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Optimizing Supply Chain Transparency with Digital Product Passports

Logistics Viewpoints

These passports document all aspects of the life cycle – from the sourcing of raw materials to final disposal or recycling. Information must be collected at each stage of a product’s life, including material sourcing, energy use, and environmental impact. What Components Comprise a Digital Product Passport?

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Yards Are Hard

Logistics Viewpoints

Greater automation is clearly what’s needed, yet many times when company leadership hears about cameras and IoT (Internet of Things) deployments, they assume they are expensive, complex deployments. Create a facilities “Center of Excellence.” They aren’t. The returns on these kinds of efforts will be swift and tangible.

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Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Supply Chain Shaman

Our current processes and dependencies on Excel spreadsheets cannot get us to our goal. Three things are happening, that I think are significant: Flextronics has invested in the development of Elementum. E2open last week announced the purchase of Serus. Each company operates within its own plane, improving its own potential.

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

The older tools from CAPS Logistics, SNO from Oracle, and Manugistics Network Planning are giving way to new technologies like the Logictools product (purchased from IBM), the Solvoyo product for concurrent planning, the Quintiq technology for concurrent optimization, and the Llamasoft technology platform for optimization and simulation.

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Ultimate Guide To Technologies That Are Transforming Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Internet of Things. The Internet of Things (IoT), comprised of physical devices equipped with remote sensors that capture and transmit large amounts of data, is already making a big impact in the supply chain industry. For example, companies can track products throughout the entire lifecycle with RFID and GPS sensors.

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Carter’s: A Story of Supply Chain Leadership

Supply Chain Shaman

To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. The company leverages globally sourcing strategies to buy products at a lower cost and then deploys some unique process logic to drive mass customization for retailers. How Do You Define Supply Chain Excellence?

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Embracing the Digital Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

Historically, supply chain processes were functional focused on make, source and deliver. This includes 3D printing, robotics, the Internet of Things (IOT), Sentiment Analysis, Cognitive Learning, and Supply Chain Operating Networks using canonical many-to-many data models. Digital sourcing? Digital path to purchase?