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New Year Perspective- Looking Toward the Year 2024

Supply Chain Matters

We look forward to assisting and informing multi-industry supply chain management teams in areas of supply chain business process, advanced technology, talent management and skills needs along with a variety of other important areas.

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Supply Chain Matters Podcast Episode 17- Needs for More Diverse Supply Chain Talent from the Lens of Technology.

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog announces the availability of the Supply Chain Matters Podcast Episode 17- Needs for More Diverse Supply Chain Talent from the Lens of Technology. There is a growing consensus that existing supply chain and talent management processes and technology need a rethink.

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Insights from the 2022 Gartner® Supply Chain Symposium, Part 1

BlueYonder

The leading companies are offsetting slow decisions, complexities, and information overload by shifting burdens from humans to machines and reducing cognitive overload. What are the latest trends in transportation? Broch Johns, in his session “Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems,” answered in several dimensions.

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Logistics Past, Present, and Future

MIT Supply Chain

Robinson (CHR), the world’s largest provider of truckload transportation services, visited MIT CTL recently to give his view of the changing face of logistics. Most people thought of transportation as a part of their overhead.” More information on the talk and an audio recording of the session is available here.

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Ease the Burden of Labor Shortages and Increase Supply Chain Resiliency 

Logility

These include transportation and material moving, warehouse and fulfillment center workers , truck drivers, call center agents, delivery services, and manufacturing workers. You have the seemingly uncontrollable supply chain disruptions along with a labor and talent shortage. Today’s challenges require informed decision-making.

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Robotic Process Automation and the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

Quirk cites a 2017 study published by the Information Services Group (ISG) that concluded, “This kind of automation technology is allowing for a 43 percent reduction in resources needed for order-to-cash processes, 34 percent for invoicing, and 32 percent for vendor and talent management.” ”[5]. ”[6].

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How a Profession Went From Zero to Hero

MIT Supply Chain

In the early days the function was known as transportation or warehousing (these are still important activities today but are components of SCM). In addition to lifting the demand for supply chain talent, SCM’s elevated role requires a mix of skills that is very different from what was needed a decade or more ago.

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