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Supply Chain Dive | March 13, 2020

Control towers are the artificial intelligence (AI) of supply chain. Everyone wants to have it, but nobody quite knows how it works. Supply chain leaders see the term in vendor presentations, usually connected with the promise that a control tower will make the supply chain better, faster and smarter. Usually not included: There is no uniform market description of what a control tower is, or what a "good" control tower does. This situation naturally has led to confusion among possible ...

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Spirit AeroSystems | February 25, 2021

Soul AeroSystems, Boeing's biggest supplier, has finished a warehouse combination effort years in the making at its Wichita, Kansas, campus, CEO Tom Gentile said on the company's income call Tuesday. The new Global Digital Logistics Center brings what was 500,000 square feet of warehouse space into a seven-story 150,000-square-foot facility, Gentile said. "We have leveraged technology, similar to what other world-class distribution centers use, which tr...

Continuity Central | March 13, 2020

To help manufacturers, producers, distribution companies and their customers and business partners identify, assess and address supply chain risks, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has launched ‘SOC for Supply Chain’, a new risk reporting framework. The SOC for Supply Chain framework is a market-driven, flexible and voluntary framework for organizations to communicate certain information about their manufacturing, production or distribution system and the effectiveness of contr...

TechCrunch | April 10, 2020

Assent Compliance, a company that helps large manufacturers like GE and Rolls Royce manage complex supply chains through an online data exchange, announced a new tool this week that lets any company, whether they’re a customer or not, upload bills of materials and see on a map where COVID-19 is having an impact on their supply chain. Company co-founder Matt Whitteker, says the Ottawa startup focuses on supply chain data management, which means it has the data and the tooling to develop a d...