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Analytics Should Focus on A Culture of Factory Safety for Workers in Low Cost Country Manufacturing

NC State SCRC

For analytics to become truly effective in global manufacturing settings, veracity and consistency are critical requirements. Too often, companies seek to collect data for analytics, but do not consider that the data will be used as a tool for investigation into root causes, or as a predictive tool, or as a tool to communicate improvements.

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Selecting a Supply Chain Technology Provider is Harder than it Seems

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The system you choose should also offer business data analytics capabilities that enable you to observe trends, avoid bottlenecks, have a better understanding of your costs, and optimize your routes and driver schedules. This will give you a more agility, maximize profits and allow you to remain competitive.

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Building the Network of Networks

Supply Chain Shaman

The group is working on case studies to test new technologies like blockchain, cognitive computing, supply chain operating networks, and open source analytics. Fires in a Bangladesh sewing factory resulted in 112 deaths. We are attempting to define outside-in processes. Why Should You Care? Companies are busy.

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Needed: A New Way to Manage Risk in Low Cost Countries

NC State SCRC

By deploying the “fast fashion” business model, the apparel industry began to outsource garment manufacture to suppliers and subcontractors in low-cost countries, such as China, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

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The State of the Retail Supply Chain in 2022 and How Shippers Can Mitigate Risks Through Data

Intelligent Audit

As highlighted by RetailDive, “ COVID-19 also disrupted manufacturing areas in Bangladesh, India and other major producing countries, not least of all China. Retail supply chain management and continued growth and recovery depend on freight analytics and applying data to the modern supply chain network. .

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The World is About to Get Even More Connected through the Internet of Things

Enterra Insights

” He left out one of the most important parts of the IoT ecosystem: analytics. It even helped National Geographic track a discarded plastic bottle from Bangladesh to the Indian Ocean. And of course, these devices help us to send, transfer, and collect important data anywhere and at any point in time.”

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

Sourcing is now predominantly overseas: China is one of the big sourcing countries of course, along with India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Vietnam and Thailand. It comes down to understanding of technologies, systems, and analytics. People still need to know the basics, but the big change is in the analytics area.