Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Historically, supply chain processes were functional focused on make, source and deliver. This includes 3D printing, robotics, the Internet of Things (IOT), Sentiment Analysis, Cognitive Learning, and Supply Chain Operating Networks using canonical many-to-many data models. Digital sourcing? There are many.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 20, 2016

Cloud and open source analytics are fueling new markets giving rise of new software providers in analytics with names like Board, Cloudera, EveryAngle, Enterra Solutions, FusionOps, Halo, Qlik, Spotfire, Transvoyant, Trifecta, and Trufa. There is a great need for improved supply chain analytics. New solutions offer great promise.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

The average manufacturing company’s supply chain organization is 15 years old. In our recent analysis of supply chains that are “working well” , we find higher performance when companies have source, make and deliver reporting to the supply chain organization. Organizational structure matters. New Business Models.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 17, 2013

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. It is for this reason that I have defined market-driven value network processes in the book Bricks Matter. Some supply chains also have inputs from the evolving world of the Internet of Things where machine sensors transmit frequent streams of data. The acronyms keep coming….

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 18, 2015

In contrast, in the process industries, the supply chain organization reported to manufacturing. Over the course of the last decade, companies have moved at different rates to align source, make and deliver processes to report to common leader. The goal was efficiency. Organizations are at different levels of maturity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 15, 2016

The majority of manufacturing and retail companies want better performing supply chains. In the building of global supply chains, in the last decade, across value networks, outsourcing to third-party logistics, and contract manufacturing accelerated. A Critical Review of the Contract Manufacturing Model. There are many reasons.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2016

My first job was in manufacturing in the 1980’s. In the traditional supply chain world, the processes of sell, deliver, make, source, and plan are separate and distinct. The focus of APICS is manufacturing, CSCMP’s foundation is in logistics, and ISM serves the procurement organization. They lack alignment.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The staff at Supply Chain Quarterly notes, “Twenty-three years after Internet retailing giant Amazon.com started selling books online, more and more companies are seeing significant growth in the direct-to-consumer market. This is true not just for young Internet-based companies, such as the meal-kit provider Blue Apron Inc.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Hadoop is an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed storage and processing of large data sets on computer clusters. While the rest of the world was deep in a recession in 2008, and manufacturers were struggling with payroll decisions and layoffs, Hadoop innovation was in full swing. Let me explain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

High-velocity or streaming data requires different architectures built on non-relational, cloud-based architectures using open source tools like Apache Spark. Or is it the use of the Internet of Things to transform manufacturing or reduce issues with counterfeiting? source Moody’s). The opportunities are numerous.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 22, 2015

It includes Internet of Things, Digital of Everything, and Commerce of Anything. IBM is good at manufacturing terms that we both hate and love. While the manufacturing clients that I work with have strong IT relationships with SAP, and HANA is more and more a discussion, I think that we are missing several basic discussions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. Each year we organize the best-read posts in a more readable format and publish a softcopy book. Like the Shaman blog?

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 27, 2020

2] Those trends include: Trend 1: Breakout moment of artificial intelligence (AI) in manufacturing. … In 2020, emotion recognition and computer vision will scale and AI will have a breakout moment in manufacturing.” ” Trend 2: Practical deployment of Internet of Things (IoT). .”

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

I am a manufacturing gal by training. While traditional supply chain processes evolved from functional excellence definitions for source, make and deliver from the inside-out; to make the digital pivot and become more market-driven, companies need to define new supply chain processes outside-in. What drives my passion?

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synchrono

JULY 8, 2015

I was recently reading about the Industrial Internet of Things as it relates to my business—manufacturing software. It’s exciting that technologies are now available that will liberate manufacturers from the rigid systems and processes of the past. FYI – Interesting article.) On Board Early.

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Requis

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Knut has written a highly regarded book on supply chain (in German) and co-wrote several articles on the impact of COVID-19 on the world’s supply chains, including Resetting Supply Chains for the Next Normal , Supply Chain Recovery in Coronavirus Times—Plan for Now and the Future , and How Great Supply Chain Organizations Work.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 4, 2016

We kick off today a month-long focus on trends in the following categories: Manufacturing, Manufacturing Technology, Supply Chain, Logistics, and Transportation Management. We have already covered the top 6 trends for 2016 in manufacturing. 2016 Supply Chain Trends: The First 7 of 12. And further, that advent of Industry 4.0

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

In Part I of this series , I discussed why retailers, manufacturers and distributors are struggling to adjust to the new demands of the omni-channel consumer. But in only a few years since then, Google’s Books Library project has digitized and scanned books from many more libraries and sources.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers. Prior to 2018, when an ocean carrier booked a shipment they had to provide a chassis. As a result, in the first decade of 2022, expect surprises in manufacturing and retail earnings.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 23, 2017

