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How Merck Is Building an End-to-End Supply Chain
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Schneider Electric: A Veteran Company at Technology's Cutting Edge
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Three Reasons Demand Planning Has Finally Come of Age
There’s nothing new about the idea of demand planning. Phoenician wine traders, 2,000 years ago, were savvy about staying ahead of fluctuations in demand via a network of merchant informants, and planned supply accordingly. The advent of vastly expanded computer data-processing power, along with the connectivity of the web, has been offering for 20 years or more the attractive proposition of using technology to track and predict demand for goods more accurately.
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Is Cash Replacing Inventory As a Hedge Against Supply-Chain Risk?
Worried about managing supply-chain risk? All you need is cash.
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A Fifth of Firms Don't Have Full Supply Chain Visibility, Report Says
Almost three quarters of firms say they have continuity arrangements in place with regard to supply chain management, according to a survey.
Laggards Scramble to Comply With Looming ELD Mandate
The start of the phased-in compliance period for installation of electronic logging devices (ELDs) on commercial trucks is just over a month away. But many drivers appear to be lagging in adopting the technology.
Protecting Against Terrorist Threats to the Supply Chain
Of all the potential disruptions to global supply chains today, terrorist attack might be the least understood, and the hardest to prepare for.
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Someone Figured Out How to Put Tomatoes on a Blockchain
Intrigued by how blockchain was changing finance, an ex-banker at Wells Fargo & Co. and a former executive at Nasdaq Inc. began looking for other opportunities. They looked at applying the technology to insurance, law, even music. Then they hit on farming.
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A.I. Comes to Procurement. Are Human Sourcing Professionals Doomed?
Artificial intelligence, for decades little more than a dream in the minds of behavioral scientists, is insinuating itself into every aspect of supply-chain management today. The latest incursion is taking place in the realm of sourcing.
New Bluetooth Transmitter Provides Package-Level Visibility
Logistics and asset monitoring company RoamBee says that visibility, down to the package level, and end-to-end asset management are now possible with its "BeeBeacon" mobile monitoring technology.
Latest Use for Bitcoin Technology: Tracing Turkeys From Farm to Table
Agricultural conglomerate Cargill Inc. aims to harness the technology underlying bitcoin to let shoppers trace their turkeys from the store to the farm that raised them.
Blockchain Comes to the Rescue in Disaster Relief
In the event of a natural disaster, there's a new tool that can help emergency responders and supply-chain managers find order in the chaos.
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