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Month: February 2020

How your Business challenges impact Warehouse operations

February 27, 2020 Kumar Singh

Introduction: Link between Strategy and Operational practices Back in 2016, I wrote an article on LinkedIn that followed the linkage of Corporate strategy to Operational

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A guide to leveraging Kraljic Matrix for Strategic Sourcing

February 27, 2020 Kumar Singh

Introduction One of the key milestones of procurement transformation was a paper by Peter Kraljic in 1983 in which he described a way of analyzing

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Sourcing Executive’s guide to leveraging Analytical methods for ranking suppliers

February 22, 2020 Kumar Singh

Supplier Selection Problem: Ranking of Suppliers In real world, sourcing executives generally have a large pool of suppliers to select from.  In terms of leveraging analytics,

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How your Supply Chain could have been better prepared for epidemics like Coronavirus

February 20, 2020 Kumar Singh

I have received few requests asking for my 2 cents on learnings from Coronavirus epidemic impact on Supply Chains so here we go (I will

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The next big opportunity : Logistics Digital Twins

February 19, 2020 Kumar Singh

Manufacturing Digital twins are becoming the new normal fast Chances are that every time you hear about Digital Twins, it is in the context of

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The Case for human supervisors for Robot warehouse pickers

February 14, 2020 Kumar Singh

The Long tail of Machine Learning becomes longer in Supply Chains In layman’s terms, what the long tail of Machine learning entails is that it

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Why Supply Chain Branding and Storytelling are critical in this world of Innovation Idolatry

February 12, 2020 Kumar Singh

“Great innovation needs great Marketing” – Denise Yohn, Leading Brand Consultant Wonder why……? Do you wonder why the market is extremely forgiving towards likes of

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An Industry 4.0 architecture for Supply Chain Optimization: A suggested design approach

February 11, 2020 Kumar Singh

As the business landscape around us evolves at a rapid pace, organizations that have a vision of the future are scrambling to implement Industrial Internet

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The Path Detroit needs to chart to an all Electric Vehicles (EVs) future: A Supply Chain perspective

February 10, 2020 Kumar Singh

If you follow the automotive industry, you have probably read this WSJ news article: Detroit vs Tesla So….how can Detroit biggies chart a path out

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Maintenance strategies in Manufacturing : An Introduction

February 8, 2020 Kumar Singh

Predictive Maintenance is the new buzz word in Manufacturing these days, thanks to advances in Machine Learning methods, specifically predictive analytics methodologies. However, I always

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It is NOT the Algorithms that are driving the AI Wave

February 6, 2020 Kumar Singh

Every weekend I go book hunting, mostly to old book shops in flea or street markets. This book hunt is mostly related to non tech

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Predicting Production time by leveraging Machine Learning : An applied use case

February 5, 2020 Kumar Singh

As I have insisted consistently in my articles and posts on LinkedIn, the real value of Smart Manufacturing will be in the data generated by

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Role of Industrial Engineers in developing world class Manufacturing capabilities

February 3, 2020 Kumar Singh

Note: As a standard practice, I will include a plagiarism detection link in all the articles on my blog site. You can use the online

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Walmart’s two different worlds and the impact on its war against Amazon

February 2, 2020 Kumar Singh

Two different worlds of Silicon Valley and Bentonville  “….The episode illustrates a broader culture clash at the world’s largest retailer, one that pits its Bentonville,

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