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Article: Brexit, Global Trade and the Digital Transformation of the Supply Chain

On June 23, 2016 the United Kingdom voted in a referendum to leave the European Union (EU), with the official departure set for Friday March 29, 2019 at 11 p.m. What businesses will wake up to on March 30 is unclear at this time, yet many are worried as they prepare, and they are right to be concerned.

Article: Supply Chain Visibility and Transparency: How Everybody Wins

Supply chain transparency is rapidly becoming a priority as many enterprises realize the advantages of having and sharing certain information with trading partners and consumers. By increasing supply chain transparency, companies can connect with consumers, build trust, achieve better visibility to all parts of the supply chain to drive improvements, and react faster and more effectively when problems occur.

Article: Blockchain Will Revolutionize the Medical Industry – Here’s How

Going to the doctor’s can be a real pain. Unless you’re fortunate enough to live in one of those Scandinavian countries where everything just works, for most of us, a trip to the doctor is a never-ending cycle of bureaucratic misery. Trying to get an appointment, verifying insurance, searching for medical records. If even the thought of it makes your stomach tighten in knots, take heart… Blockchain will revolutionize the medical industry soon enough.

Supply Chain Brain: What's Next After Supply Chains?

Article: How to Avoid Supply Chain Control Tower Failures

Supply chain control towers can offer significant benefits to companies by extending visibility and control beyond the enterprise, and enabling advanced analytics, real-time collaboration, and sophisticated optimization. However, many control towers do not reach their full potential as they are built on antiquated foundations.

Will Blockchain Breathe New Life Into Legacy Systems?

ERP and legacy systems have been around for decades, since the 1990s, with roots that go back even earlier. While the internet has taken off and changed the way consumers buy, many companies remain rooted in enterprise systems that reside within the enterprise. Cloud-based systems offer many advantages, and yet enterprise systems still endure.

Commentary: How LSPs are driving profits through digital transformation

To effectively serve today’s complex, fast-moving supply chains, logistics service providers must be able to immediately react to shifts in supply and demand. Multiparty, cloud-based networks that provide a real-time, single version of the truth across the extended supply chain are helping them do that.

Optimizing Port Throughput

Hyper-connection has fueled the growth of commerce around the world. Our ports serve as gateways for those goods, speeding or impeding their passage from source to customer.

One Network Enterprises

10 Reasons to Consider a TMS

Why do you need a Transport Management System? Instant gratification is embedded in the psyche of today’s consumer. Whatever it is that the consumer wants, he wants it to be in stock, and he wants it now.

Triple Threat to Retail: Time to Close the Innovation Gap

Traditional retailers are under tremendous pressure from online and other forces. But how bad is it? And what can retailers do to remain competitive?

Veteran’s Freedom Retreat to Hold Fourth Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome Program for North Texas Veterans

The Veteran’s Freedom Retreat (VFR), a unique 501c3 program that addresses the unmet needs of Veterans and their significant others suffering from the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), today announced that it has scheduled a fourth retreat for the North Texas area on March 11-18, 2018 at the Coyote Ranch resort in Wichita Falls.

Three steps the Pentagon can follow to move away from legacy applications

Although every industry and service arm have their own way of doing business, there are underlying commonalities among them. The government is no different. For large organizations then, it is good architectural practice to put common capabilities in a module that can be used and re-used by the entire ecosystem of users and development partners.

How multi-party platforms could solve some of the Pentagon’s IT troubles

In 2011, after a lengthy and in-depth review of technology projects in the Department of Defense, the Institute for Defense Analyses reported, “DoD had invested over $5.8 billion in ERPs (Enterprise Resource Planning) and will invest additional billions before the ERPs are fully implemented. Most of these programs are over budget, behind schedule, and have not met performance expectations.”

Dining In Is The New Dining Out!

Not too long ago, the only meal most people could get delivered was pizza. But today, consumers in major metropolitan markets can get anything from sushi to pierogies delivered to their home or workplace.

DMS? Yes!

A growing number of companies are discovering the benefits of implementing demand management solutions (DMS). DMS endeavors to reach beyond traditional forecasting to sense demand in real time, enabling nimble adjustments of purchases and inventories, thereby lowering costs.

The Network Effect: NMMES-TR, CIP and Permissibility on a DoD Platform

Permissibility in a Platform for NMMES-TR and the Department of Defense

David Stephens discusses the power of multi-party Permissibility in the context of the Navy Maritime Maintenance Enterprise Systems Technical Refresh (NMMES-TR). What is Permissibility and why is it so vital in platform for the Dept of Defense?


Information Management: Blockchain

How Blockchains Can Revolutionize the Supply Chain

Ranjit Notani, One Network’s co-founder and CTO, looks at the potential of Blockchain to radically transform how supply chains are managed, and how we can address the one major weakness Blockchain has.


AI and Supply Chain

The Autonomous and Self-Learning Supply Chain

One Network’s Adeel Najmi on how AI is heralding the next frontier of Supply Chain Control Towers


Industry Today: News in Industry and Supply Chain

How Digital Cloud Networks are Fueling Supply Chain

In Industry Today, One Network’s Rob Choy explains how companies are driving supply chain efficiencies with digital network


Best Practices for AI in Supply Chain Management

8 Fundamentals for Achieving AI Success in Supply Chain

Why do so many AI implementations in supply chain deliver such disappointing results? Greg Brady, One Network founder and CEO, explains the (often missing) building blocks that underlie a successful AI implementation.


Retail Supply Chain Insights

How to Beat Amazon by Digitizing Your Supply Chain

Amazon is coming after retailers business. Stuck on low margins and outdated business models, their only chance to survive resides in implementing two strategies swiftly and decisively…


Total Retail

What Retailers Need to Know to Create a Consumer-Driven Supply Network

The “old model” of supply chain involves connecting companies one-to-one many times over in order to transact business across your supply network — with all companies in the network replicating their own internal demand and supply processes, and getting them connected via EDI or worse, emails and spreadsheets. This outdated model promotes delays, inaccuracies and inefficiencies across the supply chain, and makes it structurally difficult to improve performance in terms of cost, velocity and transparency. Bernard Goor explains a better way…


Grocery Retail Supply Chain

Why Grocery Retailers Need to Digitize Now

One Network’s Bernard Goor writes in Inbound Logistics magazine about the urgent need for Grocery retailers to digitalize their supply chains, or face the possibility of losing market share, or worse.


Disrupting E-Commerce: How Digital Networks Are Creating A Better Consumer Experience

The rise of e-commerce and the popularity of smart devices, has shifted the balance of power away from retailers and brands and put the consumer squarely on top. One Network CEO, Greg Brady, explains how companies can use digital networks to provide a superior customer experience.


One Network and the US Marine Corps

Anglicotech and One Network Work with US Marine Corp

This NCMS article discusses some of the work that One Network Enterprises is doing with the US Marine Corps.


Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain

Automotive Logistics: Making a Success of Collaboration

Greg Brady, One Network CEO, explains Why collaboration is better achieved with a cloud-based network platform than a legacy ERP system


    • JIT and Enterprise Software (ERP)

      Extending JIT Beyond the Enterprise

      JIT initiatives have generated a lot of success due to its shared visibility, coordinated pull-based flow, alignment between schedules across workstations, consensus driven management, mitigation of variability and elimination of non-value added work. Unfortunately, the benefits of JIT programs have been limited to within enterprise boundaries. Now a new technology model promises to unlock this value across the enter supply chain.
      Extending JIT Beyond the Enterprise

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