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Optimizing Supply Chains Has Never Been More Important

Enterra Insights

For the past few years, the news has been filled with stories about supply chain disruptions, supply chain fragility, and the need for supply chain resilience. A term once prominent in supply discussions optimization isn’t heard quite as often as it used to be.

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Please Don’t AI Stupid

Supply Chain Shaman

Drip Big Data. The Connected Supply Chain. Drip Digital Supply Chain. Autonomous Supply Chain Planning. Self-Healing Supply Chains. Touchless Supply Chains. The most efficient supply chain (in terms of lowest cost) is not the most effective.

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Philip Morris Drives Manufacturing Insights Using A Digital Twin

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chains quickly move through fads and buzz words. Today, entangled in digital supply chain discussions is the concept of the digital twin. Today, entangled in digital supply chain discussions is the concept of the digital twin. In our pandemic research, we interviewed thirty manufacturers.

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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. During the pandemic, the supply chain discussions take new importance. While the supply chain technology market lost its allure at the start of the last decade, it is now cool again. The supply chain career is new. Reflection.

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Taming the Supply Chain. Will It Ever Be Social?

Supply Chain Shaman

The supply chain is knotted. Yesterday, @DamarqueViews asked me a question on twitter: “What do you think are the greatest barriers in the adoption of social technology in the supply chain?” I find the evolution of social technologies, and the promise of social, exciting for the supply chain.

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Digital Transformation: An Imperative for Industrial Manufacturing in 2017

GlobalTranz

Are industrial manufacturers seizing all the opportunities of a more digital world? A recent article suggests that, by 2018, only 30 percent of manufacturers investing in digital transformation will be able to maximize the outcome. Harnessing Big Data. Possibly not. This is concerning. Changing Consumer Expectations.

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Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Supply Chain Shaman

“We live in a world where supply chains, not companies, compete for market dominance. But companies often have diverging incentives and interests from their supply chain partners, so when they independently strive to optimize their individual objectives, the expected result can be compromised. ”. What Is Value?