Blockchain and Cognitive Computing – 17 Use Cases

Helen King, Marketing Manager at Supply Chain Insights, interviews the company’s Founder, Lora Cecere, and discusses two recent blog posts penned by Lora. Among the two posts Lora describes 17 use cases for new technologies associated with Blockchain, and cognitive computing. The blog posts, which are available on her supplychainshaman.com web site, are: “Seven Use […]

Robotics and the Autonomous Supply Chain with Jim Lawton of Rethink Robotics

As we think about digital manufacturing and Supply Chain 2030, we need to rethink the robot’s role in manufacturing based on new capabilities. While traditional robots were used to replace labor, the robots of the future are able to improve the agility of the supply chain through sensing and enabling new capabilities. In this session […]

Making the Digital Pivot: Embracing the Autonomous Supply Chain

Making the Digital Pivot: Embracing the Autonomous Supply Chain with Jeremiah Owyang – CEO of Crowd Companies In this episode with Jeremiah Owyang, we discuss the evolution of the autonomous supply chain and the building of the collaborative economy. As supply chains shift from the delivery of products to providing services, and organizational alignment shifts […]

Royal FloraHolland: A Flower Market for the World with Edwin Wenink

At the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit (September 7-9, 2016) supply chain leaders will be ideating on new business models as they develop their vision of Supply Chain 2030. Edwin Wenink, Program Director at FloraHolland, is leading this effort for one of the world’s largest flower auctions. In 1911 growers decided to combine forces to […]

Figuring Out New Forms of Analytics

Using unstructured and streaming data is a brave new world. The possibilities of data variety and velocity to improve supply chain management are an exciting option for supply chains to better understand their business. In this podcast Alison Crawford talks with Lora about the new Supply Chain Shaman blog post Trying to Figure Out New […]