Category: Digital Supply Chain

In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.

Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.

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Next Generation Procurement

According to Neil Deverill, a columnist for a magazine called Procurement Leaders, today’s procurement systems suffer from the same kind of industrial age silo thinking as a lot of other business sectors.

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Sense and Respond Supply Chains

A number of supply chain analysts believe that, to remain competitive, companies will eventually have to transform their supply chains from being “focused on trying to predict demand to … customer-driven chains

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Flexible and Lean Supply Chains

There are a number of phrases one finds in articles and blogs about logistics. Two of the most common are “lean supply chains” and “flexible supply chains.” It seems to me that

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Smart Supply Chains

The information age ushered in a lot of new terms — many of them beginning with “e-” (e.g., e-commerce, e-books, etc.). Another modifier often bandied about these days is “smart” (e.g., smart

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Demand Driven Supply Chains

Bob Ferrari notes that the ups and downs associated with recovery from the current recession “provide a reinforced reminder to the overall importance of active demand sensing and sales and operations planning

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