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Raise a Toast to Digital Business!

Supply Chain Shaman

The word digital is everywhere in their presentations– digital path to purchase, digital agriculture, and digital manufacturing. This includes the automation of the list and driving demand before the store, driving demand in the store, mining the data from checkout and listening to sentiment post purchase. I give them credit.

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

(I sometimes wonder if I should create a new class of technologies for the network design tools because they have changed so much.) These tools allow us to look at sell, source, make, and deliver together. These technologies are applicable to solve many problems. The technologies enable the evaluation of both volumetric flows and cost.

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Evolution of B2B Networks

Supply Chain Shaman

Today Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm, announced a definitive agreement to purchase Elemica, a provider of Supply Chain Operating Networks for the chemical industry. In this period the concept of trading exchanges were largely overhyped and the solutions under-delivered. The acquisitions follow a pattern.

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3 Logistics Technology Trends in 2016: Automation Leads the Way

GlobalTranz

The rise of software-as-a-service, or SaaS, applications will further level the playing field between large and small to medium-sized shipping companies. As explained by Bridget McCrea of Supply Chain 24/7 , the return on investment for TMS cloud-based solutions has, on average, experienced a positive growth of 7.5

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6 Supply Chain Trends to Watch in 2019

AB&R

In May, we became a member of the RAIN RFID alliance , and in June we became a GS1 US Solution Partner. Plus, thanks to our great employees, we were named as one of the Top Companies to Work for in Arizona for the fourth year in a row. 2) Internet of Things (IoT). The concept is simple and effective.