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The Data Scientists, Software Engineers and Data Managers – Let’s Get These Roles Right!
The job of Data Scientist is supposed to apply to those who program with AI and Machine Learning technology. Instead, they spend most of their day on the data, which begs the question, don’t we already have legions of data people?
The Ethical Supply Chain Practitioner – Part Two: Labor and Ethical Business Practices
A look at how to ensure that suppliers are treating their workers fairly, paying living wages, not using forced labor, providing a safe working environment, allowing collective bargaining, have non-discriminatory hiring practices, and ethical business practices. These are required not only to minimize reputational risk, but to underpin a company’s purpose and identity as a force for good in the world.
Growing the Network Effect Beyond T&E
SAP Concur recently launched SAP Business Exchange. The vision is bold: to provide an SMB community—across all of SAP and beyond to non-SAP customers—that aggregates purchasing power, provides peer benchmarking, facilitates collaboration, and promotes corporate responsibility. Also at Fusion, we heard about SAP Concur’s continuing progress towards the expense report that writes itself, their use of AI/ML, and other innovations enabling SAP Concur’s clients to simultaneously achieve compliance and employee satisfaction in T&E processes.
Supply Chain Solutions – Foundation for the Omnichannel Revolution
Highlights of what we learned at NRF’s annual conference from providers of supply chain planning and optimization, IoT and RFID, omnichannel and order management, global logistics, PLM, and Geographic Information Systems.
Tradeshift’s Disruptive Potential
Tradeshift certainly has no shortage of ambition and big ideas. They started off as an invoice and payables automation network, then a procure-to-pay solution, then an extensible buy-side platform for source-to-pay and more. Now they are rolling out a platform providing on-demand, combination machine learning/AI/human concierge skilled services–initially for T&E procurement, but immediately after that for a much broader set of BPO services and much more.
Highlights from Ariba LIVE 2014
Last week’s Ariba LIVE conference clarified SAP’s cloud strategy, highlighted the importance and future plans of Ariba’s Business Network, and further cemented the central role of HANA as the foundation for SAP’s future.
Transportation Systems Redefined
The transportation technology market has an array of offerings, but they are not the same.
PTC’s Journey From CAD/CAM Pioneer to Enabler of the ‘as-a-Service Economy’
PTC’s acquisition of Servigistics is just the latest step in their 25 year evolution. PTC Live provided a great snapshot of how far they have come and where they are going.
The Brief – May 7 2013
Collaboration, Bangladesh and Supplier Risks, Omni-channel
The Brief – April 23 2013
Supplier Risk Management, Item-level RFID