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Data Privacy Day 2024

Enterra Insights

Data privacy is a big deal. We sit on the cusp of a new business era driven by artificial intelligence (AI); however, without data AI doesn’t work. That’s why there is a growing tension between data availability and data protection. Two years later, Data Privacy Day was observed in the United States.

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Auto Industry Concerns in Sourcing Moves Within Mexico

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights concerns raised by automotive industry interests regarding evolving component sourcing among China based suppliers within Mexico. The report specifically cites data from Mexico’s national auto parts industry association indicating that the value of Chinese auto parts produced in Mexico and exported to the U.S.

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Baby Formula Deficit: Unfortunate Lessons in Demand Forecasting

Logility

When the United States had a massive infant formula shortage, families were under duress, especially those with babies under one. Much has been said about over-reliance on global supply chains and the need to build more self-reliant localized supply sources. In hindsight, the baby-formula crisis was brewing for a while.

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Happy Groundhog Day

Supply Chain Shaman

Flavors of Networks Today, only 8% of multi-tier data flows through one-to-many or many-to-many networks while 29% is based on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). As a result, there is no system of record to synchronize changes, and the data takes one-to-three days to move from node to node. Brand Owner Vacuum. Business Models.

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Supply Chain Normalcy? Think Again.

Supply Chain Shaman

United States Inflation Rates and GDP Inflation is the highest in forty years. To side-step this issue, build planning processes to use market data. Abandon the processes focused on multiple layers of meetings to improve collaboration of organizations that are not aligned, but focused on transactional data.

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How is the Logistics Economy Holding Up?

Logistics Viewpoints

Source: J.P. The World Trade Organization publishes lots of insightful data on global trade – including trade indexes. The United States publishes monthly advance economic indicators that can provide more recent and updated information. Output rose in 8 of the 29 nations for which data was available.

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The Fallacy of the Self-driving Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

Headline news that day was Theranos’, once-Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes, 38, sentenced to over 11 years in prison by a United States District Court for defrauding investors of her firm to revolutionize blood-testing technology. The focus on inside-out processes tightly integrated to transactional data is a barrier.