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Five Predictions (About Prediction) that Every Procurement Professional Should Consider

Supply Chain View from the Field

Other indicators included data pulled from the Federal Reserve economic database, the Producer Price Index, the Purchasing Managers Index, as well as internal metrics such as the size of the company’s own sales force.

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Handfield’s Top Supply Chain Predictions for 2016

NC State SCRC

In other words, many supply chain and purchasing solutions looks at historical transaction activity (what happened in the past and is captured in our ERP systems). This is a radical representation, as it requires thinking that the key performance metric in this case is agility and responsiveness to customer and technological change.

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AI and Climate Change, Can Technology Save The Planet, and What’s Next for Green City Vancouver

Freightera

If we have renewable energy sources, they’re very different from a traditional energy grid where you have one big client sending energy around the whole province. So how do we put all these different sources of supply together to make a virtual power plant, and then connect it to everything? It makes everything expensive.