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The State of Supply Chain Trends Part II: AI, Procurement, & the New Lean

GlobalTranz

From artificial intelligence to refocusing on procurement, the state of supply chain continued to explode throughout 2016, and you need to understand why. A 2016 Accenture survey, reports RF Gen , explained how more companies are taking advantage of AI benefits through linked supply chains. The State of Supply Chain 2016 Trends.

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IOT for Supply Chain Tracking

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Manufacturers today face lots of challenges driven by changing customer expectations. Significant advancements in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and cloud technologies in recent years has reduced the cost of adopting new technologies and broadening the spectrum of what is available. Background. Green Skies?

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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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Solving The Cold Chain Challenges

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

One Network’s NEO Platform handles supply chain forecasting, sourcing, planning and execution (with routing and logistics optimization) for what may be the largest supply chain control tower deployment in the world. Have a System of Record for Tracking Compliance and Identifying/Reporting Violations. End-to-End and Real-Time Logistics.

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Steel Fabrication and General Manufacturing Tips and Tricks for 2015

GlobalTranz

All metal fabricators realize that they have to do some analyses before the company purchases equipmen t or hires new people, but now there seems to be a new intensity about the process. Now is the Time for Manufacturing to Look at Logistics Efficiency. Manufacturing seems heading for a long awaited comeback.

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How to Sustain a Lean Culture in Manufacturing & Supply Chain

GlobalTranz

Entering these team projects in a magazine, or Lean contest is a motivator to boost teamwork and ensure that MDI is effective every day. These metrics would, of course, be aligned and are updated every hour. Next, you would have management supporting this effort during their daily Gemba walk, reviewing these hourly metrics.

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Do You Know How Much Your Company is Spending? A Spend Analytics Checklist

Supply Chain View from the Field

The leading IT magazine, CIO Review, today published a special issue on supply chain transformation, and included an article I wrote on spend management as a core capability. This value is an important component in calculating the cost of goods sold in the financial statement. This is an important input into strategic sourcing).