Call it a cop-out if you like, but seriously, predicting which logistics and supply chain trends will make a difference to businesses in any given year has become notoriously difficult, given the speed at which technology in particular can suddenly disrupt the way things are done.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

These includes Food, construction, fashion, fast-moving consumer goods, electronics, automotive, professional services and freight The reports say that only a small proportion of these emissions are produced during final manufacturing and that most are embedded in the supply chain. A resilient supply chain is agile, flexible, and responsive.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Returning containers is an ongoing issue resulting in some manufacturers investigating a return to break-bulk shipping (container free). Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers. Trade continues to be imbalanced. Be A Good Shipper.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Shipping approximately 400 million selling units consisting of 700 million manufactured units per year, Carter’s employs about 4,000 employees at its peak. The company leverages globally sourcing strategies to buy products at a lower cost and then deploys some unique process logic to drive mass customization for retailers.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 21, 2020

This has proved to be a major source of risk. Poor business continuity planning, lack of risk management programs and single source suppliers, have magnified the impact of such risks. Build-In supplier network redundancies: Single-source dependency is high risk. Industry 4.0

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6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

RFID tags and robotic warehouse systems generate and transmit data that, when combined with other data sources, allow companies to optimize the supply chain and make better predictions and forecasts to improve efficiency and boost the bottom line. They can also be used to track the provenance of adulterated products to identify the source.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Also, for whatever reason, Gartner limits the scope of the Top 25 to companies in the manufacturing, retail or distribution sectors. In particular, the company has been criticized for its long-time practice of using local water sources for its products. Privacy Settings. anonymous user. DataTable subpages. Media Image. transactionID.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Instead, it continues, to include the entire lifecycle of a product, from sourcing of raw materials, to the return and recycling of the product, and reintroduction of recycled materials into the manufacturing or production process. Lawmakers are placing obligations on manufacturers to own the future of the materials they process.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Today only 12% of supply chain teams are driving improvement, performing better than their competitors and driving value (as determined by Price to Tangible Book Value). The change in front of us will transform the base-level definitions of source, make and deliver. 3) Rethinking Manufacturing. What does it take?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

The traditional manufacturing job defined the middle class. Each time, I turn on the channel, manufacturing jobs frame the global debate. Ironically, as global manufacturing jobs decrease, there is a need for talent for the global supply chain. Price to Tangible Book Value. Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).

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Provenance

AUGUST 13, 2018

The clean energy technology sector achieved considerable growth with China’s low REE prices and advances in manufacturing technology , growth that some associated with low environmental and social sustainability standards. Nevertheless, over the last few decades the world largely relied on Chinese REE supply.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The phrase “Supply Chain Management” was originally coined by Keith Oliver in 1982 and subsequently gained increasing popularity as its usage was proliferated in books and language. That was the start of Supply Chain education. Before training and education in the basics was needed because the jobs to be done were transactional.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The Internet of things has radicalized how machines interact with people and one another. In fact, some huge "Futurists" like Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, as well as Brett King are currently writing books on the matter ( Beyond Mobile: Life after Smartphones and Augmented - Life in the Smart Line respectively).

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American Global Logistics

JULY 5, 2023

That means it’s time to recommend some relevant books, articles, blog posts, podcasts, and videos to make the most of your summer. Books and other media on logistics, strategy, technology/AI, and the future are included. These books, articles, etc., Let’s dive into our summer book recommendations and why you should read them.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Manufacturing is core to the middle class and a healthy economy. The word digital is everywhere in their presentations– digital path to purchase, digital agriculture, and digital manufacturing. Too few companies understand the differences between syndicated data sources and the use of channel data. I give them credit.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Every amendment, be it a booking change or a schedule change, is preserved in order. Acquire the source materials: add a block. Re-book the carrier: add another block. And so on, from source to end-customer receipt. Always Available: A Shared, Distributed “Source of Truth”.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 30, 2019

Meanwhile, turbulence is the norm for manufacturing supply chains. As I sign into the front desk-after-front desk at manufacturers, and open the signature book, I notice a large number of system integrators diligently working on the implementation of traditional enterprise technologies. I watch in amusement. What is cycle stock?

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

Each are good at localized planning within a focused area of demand, supply, network design, transportation planning, material sourcing or finite scheduling. The greatest value happens when companies can link across source, make and deliver. Process Integration Across Functions. The best projects pay for themselves in 1-2 months.

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