Kinaxis
JUNE 28, 2018
by Dr. Madhav Durbha. I recently came across a Bloomberg article citing how certain functions of the white-collar workforce at Amazon is getting replaced by automation. Employees drawing six-figure salaries to negotiate multi-million dollar deals with major brands on behalf of Amazon are being replaced by software that predicts what shoppers want, when they want, and how much to charge for it.
Supply Chain Trend
JUNE 23, 2018
In a bit of an attention-grabbing title – The Death of Supply Chain Management – some pretty well-established supply chain people got away in the Harvard Business Review with a sales pitch kind of article. The main premise of the article is that technology, digitalisation and will take over the supply chain and take peoples jobs. They talk about sensor data, digital control towers, real time data, robotics.
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Logility
JUNE 28, 2018
The ability to analyze performance and determine the root-cause of issues has become standard functionality in many of the devices we use today. For many years, automobiles have provided the capability to determine why a dash light is on through fault code readers. Today it seems like you can buy just about any type of device that supports analytics including; Toothbrushes that analyzes your brushing habits and alerts you to ways to maximize brushing through your smart phone; Wristwatches that t
ToolsGroup
JUNE 29, 2018
Editor's Note: There will be no blog post next week due to the US holiday. Push-driven supply chains have been around forever. Pull-driven have become increasingly popular and in most cases arguably better. But what about employing push and pull for different products in a single supply chain or distribution network? The mobile phone retail supply chain presents such a case of simultaneously maintaining both strategies.
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Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 24, 2018
“…the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best” ? Otto von Bismarck. This morning I landed in Frankfurt. Keeping with my normal Sunday night ritual, I poured myself a cup of tea to pen my weekly post for the Supply Chain Shaman. I have been writing weekly posts for this blog for eight years. The length of time is hard to believe.
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TradeGecko
JUNE 25, 2018
It's not unusual to pass a Zara store and do a double-take - didn't you just see that on the catwalk? As a brand, their speed and responsiveness to the latest fashion trends are key to Zara’s competitive advantage. Owned by the distribution group Inditex, we had a look at what makes Zara so fast that the New York Times called it "mind-spinningly supersonic ".
Enterra Insights
JUNE 25, 2018
Kernels of truth are often found in idioms. One such idiom advises us to “keep in step with the times.” As I wrote in a previous article, “Generally speaking, that’s pretty good advice. Companies failing to adapt over time have filled history’s dustbin. Going out of business probably wasn’t their goal; but, they discovered change is seldom easy.”[1] One reason companies fail to keep step with the times is their inability to identify exactly what the “times” ar
ToolsGroup
JUNE 29, 2018
Editor's Note: There will be no blog post next week due to the US holiday. Push-driven supply chains have been around forever. Pull-driven have become increasingly popular and in most cases arguably better. But what about employing push and pull for different products in a single supply chain or distribution network? The mobile phone retail supply chain presents such a case of simultaneously maintaining both strategies.
DELMIA Quintiq
JUNE 25, 2018
The race between nations to supply goods and services across a global marketplace is continuing unabated. The fourth industrial revolution — a technological transformation that fundamentally alters the way we live and work on a scale and scope never experienced before — exemplifies the future of production, manufacturing and services. A keen observer would point out that the key pillars of this revolution — robotics, big data, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things — stem from concepts
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SCM Research
JUNE 29, 2018
More than many other management disciplines, SCM has been very successful to professionalize and reinvent itself. A good indication for this development are the 2017 JCR journal impact factors , which have just been released. The only SCM journal with an impact factor above 6 is Journal of Supply Chain Management (6.105). Three SCM journals have impact factors between 4 and 5: Journal of Operations Management (4.899), International Journal of Production Economics (4.407) and International Journa
Logility
JUNE 26, 2018
Learnings from the 2018 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference. Last month I, along with 2200 other supply chain professionals, attended the 2018 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix Arizona. The four-day conference featured many interesting and educational sessions led by both Gartner analysts and supply chain practitioners. In between the room-packed sessions, there was time for networking and catching up with old acquaintances.
Talking Logistics
JUNE 29, 2018
Nothing gets my heart pumping like cycling to help find a cure for Type 1 Diabetes. I’ve started to ramp up my training for our Logistics Leaders for Type 1 Diabetes Cure team ride in support of JDRF, which will be in Santa Fe, New Mexico on November 3, 2018. Our team members are also hitting the road, including Ralph Cisneros (Intel) and Joe Tillman (TSquared Logistics): It’s not too late to sponsor or join our team.
Arkieva
JUNE 26, 2018
How global businesses can build a collaborative demand planning process How to Build a Collaborative Global Demand Planning was first posted on June 26, 2018 at 8:48 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement.
