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Boston University’s Sourcing Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

In 2017, a strategy consultant was hired to do a top-to-bottom assessment of the Boston University procurement program. Facilities sourcing and construction contracting were centralized in the procurement department. She came to BU from a different university in the Boston area in 2022. They recommended a change in leadership.

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The Emergence of Supply Chain Data Fabrics

Logistics Viewpoints

The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, in the US. It accesses, transforms, and harmonizes data from multiple sources to make it usable and actionable for a wide variety of business applications. A supply chain data fabric can help companies augment their supply chain processes. Who is InterSystems?

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“Storage Wars” Rescues Supply Chain Ignominy

Kinaxis

Up until this past year, my greatest “ah-ha” moment was watching my Boston neighbor walk away with my Arians Platinum 20-SHO snow blower. But, in Boston, we had this dirty little secret. But, in Boston, we had this dirty little secret. In Boston, we had an “ATTIC”. In San Diego, there’s no attics, no basements.

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The Next Great Disruption Coming to Supply Chains

Kinaxis

I watched a TED Talk video by Philip Evans, from Boston Consulting Group and shuddered to think that all our traditional fulfillment and inventory models can be drastically transformed by the “consumer”. They want to assure the sourcing meets their “sustainable” expectations. It’s the consumer.

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ToolsGroup Announces Inventory Hub®, the Single Source of Truth for Real-Time Data Across the Enterprise

ToolsGroup

BOSTON — January 16, 2023 — ToolsGroup , a global leader in retail and supply chain optimization software, today introduced the launch of Inventory Hub®, a Dynamic Data Unification Platform that provides retailers with a “single source of truth” for inventory data across their enterprises. “As

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Warehouse Robotics – Scaling Operations for Exponential Growth, with Mark Messina

Logistics Viewpoints

What role do you believe KIVA played in Boston becoming the robotics hub that it is today? MARK: Kiva was absolutely fundamental to the germination of the robotics community in Boston. A supply chain team was also just hired to build out global sourcing and customs CM and MFG. Kiva put supply chain and design together.

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together. There are no value network solutions in the market to enable plan/source/make and deliver visibility holistically. Reflection. To illustrate the point, let me share a story.