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Zachary Smith

@zachsbuzz

Supply chain technology, demand planning, replenishment, customer ordering process and Python data analysis expert.

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Joined June 2010
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The End of SKU Proliferation? #SupplyChain wsj.com/articles/why-the-ame…
Why the American Consumer Has Fewer Choices—Maybe for Good

Why the American Consumer Has Fewer Choices—Maybe for Good

“We may not need 40 different choices of toilet paper.” U.S. companies spent the past decades trying to please everyone. The pandemic made that impossible, and now some no longer plan to try.

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When #Amazon struggled to handle a pandemic order surge, competitors saw a window of opportunity. But even taking on a weakened Amazon was an ordeal. wsj.com/articles/amazon-stru… via @WSJ #SupplyChain #organic
Can Rivals Take Advantage of Amazon’s Pandemic Woes? It Isn’t Easy

Can Rivals Take Advantage of Amazon’s Pandemic Woes? It Isn’t Easy

A surge in online ordering overwhelmed Thrive Market, one of a host of retailers trying to compete against the Amazon retail juggernaut. “It felt like a pick-your-poison moment,” said co-founder and...

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#SupplyChain Coronavirus shuts down many stores that will never reopen while Amazon, Walmart, and Target grow wsj.com/articles/coronavirus…

Coronavirus Finishes the Retail Reckoning That Amazon Started

Even as malls and stores begin to reopen, the coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on an industry already battered by the shift to online shopping. Roughly 100,000 stores are expected to close over...

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Fewer Products, Localized Production—Companies Seek Supply-Chain Solutions - WSJ #SupplyChain wsj.com/articles/coronavirus…

Fewer Products, Localized Production—Companies Seek Supply-Chain Solutions

Companies have spent much of 2020 racing to shore up supply chains as the coronavirus shut down much of the world, but business leaders say they expect problems to remain even as countries reopen...

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Grocers Stopped Stockpiling Food. Then Came Coronavirus. - WSJ #SupplyChain wsj.com/articles/grocers-sto…
Grocers Stopped Stockpiling Food. Then Came Coronavirus.

Grocers Stopped Stockpiling Food. Then Came Coronavirus.

Supermarkets once kept months of inventory but drastically cut the amount to save on costs such as warehousing. Facing a shopper rush, they’re now buying all they can get and storing it wherever they...

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Is the Tipping Point Toast? #MarketingStrategy fastcompany.com/641124/tippi…

Is the Tipping Point Toast?

Marketers spend a billion dollars a year targeting influentials. Duncan Watts says they're wasting their money.

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An ESPN Commercial Hints at Advertising’s #Deepfake Future - The New York Times #AI nytimes.com/2020/04/22/busin…
An ESPN Commercial Hints at Advertising’s Deepfake Future (Published 2020)

An ESPN Commercial Hints at Advertising’s Deepfake Future (Published 2020)

With the pandemic having shut down production, companies are asking ad agencies to create commercials made up of digitally altered footage.

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Can the government move their computers and #software into the 21st century? The U.S. government at all levels squandered funds, leaving it with ancient software wsj.com/articles/upgrade-our… via @WSJ
Opinion | Upgrade Our 8-Track Government

Opinion | Upgrade Our 8-Track Government

Squandered funds lead to ancient software. That gives us crashes and delayed checks.

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Coronavirus-driven market upheaval has companies struggling to bridge a wide gap between industrial and consumer-focused supply chains wsj.com/articles/divided-sup… via @WSJ #supplychain
Divided Supply Chains Are Challenging Producers, Retailers

Divided Supply Chains Are Challenging Producers, Retailers

Experts say there is plenty of toilet paper and food in the U.S. But rerouting goods to consumers that were produced at industrial scale—big toilet paper rolls for college dormitories or yogurt bound...

