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Takeaways from the 2018 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference

Kinaxis

Dana stated that leading supply chain organizations such as Amazon are looking for disruptive skills such as Lean/six-sigma, SQL, project management, R, Perl, and Python in addition to the core supply chain skills, as compared to lagging organizations primarily looking for ERP and excel skills. 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

“Supply chain sustainability is the single biggest challenge in supply chain management today…” Lean Six Sigma, removing redundant processes and cost cutting have been the cornerstones of efficient supply chain management for decades. And we had to shift fast.