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Takeaways from the 2018 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference

Kinaxis

Partnered with a plastic packaging company and technology company to collaborate and reduce the plastic content in the packaging for a particular product by 15 percent. New product was directly tested with consumers and the online shop was taken down upon successfully completing the consumer trial. Digital process prototypes.

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24 supply chain experts & business leaders reveal the #1 challenge of supply chain management (and how to solve it)

6 River Systems

One fast way this can be done is by introducing smartphone-based scanning for serial numbers on packages and containers, enabling end-to-end visibility from production through to delivery. Companies need to plan for and practice for disruptions in their supply chains and never stop asking and preparing for ‘What if? .

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Intel to Build $20B Ohio Chip Facility Amid Global Shortage

Operations and Supply Chain Management

won’t entirely protect the industry from supply chain disruptions and shortages because the chips still will be sent to Asia for assembling and packaging, said Nina Turner, a research analyst at IDC. and Europe are pushing to aggressively to build chipmaking capacity and reduce reliance on producers that are now mostly based in Asia.

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