How Uber is disrupting trucking with autonomous vehicles and what additional advancements can we expect in the future.
Digitalization
Black Friday or Red Friday?: How Macy’s Plans to Improve its Bottom Line via Digitalization
As eCommerce and fast fashion continue to disrupt the retail industry, Macy's places huge bets on supply chain digitalization to ultimately reduce costs and stay competitive.
Adidas Speed Factories: the quest for single-day lead times from concept to consumer
Adidas is challenging the athletic wear and fashion industries with high-tech, local Speed Factories that create small-batch, custom products with potential to reduce innovation cycles to only days
Digitalization and the Death of a (Real Estate) Salesman
Can companies like Opendoor effectively disrupt the real estate broker ecosystem and home-sale supply chain through big data and machine learning?
From farm to table: supply chain digitalization at Cargill
In an example of how food processors and manufacturers are catering to consumer desire for increased food supply chain transparency, Cargill is piloting a blockchain-based, farm-to-table traceability program on select Honeysuckle White turkeys this Thanksgiving season.
Humans vs. machines – who will manage the factory of the future?
“Industry 4.0 is the vital question of Germany’s manufacturing industry” [1] states Joe Kaeser, CEO of Siemens AG, Europe’s largest industrial manufacturing company. Siemens’ Amberg plant became playground and showcase for the factory of the future. What will be the long-term implications?
More than Looks: Audi’s Smart Warehousing Disrupting Automotive Industry
Can the industry that created the assembly line adapt to an ever-changing digital world? What exactly is inside Audi’s smart factory?
Can a digital life translate to digitizing Life (Insurance)?
Embracing digitalization is imperative for Life insurance companies to capture much needed supply chain innovations
GE Digital: One Size Fits None
“The data economy for the industrial world has arrived, and GE is in a unique position to lead it.” – Jeff Immelt [1]
Warehouse automation and digitalization in the Indian consumer packaged goods industry
How should consumer packaged goods companies in developing countries such as India digitalize and automate their supply chains to stay competitive?