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Takeaways from the 2018 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference

Kinaxis

In a highly inspiring key note presentation at the supply chain conference, Fareed Zakaria of CNN spoke about how the jobs recovery following the 2008 recession lagged the economic recovery by as much as 64 months while the same metric for the previous recessions was significantly narrower. Digital process prototypes.

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Ways to help manage the chemical supply in disruption.

o9 Solutions

In Israel [an idea] we borrowed from the army is to validate quick decisions. You know, there’s no shortage of metrics and indicators out there. So this year, it’s really tough for us. Try to get the end- to-end scenarios because you have to try to model it in advance.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Many metrics can be used to determine the top 3PL warehousing companies, such as company revenue, the number of warehouses, total warehouse square footage , etc. This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric.

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Supply Chain Risk Managers Can’t Afford to Tune Out Bad News

Enterra Insights

Benson writes, “You’re reading about the horrors of the Israel-Hamas war, and then you’re reading about the horrors of the war between Ukraine and Russia. For organizations layered in functional metrics and driving a cost agenda, this is a tough nut to crack. You’re learning about the latest devastating climate news.

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Global Manufacturing PMI Levels Rise in January 2024

Supply Chain Matters

This metric bears continual observation in the coming months. One relates to the rising geo-political tensions across the Middle East region that could lead to further hostilities involving multiple nations beyond Israel and Hamas or Russia and Ukraine.

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Q3 Economic Indicators and Statistics

American Global Logistics

Warehousing Status : The three warehousing metrics (Warehousing Capacity, Warehousing Utilization, and Warehousing Prices) are the largest contributors to September's expansion. Conclusion The world is changing a lot due in large part to the pandemic and now the Israel-Hamas conflict. The logistics industry is at a turning point.

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Data is the New Gold

QAD

On January 28, 2021, the following headline appeared in the Washington Post : “Israel moves to head of vaccine queue, offering Pfizer access to country’s health-care database”. Starting in 2019, QAD Adaptive ERP includes a Cassandra data lake to capture both ERP and production execution data. It’s a technology that is ready for Big Data.

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