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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

Sourcing has probably been the biggest thing over the last decade or two, coupled with that reduction in local manufacturing of course. Sourcing is now predominantly overseas: China is one of the big sourcing countries of course, along with India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Vietnam and Thailand. That’s been a massive trend.

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One Man’s Trash: How Blockchain Can Target Food Waste to Help End World Hunger

Material Handling & Logistics

For organizations that source products from suppliers in remote regions, blockchain can provide clarity in an otherwise murky journey from harvest to retail. billion metric tons—gets lost or wasted. From the wholesale manufacturers in Iowa to the farmers in Bangladesh, change is coming. World hunger is a global epidemic.

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Handfield’s Top Supply Chain Predictions for 2016

NC State SCRC

Organizations need to be able to tap into multiple sources of information from both structured and unstructured, internal and external sources, to provide greater insights into key research insights into business strategy questions. Social media holds a lot of promise here.

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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? Do we just pull out of Bangladesh?