Tag: digital supply chain

5 Best Practices for Preventing & Mitigating Port-related Supply Chain Disruptions

According to Reuters Events recent research, 40% of companies say their supply chains failed them at the height of the pandemic. Due to these failures, 80% of companies say they have accelerated their digital supply chain strategies. Furthermore, almost 50% of the companies surveyed are looking to overhaul procurement and risk management strategies within the…
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Live Global Supply Chain Situational Awareness for Life Sciences

As Covid-19 vaccines being shipped globally, the importance of live supply chain situational awareness (SCSA) via a common operating picture has never been more evident – providing real-time context to location, condition, security, and timeliness. Life Sciences supply chains are unique. The timeliness, quality, and security of the supply chain are critical to the health…
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Live Global Supply Chain Situational Awareness Journey

Can you independently track, monitor, measure, understand the behavior, and predict the performance of your global deliveries from your dock door to your customer’s door? If your supply chain is global, then you must have transparency to its performance and behavior, real-time, anywhere on the planet. However, the pandemic has shown that for many companies,…
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Supply Chain Situational Awareness: Project Approaches to Unlocking Value

As companies look to achieve live supply chain situational awareness (SCSA), three project approaches to deliver a solution and business value are emerging: In-house project approach – Best of breed solutions and partners for a project managed internally Led by IT team with support from line of business users Requires heavy system integration Multi-vendor approach…
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Big Data, the Pandemic, and Supply Chain Evolution

In a room with the faint odor of formaldehyde, your biology teacher has “Punctuated Equilibrium” underlined on the chalkboard and begins drawing branching charts jotting down a few bullet point call outs at the splits as they describe what really drives changes and innovation in supply chain operations: massive selection pressure from external events. Wait,…
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