- 41. Brace for the Rush
- (Management)
- ... for physical stores. While brick and mortar stores are on track for a smaller boost bringing the total volume of holiday sales up 4.8 percent over last year. The trick is in the delivery This year’s ...
- 42. IBM on Two Fronts
- (Technology)
- ... has proven so far to deliver all those advantages. But the sticking point for its use in supply chain applications, or any other high volume real time application, has been how long each transaction takes ...
- 43. Alibaba Cloud poised to close gap with rivals in APAC
- (News)
- ... users compared to the US, which speaks volumes around its ability to scale. Alibaba Cloud is now betting big on some emerging markets such as India, Malaysia and Indonesia while competing with others in ...
- 44. Why Machine Learning is Right for Your Supply Chain Strategy
- (Technology)
- ... or broken. But in operations with large volumes of deliveries it’s common to miss small defects that mount up to expensive mistakes. One of the things that machine learning has brought to practical use ...
- 45. When will blockchain overrun the supply chain?
- (Technology)
- ... and their draw on the country’s energy supply is well know. And the number of bitcoin transactions is miniscule in comparison with the volume of transactions that make up the supply chain. For that matter ...
- 46. We were the machines
- (Integration)
- ... Demand forecasts Humans are great at looking at last year’s sales and predicting volumes for coming seasons. But our ability to monitor, or even to know what factors to evaluate is limited. As humans ...
- 47. Self-replicating 3D printers will Disrupt the Supply Chain
- (Supply)
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- 48. Data drives the supply chain but data storage can cripple yours
- (Technology)
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- 49. AI is now a necessity
- (Technology)
- ... unimaginable volumes of data unmanageable and as useless as when the records were simply deleted after they had served their purpose. Analytics was supposed to be the answer but even that has turned out ...
- 50. Bar Codes in food and drugs
- (Technology)
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