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Top Takeaways from Coupa Inspire

Logistics Viewpoints

This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting. The cloud also allows access to Big Data, which greatly improves the platform’s ability to do machine learning. That has recently changed.

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Shipping is still lost at sea when it comes to big data

DELMIA Quintiq

Uncertain recovery provides an opportunity to look at how better pricing, capacity management, and business optimization could combat the inevitable decline in yield. Between the new builds and laid up vessels, there is enough spare capacity waiting to enter the market to last us a decade or two. The demand side is a mixed bag.

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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

The second disturbing fact is that business leaders cannot access planning data, so a planner must interpret the data. As companies struggled to respond to increasing business complexity—a growing number of products, channels, and markets with regional preferences—few software applications were equal to managing channel complexity.

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4 Ways Big Data is Changing Inventory Management

EazyStock

Big data is a term used to describe a massive volume of both structured and unstructured data that’s too large to be processed using traditional database and software techniques. In most enterprise scenarios, the volume of data is too big, moves too fast and exceeds processing capacity of existing applications.

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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

Solvoyo’s Solution Bugaboo: something that causes fear or distress out of proportion to its importance. Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship. Would better forecasting accuracy be a good thing? Absolutely!

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Supply Chain Analytics: Benefits, Challenges & Architecture

SCMDOJO

In this article, we’ll delve into the benefits and challenges of this powerful tool, and discuss the architecture that’s necessary to successfully integrate it into your business. Supply chain analytics is the process of using data and analytics to gain insights into supply chain processes and operations.

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How to Manage Supply Chains as a Manufacturer with Automation and AI

Locus Robotics

Manufacturers can start by identifying which supply chain processes can be enhanced by automation, researching AI and software tools to find the best fit for their use cases, and developing a digital transformation plan that keeps them on track to keep up with the future of manufacturing.