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Industry Slant // Bob Vanek Talks Denver, Reverse Logistics, Baseball

Bob Vanek is the chief strategist for Perficient’s supply chain practice. He has more than 20 years of experience managing project delivery across various industries and consulting environments. Denver & Dentists Madeline McDermott: Where were you born? Bob Vanek: Fort Dix, New Jersey. MM: Where did you go after? BV: When I was about six […]

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IBM Sterling Supply Chain Suite: A Win for Global Supply Chains

IBM recently announced its IBM Sterling Supply Chain Suite. While the announcement encompasses its supply chain offerings, supply chain business, and supply chain brand, the underlying theme embraces the vision of the future – one based on an open, integrated supply chain platform. Reading into the announcement, IBM is further establishing the fundamental definition of […]

Meet Perficient’s Chief Strategists: Bob Vanek

Thrilling our clients with innovation and impact – it’s not just rhetoric. This belief is instrumental for our clients’ success. In 2018, we announced the first class of Chief Strategists, who provide vision and leadership to help our clients remain competitive. Get to know each of our strategists as they share their unique insights on […]

Tackling Supply Chain Trends

Current innovations in the supply chain industry can play a major role in improving any company’s existing supply chain capabilities. While some companies may be ready for cutting-edge technologies such as blockchain or data capabilities presented by advanced analytics, others may need to make sure the supply chain components they’ve already worked hard to put […]

Supply Chain: Common Reasons for Missing Foundational Components

Our experience has shown that many companies want to look to the future, but are missing the key foundational components necessary to be successful. Common reasons for missing these foundational components include: Lack of a transformational roadmap for the supply chain organization that is aligned with business objectives and vetted with business cases to ensure […]

Evaluating the Maturity of Key Supply Chain Components

To successfully address supply chain trends, it is critical that the foundational aspects of your existing supply chain are operating effectively. We recommend evaluating the maturity of the following key supply chain components before attempting to use the latest technologies. SUPPLY CHAIN DATA GOVERNANCE (BLOCKCHAIN, ADVANCED ANALYTICS) Data integrity is the key to supporting transformational […]

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What’s Next in Supply Chain?

While it’s impossible to know for certain what the future holds, trends can be a reliable predictor of what’s on the horizon. Our extensive work with supply chain has revealed several trends that we believe will be impacting supply chain in the near future. These include: Blockchain: Create immutable end-to-end data visibility into all aspects of […]

[Guide] Six Trends for Optimizing Supply Chain Operations

Establishing the best supply chain possible is paramount to teams and leaders responsible for meeting the product and service needs of their internal and external customers. Fortunately, the supply chain world is constantly evolving and challenging leaders to reevaluate their place within the ecosystem. As innovations in process and technology are introduced, the speed of […]

The Internet of Things – Making “Things” Come Alive

Vision of the Internet of Things We all know where we are heading. There are smart devices all around us; there are smart phones, smart cars, and machines talking to us, guiding us all around. Now, with advent of the internet and connecting daily things of our lives over telecom networks, I wouldn’t be wrong […]