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#Amazon Retools With Unusual Goal: Get Shoppers to Buy Less Amid Coronavirus Pandemic - WSJ #Supplychain wsj.com/articles/amazon-reto…
WSJ News Exclusive | Amazon Retools With Unusual Goal: Get Shoppers to Buy Less Amid Coronavirus...

WSJ News Exclusive | Amazon Retools With Unusual Goal: Get Shoppers to Buy Less Amid Coronavirus...

Amazon is retooling its website to do the opposite of what made it one of the world’s most dominant companies: Sell fewer items.

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AI-powered supply chain software keeps global supply chains working during the Coronavirus pandemic #AI #demandplanning #supplychain wsj.com/articles/coronavirus… via @WSJ

Coronavirus Disruption Puts Supply Chain Software to the Test

As the coronavirus pandemic disrupts the way Americans shop for food, software firms have urgently added new information to shore up algorithms that predict supply and demand. Manufacturers and...

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The coronavirus has laid bare a central problem for manufacturers: They can’t escape China’s grip on supply networks. #supplychain wsj.com/articles/companies-t… via @WSJ
Companies That Got Out of China Before Coronavirus Are Still Tangled in Its Supply Chains

Companies That Got Out of China Before Coronavirus Are Still Tangled in Its Supply Chains

The epidemic has revealed a central problem for the global manufacturing industry: China’s shadow has grown so long that even companies that have moved on can’t wriggle free of the country’s grip on...

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#advertising #marketing Companies are trying to show you what you really want before you know you want it wsj.com/articles/phones-that… via @WSJ
Opinion | Phones That Can Read Your Mind

Opinion | Phones That Can Read Your Mind

Targeted ads may soon show you what you really want before you knew you did.

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Logistics Firms Endeavor to Keep Goods Moving as Much of Economy Shuts Down

Warehouse operators across the U.S. are sanitizing workplaces, providing protective gear to workers and separating staff as they try to keep supply chains running while much of the country’s economy...

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Honeywell says will be world’s most powerful #quantum machine wsj.com/articles/honeywell-t… via @WSJ #AI #Quantumcomputing
Honeywell to Roll Out Quantum Computer

Honeywell to Roll Out Quantum Computer

The industrial conglomerate plans to release an early-stage quantum computer for commercial experiments within about three months, with JPMorgan Chase as the first public user.

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The coronavirus is having a significant impact on global supply chains wsj.com/articles/world-econo… via @WSJ #supplychain
World Economy Shudders as Coronavirus Threatens Global Supply Chains

World Economy Shudders as Coronavirus Threatens Global Supply Chains

The last time a coronavirus outbreak hit China in 2003, the global economy emerged relatively unscathed. Now, nearly two decades later, the growth-damping effects of a similar pathogen threaten to...

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Tyson invests more in automation and artificial intelligence to cut costs and reduce waste. wsj.com/articles/tyson-takes… via @WSJ #AI
Tyson Takes Computer Vision to the Chicken Plant

Tyson Takes Computer Vision to the Chicken Plant

The meat processor plans to expand the use of computer vision to track how much chicken moves through its plants, part of an effort to invest more in automation and artificial intelligence to cut...

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#AI Efforts Succeed More Frequently when Revenue Growth is Prioritized and Integration is Part of the Business Strategy blogs.wsj.com/cio/2020/01/24… via @WSJ
Why Some AI Efforts Succeed While Many Fail

Why Some AI Efforts Succeed While Many Fail

As is generally the case with transformative technologies, AI should be treated as not just a technical capability but as a major transformative initiative involving people, processes, culture and...

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Clearview AI-The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It nytimes.com/2020/01/18/techn… #MachineLearning #AI
What Went Wrong With IBM’s Watson getpocket.com/explore/item/w… #AI #IBM
IBM’s Watson Was Supposed to Change the Way We Treat Cancer. Here’s What Happened Instead.

IBM’s Watson Was Supposed to Change the Way We Treat Cancer. Here’s What Happened Instead.

How the A.I. project to improve oncology went wrong.

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