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Bezos? Jeff Bezos? What does he have to do with anything related to procurement and supply chain?

Procurement Insights

Hansen’s early concepts—especially his 1998 frameworks involving agent-based modeling , the Metaprise , time-zone polling , and advanced self-learning algorithms —share fundamental DNA with the adaptive, decentralized, and data-rich supply chain models later refined and scaled by Jeff Bezos at Amazon. MODEL 2 Jon W.

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A Provider/Practitioner Request For A RAM 4-Model Assessment* Of Certa.ai (RESULTS)

Procurement Insights

Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area (Saratoga, CA), Certa has quickly established itself as a digital backbone for managing supplier, customer, and partner relationships across all risk domains and lifecycle stages. I will share these results with you today. Everything about Certa.ai Summary Table: Certa.ai

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First, There Was The Ariba Interviews, Now There Is The Pierre Mitchell Interview (Sort Of*)

Procurement Insights

Pierre Mitchells Profile: Leads procurement research at Spend Matters, with 30 years of experience in supply chain and digital transformation, per Spend Matters (2022). His SolutionMap evaluates providers like ORO Labs positively, implying optimism, per Spend Matters (2023). Critiques automation-heavy models (e.g.,

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Building a sustainable automotive supply chain

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Pair that with a semiconductor shortage amidst global car sales that are forecasted to top 69 million , and you can understand that disruptions in the automotive supply chain would be detrimental to the industry.​ 3 tips for accelerating the path to a more resilient and sustainable automotive supply chain 1.

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13 Amazing Logistics & Supply Chain Mobile Applications

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*This post was originally published June 2015; it was updated September 2018*. In today’s competitive business environment, getting the correct products to the right place at the right time via the most cost-effective manner is paramount for your business’ success. Logistics & Supply Chain Mobile Applications Top 12.

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6 Logistics KPIs Attributes That are Essential

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Logistics is the central system that controls physical inventory flow in a supply chain. Experts wrote many articles emphasizing the importance of Logistics , Logistics optimization, Logistics planning, and Logistics space optimization. One of the articles on Logistics space optimization can be found here.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Preview In his 2019 Foresight article, Niels van Hove examined eight technological hurdles that must be overcome to enable autonomous or ‘lights out’ supply-chain planning. He reasoned that to support such planning we need to implement a third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software.