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 October 28, 2014 -- Published twice monthly.   To Have or to Hold By Ann Grackin Tuesday October 28, 2014 Managing product portfolios to avoid SKU proliferation and gain profits. [ Read: To Have or to Hold ] Distributed Intelligence in the IoT By Bill McBeath Tuesday October 28, 2014 The Internet of Things has intelligence distributed throughout many integrated layers. Algorithms and analytics are needed to make sense of the raw data. Often this intelligence needs to reside on the edge of the network close to the source of the data—near the ‘things’ comprising the IoT. [ Read: Distributed Intelligence in the IoT ] It’s 58 Shopping Days till Christmas By Ann Grackin Tuesday October 28, 2014 Impact of Omni-Channel, Home Delivery, and the Biggest Christmas Ever on Logistics. [ Read: It’s 58 Shopping Days till Christmas ] Reinventing Supply Chain Finance—Part 3: Continuity of Supply and Time-to-Market By Bill McBeath Tuesday October 28, 2014 Here we discuss how holistic supply chain finance can be used to improve supplier’s health, accelerate time-to-market, and enable postponement of differentiation. [ Read: Reinventing Supply Chain Finance—Part 3: Continuity of Supply and Time-to-Market ] For additional information or questions please contact ChainLink Research • 617-762-4040 www.ChainLinkResearch.com • © 2012 ChainLink Research, Inc.