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Make Your Data Actionable
Ray Major, on the Smart Data Collective site, is looking at ways to leverage supply chain data to benefit the organization. If you're implementing a business intelligence platform, he wants to make sure your focus is in the right place.
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IoT Standards
Those of us who cut our teeth on ANSI X.12 and XML recognize the importance of standards (even though they may be ignored in practice...). As the millions of devices involved in the Internet of Things (IoT) struggle to exchange information, there's an effort underway to provide some standardization.
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Manufacturing Revival or Not?
Much has been made of the American 'manufacturing revival'. But is it really a revival? According to Adam Robinson on the Industrial Distribution website, it's more of a transformation, with much higher efficiency than in the past but with many challenges as well.
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Cloud ERP Moves Past the Edge
The use of cloud technology for ERP systems is rapidly moving along the 'Gartner Hype Cycle' at least according to a recent column by Joe McKendrick on the Forbes site. He notes that cloud has moved beyond the 'edge' applications for both large and smaller companies.
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The FedEx Matrix
Ever wonder how FedEx processes all those packages? I have, especially when I lived in Memphis close to their hub and listened to planes landing at their facility at all hours. Their amazing processes are described on the CNET site by Daniel Terdiman, but don't neglect to look at the slideshow.
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Time to Referee?
We've all seen it: a couple co-workers are going at one another, and you need to decide whether to stick your nose in or not. Sometimes it may be tempting to just watch them slug it out, but intervention of some sort is usually the better approach.
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Tighten Up Your Planning
Finding parallels between wedding preparations and supply chain planning are right down my alley, since Buzz's daughter is getting hitched in a few weeks. I would think it'd have something to do with writing checks to overpriced service providers, but there's more!
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Visibility Impact of Real-Time Data Sharing
Companies that share real-time demand and inventory information have to be ahead of the game, right? Not necessarily, according to APQC's benchmarking.
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Innovation Learnings From the World Cup
After some serious couch-time watching the World Cup, it's nice to know there are many things that can be learned from it relevant to the business world! Although the US didn't win the whole thing, I would bet we'll be ahead in converting the learnings to action.
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Visibility Supports Planning
Supply chain visibility has many facets. What it means to an inventory planner will differ from what a risk manager perceives it to be. Fabrizio Brasca explains how visibility can be used to support planning and operations in a recent article on the Logistics Viewpoints site.
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