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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Supply Chain Segmentation

A couple of years ago the staff at Supply Chain Standard wrote an article entitled “Ten issues that keep supply chain leaders awake at night.” [8 November 2011] The number four issue

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China’s Middle Class Consumers

Most manufacturers and retailers continue to see enormous potential for growth in China. To become the pot of gold that manufacturers and retail hope for, Douglas Alexander, Principal Consultant at Component Engineering

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Happy Birthday Barcode

“Back in 1973,” the staff at Marketing informs us, “the captains of industry and commerce selected the single standard for product identification that the world now knows as the GS1 Barcode. The

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The Supply Chain and Big Data Analytics

Edith Simchi-Levi, Vice President of Operations at OPS Rules Partners and wife of the well-known MIT Professor David Simchi-Levi, recently discussed the topic of supply chain analytics with Dustin Mattison. In that

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Big Data: Problem or Solution?

“The term big data is moving up the charts as a ‘hot topic,’” writes Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights. She continues: “We believe that the adoption of new

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