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

Supply Chain Shaman

While my town in Pennsylvania is releasing restrictions, and people are starting to gather again in large groups, I say, “We cannot be too careful.”. Build strong supplier development programs (only 30% of companies operate supplier development programs) and improve trading partner capabilities with logistics providers. Drive Insights.

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Digitization and the Future of Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

An anachronism is “a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.” ” People who live in Pennsylvania are familiar with anachronistic encounters with the Amish who still traverse busy streets riding in horse-drawn carriages.

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Four Strategies To Deploy As Supply Chain Hits Main Street

Supply Chain Shaman

My local Pennsylvania town’s recycling organization no longer accepts cardboard or glass. Despite rapid advancements of technologies—machine learning, cognitive computing, relational search, sentiment mining, blockchain, Internet of Things—the consultants working at large companies are largely putting new wrappers on old pigs.