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Will 2024 be the Year of Automation and AI in the Supply Chain?

Enterra Insights

Late last year, the staff at Digitate released the results of a survey entitled “AI and Automation: Laying the Foundation for the Autonomous Enterprise.” The survey found, “90% of IT decision-makers plan to deploy more automation, including AI, in the next 12 months.”[1] ”[1] These trends are not new.

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What is Just in Time Manufacturing? Benefits & Disadvantages

Unleashed

Just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing is a production management approach that helps you lift efficiency and streamline your operational processes. What is just-in-time manufacturing? The just-in-time approach contrasts with just-in-case strategies, where producers hold sufficient inventories to absorb maximum market demand.

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Supply Chain Planning Software Vendor Selection: What they Won’t Tell You

Logility

Selecting a new enterprise technology or supply chain planning software provider can be wrought with challenge and risk. Specifically: people have lost their jobs over poor technology selections and failed implementation projects. This is especially true in supply chain planning & management platforms.

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Future-Proofing Transportation Spend in Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

In the ever-evolving supply chain industry, transportation spend optimization – or TSO – has assumed greater significance. Globalization has expanded supply chains; the result is increased complexity and transportation costs. As challenges increase, technology continues to evolve to meet demand.

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Supply Chain AI Strategy: Navigating Apparel Industry Complexities

Logility

This blog cuts through the complexity, presenting how supply chain AI strategy and machine learning, especially through the power of generative AI and InventoryAI+, are essential in crafting a smarter, more responsive retail supply chain.

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Just-In-Time Management – How to Manage Inventory in 2024

ThroughPut

The Just-In-Time inventory management approach revolutionized manufacturing forever. To help out fellow supply chain experts and professionals, we’ve crafted this guide to deepen your comprehension of JIT, illuminating its fundamental principles, myriad benefits, strategic implementation, and the challenges that may arise.

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Is the Just-In-Time Supply Chain’s Time Over?

Enterra Insights

According to Funnell, “It’s called Just-In-Time and it’s made some corporations and business moguls very rich. ”[2] Those comments beg the question: Is the Just-In-Time (JIT) Supply Chain’s Time Over? Maintaining Just-In-Time Principles. ”[3].