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Bleak Peak 2022 Leaves Shippers Feeling Less than Thankful

Intelligent Audit

Tough Times for Turkeys Cause Thanksgiving Price Hike. In a tricky turn of events for turkey lovers and Thanksgiving fans, Wells Fargo, citing statistics from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, has released a report stating that turkey, a Thanksgiving staple, will cost U.S. consumers a whopping 23% more than in 2021.

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Championing Supply Chain Digitalization

Enterra Insights

We live in a digital age in which, according to Yossi Sheffi ( @YossiSheffi ), Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, big data is an organization’s most valuable asset. Not surprisingly, companies that employ advanced analytics to improve decision making and execution have the results to show for it.”

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Digital Supply Chains Require People, Processes, and Technology

Enterra Insights

These networks draw on tools with seamless, real-time communication between manufacturing, logistics providers, suppliers and applications for enterprise resource planning (ERP), warehouse management (WMS), transportation management (TMS) and order management (OMS). Only for turkeys. ” Those are inputs, not outputs. ”[8].

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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Predictive analytics will quicken demand response and involve product-use insights to improve accuracy against external factors affecting demand (e.g. Prescriptive analytics, where data constantly move in and out of partners’ systems, helps take data insights to the next level with improved visibility and for decision making.

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Leonardo da Vinci and Supply Chain Management

Enterra Insights

It was a kind of harmony between analytical and creative thinking.”[3] Supply chain management requires analytical thinking. Successful supply chain professionals are by nature, mostly analytical thinkers. Connectivity, data, and analytics are essential for success (even survival) in today’s business environment.

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4 unstoppable forces that WILL change your end-to-end supply chain

Kinaxis

Emerging economies, those classed as part of the E7 (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Turkey), are hitting the leaderboard of the top 10 countries with the most purchasing power. The big data it’s providing means more insight into consumer demand, but only if you have the analytics and data structure to support it.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Spire provides real-time information and analytics based on global maritime automatic identification system (AIS) technology—Spire’s constellation of small satellites captures the courses and current status of container ships across the globe. A major global event challenges a globalized system. One joint solution.