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Manufacturing Needs Smart Machines To Grow

IQMS

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) presents integration architecture challenges that once solved can enable use cases that deliver fast-growing revenue opportunities. ISA-95 addressed the rise of global production and distributed supply chains yet are still deficient on the issue of data and security, specifically the proliferation of IIoT sensors, which are the real security perimeter of any manufacturing business.

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Warehousing: Is Automation in your Distribution Disturbing you?

C3 Solutions

When you think 'distribution center', the image that comes to mind is typically a big box located on the outskirts of a major center, usually close to major transportation arteries. Once again, e-commerce and omnichannel requirements are skewing that picture.

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Is There a Future for ERP and Procurement Suites?

HICX Solutions

“Across the board, these systems curtail progress and hinder excellence instead of enabling it.” This scathing remark, made in reference to outdated procurement technology and ERP software, is taken from AT Kearney’s report The Future of Procurement Technology. As blunt as it may be, it’s also hard to say it’s inaccurate.

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Editor’s Pick: Building the Customer Relationship

Talking Logistics

Note: Today’s post is part of our “Editor’s Pick” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide practical knowledge and advice on timely and important supply chain and logistics topics. This post from GEODIS’ blog discusses the importance of customer relationships and how to develop and maintain them.

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller

As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe

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Autonomous Supply Chain: Desirable Vision or Silly Daydream?

Enterra Insights

Nelson Mandela once stated, “Vision without action is just a dream, action without vision just passes the time, vision with action can change the world.” Occasionally, I read articles about autonomous or no-touch supply chains and I find myself wondering whether the autonomous supply chain is a vision or so far-fetched it’s only a silly daydream.

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Safety at Garment Factories: More than Just a Compliance Matter

Pivot88

Six years after the worst industrial accident in Bangladesh’s history, we ask the question: What is the status of safety at garment factories today? The global garment industries’ push for the lowest costs comes at a high price: the health and safety of workers. After more than a century of industrial development, implementation of national regulation and international conventions, workers continue to lose their health and lives while stitching our clothes.

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3 Technology Trends That Will Improve Your Supply Chain Performance [Video]

BlueYonder

In today’s competitive markets, it takes more than the ability to quickly respond to urgent supply chain disruptions after they start. Instead, your supply chain must predict disruptions and proactively resolve them before they negatively impact your business. In this video, JDA’s Jeff Stabell, senior product marketing director, explains how three important technology trends, including the open supply chain platform, are creating new opportunities for supply chain visibility, collaboration, and

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Maritime Industry in Search of Blockchain Orchestrator!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What is Blockchain? And How Does it Work? (Infographic). Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Jenis Sheth. A current topic of focus in the maritime technology space is Blockchain and how it is going to transform commercial operations. The Blockchain platform is a distributed ledger which records transactions between parties in a verifiable and, most importantly, permanent way by using a

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3 Technology Trends That Will Improve Your Supply Chain Performance [Video]

BlueYonder

In today’s competitive markets, it takes more than the ability to quickly respond to urgent supply chain disruptions after they start. Instead, your supply chain must predict disruptions and proactively resolve them before they negatively impact your business. In this video, JDA’s Jeff Stabell, senior product marketing director, explains how three important technology trends, including the open supply chain platform, are creating new opportunities for supply chain visibility, collaboration, and

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2024 Annual T&L M&A Report

Tenney Group, an industry specialized M&A Advisory firm in the T&L space, produced the 2024 Annual M&A Report. The report contains an in depth overview of 2023 notable deals and the market, while also providing the outlook for 2024 M&A.

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Challenging an entire industry to go circular: a Q&A with DSM-Niaga’s Lukas Hoex

Provenance

Introducing a new series where we take an honest look at the pioneers and challenger brands on the front lines of business transparency. Together, we’ll talk about how transparency isn’t about reaching perfection, but the journey to get there… “Now that a business is a glass box, the brand is everything. Every person. Every process. Every value.

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WEBINAR: S/4HANA Finance: The Time is Now! – Thursday, July 18, 2019 | 10:00 – 10:45 AM PT

Bristlecone

Learn how the combination of SAP S/4HANA Finance and Bristlecone’s 21-year expertise in the ERP space can empower you to redefine business processes and meet your supply chain goals. In this webinar, you’ll discover: What SAP S/4HANA Finance offers your organization. The benefits of Bristlecone’s unique approach in the SAP ERP space. Best practices when deploying SAP S/4HANA Finance.

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Strategy in a risky world, Brexit buffering, retaining talent, AI advances & Mars landings

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

The revered Richmond Supply Chain Forum returns to Sopwell House this October, uniting an exceptional line up of top-of-their-game speakers, delegates and suppliers to examine what Supply Chain means now and how businesses can intuitively future-proof for success.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for June 20, 2019

Supply Chain Digest

Apple Pulling Some Production Out of China, New York Set to Pass Groundbreaking Emissions Law, UAW Strikes Out Again at Volkwagen, Truckload Rates Finally Moderating

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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What happens When Everyone is the “Shipper of Choice”?

