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IBM Watson Intelligent Supply Chain Workshop Brings Executives Together to Share Thoughts on Deployment

NC State SCRC

The intent of this executive forum is to bring together supply chain executives to engage in an open discussion of how analytics and AI can be used to create competitive advantage in the organization. We also shared results from the recent report completed by IBM and NC State on the current state of data analytics and Artificial Intelligence.

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Using the Bits: Building Digital Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

As shown in the 2015 Supply Chains to Admire report , over time, top performing supply chains plateau. 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.

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10th Pan-European Conference in the P2P Series

Supply Chain Movement

P2P Process Owners Strategy Workshop. Global P2P departments are still on the journey towards true touchless end-to-end purchase-to-pay function. This workshop stream will serve as a platform for benchmarking best practices and successful approaches to resolving key P2P goals and obstacles that are on the way to those goals.

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7 Ways to Create a Great Customer Experience!

Supply Chain Game Changer

If a customer has an emotional connection with your brand, they are more likely to purchase your products and services. Ensure you conduct workshops and training to sharpen your employees’ skills to handle customers, resolve conflict, and communicate. Numerous metrics can help you measure the success of our CX strategy.

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No Easter Bunny?

Supply Chain Shaman

Dear Supply Chain Leader, Today, sitting in my seat in 11K on a Cathay Pacific flight between Hong Kong and Boston, I want to report that there is no Easter Bunny. Today I also want to report that, based on over a decade of scientific discovery, traditional supply chain practices are not best practices. There is also no Santa Claus.

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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). MUFG Union Bank Strategic Performance Metrics.

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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. The SAP acquisition of Ariba slowed innovation and the purchase, and then the failed promise of investment in Crossgate was disappointing to SAP supply chain business users. Future of Analytics in the Building of Supply Chain 2030.