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10 Examples of How Big Data in Logistics Can Transform The Supply Chain

datapine

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Matthias Winkenbach , director of MIT’s Megacity Logistics Lab, details how last-mile analytics are yielding useful data. After examining their data, UPS found that trucks turning left were costing them a lot of money. This transparency is valuable to shippers, carriers, and customers.

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How Can Manufacturing Data Help Your Organization?

Sisense

Modern factories are full of machines, sensors, and devices that make up the Internet of Things. All of them generate a trail of performance-tracking data. The challenge for manufacturers is to capture all this data in real-time and use it effectively. Improving the supply chain and mitigating its risk.

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Quantitative and Qualitative Data: A Vital Combination

Sisense

When these systems connect with external groups — customers, subscribers, shareholders, stakeholders — even more data is generated, collected, and exchanged. The result, as Sisense CEO Amir Orad wrote , is that every company is now a data company.

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Smart manufacturing technology is transforming mass production

IBM Big Data Hub

An innovative application of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), SM systems rely on the use of high-tech sensors to collect vital performance and health data from an organization’s critical assets. What’s the biggest challenge manufacturers face right now?

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12 considerations when choosing MES software

IBM Big Data Hub

Gathering data from machines, sensors, operators and other Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices, they provide accurate and up-to-date insights into the status of production activities. Reduce risk, maintain compliance and increase ROI with applications built on 30+ years of market-leading technology.

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How data from IoT devices is changing supply chain analytics

CIO Business Intelligence

Traditional supply chain analytics and decision-making focused on risk avoidance and control. The more data you have, the more costs you save. And it has quite some catching up to do – the smart manufacturing industry is set to grow from $250 billion in 2021 to $658 billion in 2029.

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