All Things Supply Chain

MAY 2, 2016

Two weeks ago, the Five-Euro coin “Planet Earth” made its debut on the market. Coin collectors around the world kept a close eye on this new market entrant due to the coin´s special design and unique material.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 6, 2016

A Chinese proverb recently observed in a fortune cookie states, “May you live in interesting times”. Today’s retailers should consider themselves lucky then, because their industry is experiencing some very interesting times. Driving unpredictability are technologies both causing retailers’ challenges (like online sales portals) and solving them (like TMS, YMS and other logistics IT).

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The Network Effect

MAY 6, 2016

With the new solution model, that of a network with extensible solutions, comes the possibility of a new business model that makes software vendor and customer, not adversaries as they often seem to be, but partners. With traditional ERP, each customer needs to buy, implement, customize and maintain their own instance (or outsource it, pay a premium and manage that relationship).

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The Network Effect

MAY 6, 2016

Jim Tompkins, CEO, Tompkins International, discusses the importance of a consumer-driven supply chain in terms of the biggest threats and opportunities to retailers today. I’m not sure that the retailers get the level of disruption or the level of transformation that’s taking place in the workplace. Obviously they see some of it because they’re very smart people but they’re so busy executing and so busy following what they’ve done for years, I’m not sure they get the store versus eCommerce thing

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Advertiser: GEP

“What should we do about the tariffs?” There’s no straightforward answer — every leader has a different expectation. CFOs want numbers. COOs want action. CEOs want strategy. And supply chain and procurement leaders need to be ready with the right response — fast. That’s why GEP has created a simple three-part framework that will help CPOs and CSCOs brief the board and C-suite with clarity and confidence.

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