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have packaged and outsourced supply market intelligence while others have
developed hosted analytics tools and bundled professional services and
analysis across the entire supply chain spectrum.
We’d like to close this section with some comments on analytics in
manufacturing from the vice- president of Invensys Solutions. He talks
about big data for manufacturing by comparing big data for consumers
and the use of Google. He says we start Google maps on our phone and it
immediately knows where we are. We click a box and it shows the trac
from here to the airport. If we’re hungry, it can pull down ...