to improve multi-tier supply chain visibility, planning and execution to improve relationships in extended value chains. .

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The client leaned across the table and asked, “Is a customer-centric supply chain strategy the same as a demand-driven supply chain strategy?” Drawing from the Whiteboard: Building Customer-Centric Supply Chain Strategies. Customer-Centric Supply Chain Processes. ” I smiled.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 14, 2021

By United Nations estimates, the world will have 43 megacities with populations exceeding 10 million by the year 2030. To marshal worldwide objectives of scalable and transformative urbanization, cement manufacturers need to look at intelligent supply chain logistics. Why stockouts arise in the cement industry .

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City. I believe that supply chains build economies and save the world. I also believe that supply chains need a revolution. This work is important to me.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The Supply Chain Insights Global Summit is over, but we hope the energy to define Supply Chain 2030 is just beginning. Today only 12% of supply chain teams are driving improvement, performing better than their competitors and driving value (as determined by Price to Tangible Book Value).

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crisp

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

However, these required scope 1 emissions only measure what each company emits directly, and don’t take entire supply chains into consideration. 4: Upstream transport and distribution Emissions from inbound and outbound transportation and distribution, if paid for by the reporting company – including warehousing by a third party.

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crisp

OCTOBER 3, 2023

While supply chain disruptions that have defined previous years are showing signs of improvement , the current market faces a new set of challenges. Amidst the economic challenges, new retail technologies offer a silver lining, giving brands powerful new tools to adapt.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The 2023 Strategy sets expectations on the development of future policy measures to strive for 30% GHG reductions by 2030, 80% GHG reductions by 2040, both relative to 2008 levels, and an overall level of ambition of reaching net-zero emissions as close to 2050 as possible. Open source is a way to spread the benefits of these technologies.

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USC Consulting Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The specifics of what makes the Kaizen method so effective are catalogued in the book “Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success,” which was written by the automaker’s former chairman back in the mid-1980s. Take automation as an example. The AI stockpile could reach 20 million by 2030. Preparation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

In the last six months, in my travels, I have presented to supply chain teams in China, Belgium, France, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. I strongly feel that if I am going to cover the global supply chain that I need to experience it. A Personal Reflection.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2016

Today’s supply chain processes are inside-out with a focus on orders and shipments. We have automated transactional data; but there are no systems available to take independent demand data (channel data_ and move it through a multi-tier supply chain planning system.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2016

I will also pen my 95th report for this week’s Supply Chain Insight’s newsletter. We now reach 23,000 supply chain leaders globally with our newsletter and have over 50,000 views/month on Slideshare. We reviewed the orbit charts and progress of the recent Supply Chains to Admire Analysis for 2016.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Transportation is one of the biggest contributing factors to the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, and virtually every country is now mandating stricter regulations to reduce their carbon footprint and mitigate the effects of climate change. Reduce your carbon footprint with technology. You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Our look at the Top 25 (plus 4) Supply Chains of 2018 examines how the best companies in the world excel at managing their global supply chains. One of the most popular articles we’ve ever done is our look at analyst group Gartner’s annual ranking of the Top 25 Supply Chains. Printer-friendly version.

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6 River Systems

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Luckily, the current movers and shakers of the logistics and supply chain world are all too happy to dole out sage advice in the form of blog posts, interviews, podcasts — you name it. The tips below cover everything from unified supply chains to automated collaboration integration and beyond.

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ShipBob

MAY 19, 2022

The ecommerce landscape continued to see immense progress from 1990 onward with Book Stacks Unlimited introduced in 1992, allowing customers to place book orders through a dial-up bulletin board format. The next year, in 1995, Amazon was launched by Jeff Bezos, also primarily for selling books. Current global ecommerce sales.

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Provenance

AUGUST 13, 2018

Provenance has partnered with the Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis Agency (Growth Analysis) , to explore how blockchain technology can help to valorise sustainable practices in the Rare Earth Elements mining sector. Interested in understanding how supply chain transparency could benefit your business? The result?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 30, 2019

Social media awash with pictures of supply chain professionals attending the Lady Gaga event at SAP’s Sapphire, celebrating with drinks at the Gartner event, or rocking to the ZZ Top performance at JDA’s Icon conference trumpeted excitement. Meanwhile, in my travels, supply chain discussions are moving to main street.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

Most of the Integrated Supply Chain Planning Projects Generate Rubbish. At each location, the team wrung their hands as they told me their stories of “ Integrated Supply Chain Planning.” I can count the number of companies that are good at supply chain planning on one hand. Get Started.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Black Friday is in the books, and unsurprisingly, it was a big one. Top gift purchases over the weekend included clothing and, toys, gift cards / certificates, books / music / movies / video games, and electronics. According to Spear, “without substantial action, by 2030 and at current trends, the driver shortage could grow to 160,000.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

New technologies are always subject to hype and blockchain (aka distributed ledger) technology is no different. But even if you understand all the benefits this technology offers, you, like many C-suite executives I know, may be skeptical about blockchain. The many uses for blockchain technology. ”[2]. ”[2].

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 8, 2022

Nintendo is struggling to break out of a frustrating sales slowdown, selling 33 percent fewer units of Switch game systems in the April-June quarter than a year ago in Japan due to a crippled supply chain. This is another example of how businesses are looking to offset rising costs for things such as transportation and fuel.

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