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Importance of Digitalisation to Improve Supply Chains: Helping Businesses Navigate Through Supply Chain Disruptions

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Applying innovation to supply chains, combines innovative technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), analytics, and robotics to supply chain management to improve performance and meet customer demands. Internet of Things (IoT). As Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 Looking to the Future of Supply Chains. Supply Chain 4.0

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SMAC in the Middle of Supply Chain Change – Part 3 of Kinaxis & Cognizant Series

Kinaxis

by Trevor Miles My friends at Cognizant and I have been having a healthy discussion on the Internet of Things and how these technology changes are shaping the way we work. Part 2: Will the Internet of Things (IoT) Help Eliminate Information Latency and Deficiency in Supply Planning?

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Reflections on Hard Hats and Safety Shoes…

Supply Chain Shaman

As I work with teams to envision the new tomorrow, I find fewer people know the basic concepts of manufacturing planning–cycle inventories, freeze duration, slush period, bottlenecks and constraints. Today, using the Internet of Things, companies can sense equipment status and predict failure. I feel lucky that I have.

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Building Value Networks. Stopping the Backward Slide.

Supply Chain Shaman

Similarly, with the break-up of “The Bells” in the United States in 1982, personal networks grew more open. Today, with seemingly a click of the finger, the phone as a communication device is SO MUCH more than a phone. By the early 2000s, phone calls to Europe from my cell were expensive but manageable.

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The IoT Reality Check

C3 Solutions

For an in-depth look at IoT and the "endless opportunities" it was offering a few years ago, see our Whitepaper, The Internet of Things and the Modern Supply Chain. Its ability to bring about accuracy and efficiency to both inventory and inventory-related tasks absolutely has a cost-benefit component.

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Navigating the Supply Chain Management Fault Line

Supply Chain Shaman

Robotics/wearables/the Internet of Things/additive manufacturing coalescence is redefining manufacturing. Drones in warehouses using machine learning for real-time inventory and self-driving vehicles are transforming logistics. If you are in the United States have a great Thanksgiving.

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Supply Chain Leaders Prepare For The Long Haul. Caution: It Will Be Gray.

Supply Chain Shaman

The first major polio epidemic in the United States occurred in Vermont in the summer of 1894. The last case of polio in the United States was 1979. The thought of a pandemic killing over 350,000 people globally and over 100,000 in the United States in just three months is mind-numbing.