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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.

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Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2019

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How can I summarize the many sessions and customer case studies I attended in a short blog post? presented a great case study on the company’s journey and success with real-time freight visibility. I’ve been wrestling with that question since I returned. Keegan McCready, Sr.

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The Best is Yet to Come with Transportation Management Systems

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These trends, in turn, are defining and shaping the innovation roadmap for TMS vendors, and they’re also fueling a new round of mergers and acquisitions (see Kewill and Leanlogistics coming together as BluJay Solutions ) and triggering a new wave of startups entering the market (see last week’s announcement about the launch of Haven TMS ).

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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. Director Supply Chain , skuchain. There is a need to optimize every component of logistics by following the latest trends and technologies.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

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Director Supply Chain , skuchain. The Supply Chain technology is not considered a problem because traditionally supply chains are thought to be cost centres unlike sales functions. Sometimes fixing the small problems leads to resolution of the larger problem.

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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., I asked Alexa, Amazon’s digital assistant, and her response was, “Sorry, I’m not sure.”. Amazon is the most referenced example.