Internet of Things
Learning to Work with Machines That Learn What the Experts Know
It is no secret that future generations of managers are being asked to learn all about the different processes in the end-to-end supply chain, and be able to come together with others in a fast action plan when a disruption […]
Navigating the Future in an Uncertain Political and Regulatory Environment
The Supply Chain Resource Cooperative held its bi-annual Industry Partner Meeting in the Talley Student Center at North Carolina State University this past week. The theme, Navigating the Future in an Uncertain Political and Regulatory Environment”, included a keynote […]
What are You Waiting For? Low Cost of Capital Means You Should Be Investing in Supply Chain Analytics
Many executives I speak with express reluctance at wanting to invest people, time, and money into projects that have a dubious return on investment. Supply chain analytics projects, particularly those involving “big data”, “Internet of Things”, and real-time data are […]
Can Blockchain become the solution for anti-counterfeiting and chain of custody?
Recent articles in the New York Times and in the International Business Times highlight the emerging role of blockchain as a key enabler of improved integration between parties in the extended global supply chain. For instance, IBM and WalMart are […]
Best Practice: Creating a Governance Mechanism for Analytical Learning in Organizations
I recently interviewed a large semiconductor company that developed a cross-enterprise initiative to drive analytical learning across its entire supply chain. The company established a supply chain IT organization that reports up to the CIO. It focuses on leveraging the corporate […]
Day 3: Lenovo Goes About Creating the End to End Transparent Supply Chain
On the third day the team visited the Lenovo “Green Data Center”, and learned of how Lenovo is working to create their “converged” network servers that are on the leading edge of being focused on sustainable high speed efficient performance. […]
More Insights on Deploying the Digital Supply Chain
On the second day of our executive focus group on the LIVING Supply Chain, the group took the opportunity to share insights regarding the emerging trends in the future of supply chains, with a focus on digitization, development of analytics and […]
Reflections on the LIVING Supply Chain SCRC Meeting
The SCRC meeting was a huge success yesterday. I led off the discussion and took this opportunity to share some of the highlights of my new book, The LIVING Supply Chain, (with Tom Linton as co-author), and try out some […]
Exploring the Era of Global Transparency in the LIVING Supply Chain
We are at the beginning of a completely different era in the history of global trade: the era of the digitized real-time supply chain. In the 25 years I have been teaching students and conducting research in the field of […]
Data is the Real Gold At the End of the Rainbow for Contract and Spend Management Systems
Contract management analytics are critical for tracking transactional compliance with contract pricing, terms and conditions, but also as a vehicle for workflow management around negotiation of contract renewals, and aggregation of supplier performance data on service level agreements, delivery, quality, and […]