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Supply Chain Leadership Series VI: Pam Heminger, Senior Vice President of Procurement & Planning, Caterpillar

NC State SCRC

During her 24 years at Honda of America, she helped implement many of the supply chain best practices that have now become renowned, including cost modeling, supplier development, supplier quality assurance, lean manufacturing, and many others, which evolved under the original North America leadership of Dave Nelson.

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How a digital transformation can maximize the value of your meat supply chain

DELMIA Quintiq

While advanced innovations and developments like the Internet of Things (IoT) reach each industry and change the way we work together, the requirement for business transformation is rising. Beef, poultry and pork producers from Europe and North America all share a similar challenge: how to get the most value out of an animal.

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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

Logistics Viewpoints

Run” will include using the platform for inventory optimization and to support interesting internet-of-things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) projects. They also have 20 sourcing locations across North America from which they can ship make to stock products. HWI employed a crawl-walk-run methodology.

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Supply Chain Matters Highlights of SAP Sapphire 2022 Conference

Supply Chain Matters

Enterprise Cloud software provider SAP SE conducted its 2022 North America Sapphire Now customer conference last week. In this Supply Chain Matters blog we provide highlights and insights regarding SAP SE’s 2022 Sapphire ASUG Now customer conference held last week in Orlando, Florida. .

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How to Handle Spare Parts Inventory Management (& Who Benefits from What)

Unleashed

Specific aspects of managing inventory include procurement, storage, and utilisation tracking. In 2021, the global demand value in North America for spare parts and consumables relating to maintenance and operations reached over USD 150 billion. Why is spare parts inventory management so important?

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Has Driverless Supply Chain Planning Already Arrived?

ToolsGroup

You can’t predict when an air conditioner is going to break down, but with Internet of Things (IoT) data streaming from the AC unit, Lennox can diagnose impending failure points and contact the customer to arrange a service visit, enhancing the customer relationship and balancing their workload.

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution and why cash flow is at its center

Taulia

Deloitte describes the impact that the Fourth Industrial Revolution could have on business as: “…the marriage of physical and digital technologies such as analytics, artificial intelligence, cognitive technologies and the internet of things (IoT). And with the power of machine learning, they get better at it every single time.