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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

Logistics Viewpoints

They view their implementation of a tightly integrated suite of applications delivered in a public cloud infrastructure from Oracle as a platform on which they can build to help drive continuous innovation. Refractories are products that have been chemically engineered to resist high temperatures. HWI Has a Complex Supply Chain.

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Elevating The Voice of the Supply Chain Contrarian

Supply Chain Shaman

” The industry is in a groupthink, largely missing the opportunities for breakthrough innovation. For example, the Gartner Top 25 celebrates the accomplishments of Intel (active with Gartner), but in the analysis in Table 1, Nvidia Corporation and Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) clearly outperform Intel in the Semiconductor Industry.

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Climate Change will Drive Manufacturing Innovation

QAD

Regardless of what laws politicians enact, customers want their purchasing dollars to go to those who behave responsibly. So, what does this have to do with innovation? Climate-driven Manufacturing Innovation. Those emissions come from energy-intensive processes like melting, casting, sintering, glazing and chemical production.

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AI This. Not So Fast.

Supply Chain Shaman

” Or, “If you need an answer, implement my solution.” Orbit Chart for Ecolab at the Intersection of Inventory Turns and Operating Margin Versus the Chemical Industry for the Period of 2010-2019. The supply chain planning vendor faces the innovators’ dilemma. ” When this happens, I sigh. The problem?

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Sustainable procurement: Everything You Need to Know

Precoro

March 21 was the second annual iteration of World Sustainable Procurement Day , an online event organized by the Sustainable Procurement Pledge team, SPP Chapters, SPP Champions, and partners to raise awareness about the importance of ethical procurement and to share the best sustainability practices with organizations worldwide.

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Our Walk In The Fog

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain innovation is slowly simmering in the face of radical disruption. Recent releases of Advanced Planning Solutions (APS) refined but did not transform initial software concepts. Examples include Hadoop, Kafka, and Apache Spark. . A confluence of technology drives innovation. Together, we walk in a fog.

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Overcoming The Barriers to Use Channel Data

Supply Chain Shaman

However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. End-to-End Definition Implementation of enterprise data architectures to improve order-to-cash and procure-to-pay. Background.