Logistics Viewpoints

The over-the-road capacity challenges of the last year have caused a lot of shippers to rethink their carrier acquisition and retention strategies. While the capacity situation is better than in 2018, the capacity challenge never goes away and carriers across the board have learned to become more particular about which shippers they will do business with.

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The Path to Greatness – Driving a Successful Transformation Across Global Procurement & Supply Chain

ivalua

The post The Path to Greatness – Driving a Successful Transformation Across Global Procurement & Supply Chain appeared first on Ivalua.

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6 Big Myths You Need to Know about Prescriptive Analytics

River Logic

Myth #1: Companies believe they already have/use prescriptive analytics. Just mention advanced analytics or its subsets like machine learning, AI, simulation, etc., and you’ll find many people use these terms interchangeably.

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Blockchain and Cloud-based Platforms Usher In New Era of Complex Data Streams in Freight Shipping

Kuebix

Blockchain and cloud-based platforms are revolutionizing the way logistics operations are being conducted around the world. Big Data has been a hot topic in the industry for years, but the way to truly harness it has remained out of reach for many companies. Blockchain technologies and cloud-based platforms are changing the narrative. Now, complex data […].

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More Than 40 New Manufacturers Join Configura’s Platform in 2023

More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.

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Hear from Covea CPO what impact Ivalua Procurement is having

ivalua

The post Hear from Covea CPO what impact Ivalua Procurement is having appeared first on Ivalua.

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Trade Compliance – A Defence for the “C” Suite

3rdwave

The risk from regulatory agencies governing international trade is increasing. The importer’s exposure to CBP and PGAs, such as FDA, USDA, and others, is rising. The penalties are not only directed at the company but to corporate executives as well. This is not some far-off threat. The regulatory risk for the Importer and the”C” suite is the new reality brought about by the significant changes with CBP, Commerce, ICE, IRS, FDA, Fisheries and Wildlife, TTB, and every other agency tha

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Apple designers in awe of TrackVia at Apple’s WWDC

TrackVia

(From left to right) Xiao Liang, Jason Baird, and Kyle Turner, three of TrackVia’s mobile engineers, at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California. On June 3-7, TrackVia’s mobile engineers joined 6,000 attendees and over 1,000 Apple engineers in San Jose, California for Apple’s highly-anticipated Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).

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Why Carriers Are Getting Their APIs Together

Freightos

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Trade Compliance - A Defence for the "C" Suite

3rdwave

Maintaining a trade compliance status-quo is a very risky position for an importer. The consequences are very uncomfortable to contemplate.

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How to be an effective finance business partner: Insights for manufacturing CFOs from new and unique research by Gary Simon

Rootstock

Earlier this year, some of my Rootstock colleagues and I were having an internal discussion on how the role of the CFO was evolving into a more strategic role, serving more as an advisor to other departments in a company. We knew from our conversations with customers and prospects in senior finance roles that many see themselves as partners to other departments within their organization.

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4 Advantages of Full Truckload Freight Shipping

Freight Center

What type of freight shipping is best for me? This may be a question you have asked yourself more than once. While LTL is the most popular form of shipping, if you are shipping cargo weighing 5,000 pounds or more you really should compare the benefits and costs of both Full Truckload and LTL shipping. The most common equipment used for shipping freight are dry vans.

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How an “On The Road” App can Improve the Life of Last-Mile Delivery Executives

Supply Chain 24/7

Customer experience has taken center stage for the companies and the other component of last-mile deliveries, unfortunately, the delivery executives have been more or less ignored by the industry, until now.

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What is Mesh Networking Trends Report

This report details the capabilities of mesh networks, how they work, and the applications they thrive in supporting. Connectivity is necessary for optimal productivity, and mesh networking will soon be a significant provider of connectivity globally.

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Tariff Exclusions Portal

American Global Logistics

Please note that the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has announced the opening of a new portal for exclusion requests related to the Trump Administration’s third tranche of Section 301 tariffs on Chinese products. The portal is expected to open at 12pm ET, June 30. Requests for exclusion will be due through […]. The post Tariff Exclusions Portal appeared first on AGL.

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Inventory Reconciliation: The Ins and Outs

Unleashed

If you’re in the business of selling goods, you’ll know how important good inventory management is for the success of your business. Failing to adequately manage inventory can have dire consequences for your business’s productivity and ultimately, profitability. Holding too much inventory, for instance, can lead to obsolete stock with valuable cash assets gathering dust on the shelves.

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2019 | Summer Newsletter

Herlitz Inventory Management

Seasonal Profiles and How to Use Them Effectively. Seasonal Profiles are an important tool in the HIMPACT tool box. Seasonal profiles help buyers order the proper amount of inventory before a seasonal spike, and more importantly, help them get out of it and back to normal levels. Seasonal profiles are used when an item’s demand experiences regular and predictable changes which recur every calendar year.