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Logistics-Purchasing Integration Needed
A recent report by the University of Tennessee illustrates the need for integration between purchasing and logistics functions in the supply chain. There's a self-assessment tool included in the article on the Supply Chain Digest site as well that can help you see where you're at.
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Supply Chain Segmentation Explained
In an interesting article about what makes high performance supply chains tick, Puneet Saxena on the Supply & Demand Chain Executive site looks at one of the major tenets: supply chain segmentation. Different supply chain strategies to serve different segments of customers based on their value makes great sense.
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Gartner's Top 25 Supply Chains 2014
Every year the researchers at Gartner publish their Top 25 supply chains list, and it seems Apple is always at or near the top, technology companies are highly rated, and everyone complains about the metrics. 2014 is no exception.
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Visibility and Performance in an Omnichannel World
Michael Allen, in a post on the Retail Gazette site, takes a look at recent data from the Retail Systems Research group about omnichannel retail. Forrester has also contributed some analysis he reviews as well.
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What's the Manufacturing Outlook?
The big consulting firm KPMG has produced their 2014 Global Manufacturing Outlook. In case you haven't noticed, complexity for manufacturers is increasing, but that's only one of the challenges.
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Visibility and the 3PL
Omnichannel, visibility needs, and a host of other supply chain requirements may seem to be at odds with the practice of outsourcing logistics to 3PLs. However, there are ways to succeed in spite of the challenges.
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Thoughts on the Gartner Top 25
As you know, Gartner recently revealed their top 25 supply chains for this year. Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, is not impressed. She sees a number of issues and limitations with their methodology, and as usual she's pretty much spot-on.
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IoT and WebRTC
Ready for a new acronym? I don't know about you, but I sure am! Introducing WebRTC, or web real-time communications. With all the talk of the Internet of Things (IoT), this API is closely related and can be talked about in the same realm.
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Gartner Supply Chain Conference Summary
Dan Gilmore from the Supply Chain News does us a huge favor by compiling his thoughts from the various presentations at the recent Gartner supply chain conference. There's a lot going on that Gartner is tracking and they're pushing their demand-driven supply chain concepts.
Read more...What IoT Means to Business
At this point, most folks have heard plenty about the Internet of Things (IoT). The people at MIT are thinking ahead about the coming tsunami of devices and data and are trying to think about how businesses will react.
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