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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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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Supply Chain Integration

In discussions about business processes, including supply chain operations, I have noted that the presence of organizational silos can create challenges that make businesses less efficient and less effective. Greg Brady, founder,

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Retailer Chargebacks

Last May Enterra Solutions® sponsored a Web seminar entitled “Retailer Compliance: Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Penalties.” Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) published highlights from that webinar that I republished in a post

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Nurturing Supply Chain Professionals

Each year Supply Chain Digest gathers a panel of supply chain experts (virtually) and asks them for their predictions about the coming year. This year was a particularly tricky one to prognosticate

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Silos in the Supply Chain

One of the business challenges I have addressed since founding Enterra Solutions is the disruption in the flow of critical information (both internally and with other business stakeholders) caused by the existence

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Walmart Continues to Squeeze Suppliers

An article in Bloomberg BusinessWeek recently announced that Walmart “wants to grab control of deliveries from manufacturers” [“Why Wal-Mart Wants to Take the Driver’s Seat,” by Chris Burritt, Carol Wolf and Matthew

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Reducing Retailer Compliance Penalties

Last month Enterra Solutions® hosted a webinar entitled “Retailer Compliance: Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Penalties.” Highlights from that web event have now been published in the Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) Newsletter

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