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What is Supply Chain Innovation? Separating the Reality from the Hype

MIT Supply Chain

Supply chain innovations such as the early adoption of RFID underline how a flawed view of new technology can lead to unwise investment decisions. For many companies supply chain innovation (SCI) is a key source of competitive advantage. Take RFID, for example. Blurred vision.

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The Power of Skunk Works to Ignite Innovation

MIT Supply Chain

Informal collaboration within and across companies can be a source of disruptive innovation. If so, you’re part of an age-old phenomenon that Peter Gloor, a research scientist at MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence, calls Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs). Variables that identify a COIN are built into the software.

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How to Harness the Economic Power of Logistics Clusters

MIT Supply Chain

As well as establishing a pool of educated professionals that the cluster can draw on, an academic partner also provides a platform for research and innovation. There is also the part-time Master de Logistica (MdL) master’s program taught in Spanish that has become an important source of talent for the local cluster.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. This will make the supplier sluggish to respond to changes and slow moving on innovation. These are three examples: Rule 3.1: What can you do?

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Reshaping Product Lifecycle Innovation: An Inside Look at PTC LiveWorx 2023

Arena Solutions

Managing product and quality information in a single system provides a source of confidence for effective quality management. Harry’s supply chain team plans, sources, and manages the logistics of producing these products by using Arena PLM integrated with their enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

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Cannabis execs: digitize operations or else

TrackVia

According to Ello Capital’s analysis , Massachusetts-based Curaleaf has more than three years of cash remaining and Chicago-based Cresco Labs Inc. He emphasizes companies should explore innovation while “preserving margins.” . We like to use our partners at The Clinic as a great example of sustainability. So what’s their secret?

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Packaging Comes to the Forefront of Sustainability Efforts

Enterra Insights

Now, nearly a dozen states, including Massachusetts, are on track to follow Maine’s lead.”[3] For example, Nanos reports that some toothpaste in Europe doesn’t come in cardboard boxes. ”[6] Preventing waste and being penalized for creating it are two very different approaches to the waste problem. … The No.

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