• DSCI Releases "The New Customer: Changing Supply Chains to Demand Chains" White Paper

    DSCI Releases "The New Customer: Changing Supply Chains to Demand Chains" White Paper

  • Key Highlights from DSCI Executive Leadership Forum Dallas, Texas 2019

    Key Highlights from DSCI Executive Leadership Forum Dallas, Texas 2019

  • See how the DSCI collaborates with supply chain leaders from across the world

    See how the DSCI collaborates with supply chain leaders from across the world

  • DSCI Advises Members On Future Of Digital Supply Chain And Help Accelerate Transformation

    DSCI Advises Members On Future Of Digital Supply Chain And Help Accelerate Transformation

  • Algorithm Council: Manage algorithms to generate and capture customer demand

    Algorithm Council: Manage algorithms to generate and capture customer demand

  • Use DSCI Blockchain Fitness Index (BFI) To See Your Company's Compatibility Score

    Use DSCI Blockchain Fitness Index (BFI) To See Your Company's Compatibility Score

  • New White Paper "DSCI Catalyst Program: Data Trading As A Catalyst For DSC Transformation"

    New White Paper "DSCI Catalyst Program: Data Trading As A Catalyst For DSC Transformation"

  • NEW REPORT On "Impact of the USA-China Trade Conflict On Supply Chains"

    NEW REPORT On "Impact of the USA-China Trade Conflict On Supply Chains"

  • Li & Fung Group CEO Discusses Supply Chain Disruptions

    Li & Fung Group CEO Discusses Supply Chain Disruptions

  • New DSCI Blockchain and GDPR white paper on Bloomberg TV

    New DSCI Blockchain and GDPR white paper on Bloomberg TV

  • CGE Releases Ground Breaking Research: How to Benefit from Blockchain and Respect New EU Privacy Laws.

    CGE Releases Ground Breaking Research: How to Benefit from Blockchain and Respect New EU Privacy Laws.

  • New White Paper "Algorithm Council: The Missing Management Piece for Today's Companies"

    New White Paper "Algorithm Council: The Missing Management Piece for Today's Companies"

  • Accelerating Product Development: A study in Blockchain-enabled Secure DevOps

    Accelerating Product Development: A study in Blockchain-enabled Secure DevOps

What’s New at the Digital Supply Chain Institute

Algorithm And Data-Driven Culture In Business

Algorithm And Data-Driven Culture In Business

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Digital Supply Chain Needed For Changing Industries and Business Models

Filip Bajovic, President & CEO, Label Kings shares his thoughts on changing industries and business models. Digital Supply Chain is necessary to keep up with these changes in the markets and customer demands.

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Your Blockchain Project is Doomed If You Don’t Ask These Five Questions

Based on his experience working with companies on Blockchain strategies, Digital Supply Chain Institute's (DSCI) Blockchain Lead, Shawn Muma recommends five critical questions every organization should consider when starting a Blockchain project.

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Digital Supply Chain Institute Applied Research

The New Customer

Our customer has changed in fundamental ways over the last few years. "New Customer" doesn't refer to the next customer you acquire. It refers to a broad group of B2B and B2C customers that have a fundamentally different way to make decisions and evaluate results. Our supply chains were designed for our traditional customers.

Algorithm Council

Not too long ago the only people who used the word “algorithm” were data geeks, programmers or scientists. Things have changed. Today, most companies recognize that moving to a more data-driven, an analytical approach is a prerequisite for success. And the word “algorithm” is now being used by business executives to describe formulas that allow their company to operate smarter and meet customer needs.

Digital Supply Chain Catalyst Program

Accelerating transformation to a Digital Supply Chain is an enormous challenge for every company. The transformation needs to go faster because other companies are also transforming to meet market demands. Your ability to create happy customers is only as good as your understanding of what your customer wants and when they want it. Supply chain, manufacturing, marketing and product development need to become one. Getting there first really matters – the companies that figure out how to increase the speed of their transformation will win. There are specific actions you can take to accelerate your transformation – to become a catalyst for change.

