Archive for 'Supply Chain Software' Category
How supply chain metrics are used?
16 February 2007If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!SDExec.com reports on the results of a survey carried out by Maxager. The principal finding of the survey was,
Many manufacturers believe that it is important to measure the speed at which products are made, but very few have systems […]
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Is an IBM and SAP Marriage in the Works?
13 February 2007SCDigest reports on strong rumors about merger talks between IBM and SAP.
These are just rumors, to be sure, and have been circulating at some level for almost a year.
SAP has strongly denied the rumors during that time, though chairman Hasso Plattner unintentionally put some fuel in the fire last May by saying to the German […]
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Different Priorities - Investment Prioritization for Manufacturing Software
15 December 2006IndustryWeek reports on investment prioritization for manufacturing operations software and how it varies across different industry segments in a recent article titled - Different Priorities.
According to the report,
# In chemicals, 28% of the manufacturing budget will be applied to advanced process control and simulation.
# In aerospace and defense, 50% of the manufacturing budget will be […]
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Artificial Intelligence in Supply Chains - cont’d
4 December 2006In this addendum to the post - Artificial Intelligence in Supply Chains, I want to highlight a paper (part of a book on the subject) titled: Supply Chain Management and Multiagent Systems: An Overview published by Thierry Moyaux, Brahim Chaib-draa, and Sophie D’Amours available online here.
Tags: Artificial Integlligence, AI, Intelligent Agents, Multiagent Modeling
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Artificial Intelligence in Supply Chains
4 December 2006InformationWeek has a dated article about Artificial Intelligence making a foray into the Supply Chain Management space. The article by David M. Ewalt talks about how
Software makers such as IBM, i2 Technologies, Manugistics, and SAP are rushing to imbue supply-chain-management tools with artificial intelligence, allowing them to make better choices and even learn from […]
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REA, a semantic model for Internet supply chain collaboration
13 November 2006REA (Resource-Event-Agent) is a semantic model for internet based Supply Chain collaboration developed by Dr. William McCarthy of Michigan State University. In this presentation for the ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2000), Dr. McCarthy and Robert Haugen, Logistical Software LLC outline a web-based semantic model for collaboration.
Before I dived into […]
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Using Prediction Markets for Collaboration
10 November 2006Prediction Markets Blog talks about Using Prediction Markets for Collaboration the use of collaborative tools and lists a few applications of such technology.
The post lists three particular directions for collaborative products namely:
New Lines of Communication
Prediction markets have the ability to open up new lines of communication within the organization. In a lot of companies, especially […]
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