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Five Trends That Excite Me!

Supply Chain Shaman

I am facilitating a workshop between supply chain business visionaries and technology innovators. Could we define business network flows through Apache Spark which can move real-time data like telematics, GPS, weather and temperature data, and sensor information at the speed of business to drive new forms of prescriptive analytics?

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Using the Bits: Building Digital Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

In the evolution of today’s analytics most companies are evaluating concurrent optimization of transactional data. We are just beginning to understand how to use sentiment data and new forms of analytics. As shown in Figure 3, the period of 2015-2020 will be about analytics. It will evolve in the next five years.

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Off to another exciting year of student-industry engagement at NC State on cutting-edge supply chain projects

NC State SCRC

Here is a sample of the type of projects our MBA and Engineering students are working on this semester, proving again that NC State is all about “THINK AND DO” (in our case, executing on practical applications in the real world using robust supply chain analytical approaches). Yum Brands Beef Analytics.

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No Easter Bunny?

Supply Chain Shaman

Analytical innovation and digital transformation drove step-change capabilities within the office and marketing. The traditional supply chain is inside-out, triggering processes on the back of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay financial processes. As a result, many companies are struggling. Leadership teams are uncomfortable.

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Podcast: Rob Handfield on Suppliers, Data, Tech, and Talent

Requis

Meanwhile, salespeople for suppliers were trying to work around procurement. Flex is the biggest company you’ve never heard of— with over 120 factories worldwide, they are contract manufacturers to companies like Nike, GE, Intel, and Apple. Almost all the student projects were related to analytics. Analytics is key.

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Allopneus.com Optimizes Inventory and Improves Competitiveness with ToolsGroup

ToolsGroup

Allopneus.com also provides tire fitting services to its customers through a network of 6,000 garages and a fleet of 80 mobile workshops, which can be moved according to customer request (home, office, etc). “A Moreover, the supply cycles of manufacturers who are very far away can be quite long. About ToolsGroup.

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Supply Chain Matters Highlights of SAP Sapphire 2023 Conference

Supply Chain Matters

Subsequent videos, presentations and workshops emphasized the need for businesses to be more agile and responsive to change, including a firm’s supply chain, that it takes a strong team consisting of the elements of business , IT and SAP working collaboratively together to accomplish needed changes in capabilities.

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