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The State of Supply Chain Trends Part IV: Data Analysis, Wearables, and the Cloud

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Modern supply chains are evolving beyond anyone’s expectations due to increased use of cloud-computing technologies, wearables and advanced data analysis. In fact, up to 70 percent of companies surveyed in Europe have already implemented cloud-based solutions to enable rapid scalability and flexibility.

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Same concerns remain, when it comes to the truck driver shortage

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A good example of that was apparent in an October 2017 survey of 1,500 motor carriers conducted by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI). The ATRI survey found that the driver shortage topped the list of concerns the industry is facing, marking the first time since 2006 that it was the chief concern.

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Aptiv takes a global approach to mobility

Automotive Logistics

That gives Aptiv’s logistics department a view of when the part has been picked up and on which ocean vessel it is being moved, for example. . According to Richards, this has changed with developments in technology and the accurate analysis of complex data sets, or ‘big data’.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

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Gilmore Says… In a great example of the balance in this book, Sheffi notes the actual evidence of consumer preference for Green products is tenuous at best. In fact, after reading Sheffi’s examples, I’m surprised more companies haven’t been forced to be zealous advocates.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

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An off-cited analysis from McKinsey in late 2017, for example, found automation could destroy as many as 73 million US jobs by 2030, about one third of all jobs in the country. For example, in a story I remembered that we ran in 2014, a company called Parkdale Mills had recently re-opened a factory near Gaffney, SC that now produces 2.5