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Walmart Supply Chain: Building a Successful Integrated Supply Chain for Sustainable Competitive Advantage

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Walmart’s remarkable success as the world’s largest retailer can be attributed to its astute utilization of data analysis and advanced technologies within its integrated supply chain. The company has implemented sophisticated barcode scanning and point-of-sale systems to collect real-time data from its stores.

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How the Semiconductor Shortage Could Have Been Averted

QAD

The Guardian stated : “The technology industry faces a growing shortage of semiconductors and other high-tech components following a failure to invest in new manufacturing facilities during the recession, experts have warned.” The first version of the MMOG/LE assessment was introduced in 2004 and is in its fifth revision today.

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Podcast: Predictive Analytics and Digital Transformation Pioneer Knut Alicke

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On episode 23 of Supply Chain Next, Richard Donaldson talks with Knut Alicke about digital transformation and predictive data analysis. HP was using an SAP system for their operations. SAP had announced a new planning system that they called APO but it was about two years from being released. Highlights from the Conversation.

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The article is written and the story is spun, but the solution offered is a supply-centric solution based on yesterday’s technology. User satisfaction with planning systems is low. Their current technologies are inadequate. The acronyms keep coming…. The cadence does not stop.

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Top Myths Around Demand Sensing

E2open

Demand sensing technology has been around for more than 15 years, yet there are still many myths around just what it is, what it does and the prerequisites to use it. All you need to start sensing demand are three inputs – your demand planning forecast, orders, and shipments.Conveniently, these all reside in your internal systems.

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Why Learning Technologies will Fundamentally Transform Retail and Supply Chain

BlueYonder

In Part I of this series , I discussed why retailers, manufacturers and distributors are struggling to adjust to the new demands of the omni-channel consumer. Machine Learning technology has finally come of age. We can train our phones to recognize our voices and our photo management software to recognize faces within our images.

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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

Arkieva

Three Steps to a Better Statistical Forecast Setup. Arkieva COO – Sujit Singh, outlines three essential steps to better statistical forecasting — simulate, measure, refine. She shared that her business had implemented a statistical forecasting package from one of the leading vendors during the previous year.