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The Greenest Mile: Planning’s Role in Supply Chain Sustainability

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We must plan, source, make, and deliver differently for supply chain sustainability. These examples address the source, make, and deliver areas of supply chain. Similarly, increasing the efficiency of planning and reducing waste will lay a firm foundation for greener sourcing, manufacturing and delivery. Buffering creates waste.

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Getting Started with AI in Supply Chain

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Instead of searching for and reading multiple help documents, the planner can simply ask for help in natural language and receive an answer that is a single, synthesized explanation of those sources in Portuguese (even if the documentation is in English).

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Wake-Call for Added Resiliency Within Healthcare Supply Networks

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides added information and perspectives related to last week’s natural disaster involving a U.S. Background On July 19, a devastating tornado with reported winds of upwards of 150 miles-per-hour devastated an area in eastern North Carolina. Pfizer drug manufacturing facility. and other countries.

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Polycrisis, Antifragility, and What’s Missing from Digital Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chains are systems, and the current retail inventory glut is the classic illustration of the bullwhip effect in action, the consequence of cascaded planning in silos. For example, giving people common information in real-time lets them see consequences of any decision and learn to collaborate to make better ones.

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5 Supply Chain Collaboration Essentials to Mitigate Disruptions

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Supplier problems will cause a cascade of problems up and down the value stream, leading to supply order delays that cause inventory shortages, production disruptions, missed shipments and lost revenue. Alex Zhong is Director of Product Marketing at GEP.

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The Power of the Network: ERP vs. Spend Management

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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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The Promise and Peril of Generative AI for Supply Chains

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The first use case is MIT professor Yossi Sheffi’s idea for using generative AI to monitor all possible sources of risk for a given supplier to mitigate any disruptions. While there is endless speculation, from my reading two supply chain-specific opportunities intrigued me.