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Blockchain in Supply Chain: 2 Ethereum-Based Projects That Demonstrate How Blockchain Can Improve Supply Chains

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On top of all that, billions if not trillions of dollars worth of potential working capital are tied up in illiquid assets such as 90-day invoice payouts or even the real estate value of, say, a warehouse or factory building. WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018.

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How Can Technology be The Game Changer for Your Manufacturing Business?

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GET YOUR FREE WHITE PAPER. The survey eventually found out that more 55% of consumers choose to shop directly with brand manufacturers, rather than counting on the retailers. billion email users and 4.3 billion email accounts worldwide. The Trends that Will Forever Shape Manufacturing in 2018 & Beyond.

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Positive Human-Robot Relationships Will Power the Future Supply Chain Workforce

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The military initially was the leader in drone use, but corporations also are adopting them to survey construction zones, deliver packages and monitor inventory in warehouses, among other tasks. Richards (2017) adds that the modern factory must quickly align itself to the cultural change forced upon it by the advances in technology.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

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A little more than 20 years ago, I was doing some consulting for a company called Indiana Glass, then a division of Lancaster Colony, at its Dunkirk, IN factory just outside of Muncie. Alas, it appears the factory was shuttered more than a decade ago. But there is one image I will never forget from my time there.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

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And though it was more of a social issue than environmental one, Sheffi cites the 2013 collapse of an apparel factory building in Bangladesh that killed more than 100, after which a number of brand companies and retailers such as Walmart and JC Penny initially touted that the factories weren’t producing any of their products.