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How Disruptions like Coronavirus Test The Resilience Of Supply Chain Planning

AIMMS

The virus continues to compromise supply chains and disrupt companies at a troubling rate, but a re businesses prepared from a supply chain planning perspective? . The era of globalization has enabled supply chains to be broader and more connected. we need q uickly.? questions.

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Clouds are Gathering for an Open Platform for Supply Chain

ToolsGroup

If this challenging past year has taught us one thing, it is the value of connections–not only in our lives, but in supply chains. We saw this right at the start of the pandemic, when parts being manufactured in Wuhan province disrupted car manufacturers’ production lines around the world.

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Not the Jetsons: 10 Use Cases for Cognitive Learning in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

Last week, I was having breakfast with a CEO of a leading software supply chain management company. At that time, he aggressively pursued automation, and actively tested new technologies. As we buttered our toast, he teased me. Today’s supply chain is like the Flintstone era. Is it real?

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The Power of Predictive Analytics in the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

They spend enormous sums on planning and forecasting technologies. Predictive analytics plays an essential role in the digital era. Most business strategies and planning depend on prediction and analytics using statistical approaches.”[2]. Humans have always been curious about what the future holds. ”[2].

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Harness Big Data with Predictive Analytics for your Supply Chain

Logility

It’s no longer considered magic because we now have advanced analytics systems that harness and organize massive amounts of disparate data and model that big data in ways that allow humans to be proactive and make informed decisions. What are Predictive Analytics for Supply Chain? Sound familiar?

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Resilient Supply Chains: Are We Poised for the Next Era in Planning?

ToolsGroup

Supply chain planning concepts have been around for nearly half a century, but now many converging factors and technologies are ushering in a new era for this mature supply chain solution. Supply chain plans typically take little or no account of uncertainty.”

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Another Way to Think About Supply Chain Risk Management

ToolsGroup

In a previous blog we described a new concept introduced by Gartner Research about the need for both macro-agility and micro-agility. Now we apply this same macro-agility and micro-agility concept to risk management. What will be the next big event? A typhoon in coastal China? A major port closure in Europe?