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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

Open Source Technologies (Examples include Hadoop, Spark, Kafka). Localized manufacturing. Shipment and manufacturing of the unit of one. … a group of energized innovators. … a group of energized innovators. In retrospect, the 1990s were an exceptional time of innovation impacts on productivity.

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Impact of Macro Trends on Supply Chains: Digitization of Products

MIT Supply Chain

The digitization of products, where the design and manufacture of a product are carried out using a digital set of instructions, is not a new concept. The output of a CAD system is usually a digital file that can then be fed into a Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) system that controls the actual machining of the product.