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Gartner Releases Report on How to Secure Supply Chains Amidst the Coronavirus Outbreak

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Gartner has released a report detailing how to secure supply chains amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The consequences of a pandemic event are hard to predict,” says Koray Köse, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner. However, the risks always exist and are augmented with further globalization and integration of supply chains.

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5 Reasons How RFPs Help in Selecting the Right Logistics Technology Platform For Your Enterprise-Level Business

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Speaking of brand recognition, companies that are trusted by industry experts like Gartner are organizations worth shortlisting while sending RFPs. This exercise not only helps internal stakeholders align on project goals and business outcomes but also signals to solution providers exactly what is expected of them.

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Gartner Announces Rankings of the 2018 Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25

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Gartner, Inc. Healthcare supply chains today face a multitude of challenges: increasing cost pressures and patient expectations as well as the need to keep up with rapid technology advancement, to name just a few,” said Stephen Meyer , senior director at Gartner. Gartner Opinion 5 (20 Voters). Source: Gartner (November 2018).

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5 Paths to Better Supply Chain Visibility

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By 2023, Gartner says 50% of all product-centric enterprises will have invested in real-time transportation visibility platforms. Once shipments leave a warehouse, customers and consumers have little visibility into the status of their orders and shipments,” Gartner states. Add a transportation visibility platform to your tech stack.

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What manufacturers need to know about IIoT

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Exercise trackers like Fitbit or Garmin are part of an IoT network that collects and analyzes data from objects – people. Gartner propose a three-part solution architecture. The answer is to adopt an edge computing architecture.

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NextGen Supply Chain Q&A: Rich Sherman

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Sherman was the first supply chain research director at AMR Research (now part of Gartner ), and helped develop the SCOR model and the Supply Chain Council. Digitization is a technical exercise that collects all transaction data from all of the silos into an electronic state in a central location. The data only has to be captured once.

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Supply Chain Technology: It’s Not Just for Big Businesses Anymore, but is it Enough?

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Spending on supply chain management software hit an estimated $13 billion in 2017, up 11 percent year-over-year, according to Gartner. One Gartner study found that strategic supply chain outsourcing can save companies up to 20 percent of their costs over five years. Deep logistics knowledge and relationships.