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How a Seattle Nursery Survived the Shift to Online Business

The pandemic forced Plant Shop to transition quickly to a delivery model. A software application was the solution to optimizing the daily routing plan.

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Heavy-Equipment Maker Tears Down Functional Silos With a Digital Twin

E.D. Etnyre & Co., the venerable manufacturer of heavy equipment for road maintenance and preservation, looks for a way to share data from multiple legacy systems across the organization.

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Watch: How Can We Transform Supply Chain Planning?

Hank Ackerman, principal at Argano, advises how to make supply chain planning transformations successful.

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Watch: The Importance of Decision Intelligence

Decision intelligence is becoming key to the ability of companies to deal with an unprecedented volume of data that's necessary to making supply chain decisions today, says Fred Laluyaux, president and chief executive officer of Aera Technology.

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Watch: An Update on Supply Chain Resilience

Kamala Raman, vice president and team manager at Gartner, outlines factors driving companies as they struggle to balance operating models in challenging times.

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Watch: Supply Chain Digital Transformation: Where to Begin?

Recognizing the challenges supply chains have faced in recent years, Sumit Dutta, leader for the Americas Supply Chain Consulting Group of EY, outlines priorities for the next five years for supply chain leaders.

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Watch: Planning in the Face of Chaos

Artificial intelligence-based prescriptive analytics enable a network approach to planning in volatile times, says Joe Bellini, executive vice president of product management at OneNetwork.

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Podcast | Will Supply Chains Ever Return to ‘Normal’?

Don’t hold your breath waiting for global supply chains to return to some state of “normal” anytime soon.

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Watch: Identifying Future Supply Chain Risks

Having dealt with any number of supply chain threats in recent years, supply chain managers need technology solutions that will help them identify which challenges are in their future, says Pawan Joshi, executive vice president for products and strategy at e2open.

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Watch: Time for a Reset of Retail Inventory Strategies?

The pandemic and resulting congestion in the supply chain have retailers reconsidering their traditional approach to sourcing and inventory management, says Larry Parker, department chair of transportation and logistics management, supply chain management, reverse logistics and government contracting at the Dr. Wallace E. Boston School of Business in the American Public University System.

Time For A Reset Of Retail Inventory Strategies

Watch: How Can Distributors Manage Strained Working Capital?

Maureen Sullivan, head of supply chain finance with MUFG, explains how current product shortages are driving a shift in inventory management away from “just in time” to “just in case.”

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Four Pain Points — and Remedies — for Supply Chains Right Now

The adoption of tactical “firefighting” rather than a strategic approach should sound alarm bells, not least because of the missed opportunity to revolutionize supply chain planning.

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