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Selecting a Supply Chain Technology Provider is Harder than it Seems

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Advanced algorithms and automatically generated customized reports can equip you with the ability to predict and automate parts of your supply chain. He was then posted to Mumbai, India as General Manager, South Asia, overseeing the growth and development of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

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Analytics Should Focus on A Culture of Factory Safety for Workers in Low Cost Country Manufacturing

NC State SCRC

For analytics to become truly effective in global manufacturing settings, veracity and consistency are critical requirements. Too often, companies seek to collect data for analytics, but do not consider that the data will be used as a tool for investigation into root causes, or as a predictive tool, or as a tool to communicate improvements.

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The World is About to Get Even More Connected through the Internet of Things

Enterra Insights

” He left out one of the most important parts of the IoT ecosystem: analytics. It even helped National Geographic track a discarded plastic bottle from Bangladesh to the Indian Ocean. ” To date, many of Morgan’s predictions remain aspirational; nevertheless, the future of the IoT remains bright. .”

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The State of the Retail Supply Chain in 2022 and How Shippers Can Mitigate Risks Through Data

Intelligent Audit

As highlighted by RetailDive, “ COVID-19 also disrupted manufacturing areas in Bangladesh, India and other major producing countries, not least of all China. Retail supply chain management and continued growth and recovery depend on freight analytics and applying data to the modern supply chain network. .

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

Requis

Sourcing is now predominantly overseas: China is one of the big sourcing countries of course, along with India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Vietnam and Thailand. It comes down to understanding of technologies, systems, and analytics. People still need to know the basics, but the big change is in the analytics area.

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

Supply Chain View from the Field

As part of the conference, I’m delivering a talk on five predictions that every procurement professional should consider. These aren’t so much “predictions”, as opportunities that procurement professionals should become aware of, and educate themselves on.

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Handfield’s Top Supply Chain Predictions for 2016

NC State SCRC

If there’s anything we’ve learned in the last year, it’s that prediction is not only much more complicated than it looks, and that the volatility and uncertainty that exists in the global supply chain operating environment is making life a whole lot LESS unpredictable.