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How is AI Revolutionizing Supply Chain Risk Management? 

Resilinc

Shahzaib Khan discusses Resilinc’s journey toward AI-driven supply chain excellence From its early inception in the 60s’ to its increasingly available public access, artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way. In some cases, it feels like AI is just starting to take off. Enter the future of AI in supply chain.

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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

While prior risk management disruptions occurred and quickly established a new normal, in the COVID-19 pandemic, the only normal is constant change. The output was just not helpful. We have too hard-wired solutions bolted into IT architectures to enable the flexibility needed by business leaders during times of high variability.

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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. Time to Sense Market Shifts in the 2007 Recession. While good news travels quickly in an organization, bad news travels slowly. Supply chains operate blindly on order data. The problem? Wrong focus I thought.

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ERP addresses the challenges of Make to order manufacturers

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Coupled with the art of trying to balance unpredictable material demand with volatile prices and its effects on the business, with the need to keep raw material to a minimum to free up capital juxtaposed to the need to import raw material with long lead times. MTO operations bring their own set of unique challenges.

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Analog Supply Chains are an Anachronism in a Digital World

Enterra Insights

It was designed with linearity in mind: a singular focus on minimizing transport costs through building high-capacity, point-to-point distribution infrastructure. And as global trade has accelerated in recent decades, greater levels of investment and manpower have been dedicated to expanding capacity to achieve cost efficiencies.

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Top 3 Challenges Facing High-Tech and Semiconductor Supply Chains

Resilinc

For example, if a company’s shipment gets stopped by customs at the border, they may be required to show where it was manufactured through proof of purchase orders and invoices. The first is PFAS which are integral to high-tech supply chains because of their use in equipment found in semiconductor fabs.

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From Predictions to Operations: Compelling Supply Chain AI Use Cases

ThroughPut

Clearly, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is unlocking so much potential for growth and efficiency in logistics and supply chain management. Just about everyone in the supply chain gets negatively impacted by wrong forecasts. Just about everyone in the supply chain gets negatively impacted by wrong forecasts. Inventory pile-ups.