Best practices, technology, and new takes on critical business topics from ChainLink Research If you are having trouble viewing this, click here to view in your browser Tuesday, July 24, 2018 -- Published once each month.   Digital Supply Chains: Part Four—Quality, Product Info, Item Onboarding By Bill McBeath Tuesday, July 24, 2018 Quality management processes are typically structured with well-defined steps, and lots of documentation and compliance requirements. Hence these are excellent candidates for digitization and automation of inspections, collection and analysis of quality data, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and engineering change management. Product information management is becoming increasingly important, with the ever-increasing thirst for richer information about products. We look at examples of digitization and automation in both of these areas. [ Read: Digital Supply Chains: Part Four—Quality, Product Info, Item Onboarding ] IoT and AI with SYSPRO By Ann Grackin Tuesday, July 24, 2018 Some vendors' AI and IoT offerings are comprised of tool sets (build-it-yourself) and/or obscure modeling systems usable only by experts. In contrast, SYSPRO’s latest ERP release includes pragmatic and ready-to-use AI and IoT applications for manufacturing. [ Read: IoT and AI with SYSPRO ] Leveraging Global Trade Data-as-a-Service: Part Three—Evaluating Providers By Bill McBeath Tuesday, July 24, 2018 We explore what to look for when evaluating a Trade DaaS provider and some thoughts on getting started. [ Read: Leveraging Global Trade Data-as-a-Service: Part Three—Evaluating Providers ] The Future of Enterprise Systems By Ann Grackin Tuesday, July 24, 2018 Ramon Ray video interview with Ann Grackin on Innovation Trends, Threats and Opportunities in 2018 …. and beyond. [ Read: The Future of Enterprise Systems ] How Some Manufacturers and Distributors Are Thriving in the Age of Amazon: Part Two—Optimizing By Bill McBeath Tuesday, July 24, 2018 Amazon subsidizes their fulfillment costs by billions of dollars annually. This has set expectations for free or very low cost shipping, not just for consumers, but businesses as well. Here we discuss ways to integrate channels more effectively, continually drive out costs, and increase efficiencies in fulfillment and operations to compete in today’s world. [ Read: How Some Manufacturers and Distributors Are Thriving in the Age of Amazon: Part Two—Optimizing ] For additional information or questions please contact ChainLink Research • 617-762-4040 www.ChainLinkResearch.com • © 2017 ChainLink Research, Inc.