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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

Open Source Technologies (Examples include Hadoop, Spark, Kafka). … a group of energized innovators. In retrospect, the 1990s were an exceptional time of innovation impacts on productivity. Embrace innovation. This includes: Sensors coupled with data from the Internet of Things (IOT). Blockchain/Cryptocurrency.

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SCRC Supply Chain Index contributes again to the 2021 Wall Street Journal Top 250 Best Managed Companies

NC State SCRC

In an earlier blog , I explained how the SCRC supply chain index was formed, and how it provides meaningful insights into the Innovation and Sustainability categories of the WSJ index, by assessing the level of innovation and sustainability within an organization’s supply chain.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? Terrorism : The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, coupled with the ongoing instability in Syria and Iraq and the spread of ISIS, have raised the risk for terrorism-related supply chain disruptions in 2016.