Thu.Jul 09, 2020

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11 KPIs to Measure Your Carrier Performance

Freight Center

There are hundreds of metrics you can use to measure your supply chain performance and creating a carrier performance scorecard should be one of them. Measuring carrier performance with the right metrics can ensure that you are getting the best value for your spend, can help you identify opportunities for improvement and helps you determine which carriers are best suited for your business’s needs.

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The Dual Reality of Inventory Management (IM): Stand Alone and Central Planning – Avoiding Data Driven Disasters

Arkieva

Inventory management (IM) typically has a dual reality in any organization. Stand Alone Inventory Management (SAIM) is the traditional inventory management that immediately comes to mind which includes tasks such as good inventory data and reporting, safety stock, reorder, and measuring the inventory position against KPI. This blog will provide some basic information on CPIM to balance the SAIM focus of these webinars and most importantly position the two so that the oversight of inventory is co

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The Benefits of IoT And Real Time Actionable Data

Gravity Supply Chain

It is an essential prerequisite that for a supply chain to operate effectively, complete visibility, traceability, and accountability must be in place. Leveraging the power of data ensures you not only know where your inventory is but also the status of all the components and products en route from manufacturer to the final destination at any given time.

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Reverse Logistics Technology: What to Expect

GlobalTranz

Supply chains face an ongoing crisis with the threat of rising demands across consumers and business-to-business purchasers. Unfortunately, the rising demand is a true risk to the state of reverse logistics. As companies look for ways to meet the rising demand, it is easy to abandon sustainability goals and focus solely on getting things accomplished.read More.

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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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Where Do Digital Twins Fit into in the Supply Chain?

The Network Effect

The post Where Do Digital Twins Fit into in the Supply Chain? appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Supply Chain Disruption – What Happens Next?

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Organizations are looking for opportunities to innovate their operations and rethink their business models as the COVID-19 pandemic has caused not only a global humanitarian crisis but a supply chain crisis as well. The World Economic Forum says the magnitude of this unprecedented crisis has yet to be fully realized or manifested. Some of the impacts […].

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Achieving autonomous or “lights out” supply chain planning

Supply Chain Trend

Operating in the supply chain world, it’s hard to not come across terminology like supply chain planning 4.0, “light touch” planning or “lights out” planning. All have generated a lot of hype over the past few years … and for good reason. Considerable progress has been made in technology in recent years, continuing at a dizzying pace. Autonomous development is happening in most major car companies with the promise of self-driving cars everywhere within a few years.

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AI expected to transform supply chains despite it only being used by a quarter of manufacturers in their supply chains

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

More than four out of ten (43%) of senior decision-makers at mid-market discrete manufacturers identified artificial intelligence (AI) among technologies likely to have the greatest impact on supply chains over the next three years, putting it well ahead of other innovations like the Internet of Things (31%) and blockchain (24%).

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Business Adaptability – A Core Survival Strategy

QAD

Adaptability is key to survival, whether we’re talking about organisms or organizations. For organisms, the strategy is simply to survive, but organizations, regardless of the industry, size, or location, have an additional objective. That objective may be profitability, service, entertainment, or some other value. But regardless of the mission, all organizations must adapt to continuous change to thrive.

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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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Automation in the Meat Packing Industry is on the Horizon

NC State SCRC

An article in the Wall Street Journal discussed the emerging technology of automation in the meat packing industry. This is no doubt a harbinger of more automation to come not just in this industry, but in all industries where human labor works in close quarters. The article notes that in April and May, more than 17,300 meat and poultry processing workers in 29 states were infected and 91 died, according to the U.S.

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6 Signs the Future of Work is Here!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Work from Home in a Coronavirus World! Future of work article and permission to publish here provided by Amanda Mosley at gigster.com. As software continues to eat the world , companies must find ways to build more innovative teams. For these companies, The Future of Work is here today.

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Circular Supply Chains with Deborah Dull – Supply Chain Sustainability

Logistics Bureau

Get to know about Circular Supply Chain— the definition, examples and more, especially that Supply Chain sustainability is quite very high on Corporate Agendas around the World. Watch the video below: Best Regards, Rob O’Byrne. Email: robyrne@logisticsbureau.com. Phone: +61 417 417 307.

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Lean on a 3PL to avoid warehouse staffing challenges

Kanban Logistics

For many shippers and manufacturers, warehouse staffing has long been a major supply chain challenge. This challenge has been complicated even further by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it may also be a challenge that you no longer need to deal with. In this article, we’ll examine 4 labor-related benefits that come with entrusting your warehousing operations to a third-party logistics provider (3PL).

