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Supply Chain View from the Field
DECEMBER 16, 2013
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. Here is what I expect to see next year: Global supply chain footprints will continue to expand.
Enterra Insights
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Most analysts believe the future looks bright for renewable energy sources. This means that ever-more of our energy system can become less reliant on traditional sources such as coal, oil, and natural gas, thereby reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.”[3] ”[4].
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Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 29, 2015
Doug Cutting and Mike Carafella in an effort to improve searching created a distributed storage system termed Hadoop. While the rest of the world was deep in a recession in 2008, and manufacturers were struggling with payroll decisions and layoffs, Hadoop innovation was in full swing. It makes searching large data sets fast.
Supply Chain View from the Field
JANUARY 30, 2013
A recent discussion with supply chain executives in the apparel industry reveal that the problem is a tricky one to solve – and may be a function of other decisions being made by apparel manufacturers that have nothing to do with labor human rights in the supply chain. Who wants to end up on the front page of the Journal? Or the buyer?
Supply Chain Network
JUNE 30, 2011
Take for example the BRIC nations and the impact this region has across the global economy. In fact, all of the BRIC countries are now in the top 10 economies, with Brazil at 9, Russia at 6, India at 4 and China 2nd. Rising incomes in developing countries also make them extremely desirable markets – and not just as manufacturing hubs.
BlueYonder
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
There is no question that the automotive industry has seen rapid change and improvement over the past three years. They don’t see it as an enabler of global manufacturing and sourcing, or as a way of increasing customer loyalty through great service. Here is an excerpt of that conversation. For them it’s just a cost.
Supply Chain Game Changer
APRIL 26, 2020
In my case I graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree in 1990 and started my career with IBM Manufacturing in Toronto, doing test engineering. There was no such thing as supply chain in my consciousness early in my career – I was only vaguely aware of functions such as planning, production control, procurement, shipping and receiving.
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