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The Power of the Network: ERP vs. Spend Management

Logistics Viewpoints

GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Supply Chain Resource Cooperative surveyed supply chain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supply chain resilience and optimization. Alex Zhong, Director Product Marketing at GEP.

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Antitrust and the Supply Chain: Protecting the Power of the Markets

NC State SCRC

Very often, this requires collecting and reviewing millions of documents from a company, by utilizing the power of the grand jury. Devon notes that “An interesting part of the job is understanding the dynamics and decisions made by executives when they are selling their products and services, and the decisions they make.”

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New Student Projects Suggest Greater Focus on Analytics

Supply Chain View from the Field

John Deere (2) – Life Cycle Cost Benchmarking – The team will benchmark industry leaders to document and define best practices for measuring direct material cost over the lifecycle of a product. The team will benchmark industry leaders to document and define best practices for measuring total acquisition cost. .

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Getting Started with AI in Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Workers from picking and packing to planning and procurement are in short supply, stimulating interest in increasing productivity of the existing workforce. IBM’s Institute for Business Value found that 75% of CEOs believe generative AI will be key to competitive advantage.

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Off to another exciting year of student-industry engagement at NC State on cutting-edge supply chain projects

NC State SCRC

Following a project we did last fall, Lenovo’s Data Centre Group (DCG) at Morrisville, North Carolina is seeking to identify and explore its opportunities for process improvement and supply chain efficiency by leveraging Blockchain. Lenovo Blockchain Analysis Part 2. Lenovo Excess and Obsolete Inventory.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Con-way Truckload and Con-way Multimodal Join Forces to Launch New Intermodal Service for North America. CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. FedEx Helps Small Businesses Streamline Shipping with fedex.com Integration Manager.

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Duke Energy CEO Talks About Leadership

Supply Chain View from the Field

For the average customer in North Carolina, he or she pays about $3 a day for electricity. Her comments echoed much of what I heard in Germany by Dr. Michael Seuss, head of Siemens at a conference in Germany, and documented in a blog I wrote last year. But this also has to be delivered at a reasonable price.