Blockchain technology is providing many benefits to supply chain networks. In this episode, Adam Torres and Jon Kirkegaard, President and CEO at DCRA Inc. and DCRA Technologies LLC, explore blockchain technology and it’s improvements to supply chain networks. Listen to the full podcast episode:https://lnkd.in/grXt9Jj
July 12, 2020
Please watch this brief video that should help all understand the weaknesses Covid-19 has revealed to the masses of the past couple of decades of supposed “supply chain solutions / technologies. We at http://www.DCRAsolutions.com have spent over 2 decades truly engineering supply chains around the common sense / mathematical based Sales and Operations S&OP concepts. […]
June 7, 2020
June 4, 2020 Jon Kirkegaard, SCB Contributor https://www.supplychainbrain.com/authors/7119-jon-kirkegaard-scb-contributor There’s an old consulting adage: If you want to know where the rocks are in the stream, lower the water. This was true in the 2008 financial crisis, as the lowered “water” of depressed economic activity revealed unsustainable amounts of financial leverage and fraud in mortgage securities. The […]
May 16, 2020
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April 21, 2020
This article appears today on IBM’s Supply Chain Blog https://www.ibm.com/blogs/blockchain/2020/04/synchronizing-the-independent-breakthrough-for-supply-chain-value-creation/ The hope, the dream, the expectation of the nearly every CEO has always been to constantly synchronize people, operations and suppliers to yield a more efficient and effective business. We all are experiencing the emergency measures of business process and human separation due to COVID-19. We […]
May 25, 2019
As published in SupplyChainBrain May 2019 Effective collaboration between independent entities is the key to unlocking the value of supply-chain processes. The race to push I.T. applications to the cloud isn’t enough to improve collaboration within the supply chain. The shift away from on-premise apps is often sold with the promise of enhanced productivity. The […]
April 23, 2019
https://www.supplychainbrain.com/blogs/1-think-tank/post/29591-the-need-for-blockchain-in-supply-chain-technology Introduction New Approach Required The hope, the dream, the expectation of the nearly every CEO has always been to constantly synchronize people, operations and suppliers to yield a more efficient and effective business. Winning businesses measure supply chain success by real bottom line Wharton style finance metrics – working capital reduction, ROA, EVA, cash […]
January 10, 2018
Distributed, Decentralized computing is going to become “cool” and smart this year vs. big centralized IT architectures ! In the case of S&OP, supply chain, logistics, inventory blockchain will enable solving some challenges and problems just not solvable with the same old server in our of a cloud ! See this quote from […]
August 23, 2017
Originally posted on Supply Chain Trend:
Introduction In the last 30 years S&OP improved performance in many businesses. However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. Whatever maturity model or consultancy support companies use, S&OP seems to get stuck. Worse, overall…
May 23, 2017
The author of this article about electric cars and Tesla did a nice job stating the obvious Written from a design engineering use case perspective. Why should consumers accept less functionality and durability for alot more money ? Bottom line they should not and will not and is why Tesla’s losses will continue to […]
December 22, 2020
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