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White-Collar, Blue-Collar, New-Collar: The Evolution of the American Workforce

Supply Chain Brain

With each passing year, the use of technology in manufacturing continues to grow, and blue-collar job requirements become more sophisticated, further widening the skills gap.

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Order Picking Bucket Brigades – An Introduction

Lucas

Order picking bucket brigades are a way of organizing workers and orchestrating work in a warehouse pick module. The bucket brigade process balances workflow and distributes work evenly amongst the pickers, maximizing productivity and throughput. Keep Reading. The post Order Picking Bucket Brigades – An Introduction appeared first on Work Execution Software Solutions.

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How to Optimize Global Demand Fulfillment

3rdwave

Global transportation is the nexus through which all related international transportation information flows. Capturing, aggregating, and analyzing all the global supply chain transportation and product/SKU level detail is foundational to having end-to-end supply chain visibility. And end-to-end supply chain visibility is a necessity in optimizing demand fulfillment.

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The Road to Freight Management Hell: Why Poor Freight Data Visibility and Outdated Systems Hold Shippers in Purgatory

GlobalTranz

The road to freight management Hell is laden with poor freight visibility and outdated systems. Failures within freight data visibility contribute to compounding consequences throughout downstream supply chain operations, and the problem only grows worse from there. Yet, many continue to operate with blind ignorance of the real problem—limited visibility.

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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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This is Why Freight Optimization Results in Cost Savings

Freight Plus

While it’s a no-brainer for most that optimizing your freight will lead to cost savings on your transportation spend, it’s can be a tricky task to complete. In the age of artificial intelligence and machine learning, it’s important to understand the math behind the algorithm and what you should see occur in the real-world as a result. In this episode, we take a look at what’s under the hood when it comes to Aborn’s optimization with our Data Scientist, Stephen Ryan.

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This is Why Freight Optimization Results in Cost Savings

Freight Plus

While it’s a no-brainer for most that optimizing your freight will lead to cost savings on your transportation spend, it’s can be a tricky task to complete. In the age of artificial intelligence and machine learning, it’s important to understand the math behind the algorithm and what you should see occur in the real-world as a result. In this episode, we take a look at what’s under the hood when it comes to Aborn’s optimization with our Data Scientist, Stephen Ryan.

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (January 17, 2020)

Talking Logistics

I don’t remember many of my dreams, but this one I remember because I was dead. Per my instructions, a boom box (circa 1986) was placed in my casket with fresh D batteries and a Depeche Mode mixtape in it. Before being laid to rest, someone pushed the play button and turned the volume all. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (January 17, 2020).

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Podcast: Dr. John Gattorna on Aligning Supply Chains with Customer Behaviour

Requis

Dr. John Gattorna is one of the foremost thinkers in supply chain today. He’s an author, consultant, highly sought after speaker, and academic. He also leads Gattorna Alignment , a consulting firm with over 100 successful business transformations to its credit. For more than 30 years, Gattorna and his colleagues have been refining the concept of “dynamic alignment”, which theorizes that 80% of customer buying patterns fall into one of five dominant categories.

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up: 01/10/20 – 01/16/20

All Things Supply Chain

Maritime Shipping: It’s all smooth sailing despite historic fuel switch Members of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) decided to implement a major maritime fuel change aimed at reducing emissions.

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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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How to Optimize Global Demand Fulfillment

3rdwave

Global transportation is the nexus through which all related international transportation information flows.

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4 Tips To Improve Your Last Mile Delivery Performance

Convey

Delivery performance can make or break your customer’s experience with your brand. You can […]. The post 4 Tips To Improve Your Last Mile Delivery Performance appeared first on Convey.

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Synovos President and CEO Quoted in a Wall Street Journal Article

Synovos

Synovos President and CEO Carlos Tellez was recently quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about the January 2020 U.S. Labor Department Jobs Report. In it, he explains Synovos’ hiring strategy in 2019 and hints at expectations for 2020. The article also ran online on Morningstar.com. The post Synovos President and CEO Quoted in a Wall Street Journal Article appeared first on Synovos.

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Cross Functional Planning as a Way of (Business) Life

BlueYonder

Remember the good old days when planning was something you did once a quarter just to make sure your annual plans were still on track? We don’t live in that world anymore. Today’s complex, global, customer-driven world requires all companies to be agile and responsive to constantly changing customer demand, competition, disruptions and geopolitical events.

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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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Learning to Love Math

Enterra Insights

The late Shakuntala Devi, known as the “human calculator,” once insisted, “Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.” Mathematics has been touted as the only universal language. An article in The Economist asserts, “The eternal language of numbers is reborn as a form of communication that people all over the world can use — and, increasingly, must use.”[1] Most people would agree ma

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Cross Functional Planning as a Way of (Business) Life

BlueYonder

Remember the good old days when planning was something you did once a quarter just to make sure your annual plans were still on track? We don’t live in that world anymore. Today’s complex, global, customer-driven world requires all companies to be agile and responsive to constantly changing customer demand, competition, disruptions and geopolitical events.

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Synovos President and CEO Quoted in a Wall Street Journal Article

Synovos

Synovos President and CEO Carlos Tellez was recently quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about the January 2020 U.S. Labor Department Jobs Report. In it, he explains Synovos’ hiring strategy in 2019 and hints at expectations for 2020. The article also ran online on Morningstar.com. The post Synovos President and CEO Quoted in a Wall Street Journal Article appeared first on Synovos.

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Our 2017 Top 10 Blog Posts … So Far!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. . It’s been 6 months since we launched supplychaingamechanger.com. Our goal has always been to share experiences and expertise. The site has evolved. The number of categories has continued to grow. And the response has been absolutely tremendous. In that time [link] was also selected by Feedspot as one of the Top 75 Supply Chain Blogs on the Internet.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.