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Building the Business Case for Digital Transformation of Supply Chain Planning

Logility

There is a growing awareness within senior executives that transforming supply chain planning capabilities to take advantage of the emerging areas of “Big Data,” “Artificial Intelligence,” “Advanced Analytics,” and “Cloud Computing” is a competitive imperative.

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Three Reasons Why I Love Hadoop, and You Should Too!

Supply Chain Shaman

Hadoop is an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed storage and processing of large data sets on computer clusters. Hadoop splits files into large blocks and distributes the data over the nodes in the cluster. The data is not moved. (In Application to Supply Chain Processes.

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Embracing the Digital Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

Historically, supply chain processes were functional focused on make, source and deliver. The digital supply chain is cross-functional and aligned market-to-market. Traditionally, supply chain technologies are batch processes. Digital sourcing? Nimble and Responsive. Digital logistics?

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How to Use Big Data to Improve Supply Chain Visibility

Talking Logistics

According to a July 2014 supply chain research study from Accenture focused on Big Data and supply chain risk management, most organizations have high hopes for using big data analytics in their supply chain but many have had challenges in deploying it.

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Where Would We Be Without All of the BullS&%T?

Supply Chain Shaman

“Where would the supply chain technology industry be without all of the bulls#&t?” ” Based on my research, it is clear to me that buyer frustration with supply chain technology is increasing. This week in my travels I posed a question to myself.

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Top Supply Chain Challenges for CPG companies in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

This is because most classical planning solutions lack the modeling capability and computing power to accommodate different data sources, large SKU count, and detailed constraints and contingencies to build an immediately executable plan. each with discrete plans generated typically in sequential batch runs.

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Technology and the Supply Chain: What Does the Future Hold?

Kinaxis

Big business are jumping on the bandwagon too – utilizing collaborative distribution, reverse logistics and cooperative sourcing to lower costs, improve efficiency and better optimize their supply chain. Big Data for Decisions. Think Uber , Airbnb , and other peer-to-peer lending services.