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The Future Remains in the Clouds

Enterra Insights

At the time, Netscape’s Web browser was the technology to be excited about and the Yankees were playing Atlanta in the World Series. According to tech journalist Antonio Regalado ( @antonioregalado ), “The term [‘cloud computing’ dates back] to late 1996, and to an office park outside Houston. The Intelligent Cloud.

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Go Horizontal!

Supply Chain Shaman

In the traditional supply chain world, the processes of sell, deliver, make, source, and plan are separate and distinct. Typing this quickly in the Atlanta airport as I run for a plane for Lima, Peru. This is not an easy transition. The metrics reward functional thinking. Evolution of Horizontal Processes. What do you think?

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MODEX Moments: The Future of Supply Chain Is Now

Material Handling & Logistics

Thirty thousand people from 110 countries walked the show floor of MODEX 2018 in Atlanta, spread across 250,000 square feet of exhiibition space occupied by 900 vendors, showing every type of material handling solution imaginable, from bins, pallets and shelves to drones, robots and artificial intelligence-based systems. MikeRowe.jpg.