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Driving Insight, Transforming Business
In the pharmaceutical industry, serialization is fundamentally about compliance—are your products meeting government-mandated measures for traceability ? In our last blog, “Can Serialization Improve Supply Chain Agility?,” we pointed to how industries of all stripes...
Can Serialization Improve Supply Chain Agility?
As the pandemic continues to disrupt global supply chains, industry leaders are thinking hard about what’s next—how will supply chain management change in the months and years after the pandemic? We are already seeing a turn toward a more diverse supplier strategy as...
Traceability Challenges for Mixed Serialized and Non-Serialized Inventory
Some solutions exist to effectively manage inventory in either fully serialized or entirely non-serialized environments. Where things become difficult is in circumstances where these environments overlap. Finding an effective management solution becomes more difficult...
IoT & Edge Technology: Transforming the Global Supply Chain
Edge Computing is a quite literal name for this technology, as it aptly describes the part of the work that happens right at the edge of the network where IoT connects the physical world to the Cloud. Edge Computing is much more than having computation and data...
Supply Chain Resiliency: In Times of Crisis Visibility is Key
Global supply chains have faced disruptions before—shocks like 9/11, the devastating earthquake in Fukushima, Japan and its subsequent tsunami, marine piracy, trade wars—all have made us more aware of supply chain fragility. And while businesses have weathered these...
The Intelligent Enterprise For the Chemicals Industry
SAP recently published a very interesting White Paper with detailed data points that outline the importance of the innovation and digital transformation in the chemicals industry in particular, and we wanted to highlight a few that focus on the effect of the supply...
Mastering Supply Chain Visibility
Companies are investing in supply chain visibility at a continuously growing rate in an effort to take their supply chain management to the next level of innovation. The easiest way to describe supply chain visibility and how it optimizes the rest of your operations...
Best Practices in Chemicals Conference – ACSIS Presence & SCM in Chemicals
Every year, SAP dedicates focused attention to the Chemicals Industry at the Best Practices for Chemicals Conference they host in Houston, Texas. This event is packed with great information, stellar networking opportunities, and sharing of best practices from the...
Welcome to the Intelligent Supply Chain
It's almost impossible for you to go a day without hearing about intelligent technology or hardware: smart devices, intelligent software, etc. they're all the rage. Supply Chain Management is no different when it comes to staying on top of the trends and innovation,...
Understanding the Impact of Tracking RTIs on Your Bottom Line
Today we hosted our webinar on Returnable Transport Items, and we're truly blown away by the response. The amount of participants that wanted to learn more about this topic, the interactions with our speakers, the conclusions drawn, and the experience as a whole was...
Blockchain’s Big Promises. What will it take to deliver on them?
As supply chain complexity intensifies, industry leaders are turning to emerging technologies to share data about goods and services with integrity and security. In today’s global economy, accuracy in supply chain traceability is becoming critically important as...
Business at the Speed of Trust
Delivering tamper-proof track and trace capabilities across your supply chain