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 Supply 107

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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Supply Chain Optimization Logistics Inventory control Inventory 60

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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Retail Supply Chain Supply chain Supply Networking 45

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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Cost of ownership Networking supply chain software solutions Management 47

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

Sustainability