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Supply Chain Matters Book Review: Profit From The Source

Supply Chain Matters

This book primarily targets a senior management audience but can provide supply chain and other functional leaders important learning and organizational approaches. One of the statements is: “ In many companies, if not most, procurement is an unglamorous, unloved part of the business. Book Content.

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ABB’s Daniel Helmig: “We are moving to virtual centres of expertise”

Supply Chain Movement

Daniel Helmig, head of ABB’s Supply Chain management, is currently busy implementing supply chain transformation throughout the company’s 450 plants and many project sites as the company consolidates back end processes and establishes ten global transportation management centres. “It

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Logility Indicates Added Uptake to its Starboard Solutions Acquisition

Supply Chain Matters

Built-in support for real-time access to needed data related to facility, transportation, logistics, lead-time or other data that can reduce the overall effort required in building interactive supply chain models.

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Caution and Oversight Required in Use of Generative AI Applications

Supply Chain Matters

Important Differentiation What is rather important for supply chain IT support and business applications steering teams to understand is that generative AI technology is different than the existing AI and machine learning technology currently being successfully deployed in among specific supply chain business process and decision-making areas.

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Supply Chain Matters Podcast Episode 22: Supply Chains, AI and the Future of Work

Supply Chain Matters

Our invited thought leader guest is Doctor Yossi Sheffi, the Elisha Gray Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he also serves as long time Director for the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL).

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Retail Logistics: What It Is & How to Improve

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This involves meeting them where they are, and giving them both the shopping and transportation options they want. . From managing inventory flow to ensuring that customers receive shipments on time, retail logistics streamlines the different stages of your ecommerce supply chain to keep your business running smoothly.

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Transforming to a Customer-Driven Digital Supply Chain

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According to a survey from the Digital Supply Chain Institute (DSCI), the design of and transformation to a digital supply chain with the customer in mind, can reduce procurement costs for all purchases of goods and services by 20% and reduce supply chain process costs by 50%.