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Leveraging Technology Convergences to Transform Supply Chain Visibility and Social Good

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Technology convergences are driving a creative destruction and expansion of traditional business models. As the costs of sensing, computing, and cloud storage drops, algorithms become democratized and traditional challenges can be solved in innovative ways. Two significant inefficiencies in sourcing and procurement are insights into the provenance of materials and total costs of supply, particularly … Read more

Optimizing Human Consciousness to Consume Responsibly

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Author: Sheri Hinish Consumerism has played an integral role in the evolution of industrialization, mass production, and consumerist values that marry progress and prosperity with compulsive acquisition. By design, U.S. consumers participate in an unsustainable system, a mass-economy, where the ultimate measure of economic growth is gross national product (GNP), the sum total of goods and … Read more

Circular Supply Chains Will Shift SCOR Supply Chain Skills

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Author: Deborah Dull Imagine: All waste and process by-products in the world will become the raw materials and inputs needed by all the processes in the world. In turn, the maintenance, refurbishment and remanufacturing industries will dramatically increase in size and value. Then, aftermarket supply chains will become the dominant model as linear supply chains give way to circular … Read more

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