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The Role of Data Analytics in Supply Chain Management

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The Role of Data Analytics in Supply Chain Management | Image source: Pixabay This article describes the transformation that data analysis and the supply chain are fostering and how it will impact business intelligence. Intelligence-driven businesses are interested in supply chain management and data analysis.

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Logistics Simplified: Three Keys to Solving Your Supply Chain Problems

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It’s true that the major issues in the supply chain—which were confirmed through MH&L ’s workforce survey process and published in an earlier article —are nuanced. The collection, access, analysis and utilization of data must be a primary consideration, not an afterthought. In the supply chain, problems are often overcomplicated.

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Logistics Simplified: Two Keys to Solving Your Supply Chain Problems

Material Handling and Logistics

It’s true that the major issues in the supply chain—which were confirmed through MH&L ’s workforce survey process and published in an earlier article —are nuanced. The collection, access, analysis and utilization of data must be a primary consideration, not an afterthought. In the supply chain, problems are often overcomplicated.

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7 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

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The company was replenishing dealers’ inventory weekly, using direct shipment and cross-docking operations from source warehouses located near Deere & Company’s manufacturing facilities. The company grew substantially over the course of two decades, achieving a considerable portion of that growth by way of acquisitions.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

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And of course most can’t. Of course, consumer brand companies are especially at risk from being tarred with an anti-sustainability brush. Of course we all need to up our game. Who can really get control of that is the question. Jade. Posted on: Oct, 02 2016.

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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. Of course we all need to up our game. That is quite a different matter. Jade. Posted on: Oct, 02 2016.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

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Every year, in our annual MH&L Salary Survey , we ask readers to identify the biggest challenge they face in their jobs, and every year they tell us the same thing: finding, developing and retaining talent. TOMPKINS: Sellers today find e-commerce inventory allocation and replenishment to be challenging. Education is the answer.