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Big Data, Analytics, and Industry 4.0

Enterra Insights

Analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) explain the first three revolutions were driven by steam, electricity, and automation. 1] The fourth revolution is being driven by data. .” They include: Inventory Optimization. The post Big Data, Analytics, and Industry 4.0

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The Next Great Disruption Coming to Supply Chains

Kinaxis

I watched a TED Talk video by Philip Evans, from Boston Consulting Group and shuddered to think that all our traditional fulfillment and inventory models can be drastically transformed by the “consumer”. Philip Evans shares how today’s consumer is sharing a colossal amount of data to come to a buying decision.

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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This boosts revenues and optimises inventory. This can be applied to inventory management, fleet and order tracking, ID badging. Machine learning and big data analytics augments critical roles in supply chain efficiency, problem solving and cost saving. Pricing decisions can be integrated with demand and supply planning.

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Seeing the Future with Predictive Analytics

Enterra Insights

Those tools became possible with the creation of large datasets (aka big data) and the maturation of artificial intelligence (AI). Inventory optimization. Nakanelua notes, “Inventory optimization helps reduce inventory distortion, a challenge that stems from out-of-stock and overstock inventory situations.”

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Causal Artificial Intelligence and Supply Chain Performance

Enterra Insights

To highlight that point, Tyler Vigen , a Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), started a site called Spurious Correlations. .” Causal Reasoning Goes Beyond Correlation All analysts know that correlations can easily lead one to believe something that is not true.

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Supply Chain Movement 20 – Trends & Consulting

Supply Chain Movement

12 | Profile Hans Willems, Vice President Supply Chain Europe, Boston Scientific. A Boston Scientific medical device is used somewhere in the world every two seconds, but the company is much more than a medical device manufacturer. Supply chain has played a crucial role in its evolution into a provider of solutions for hospitals.

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How IoT Improves Consumer Packaged Goods Value Chain

Savi

Agile supply chain operations, especially in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, are using IoT and end-to-end shipment visibility software to outperform competitors with better service while keeping lower inventory levels. Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA): Last-mile transportation challenges had caused on-time service arrival to drop.