Category: 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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Rethinking Supply Chains

I’ve written a number of posts over the past few years about the importance of breaking down silos of activity and information that inevitably emerge in large organizations. Breaking down silos requires

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PRTM Identifies Five Supply Chain Challenges

A study by PRTM Management Consultants titled Lessons Learned from the Global Recession identifies five key challenges that manufacturing and service companies will face over the next several years [“PRTM study highlights

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China and the Rare Earths Conundrum

There have been a number of articles written over the past few months discussing China’s stranglehold on the rare earth market. For more background on this subject, read my post entitled The

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A Few Thoughts on Order Management

In blog she wrote while with AMR Research, Lora Cecere talked about the vision of Brad Blizzard, Senior Director of Logistics at Colgate [“Brad Has A Dream,” Connecting the Dots, 30 October

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Shipping News Keeps Getting Better

Back in July I wrote a post entitled Stormy Seas Seem to Be Calming for Shipping Lines. I concluded that post with these observations: “The global maritime shipping industry is like a

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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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Implementing Supply Chain Solutions

Noted supply chain analyst Lora Cecere wrote last month about an exchange she had with a corporate supply chain executive [“Crossing the Great Divide,” Supply Chain Shaman, 31 August 2010]. The executive

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