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When Variability Is Our Only Constant

Supply Chain Shaman

With the surge, supply chains—accustomed to using the patterns of customer order and shipment data to predict future demand—were caught on the back foot. Food instability in Africa could be an outcome because Russia and Ukraine supply 29% of worldwide wheat exports and 17% of corn with significant exports to the middle east and Africa.

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Beyond The Data with William Sandoval

The Logistics of Logistics

We are more into data acquisition and data analytics, which is one of the things we are going to talk about. Beyond The Data with William Sandoval: With the world of AI and machine learning, you’re starting to see that analytics are taking the forefront of things. Analytics are described and segmented into four ways.

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Accelerate Digitisation in the Supply Chain – Leveraging a Data-driven Approach to Optimisation – LogiSYM August 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The acquisition was key to opening doors to expansion in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Using a data-driven approach, predictive analytics are generated that can encourage agents or retailers to increase their sales performance through gamification, creating a mutually beneficial arrangement.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

I am half-way through a spring speaking tour that will wrap-up in June with a speech in South Africa and Peru. In the outside-in supply chain, the signals are from the buy and sell-side markets back to the enterprise. This work is important to me. I believe that supply chains build economies and save the world. Bio-engineering?

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Eliminating Real-World Bottlenecks using AI from Silicon Valley to Mars

ThroughPut

In fact, GE predicts that just one day of downtime on an offshore platform can prevent $7 million per day in lost production, and for Toyota, every minute of unplanned downtime on their factory floors costs them over $60,000 a minute in lost revenue! Curtis Feeny : Managing Director at Voyager Capital. billion to $9 billion.

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Eliminating Real-World Bottlenecks using AI from Silicon Valley to Mars

ThroughPut

In fact, GE predicts that just one day of downtime on an offshore platform can prevent $7 million per day in lost production, and for Toyota, every minute of unplanned downtime on their factory floors costs them over $60,000 a minute in lost revenue! Curtis was appointed by President George W. Bush to be a Trustee of the Presidio Trust.

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26 logistics professionals reveal the biggest trends in logistics technology

6 River Systems

These technologies also contribute to a rise in big data and analytics in the logistics field. RFID tags and robotic warehouse systems generate and transmit data that, when combined with other data sources, allow companies to optimize the supply chain and make better predictions and forecasts to improve efficiency and boost the bottom line.