- 21. Low Delivery Drone Adoption by 2020
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- With all the news about delivery drones buzzing around, you'd think the concept is ready to take off. You'd be wrong, according to a recent article citing Gartner research on the Material Handling & Logistics ...
- 22. 2017 Predictions from the Analysts
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- You know, just when I thought we'd exhausted all the 2017 predictions, Dan Gilmore provides a bunch developed by the key supply chain analysts at Gartner and IDC.As you might expect, they come at it from ...
- 23. Where We're Going in 201
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- 'Tis the season for predictions, that's for sure. Paul Martyn has his crystal ball out and gives us his thoughts on the future in a recent Forbes article.It's certainly an exciting time we live in! Check ...
- 24. Amazon Go is About Capabilities
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- Think the new Amazon Go development is just another marketing concept the ecommerce giant is testing? Think again....Pierre Mitchell from Spend Matters says that it's all about capabilities, and Go is ...
- 25. The Use of IoT in Logistics
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- With all the talk about the futuristic benefits of the Internet of Things (IoT), it's comforting to know that it's already at work in the logistics arena and has been for awhile.It isn't being fully embraced ...
- 26. Supply Chain Management Enabled by IT
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- Supply chain management is evolving to meet the demands of businesses everywhere and technology is one of its main enablers. Advances in IoT, AI, and other technologies are leading the way.Alexa Cheater ...
- 27. The Importance of MDM
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- We're swimming in data, but many business leaders don't know what's being collected and how it's managed. Elizabeth Skipor, writing on the My Purchasing Center site, tries to resolve that by explaining ...
- 28. WalMart ex-CEO's Supply Chain Lesson
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- When WalMart's most successful CEO of recent years decides he wants to share some supply chain lessons, I reckon we ought to listen. Mike Duke spoke at a recent Gartner conference and was generous in the ...
- 29. Results of Recent Gartner Supply Chain Study
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- The results of this year's Gartner & The Supply Chain Digest study are in, and as usual they're a fascinating read. Not only is the methodology interesting to see, the results in some categories, in particular ...
- 30. Fail Quickly Already!
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- At a recent conference sponsored by Gartner, Alexa Cheater heard supply chain executives talk about specific failures they've been exposed to and how they were related to the concept of speed.Doing things ...
- 31. Notes From the Gartner Conference
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- Dan Gilmore from Supply Chain Digest does us all a favor by attending conferences and then summarizing them for us. This time, the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference was in sessionand Dan gives ...
- 32. A Turtle-Bunny Hybrid?
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- The 'tortoise-and-the-hare' analogy seems to apply to a wide spectrum of situations, even in the supply chain world! There's value in taking the time necessary for good forecasting and planning, but you ...
- 33. The Supply Chain Planning System of Record
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- As if supply chain practitioners really need another acronym, we present SCPSOR: the Supply Chain Planning System of Record. If you're looking to get out of 'planning hell' Alexa Cheater on the 21st Century ...
- 34. A Critique of the Gartner Top 25
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- Everyone in the supply chain world anxiously awaits the announcement of Gartner's yearly Top 25 Supply Chains, yet not everyone agrees with their selection methodology.When you're an ex-Gartner analyst known ...
- 35. 2016's Top 25 Supply Chain
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- Last week, Gartner announced its eagerly awaited 2016 list of the top 25 supply chains. The usual suspects are represented, albeit in slightly different order, and the explanation of Gartner's criteria ...
- 36. IoT Gives Back to Supply Chains
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- As IoT becomes more prevalent in the business landscape, smart companies are figuring out how to better leverage the data it's producing. In combination with improved data analytics, they're figuring out ...
- 37. Building a Network of Networks
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- The Supply Chain Shaman addresses the concept of a 'network of networks' for the supply chain in a recent article on her site. Lora Cecere goes into some research and proposes a set of building blocks ...
- 38. Designing an Honest Supply Chain
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- In his ongoing series on supply chain design, Jonathan Lofton addresses the design principle of 'Honesty'. He looks at the supply chain in the context of the Gartner Hype Cycle and discusses how important ...
- 39. Supply Chain Prophetic Quotes
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- If you need some supply chain inspiration, you've come to the right place! Bill DuBois provides a few great quotes that hold a lot of truth in an article on the 21st Century Supply Chain site.Although ...
- 40. Cloud WMS
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- Are WMS systems ready for the cloud, and is the cloud ready for them? Latency has been a problem, but improvements are on the way and Gartner thinks cloud WMS adoption will be at the 90% level by 2020.On ...
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