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Enterra Insights
JUNE 29, 2018
When (if ever) most people think about agriculture, Old MacDonald’s farm or Grant Wood’s America Gothic are more likely images to come to mind than the Jetsons. But farming is moving into the Digital Age. It’s an Age when discussions about paperless offices and robotic factory floors are far more likely to be heard than digital transformation on the farm. “The world talks a lot about the digital revolution,” write World Bank analysts Heinz Strubenhoff ( @HStrubenhof
Logility
JUNE 27, 2018
The ability to analyze performance and determine the root-cause of issues has become standard functionality in many of the devices we use today. For many years, automobiles have provided the capability to determine why a dash light is on through fault code readers. Today it seems like you can buy just about any type of device that supports analytics including: Toothbrushes that analyzes your brushing habits and alerts you to ways to maximize brushing through your smart phone; Wristwatches that t
Talking Logistics
JUNE 27, 2018
Competing on customer experience is the new battleground in business and supply chain management is a critical enabler. That was the key message Doug Braun, CEO of BluJay Solutions (a Talking Logistics sponsor), delivered in his keynote presentation at the SOAR 2018 Customer Conference last month. He highlighted several quotes from client companies, including this one by John Venhuizen, ACE Hardware’s CEO, from the company’s 2017 Annual Report: “For ACE, we believe continued success for the futu
The Network Effect
JUNE 27, 2018
Understanding How a Network Can Create Shared Value for All If you’re like many organizations, you are looking for progressive. The post What Constitutes a True Network? appeared first on The Network Effect.
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Enterra Insights
JUNE 28, 2018
How can something over 30 years old still be considered in its infancy? According to Jonathan Sallet, a former visiting fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, that’s exactly the situation in which the Internet of Things (IoT) finds itself. “The term ‘internet of things’ is said to have been first used in 1985,” he explains. “Roughly thirty years later, this collection of devices, computing, connectivity, and data analysis is still on the ho
Supply Chain 24/7
JUNE 25, 2018
Linking real-time demand with a timely supply response allows companies to commit with confidence and profitably capture growth opportunities in today’s volatile markets.
Talking Logistics
JUNE 25, 2018
Over the past couple of years, we have published many blog posts and produced several video episodes on supply chain digital transformation (see our archives ). What’s becoming clear, however, is that digital supply chain transformation is not enough; companies also have to transform their physical supply chain networks to adequately meet the more demanding challenges and opportunities before them.
Material Handling & Logistics
JUNE 27, 2018
For the rest of 2018 and well into next year, consider the supply chain overall and not just transactional pricing. It is rare that things in the supply chain and logistics industry ever stay stagnant, and with that constant change comes the emergence of new and different issues that pose challenges for those in the industry. The first half of 2018 has been a trying time for supply chain management, and the uncertainty of the future is something weighing heavily on industry insiders.
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Supply Chain Collaborator
JUNE 26, 2018
Aurora Organic Dairy (AOD) is a vertically-integrated producer of private label organic milk products. Like many other successful enterprises, AOD faces the challenges of rapidly changing consumer trends and evolving market conditions, prompting the organization to digitize logistics processes in order to boost efficiency, grow scalability and improve customer service.
ModusLink Corporation
JUNE 28, 2018
In any company, no matter the size or industry, financial management strategies are changing to account for the evolution of digitization and e-commerce. The mounting complexities and expectations that come with the digital age must be factored into brands’ financial strategy, especially as they plan to grow and if they have limited resources. According to […].
Talking Logistics
JUNE 25, 2018
Adam Compain, CEO at ClearMetal , discusses the following questions and more in this timely and informative episode: Why has achieving end-to-end supply chain visibility been so difficult? Can you elaborate a bit on how emerging technologies like AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics are helping to define next-generation supply chain visibility?
Material Handling & Logistics
JUNE 26, 2018
Oxfam America examined the treatment of the women, farmers and food-sector workers and many big grocers fared poorly. Grocers including Walmart Inc., Jumbo Group Ltd. and Whole Foods Market Inc. fared poorly in ratings looking at the treatment of the women, farmers and food-sector workers who supply supermarket shelves in the U.S. and European Union.
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Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.
All Things Supply Chain
JUNE 24, 2018
As we enter the summer months, professionals all over the globe start to prepare for one of the slowest times of year.
EazyStock
JUNE 25, 2018
You’ve heard about robots in the warehouse and self-driving trucks, but automation is taking over even more areas in the supply chain. The most surprising? Inventory management. Automated inventory management is nothing new to huge, enterprise-sized companies. However, small- and mid-sized businesses have only recently been investing in this new automation for their inventory management – and many SMBs are still hesitant about investing in this new technology.
MIT Supply Chain
JUNE 29, 2018
In the increasingly competitive landscape of e-commerce and omni-channel delivery execution, the last mile has emerged as a critical source of opportunity for cost efficiency. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have historically been utilized for military applications, but they are quickly gaining traction as a viable option for driving improvements in commercial last-mile operations.
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