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Supply Chain Trends, 2024: Removing Barriers to Visibility & Resilience
Jan 24, 2024, by Vaibhav Wardhan2023 was a year full of challenges for supply chain leaders. Recovery from COVID-19, avoiding supply chain disruptions, mitigating geo-political risk and climate changes, and understanding the implications of ESG on the supply chain were some of the headwinds leaders had to navigate. Amidst all these challenges and the corresponding need for a resilient supply chain, all the buzz aro[...]
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Tech Mahindra's Yantr.ai: Optimizing Field Service Management with AI
Nov 16, 2023, by Vaibhav WardhanNelsonHall recently had a briefing followed by a demo of Tech Mahindra’s latest offering in field service management: Yantr.ai, an AI and ML-based bolt-on solution that can sit on existing scheduling systems. Yantr.ai provides a control tower solution to field service management, focusing on delivering operational efficiency, enhanced productivity, and improved workflow control[...]
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What Characterizes Leading Supply Chain Transformation Vendors?
Aug 30, 2022, by John WillmottThe pandemic stress-tested many supply chains beyond previous expectations, identifying and magnifying any process shortfalls. The current economic downturn and additional disruption of supply chains by geopolitical factors have further exacerbated the difficulties enterprises face in their day-to-day supply chain management. Accordingly, enterprises are typically seeking increase[...]
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Moving to an Autonomous Supply Chain: Q&A with Capgemini’s Joerg Junghanns – Part 2
Feb 20, 2020, by John WillmottRead Part 1 here. Q&A Part 2 JW: What are the main supply chain flows that supply chain executives should look to address? JJ: Traditionally, there are three main supply chain flows that benefit from automation: Physical flow (flow of goods from, e.g., from a DC to a retailer, the most visible and tangible flow) – some more obvious than others, such as parcel[...]
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Moving to an Autonomous Supply Chain: Q&A with Capgemini’s Joerg Junghanns – Part 1
Feb 18, 2020, by John WillmottIntroduction Supply chain management is an area currently facing considerable pressure and is a key target for transformation. NelsonHall research shows that less than a third of supply chain executives in major enterprises are highly satisfied with, for example, their demand forecasting accuracy and their logistics planning and optimization, and that the majority perceive there t[...]
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Genpact Acquires Barkawi Management Consultants, Targets 25%+ Growth in Supply Chain Management
Aug 14, 2018, by John WillmottSCM is one of Genpact’s “invest-to-grow” service lines, where the company is looking to make disproportionate investments and scale up the business: in this case, to become one of the top two global supply chain transformation services vendors. In its “invest-to-grow” businesses, Genpact is looking to achieve at least twice the level of revenue growth ac[...]