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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

This DC supplies that hospital and Cooper’s other facilities. The health care system’s primary distributors deliver supplies every morning to this DC. Cooper has one main distribution center roughly three miles from their largest hospital in Camden. Cooper then uses box trucks that make runs to the hospital all throughout the day.

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Building Supply Chain Resiliency with Richard Sharpe

The Logistics of Logistics

Richard writes the DC Velocity blog on Analytics and Big Data. As an industry leader for the last 30 years, Richard is a frequent speaker at industry forums and a lecturer at Georgia Tech and is a founding member of the American Logistics Aid Network, a non-profit consortium serving Disaster Relief Agencies.

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Themes from the 2018 SCM World Leaders Forum

Kinaxis

Thick data” vs big data, the power of the supply chain profession, and cybersecurity. Complement big data with “thick data”. Instead, she suggested they should complement it with “thick data”. If big data is about numbers and analysis, thick data is about bringing human intuition into decision-making.

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Small Events in Execution has Large Impact on the global Supply Chain

Adexa

Big data has become popular due to the fact that it can help us to gain insight into correlation between events and relationships that would otherwise be not so obvious and transparent to us. As a result, you get together and he gives you a job at his start up which will then make you a billionaire 2 years later!

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Pillars Supporting the Digital Path to Purchase

Enterra Insights

”[3] Bhagat lists fourteen ways big data analytics and cognitive technologies can help retailers and brands. 2] Staff, “ Online marketplaces seize growing revenue share during pandemic e-commerce boom ,” DC Velocity, 8 October 2020. [3] . … In the U.S., ”[2]. They are: 1. Personalizing Services.

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Three Key Trends From The WERC DC Measures Survey

Lucas

WERC’s Annual DC Measures Survey is a great tool for benchmarking your distribution center and warehouse operations, but it’s also a valuable resource for identifying trends across the industry. This year’s survey showed the growing importance of labor-related metrics in assessing DC performance.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

We will hold the event at the Westin, Dulles in Washington, DC. At this event, we challenge teams to think differently and drive new outcomes. If you follow our work and are interested in attending, mark your calendar for September 6-9th 2022. Like this year, we will have both an online hosted presence and a in-person experience.