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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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DevOps Best Practices to Implement Before a Crisis

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

When the pandemic erupted, one of our top priorities as a SaaS company was to ensure that our response was rapid, uninterrupted, and most importantly sustainable in the long run. Solvoyo’s Development & DevOps teams were able to switch to remote working in a matter of hours while ensuring critical systems and projects kept running. Solvoyo has built strong DevOps since its foundation.

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An Air Charter Solution for Teradyne in a Time of Disruption

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Teradyne has always had a strong approach to managing their supply chain. But more importantly, they understand the need to adapt to changing market conditions. Working with Teradyne for more than ten years, C.H. Robinson is proud to act as an extension of their team—identifying new and innovative ways to improve their supply chain and helping implement changes that have made a real impact on their business.

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Six Months that Changed the Supply Chain World Forever

Supply Chain Digest

The Short, Medium and LongTerm Impacts will be Profound

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Jobs Sustainability: Reskilling for the Post-pandemic Workplace

Enterra Insights

The pandemic has provided us with a taste of what the world will look like if job preservation and job creation fail to remain societal priorities. With millions of people out of work, there is genuine angst about how people are going to pay for the basics of life, such as, food, housing, utilities, clothing, and transportation. There is also growing fear employers will try to pandemic-proof their operations by replacing human employees with automated processes and robotics.

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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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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on What Cities are Seeing the Most DC Construction

Supply Chain Digest

The Dallas Metro Market is Way Out in Front

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How Much of Your Budget for Print Marketing Materials is Wasted?

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Most companies are wasting a good portion of what they spend on print marketing materials. In one survey, marketers reported spending an average of 20% of their budget on print materials. They also admitted that 25% of their marketing literature is never used. That’s at least 5% of the budget that just went up in smoke.

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Why Cargo Monitoring Is Critical in a Time of Crisis and Beyond

Supply Chain Brain

As businesses reel from COVID-19, cargo thieves and cybercriminals are exploiting the chaos.

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How Chargebacks in the Retail Industry Work and What Can You Do About Them?

West Coast and California Logistics

All major retailers issue chargeback penalties for non-compliant shipments from their suppliers. The specific penalties are explicitly laid out in each retailer’s routing guide and range from, in our experience, about 1% to 5% of a supplier’s gross invoice amount. For example, Walmart’s On-Time in Full program charges 3% of item value for products that are late or missing.

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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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Getting to Know Bulk Connection: Freight Agents

Bulk Connection

In our ongoing feature, we will periodically profile the men and women who make Bulk Connection a trusted freight partner. In this article, Charles Kilzer, Director of Business Development, talks about Bulk Connection’s freight agents and how they add value for our customers.

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[Video] Two vital dashboards that benefit any picking operation

6 River Systems

6 River Systems’ solution provides succinct and actionable data in an array of dashboards available in every customers’ management console. Real-time information highlighting robot utilization, warehouse congestion, slotting issues and predictive picking statistics are just a few of the available dashboards that 6 River Systems offers to enhance your operation.

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[How to] Sell on Tokopedia – The Ultimate Guide

Vinculum

The eCommerce ecosystem across the globe has been subjected to a paradigm shift due to the introduction of new and advanced technologies. Several businesses are eyeing and initiated efforts to expand their eCommerce selling boundaries globally. Though it is a lucrative strategy, businesses must venture out to global eCommerce marketplaces that hold the utmost opportunity in terms of ROI for them.

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Oversize shipping: the extra costs

I.C.E. Transport

Shipping an oversize load costs more than shipping cargo that fits in a conventional ocean container. That’s just a fact of life. But the more you know about how the cost of oversize shipping adds up, the more easily you can find ways to shave some dollars off the total.

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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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The Axway Partners Summit Virtual Tour 2020: Always closer to our ecosystem

Axway

Every year, we have the pleasure of gathering our worldwide partners during our IMAGINE SUMMIT events in dedicated partner sessions. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we couldn’t meet our partners in person this year.

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Centric transfers Oracle JD Edwards business unit to Steltix

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Centric IT Solutions transferred its Oracle JD Edwards business unit to the Oracle Platinum Partner Steltix on 1 July 2020.

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Three Strategies for Using an Order Management Solution

Supply Chain Brain

As shoppers continue to rely on contactless methods for receiving products amid the pandemic, retailers are adjusting their fulfillment strategies to accommodate.