Data Management (Big Data/IoT/Blockchain)

LeanDNA Launches Factory-Focused Inventory Optimization Workflows

November 4, 2020

LeanDNA, a provider of factory-focused inventory optimization solutions, has launched role-based workflow capabilities within its platform for the manufacturing industry.

VeriShip and Sifted Merge to Offer Predictive Analytics Platform for Logistics

November 2, 2020

SupplyChainBrain

VeriShip, a shipping expense optimization platform, announced a merger with Sifted, a provider of a data science-driven predictive logistics platform.

Technology for Logistics: Why Implementations Fail

November 2, 2020

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

The adoption by logistics providers of modern-day technology is a case of applying digital solutions to an analog world.

Case Study

Intel Puts Its Indirect-Materials Spend on the Road to Digitization

November 1, 2020

SupplyChainBrain

Tackling the job of assessing all of its contracts for indirect-materials spend, Intel Corp. scraps a laborious and outdated manual process, and puts its entire supply chain on the road to digitization.

Case Study

Walmart Uses Blockchain to Fix ‘Broken’ Freight Audit and Payment Process

November 1, 2020

SupplyChainBrain

The giant retailer undertakes an ambitious initiative to make sense of its painfully complex freight payment and reconciliation process, involving its own fleet as well as those of outside carriers, and moving more than half a million shipments a year.

Case Study

Reimagined Communication Boosts Cisco's Product Quality

November 1, 2020

SupplyChainBrain

Digitizing communications used to issue alerts and share data helped Cisco Systems Inc. reduce recall costs by 80%.

The Digital Cold Chain Reimagined

October 29, 2020

CloudLeaf

Supply-chain and cold-chain experts illustrate how using a digital visibility platform helps maintain the integrity of pharmaceutical products.

How 3-D Modeling Streamlines Inventory and Materials Management

October 29, 2020

Manav Garg, SCB Contributor

Digital modeling brings new levels of visibility and control to logistics operations.

Coronavirus: What Do We Do About Risk Now?

Five Ways AI Can Solve Supply-Chain Disruption

October 28, 2020

Carlos Melendez, SCB Contributor

Business disruptions brought on by the pandemic have shined light on supply-chain weaknesses — and a growing opportunity for artificial intelligence.

Gaining Control in a Turbulent World: The Case for Supply-Chain Control Towers

October 26, 2020

Magnitude

Cross-process tools and control-tower functionality can provide visibility, insight and agility across the supply chain.

Data Management (Big Data/IoT/Blockchain)

The latest news, analysis, trends and solutions for big data, blockchain and the internet of things (IoT) and their impact on supply chain management. Big data describes the large volume of data that inundates a business on a day-to-day basis and can be analyzed for strategic business insights. IoT is the means that collects and sends data from a range of “things” — anything from watches to fridges to cars — that are connected to the internet with sensors or computer chips. Learn how companies around the world are using big data, blockchain and IoT for supply chain optimization and competitive advantage.