Smart Supply Chains Blog

Will Digital Transformation accelerate in Supply Chains because of Covid19? We keep reading that the pandemic has accelerated the pace of Digital Transformation. With Supply

The killer of ROI on analytics investments – Siloed solutions Every prospective vendor, White paper, think tank, Analytics dody of knowledge, survey- is screaming one

It is all about collaboration and teams A highly collaborative process like S&OP is all about the team. How you have put together your core

The Axe and the tree : Wisdom from a 2500 year old story In the ancient Indian text of “Jataka Stories”, believed to be compilation

What is Robotics Process Automation (RPA) ? When we talk about robotics, we are generally more fixated with robots that have hardware components as well

I was talking to someone this afternoon who late last year started in a leadership role that had “End to End” Supply Chain in the

The topic of the debate is simple-there are folks that think that AutoML means that there will be a drastic reduction in the number of

Introduction Deep learning algorithms have many applications in Manufacturing analytics domain. The core of Smart factories, in my perspective, is embedded in the right and

Introduction In the waves of hype around Advanced analytics, we may sometimes lose the focus on the fact that there will always be some form

What is once revolutionary always becomes defunct The first industrial revolution was a result  of usage of steam engines to power manufacturing machinery. Henry Ford’s

Critical role of time standards in Warehouse operations A warehouse manager can use time standards in a variety of applications and in virtually any type

Prof. Scott Galloway recently coined the term “Algorithmic Commerce” in one of his posts on LinkedIn. The image from that post is below: Now this

Pick any Sci-fi movie from 80s or 90s. The world imagined in those movies 30-40 years from then (which would be now), is much more

While the whole world suddenly went ga ga over Snowflake, as they went for an IPO, do you know Amazon’s AWS has a similar cloud

Smart factories will transform the world of  Manufacturing but what will be the primary driver behind that ? Automation and developing Digital twins leveraging data

The Bots are coming And sooner or later, you WILL have them in your warehouse. Now when exactly you should make the leap is a

“I believe in the horse. The automobile is only a passing phenomenon” Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1905 Two events led me to write this article. One

More than an year ago, I wrote a post on this website about how k-Means clustering has some really useful, realistic applications in the area

I prefer hard copy versions of books vs Digital versions. And since I collect a lot of books, and those books are slowly taking over

This post is a result of a Linkedin post I just read so it will probably be short. The picture below was shared by someone

The inspiration to write this post comes from a “Brand Boost” initiative I saw from one of the Supply Chain solutions provider yesterday. The Competition

Few things are best explained by examples If you are invested in the domain of everything Supply Chain, you probably already know about RedWood Logistics,

This is a (relatively) short article, just to summarize my thoughts that stemmed from a discussion I had this afternoon. I have a strong opinion

Shipping Lines getting prudent with capacity planning Container capacity, like Trucking capacity, has always been a challenge for companies to manage. Excessive capacity has been

I am a patent nerd What does that mean ? Well, that is not a standard terminology. I call myself patent nerd because I scout