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Trends 2022: The Internet of Things

Enterra Insights

The exchange of information is a time-proven way of making things better. That is the basic premise behind the Internet of Things (IoT) — getting machines to exchange information so things can improve. Internet of Things Trends. ” Let’s hope that prediction doesn’t come true.

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Lassoing S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

To align S&OP. As companies transitioned from regional to multi-national organizations, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes proliferated. The average company has seven S&OP processes, but a global chemical company averages over 30. Businesses are different. Reporting Structure.

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Lassoing S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

To align S&OP. As companies transitioned from regional to multi-national organizations, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes proliferated. Today, the average company has seven S&OP processes, but a global chemical company averages over 30. Each defining S&OP differently.

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Will the Internet of Things (IoT) Help Eliminate Information Latency and Deficiency in Supply Planning?

Kinaxis

by Prasad Satyavolu Last week, Trevor Miles wrote “ SMAC in the Middle of Supply Chain Change ” and it made me recall the dozen or so articles I’ve read recently on the Internet of Things (IoT). Umberto Eco writes that “Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another.” What do you think?

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The Internet of Things: How “Process Robots” Are Enabling Supply Networks (Part 2)

The Network Effect

In yesterday’s post I introduced the concept of “process robots”, and showed how they are already being deployed within supply networks to automatically do the work. And now think back to our original S&OP problem that drove the need to develop a set of process robots in the example above.

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The S&OP Process Improvement Illusion – Are we there yet?

Arkieva

Almost three decades ago Sales and Operational Planning (S&OP) became the innovation in manufacturing and supply chain. When S&OP came about in 1987 as a concept, we did not yet have the internet much less the “internet of things.” was first posted on June 16, 2017 at 1:36 pm.

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Cognizant – Mining Critical Data in the Era of the Internet of Things – SupplyChainBrain & Kinaxis Video Series

Kinaxis

In the age of the Internet of Things, how can companies extract meaningful insights from the mass of data that is available to them today? Watch now: Mining Critical Data in the Era of the Internet of Things. Companies are looking to integrate those functions, supported by rapid development of the Internet of Things.