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Agriculture Needs AI-aided Climate Change Adaptation Strategies

Enterra Insights

AI-powered solutions enable autonomous machinery and robotics to perform tasks with unprecedented accuracy and efficiency, reducing labor costs and improving operational efficiency.” ”[6] One source of continuing tension between manufacturers and farmers is: Who owns the data? ” • Data Collection.

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Supply Chain & Logistics News Round Up (October 7th-11th 2024)

Logistics Viewpoints

Hurricane Milton barreled through the west side of Florida, making landfall in Siesta Key with winds reaching up to 110 mph and bringing over a foot of rain in some areas. The shortage has not impacted Charlottesville’s other major healthcare provider, Sentara Health as this organization sources its IV solutions from a different manufacturer.

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5 Recommendations towards a Resilient S&OP

Logistics Viewpoints

As product flows rapidly shifted and hard baked assumptions about lead times and sourcing locations were put to test, users across many organizations bypassed their planning systems and turned to excel sheets, internal data science teams or non-traditional supply chain vendors who could deliver AI based solutions at a faster turn.

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5 Steps to Address the Rising Geopolitical Risks to Your Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

This kind of disruption causes major dislocation in the sources of demand and shifts the centers of gravity for demand, forcing organizations to rethink their supply chain design. Switching to alternate sources of supply or modes of transportation should be considered as appropriate, and such alternates should be activated on a short notice.

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Your Must-Have Gartner Debrief: The 4 Key Takeaways from Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo 2023

ToolsGroup

Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo 2023 has wrapped up its 3-day event in Orlando, Florida. These often included: Collaborating more effectively with suppliers: More organizations are embracing a more holistic supply chain strategy by knowledge-sharing with suppliers to align on lead times, forecasts, and buying projections.

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Procurement and Supply Chain are Smarter Together – Practical Use Cases

Logistics Viewpoints

Building optionality in the supply chain through collaborative sourcing: Supply chain teams can proactively identify choke points within the existing network by leveraging emerging technologies such as digital twins and advanced analytics, and modeling their end-to-end supply chains. This can in turn benefit Tier 2 suppliers and beyond.

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Supply Chain Design Crosses the Chasm

Logistics Viewpoints

Decisions such as what should be the order minimums and multiples, what should be the replenishment frequency to my downstream locations, what should be the splits between different sources available, and how they should be prioritized, are all the types of policies that need increasingly frequent revision. He received his Ph.D.