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Category: Automated Future

Artificial Intelligence and Supply Chain

8 AI Mistakes Almost Everybody is Making…

August 25, 2017 Nigel Duckworth Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automated Future, Supply Chain Management, Technology

With the rapid advancement in Artificial Intelligence (AI), there has been a huge interest in how it can help run

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Robots have made incredible advances over the last few decades, but there have been even more stumbling blocks.

The Road to Our Robotic Future

April 26, 2017 Nigel Duckworth Automated Future, Technology

AI and robotics have been around for a while, but the pace of advancement is accelerating. Robots have been around

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The 3 Big Benefits of Artificial Intelligence

3 Ways to Get Value From AI

March 30, 2017 Adeel Najmi Automated Future, Technology

There’s a lot of buzz about machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), and for good reason. AI is starting to

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Impact of Driverless Trucks on Transportation and Logistics Services

How Will the Driverless Revolution Change Transportation Services?

March 16, 2017 Lisa Kennedy Automated Future, Logistics, Technology, Transportation

by Lisa Kennedy, Project Manager, Tompkins International They are on our roads already, but their impact is yet to be

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Supply Chain Innovation

How a “Disruptor” is Using Supply Chain Innovation to Deliver Exceptional Customer Service

March 10, 2017 Nigel Duckworth Automated Future, Consumer Goods, Digital Supply Chain, Retail, Supply Chain Management, The Network Effect, Visibility

One innovative company is taking on the big four wireless carriers and other players in the consumer wireless market. Its

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Atlas Robot from Boston Dynamics

Atlas Shrugged: Boston Dynamic’s Atlas Robot Tackles Obstacles

March 4, 2016 Bruce Jacquemard Automated Future, Technology, The Network Effect

Boston Dynamic’s Atlas robot has made giant strides in recent years, going from cable powered and operated, to an unplugged,

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This is the invisible network that keeps the world running

February 19, 2015 Aaron Pittman Automated Future, Many-to-Many Network, Orchestration, Supply Chain Management

As a nice follow-up to last week’s post on the world’s largest container ship,  the BBC has an in depth article

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Three new year’s resolutions for your supply chain

January 12, 2015 Greg Brady Automated Future, Logistics, SCM, Supply Chain Management

Note: In honor of a similar post from last year, I thought I’d do an update for 2014. So here

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How demand-driven are you? Use this checklist to find out…..

October 17, 2014 Aaron Pittman Automated Future, Big Data, Demand-Driven, Retail

Note, this is part two of series. In part one I explained  how the terms “shelf-connected” and “demand-driven” have been

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The Internet of Things: How Process Robots are Transforming Supply Chains (Part 3)

July 3, 2014 Ranjit Notani Automated Future, The Network Effect

This part three in a series of posts. In part one, I introduced the concept of “process robots”, and showed how

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The Internet of Things: How “Process Robots” Are Enabling Supply Networks (Part 2)

June 26, 2014 Ranjit Notani Automated Future

In yesterday’s post I introduced the concept of “process robots”, and showed how they are already being deployed within supply

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The Internet of Things: How “Process Robots” are Enabling Supply Networks (Part 1)

June 25, 2014 Ranjit Notani Automated Future, Cloud, The Network Effect

Think about an electronic workforce of process robots designed to count your inventory items in real time, on demand, with

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Why UPS Trucks don’t turn left

April 7, 2014 Aaron Pittman Automated Future

It may be something you’ve already noticed, but did you know that UPS trucks almost never turn left? A great

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