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Where Does Supply Chain Design End and Planning Begin? (Takeaways from LLamasoft’s SummerCon 2017 Conference)

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As I wrote two years ago in my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2015 : Historically, Supply Chain Design was an exercise companies undertook at most once a year, or when a significant change occurred in their supply chain, such as an acquisition. competitive threats, new regulations, more stringent customer expectations).

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Supply Chain Innovation Technology: No Longer Just a “Build vs. Buy” Decision

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Thanks to innovations in software architecture and user interfaces, software vendors today are providing users with easy-to-use tools to build their own extensions and functionality. Kenco is a great example.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

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Such stories are legion – not only in the US, but also even in China, where in 2015 the provincial Guangdong government announced a three-year plan to increase automation in the region by subsidizing the purchase of robots, under a program referred to as “robots for humans.” ” . Posted on: Jun, 27 2016.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

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. Sheffi starts, for example, with the extreme pressures coming from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), notably Greenpeace, about which one environmentalist says “When Greenpeace reaches for its toolbox, it tends to find only one tool, and that’s a mallet.” Julie Leonard.

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MIT Restructures Itself to Shape the Future of Computing & Artificial Intelligence

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The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing will constitute both a global center for computing research and education and an intellectual foundry for the powerful new AI tools. Faculty in a range of departments have a great deal to gain from new kinds of algorithmic tools – and a great deal of insight to offer their makers.

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Sorry, I’m Not Sure: Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2018

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I’ll begin with several high-level trends and factors that will impact supply chain and logistics strategies and operations in the coming year: Free Trade Agreements : “The U.S., One trend that is disrupting the status quo and serving as a catalyst for innovation is companies placing customers at the center of their supply chains.