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Imagine

Supply Chain Shaman

It is rapidly evolving to use the Internet of Things to sense health and wellness at the patient’s home, to manufacture organs and tissue and custom drugs locally on an as-needed basis, and to better connect case records and usage data through inter-enterprise systems of record. Flexible Manufacturing. I say, ABSOLUTELY!

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Implementing RFID for Manufacturing Visibility: A Case Study

Supply Chain Opz

The application of RFID ranges from asset, inventory, stock management, real-time localisation systems, tracking and tracing, and visibility of goods in the retail market, wireless payment, and more recently, the internet of things and customer-focussed services.

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Importance of Digitalisation to Improve Supply Chains: Helping Businesses Navigate Through Supply Chain Disruptions

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Applying innovation to supply chains, combines innovative technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), analytics, and robotics to supply chain management to improve performance and meet customer demands. Internet of Things (IoT). As Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0

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Dissecting the Headwinds and Tailwinds of Digital Transformation

Supply Chain Shaman

” Just as Blockbuster missed the online movie experience and Kodak failed to monetize digital printing, company boards struggle with the thought “Will their story be framed in the next Harvard Review case study of a company that missed the digital pivot?” Internet of Things. How to get started?

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IOT for Supply Chain Tracking

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Significant advancements in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and cloud technologies in recent years has reduced the cost of adopting new technologies and broadening the spectrum of what is available. The cost of internet-connected devices has also dropped significantly making IIoT solutions more affordable at scale.

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Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Supply Chain Shaman

So, as we think about the drivers for the tipping points—and the coalescence of new forms of analytics with big data systems, 3D printing, and the Internet of Things—there is a need in this value network to quickly to automate the supply chain moments of truth. It needs to be more than Flextronics.

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Building a Triple A Supply Chain: Ten Tactics That Work

Supply Chain Shaman

The advancements in analytics–open-source, cloud, internet-of-things (IOT), and cognitive computing–are very promising. There will be no videos, but we will be writing up the case studies for our September newsletter. Maturity in Analytics. It requires the building of an analytics framework.