Supply Chain Matters has highlighted some percolating supplier weak links among commercial aerospace supply chains from either financial, operational or product quality perspectives. Certain key suppliers such as Pratt and Whitney have provided signs of such industry concern. Now, broader industry visibility to engine producer Rolls Royce is likely added. This week, Rolls Royce reported […]
Supply Chain Matters has been attending the Oracle Modern Supply Chain Experience conference being held in San Jose California and drawing over 2800 attendees. In our Part One posting, we provided some highlights from the first’s day’s keynotes. On our Part Two posting, we shared impressions of the Oracle S&OP Cloud application currently in-development. Day […]
Supply Chain Matters has been attending the Oracle Modern Supply Chain Experience conference being held in San Jose California and drawing over 2800 attendees. In our Part One posting, we provided some highlights from the first’s day’s keynotes. In this particular posting, we wanted to highlight for readers, Oracle’s evolving efforts to develop a Cloud-based […]
This afternoon marked the opening keynotes of the Oracle Modern Supply Chain Experience conference that is expected to draw over 2800 attendees. Rick Jewell, Oracle Senior Vice President for Supply Chain Applications Development kicked-off the event with his presentation titled: The Adaptive Intelligent Supply Chain Cloud. In this presentation, Jewell re-iterated a number of supply […]
Today, supply chain focused B2B business network tech provider E2open formally announced that it has merged with supply chain planning and S&OP technology support provider Steelwedge. From our lens, the announcement is of little surprise and provides some interesting new dynamics in the market. We note that the announcement is to be expected since two […]
We are pleased to announce to our Supply Chain Matters readership audience that Kinaxis has returned to be a Named sponsor of this blog in 2017. Kinaxis was one of the very first sponsors of this blog upon our founding in 2008, and once-again, we look forward to a continuing though leadership relationship during the […]
Next week, independent supply chain industry analyst and Supply Chain Matters Executive Editor Bob Ferrari will be attending the annual Oracle Supply Chain Modern Supply Chain Experience conference being held from February 13-15 in San Jose California. There are several keynotes and specific software application technology sessions featuring customer panels and customer focused presentations. Presentation […]
After Founder and CEO Elon Musk declared last May an intent to revolutionize Tesla Motors production activities to coincide with the availability of the new dramatically lower cost Model 3, a report now indicates that the electric auto maker is planning to start pilot production this month at its Fremont California production facility. The Reuters […]
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