Blockchain

Blockchain has been identified as a game changer by GEG in early 2016. DSCI research team is working on studying different applications of Blockchain in Digital Supply chain and also conducting pilots to evaluate the implementation and develop Blockchain Return Index.

Driving Demand in Digital Supply Chain

Big Data and AI/Machine learning are the next big emerging technologies impacting every vertical. The DSCI research tram will cover the aspects of the Digital Supply Chain that relate to real-time Big Data and AI/Machine Learning with respect to driving demand.

Performance Metrics

The Need for Digital Performance metrics was identified as a top priority by CGE and GEG in early 2016. DSCI research team has developed the Essential Digital Supply Chain Metrics to help company transform to Digital Supply Chain.
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What Our Members Are Saying

Mike Corbo, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Colgate-Palmolive (USA)

“In the near future, as we develop more 3D printing capability and knowledge, we will be able to accelerate our innovation and new product development process greatly. Where it takes a week or more today, we’ll be able to create a new product mold and cap in just a day for quick prototyping. Coupled with sensors, social media, retailer and big data analytics, we’ll be able to both shape, predict and quickly respond to new customer demands and grow market share.”

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Sudhir Reddy, Chief Information Officer, Aricent (USA)

“We’ve over 8,500 engineers with more than 800 projects underway at any given time. Winning bids requires speed and agility to define, select, cost out and deploy right-sized and skilled teams. This cuts costs, but more importantly, creates customer confidence that wins us more business. Our Digital Supply Chain capabilities will gain us market share as a preferred vendor and has the potential to grow our revenues by 10% to 15% due to ramp-up capability, skill alignment, quality of delivery and cost management.”

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Bill McDermott, CEO, SAP (Germany)

“The customer and customer alone determines whether we win, or we lose. This is increasingly a customer to business global economy; the business to business to customer economy is going away. In this evolving economy, everything has to start with that ultimate empathy for the end user and the experience they’re getting from business’ products or services. Big data and analytics, the Internet of Things, social media all enable businesses in every sector to reach and thereby better know and fulfill their customers’ needs and wants. The Digital Supply Chain holds the promise of real-time data to sense demand, drive innovation, reduce cost and deliver the customer the right product at the right time and price.”

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Jean-Pascal Tricoire, CEO, Schneider Electric (Hong Kong)

“As a company, we must differentiate ourselves to our customers in the market in all that we do. It’s essential to have end-to-end visibility and capability in our supply chain. A Digital Supply Chain — including use of the internet, big data, analytics and other technologies — enables us to do so much more today than only a few years ago. This differentiation grows our revenue and market share while also cutting costs significantly. Two examples illustrate how our Digital Supply Chain differentiates us. It is about visibility and collaboration, and differentiated service for customers according to their specific needs. Our business customers expect to know at all times where their products are in our supply chain process, as they rely on us 100% to then deliver on their own projects, which digital enables now fully. The second involves sensing new business opportunity on social media and adapting accordingly our service offer.”

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Kevin Plank, CEO, Under Armour (USA)

“3D printing is radically changing how we use digital technology to create and produce products that you simply can’t do with traditional methods. For example, we recently launched our first footwear that was digitally 3D fabricated and manufactured — the UA Architect — offering athletes a “super-hybrid” trainer that solved an unmet need through a proprietary 3D printing process. This digital technology, coupled with others like sensors, robotics, big data and analytics, will enable us to engage with new customers, cut costs and transform how we plan, shape, predict and deliver to athletes around the world.”

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Michael Crowe, CIO, Colgate-Palmolive (USA)

“While the use of external demand signal data is becoming increasingly important as we advance our Digital Supply Chain initiative, the preparation of the data remains a pain point. Mapping and cleaning data is labor intensive. We are adding machine learning capability to the process of mapping and cleaning data to increase automation and improve speed.”

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