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Amazon's Supply Chain Prowess
Amazon's the leader, and everyone else is struggling to keep pace in the ecommerce world. Their secret weapon may be the Amazon supply chain.
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Key Challenges for Global Supply Chain Managers
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) has identified 3 key challenges affecting supply chain executives and their teams. The last, scaling up financial acumen, may come as a surprise.
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Cloud WMS
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.
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ERP Market Hits a Few Snags
ERP vendors are going through a lot of turmoil, with cloud computing, license model changes, and the strong dollar combining to affect year-over-year growth. None of the individual companies really excelled, and the overall market actually declined.
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The Importance of Future State in VSM
Value stream mapping is a critical tool for process improvement. However, many leave out an important component: future state.
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Unobtrusive Supply Chain Design
In the most recent entry in his series on supply chain design, Jonathan Lofton discusses the principle of 'being unobtrusive'. Supply chains must be designed to allow for creativity and self-expression.
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It's the Year of the Monkey
The Chinese "Year of the Monkey" that began in February is looked upon as a metaphor for what's happening with supply chains by the folks at DC Velocity.
Read more...How to Attract 'A' Players
We've recently reviewed the traits supply chain managers look for in their hiring process. But what about those things that potential superstars consider important in their employers?
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Building Your Value Chain
3rd party connections are important to businesses, no more so than to their supply chains. Extended supply chains are totally dependent on them, but few companies seem to value them appropriately.
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Augmented Reality in the DC
Augmented Reality is a term we've been following over the past year. It looks like AR is making its presence known in the warehouse, according to Ben Ames.
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