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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Not surprisingly, analytics is at the top of the list. 2013 has certainly been an interesting year!

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SCRC Meeting April 27-28 on Supply Chain Risk: Building a Risk Management Capability

Supply Chain View from the Field

We are in the last stages of planning for our upcoming 31st Semi-Annual Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (SCRC) Meeting on Monday and Tuesday, April 27-28, 2015 at North Carolina State University. New technologies that create material and supply network visibility, through GPS, alert systems, and predictive modeling technologies.

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Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Society

Enterra Insights

Those views, like most extreme viewpoints, raise arguments worth considering but seldom do extremists present the full picture. factories can be alleviated by the use of the Industrial Internet of Things and predictive maintenance. Most of the darker pictures painted of AI involve superintelligence and autonomous weapons.

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Dealing with Supply Chain Uncertainty After Covid: Insights from the Experts

NC State SCRC

This was without doubt a sobering presentation, and no one who sat in felt very good about the remainder of 2022 and the likelihood of inflation and continued shortages of semiconductors, materials, and labor. However, as someone also said afterwards, “Well at least you were realistic and honest!

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Bayer, Deere, and ARC Provide Feedback on Student Capabilities that Drive Innovation

NC State SCRC

On April 19th and 20th the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative held its bi-annual Board Advisory meeting and Partner Meeting in the Talley Student Center at North Carolina State University. Mike and Tom believe it is important to have strong analytical skills, and to be able translate raw market data into usable information.

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Navigating the Future in an Uncertain Political and Regulatory Environment

NC State SCRC

The Supply Chain Resource Cooperative held its bi-annual Industry Partner Meeting in the Talley Student Center at North Carolina State University this past week. An example of one of our teams working with Aramark, one of our partners on a predictive modeling study, is shown below. Two of our teams won prizes!

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Perspectives on the Global Trade Environment: A Panel Discussion

NC State SCRC

It is not so much the application of a tariff, or even leaving NAFTA, but more like “North Carolina leaving the United States!” His primary role has been to make the supply chain fit for purpose, and he has been working on what TF can do about Brexit. Paul B: Put simply, tariffs disrupt supply chains! I don’t think so.

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