Get ready for the NextGen Supply Chain
If you frequent supply chain conferences, as I do, you’ve probably noticed that some of the best-attended sessions are the ones that focus on emerging technologies—or what we’re calling the NextGen Supply Chain.
If you frequent supply chain conferences, as I do, you’ve probably noticed that some of the best-attended sessions are the ones that focus on emerging technologies—or what we’re calling the NextGen Supply Chain.
You may have noticed something else: While topics like Big Data, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, blockchain and robotics play to standing room audiences, there’s a lot of confusion about what to do with the information. At the 2016 APICS conference, one member of the audience asked a direct question at the end of an excellent session on Big Data by Hannah Kain, the CEO of Alom: “This sounds great. But there’s not a single individual in our operation who knows anything about this. Where do I start?”
Where do I start? It’s a question we’ve been thinking about a lot. To that end, we launched the NextGen Supply Chain newsletter in August. Once a month, we’re posting six brief articles about one of the emerging next generation technologies and sending it out as a newsletter. If you’re interested in the topic, I’d urge you to sign up for our newsletters. Just click on the “subscribe” drop down menu on the top right-hand side of the home page, choose newsletters, and go from there.
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If you frequent supply chain conferences, as I do, you’ve probably noticed that some of the best-attended sessions are the ones that focus on emerging technologies—or what we’re calling the NextGen Supply Chain.
You may have noticed something else: While topics like Big Data, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, blockchain and robotics play to standing room audiences, there’s a lot of confusion about what to do with the information. At the 2016 APICS conference, one member of the audience asked a direct question at the end of an excellent session on Big Data by Hannah Kain, the CEO of Alom: “This sounds great. But there’s not a single individual in our operation who knows anything about this. Where do I start?”
Where do I start? It’s a question we’ve been thinking about a lot. To that end, we launched the NextGen Supply Chain newsletter in August. Once a month, we’re posting six brief articles about one of the emerging next generation technologies and sending it out as a newsletter. If you’re interested in the topic, I’d urge you to sign up for our newsletters. Just click on the “subscribe” drop down menu on the top right-hand side of the home page, choose newsletters, and go from there.
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Bob Trebilcock Bob Trebilcock is the editorial director for Modern Materials Handling and an editorial advisor to Supply Chain Management Review. He has covered materials handling, technology, logistics, and supply chain topics for nearly 40 years. He is a graduate of Bowling Green State University. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at 603-852-8976.Subscribe to Supply Chain Management Review Magazine!
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