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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 other words, greater access to identical systems prevents organizational silos from inhibiting visibility, asserts Alex Whiteman of Eye For Transport.

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Taking a Big Picture View of Supply Chain Networks

Logistics Viewpoints

The more users and the greater the usage, the richer the data set for benchmarking, analysis and, ultimately, insights to help organizations improve their KPIs. In 2006, British mathematician Clive Humby coined the phrase “data is the new oil” to help make his point that corporate data has the potential to be an incredibly valuable resource.

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Aptiv takes a global approach to mobility

Automotive Logistics

Underpinning this approach will be a global transport management system (TMS), which Richards is responsible for implementing, as well as developing an enterprise visibility tool with predictive analytics for freight movements around the world. In addition, it has 14 technical centres. Implementing a worldwide TMS.

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Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2019

Talking Logistics

Descartes Systems Group Revenue 2006-2018 (Source: macrotrends). Velocity Mail (June 2018) : “an electronic transportation network that provides global air carriers with mail and parcel shipment scanning and tracking solutions.”. Real-time freight visibility is quickly becoming a “must have” capability for transportation managers.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

247 Customs Broker

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. Transportation Manager, N/A. God bless america from its present distraction. That is quite a different matter. Mr, NHLS.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

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Most sustainability books in my view do not present the full 360 view. Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. Transportation Manager, N/A.