While Augmented Reality (AR) is gaining significant attention as one of the Industry 4.0 technologies that will revolutionize supply chain, we believe it is important to look beyond the hype and qualify the true potential and challenges. The value of AR is directly tied to its ability to impact human workforce experience and performance. Consider…
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2013 was a watershed year for Industry 4.0, moving from the concept pages of the German Academy of Engineering to becoming strategic pillars of investment across governments and enterprises. Half-way around the globe that year, deep learning neural nets achieved human level accuracy at the ImageNet image classification benchmark for the first time in history,…
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The rising requirements of big-city Gen Z consumers will define where the future is headed. When it comes to big-city fashion shoppers, what really matters?
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Unexpected conditions continually disrupt operational performance. Further, demands on supply chains are ever increasing as companies vie to deliver more personalized products, with faster lead time, at a lower cost.
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Even today’s most sophisticated supply chains still try to predict what will happen, then optimize performance against plan. The problem is, the world is not predictable. It is filled with the unforeseen. To meet soaring customer demands in this erratic world, companies need to build a whole new kind of supply chain, fast.
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While A.I. and machine learning has made rapid progress in consumer facing applications such as Amazon Alexa, playing Go, and making art, its deployment across the enterprise is still emerging and uneven.
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I gave a panel presentation at the Bernstein Motor of eCommerce conference last week in London. We discussed two trends that will significantly impact on the eCommerce fulfillment footprint and supply chain dynamics in the near term horizon
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I held a podcast this week with Supply Chain Management Review on the topic of Artificial Intelligence in Planning.
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In our recent article “US E-Commerce Trends and Impact of Logistics”, we assess the current state of the last mile fulfillment market and also key emerging trends shaping future implications.
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Last week, I facilitated a cross-functional workshop with The World Economic Forum, and several tech startups (Noodle A.I., Rage Framework, Enterra) to investigate the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on global production and value chain.
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Advances in smart automation is increasingly disrupting both B2B and B2C supply chains. The pattern of disruption will likely manifest in two waves
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Had a good time presenting as guest lecturer at Babson College this week on best practices and emerging trends in omnichannel supply chain.
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Had a great experience co-presenting with Michael Kors, Google and Instacart at the 2016 GMA Supply Chain Conference last week on Same Day delivery.
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Advances in digital technologies such as the Internet of Everything, Deep Learning, 3D Printing and Big Data are expected to disrupt business models and their respective supply chains. As supply chains become more digital, they increasingly benefit from platforms
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Omnichannel retail sales have consistently doubled every 4-5 years since 2001 and is expected to become a $1.8 trillion dollar market by 2016 and then quickly grow to $7 trillion by 2025. Part of the growth is driven by consumers take their shopping online and mobile. However this is just one side of the equation.
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