Digital | Supply Chain | E-Commerce
While AI and machine learning has made rapid progress in consumer facing applications such as Amazon Alexa, playing Go, and making art, enterprise AI and automation deployment is still emerging and uneven. We discuss key 4 facts that must about enterprise AI automation.
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AI is the darling of the moment and the corporate meme-stream. So much so, it’s forcing some CFOs into tough discussions with executive teams that are overly anxious to gamble with current assets in hopes of gaining future competitive advantages. How can companies avoid overspending in AI?
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a fast-moving technology with a long road ahead of it. For all its surrounding hype, AI is still in its infancy.
Continue reading “Will You Embrace AI Fast Enough?”
I gave a panel presentation at the Bernstein “Motor of eCommerce” Supply Chain Conference last week in London.
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I held a podcast this week with Supply Chain Management Review on the topic of AI 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 key supply side drivers of eCommerce.
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One question we often get from clients is “Will Amazon disrupt my sector next”? – be it in Fresh, CPG, Beauty, Apparel, or even Industrials.
Continue reading “Amazon the Zara Slayer”
Consumers today are spoiled for choice. No matter where they live, they have at their fingertips a vast assortment of products, delivery options, and a never-ending parade of exclusive products and special offers.
Continue reading “Building an Omnichannel Supply Chain for Brands”
AI progress has been uneven in the past 5 decades, with spurts of breakthrough followed by “winter-like” stagnation. Barriers like technology cost, organization capability and ineffective policies held back AI from going mainstream.
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I facilitated a cross-functional workshop last week with WEF and several tech startups (Noodle AI, Rage Framework – now Genpact, Enterra). We explored the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on global production and value chain. This is part of our on-going collaboration on the World Economic Forum Future of Production initiative.
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Advances in smart automation is increasingly disrupting both B2B and B2C supply chains. The patterns of digital supply chain disruption will likely manifest in two waves.
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Machine Intelligence has made significant advances recently in areas of supervised learning such as image and speech recognition, question & answering and shopping recommendation. Continue reading “The Rise of A.I. Could Be the Fall of Uber”
I had a great time as a guest lecturer at Babson College this week where we discussed best practices and emerging trends in omnichannel supply chain. Very engaging class and lively discussion. Key topics included:
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I had a great experience co-presenting with Michael Kors, Google and Instacart on the topic of same day delivery at the 2016 GMA Supply Chain Conference last week.
We discussed the underlying supply and demand side drivers of same day delivery and emerging models (see figure below).
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Advances in digital technologies such as the Internet of Everything, Deep Learning, 3D Printing and Big Data are disrupting business models and their respective supply chains.
Continue reading “The Rise of Digital Supply Chain Platforms”