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Trends 2021: Megatrends, Part Two

Enterra Insights

In many ways, the economy is now driven by data. The World Economic Forum has declared data a resource like gold or oil. ” The other two so-called BRIC countries (Brazil and Russia) are faltering. .” ” The other two so-called BRIC countries (Brazil and Russia) are faltering.

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Behind the world’s shimmering cars: The supply chain struggle

DELMIA Quintiq

Pushing aside the scandals and the glitz and glamour of the show in Frankfurt, the underlying issue remains the same: To meet consumers’ increasing appetite for choice, manufacturers churn out an ever-increasing range of models, features and options. What can car manufacturers do? And this differs in each country.

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6 Supply Chain Trends That Could Truly Shake You Up (2018 Update)

Logistics Bureau

Others wave their hands and announce sweeping megatrends that sound impressive, but that lack supporting data. More and more transactions, operations and processes are conducted within IT servers and data centres. While the lean concept was born from the world of manufacturing, agility came largely from software development.

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

In particular, the focal BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) represent major targets for expansion, but with them come a host of new problem that enterprises have little to no experience in dealing with in terms of logistics capabilities. Here is what I expect to see next year: Global supply chain footprints will continue to expand.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

The data is logically expressed in rows and columns. To connect data from system to system, the data is moved and integrated. As a result, everywhere you go, users and teams complain about the inadequacies of transaction master data and the problems of data integration. It makes searching large data sets fast.

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Supply Chain Market Report – August 2022

Elementum

BRICS is an alliance between several countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) to do just that. Countries and suppliers’ financial signals (and available data) should be carefully monitored, to avoid disruption from a supplier shutting down — or worse, a country defaulting on its debt.

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What’s New in 2015 for the supply chain world? See 2014?s predictions.

Supply Chain View from the Field

While it seemed like many companies would be moving more towards the BRIC countries, global events have proven this uptake to be relatively slow. Supply Chain Technology Investments Will Continue to Escalate.and so will Master Data Management. No question the global supply chain is still going strong.