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Ecosystem in Practice: Building a Best-In-Class Manufacturing Tech Stack

Arena Solutions

We’re based here in Waltham, Massachusetts, not too far away. I’m a Solution Architect. I primarily work with customers and prospects on how to fit our ERP solution into their business and different functionalities that we can bring to bear and how it would work with other parts of their technology stack.

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Supply Chain & Logistics News January 13th-16th 2025

Logistics Viewpoints

This past week, FourKites announced its new Intelligent Control Tower solution, featuring real-time data, digital twin capabilities, and an AI-powered digital workforce. Continuous updating digital twins that bring visibility into real-world operations, spanning shipments, orders, inventory, and assets to curate content.

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Epitaph

Supply Chain Shaman

They were born from well-intentioned, bright professors from great schools – Boston College, Carnegie Mellon, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT )– in operations research. They knew little about the software market. It was called multi-enterprise inventory optimization. SmartOps was purchased by SAP.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

The Lean journey should focus on straightforward activities that everyone can see and understand because the tools take on a life of their own, causing the operation to lose sight of the simple goal of waste elimination. Reducing lead times from suppliers can help turn inventory faster, freeing up cash and ultimately satisfying customers.

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What is the Hyperconnected Era & “The Internet Of Things” and What does it Have to Do with Manufacturing & Logistics?

GlobalTranz

No longer are we in a world where consumers and employees “go online” to work, play, or purchase; we are now in a world where everyone and everything simply is online, whether at home, at school, at the office, or on-the-go. He later co-founded the Auto-ID Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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E-commerce and the Digital Path to Purchase

Enterra Insights

Retailers have always been curious about the paths consumers take when they decide something needs to be purchased. When the Internet and World Wide Web introduced consumers to online shopping (aka e-commerce), the path to purchase became much more complex. Today the digital path to purchase is growing in importance. ”[2].

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Running on autopilot

Kinaxis

The digital computer, improvements in data-storage technology and software, advances in sensor technology and the derivation of a mathematical control theory – all have contributed to progress in automation technology outside traditional manufacturing. Robotics process automation. Thanks to advanced algorithms, we may not be far off.