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Fueling Success: Career in Supply Chain Guide

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Demand Management: Predicting and managing customer purchases through qualitative and quantitative methods, reducing uncertainty in short-term incoming demand. As an indispensable function significantly influencing a society’s standard of living, logistics skills are complex but essential.

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Beyond Spend Analytics: Supplier Life Cycle Data

Supply Chain View from the Field

The scope of the datasets his team was working on was limited to supply management, but the sheer volume of data was staggering in its complexity and fragmentation. In sourcing, data must be tracked over the entire life of a supplier. Oh, and don’t forget that you don’t just manage price – but quantity!

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Managing supply chains in a fragile environment

Supply Chain View from the Field

Gerard Chick and I had a good chat over skype this morning, and we both started jotting down a few facts… Banks are buying up gold and moving currency out since 2009. Gerard talks about managing the tail – the stuff you have to do that is the normal procurement stuff that has to get done.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Supply Chain & Logistics Supply

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2) Inventory and Demand Management. This is even more pronounced for local, regional and national firms that are limited in their economies of scale, currency hedge capabilities, market concentration, and limited technology and operational budgets. Guest Post by Anita Raj, AI & Industry 4.0 Evangelist.

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The Future of Modern Supply Chains is Speed through AI

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2) Inventory and Demand Management. This is even more pronounced for local, regional and national firms that are limited in their economies of scale, currency hedge capabilities, market concentration, and limited technology and operational budgets.

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The Evolving Landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Supply Chains & Logistics

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5) INVENTORY AND DEMAND MANAGEMENT. This is even more pronounced for local, regional, and national firms that are limited in their economies of scale, currency hedge capabilities, market concentration, and limited technology and operational budgets. To what extent are we leveraging open-source technologies?