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Breaking Boundaries: Exploring Generative AI’s Impact on Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Breaking Boundaries: Exploring Generative AI’s Impact on Supply Chains Supply chains encompass many interconnected activities, from procurement, production, and inventory management, to logistics and distribution. It can then generate new content using prompts that resemble the original training data.

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Cardinal Health’s Perfect Implementation

Logistics Viewpoints

The Cardinal Health Supply Chain Cardinal Health’s medical segment manufactures, sources and distributes Cardinal Health branded medical, surgical and laboratory products. The medical segment’s supply chain consists of 61 North American distribution centers and 27 global manufacturing plants. This was a bold and risky move.

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Unlocking Success: Why Strategic Sourcing Is Important for Your Company

Precoro

To enhance their competitive edge, companies across industries are adopting a key tactic: strategic sourcing. Strategic sourcing is a holistic approach to supply chain management that includes tactics for optimizing the total cost of ownership, improving supplier relationships, and ensuring long-term value creation.

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Demand Planning: Whipped And Chained by Tradition

Supply Chain Shaman

If S&OP efforts were that effective, don’t you think that we would have made more progress against inventory levels, margin, and growth? In part, this results in increasing swings in inventory in response to shifts in consumer demand as one moves further up the supply chain. Go to the source. The reason?

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Wholesale distribution industry news – 7 pointers that may help to prevent a business from going down in 2024

EMERGE App

The picture of wholesale distribution industry in 2024 The report from Research and Markets forecasts that the wholesale market size will reach $68,092.65 That was perfect news for those who are still running a wholesale, distribution, or trading business today. billion by 2028, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.5%.

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The Future of Autonomous Supply Chains Part 1: Autonomous Shipping

Logistics Viewpoints

Autonomous supply chains can help businesses by enabling faster and more accurate demand forecasting, optimizing inventory levels and distribution networks, automating warehouse and delivery operations, and enhancing customer service and satisfaction. Rolls Royce predicts that lighter unmanned vessels will burn 15 percent less fuel.

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Digital transformation for Africa’s manufacturing and distribution CIO and CFO

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Investing in digital transformation training. There are essential benefits from different types of training needed for digital transformation. Sure, train software use, train software system-admin, all essential, but just as important is to expose the implementing techies to your business. Supply Chain effect.