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Industrie 4.0: Its Impact on Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

This puts more pressure on the supply chain to leverage analytics to improve supply chain segmentation and demand translation,” says Gartner Research in a report titled, The Five Things Chief Supply Chain Officers Need to Know about Industrie 4.0. This means planning systems supporting Industrie 4.0

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What Kind of Reset Does the Supply Chain Need? Part Two

Enterra Insights

3] Supply chain visibility, and decision support capabilities, require the right data from deep within the supply chain as well as other pertinent market signals. The better the data the better the visibility and the better the decision support. They write, “Think in expected values.

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2012 Supply Chain Predictions: Is the End of the World Nigh?

Supply Chain Network

As Gartner predicts “Supplier risk will continue to be a major focus, and companies will look to technology for a scalable risk assessment and management solution” (Predicts 2012: Supply Chain Predictions: Talent, Risk and Analytics Dominate: Published: 18 November 2011). Supply chain visibility and analytics.

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Logistics Center of Excellence: Delivering Value to Organizations

Talking Logistics

Yet it’s difficult to overstate the importance of a view into what’s going on in the supply chain. At the same time, the value of supply chain visibility is lessened if it isn’t comprehensive – encompassing the supply chain from one end to the other, from upstream to downstream.

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The 6 W’s of Supply Chain Planning Systems of Record

E2open

Increasingly, these implementations are global deployments with regional differences respected through multiple planning and fulfillment modes as part of a larger supply chain segmentation strategy. . Multi-tier supply chain. Supply Chain Visibility. Business intelligence.