Wed.Sep 30, 2020

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Who is Your Best Supplier?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Order our EBOOK HERE. Article and permission to publish here provided by Sam Jenks at kodiakrating.com. Who is your best supplier? Can you pick one, or a few, out of the bunch? Some procurement professionals can quickly identify their key, or champion, supplier partners. Unfortunately for many, basic supplier insights, such as contract, spend, performance, risk, and compliance data isn’t so easy to get a hold of, or begin to

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Warehouse Design: How to Extend the Life of Your Facility

CHAINalytics

For many companies, COVID-19 has put enormous pressure on existing storage and fulfillment centers. If this sounds about right, you might be wondering if you should invest in a new or bigger or better facility, or improve the one you have. Analyzing variables such as facility layout, racking, slotting, and material handling equipment will give … The post Warehouse Design: How to Extend the Life of Your Facility appeared first on Chainalytics.

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Supply Chain Resilience and the Power of Business Networks

The Network Effect

The post Supply Chain Resilience and the Power of Business Networks appeared first on The Network Effect.

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GM Events – Executive Virtual Boardroom – Mitigating Supply Chain Risk and Building a Resilient Enterprise

ivalua

The post GM Events – Executive Virtual Boardroom – Mitigating Supply Chain Risk and Building a Resilient Enterprise appeared first on Ivalua.

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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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Staying Connected Protects Mental Health during the Pandemic

IT Supply Chain

By Richard Parke (pictured). SVP of Supplier Services at Avetta. The post Staying Connected Protects Mental Health during the Pandemic appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Why Logistics Management is the Need of the Hour in the Middle East?

Shipsy

Why Logistics Management is the Need of the Hour in the Middle East? The global pandemic has caused a ruckus in the economy but logistics has risen as an efficient place of access for consumers with doorstep deliveries and minimum human interaction. The scenario and challenges faced by logistical corporations globally are generally common except Middle East countries, which have uncommon issues such as imprecise locations.

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Research Report: New Rules for Supply Chain Insights, Collaboration and Overall Resiliency

Supply Chain Brain

Learn about three capabilities that are now deemed essential for supply chain management and IT teams: enhanced insights, broader collaboration, and resiliency. This technology advisory from The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group explores these and other new rules for success. Get it here.

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Demand Versus Predict Variability – Avoiding a Paint by Numbers Disaster

Arkieva

In this blog, we will focus on protecting your investment. The example involves demand variability versus prediction variability and its impact on inventory policy and operational efficiencies. It is loosely based on a real situation from the trenches. Demand Versus Predict Variability – Avoiding a Paint by Numbers Disaster was first posted on September 30, 2020 at 8:19 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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How Elementum Helps Minimize Damaged Shipments

Elementum

I’m frequently hearing from supply chain leaders who want to make a bigger financial impact on their businesses, but they’re constrained by limited resources. If you find yourself in this position, I recommend you take a look at your damaged shipment rates. You may be surprised by what you find. There are few detractors from customer satisfaction that are worse than damaged shipments.

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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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The Value of Integrating Trade Compliance with GTM Software

Supply Chain Brain

During the course of the last two decades a great deal of disruption has taken place in the field of supply chain management. This growth has fostered a diversity of players that ranges from a lone fashion designer in Milan that imports from Asia and sells on Amazon, to well entrenched manufacturers that import and export on every continent. For all of this variety, companies engaged in global business share several common objectives — to increase sales; reduce landed costs; compress cumul

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How Elementum Helps Minimize Damaged Shipments

Elementum

I’m frequently hearing from supply chain leaders who want to make a bigger financial impact on their businesses, but they’re constrained by limited resources. If you find yourself in this position, I recommend you take a look at your damaged shipment rates. You may be surprised by what you find. There are few detractors from customer satisfaction that are worse than damaged shipments.

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Solving the UK supply chain’s plastic conundrum – Rethinking the 3Rs

IT Supply Chain

By Daniel Ball (pictured). Business Development Director at Wax Digital. The post Solving the UK supply chain’s plastic conundrum – Rethinking the 3Rs appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Ocean Container Tracking & Port Terminal Operations: Maritime Supply Chains and the “Visibility Paradox”

3rdwave

As a non-technologist working in supply chain management, I live in awe of the human mind and its ability to develop applications that create visibility into the international movement of goods.

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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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Why We DIVE IN

BlueYonder

With the recent passing of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of her famous quotes “Fight for the things that you care about but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” – circulated among some of my Blue Yonder colleagues, and of course across the internet in the days after. This quote is the epitome of what we are driving at Blue Yonder through DIVE (Diversity, Inclusion, Value, Equality), and this blog series, DIVE IN, so we posed this quote to our colleagues and as

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Ocean Container Tracking & Port Terminal Operations: Maritime Supply Chains and the “Visibility Paradox”

3rdwave

If this topic piques your interest, sign up for our upcoming webinar “Controlling the Last Mile – From Pier to Door” REGISTER HERE. As a non-technologist working in supply chain management, I live in awe of the human mind and its ability to develop applications that create visibility into the international movement of goods. Dating back to EDI and XML, and now through solutions that employ the Internet of Things, GPS, API’s and Artificial Intelligence, there’s no limit to what

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Riskmethods Enhances Supply Chain Risk Management Solution with Cybersecurity Insights

Supply Chain Brain

Riskmethods, a supply chain risk management provider, recently announced it has enhanced the riskmethods solution by adding specialized cybersecurity performance information from BitSight.

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Managing 3PL Relationships: Look for Intangible Benefits

Consumer Goods Logistics

The choice and effectiveness of your 3PL relationships have an enormous impact on your company’s profitability and its reputation with your customers. We find that the factors that lead shippers to seek out 3PLs in the first place – things like freight capacity, experience in an industry, expertise with a particular service – often are not the reasons that companies choose and stay with a 3PL provider.

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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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Deep Analysis Analyst Brief: Oracle Intelligent Track and Trace

Supply Chain Brain

Supply interruptions. Delivery delays. Damaged shipments. The disruption caused by COVID-19 has revealed the challenges and limitations of on-premises supply chain capabilities, which often rely on manual processes. In their latest report, advisory firm Deep Analysis, examines the capabilities of Oracle Intelligent Track and Trace, and how it can solve for these challenges and more.

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Why Logistics Management is the Need of the Hour in the Middle East?

Shipsy

Why Logistics Management is the Need of the Hour in the Middle East? The global pandemic has caused a ruckus in the economy but logistics has risen as an efficient place of access for consumers with doorstep deliveries and minimum human interaction. The scenario and challenges faced by logistical corporations globally are generally common except Middle East countries, which have uncommon issues such as imprecise locations.

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Event Review: Supply Chain Europe Virtual 2020

All Things Supply Chain

The true business impact of the COVID-19 crisis will be best measured by the response of industries to learn lessons and rebound as strongly and quickly as possible.

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Warehouse Automation Market Outlook: 2020 Update

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC Advisory Group’s 2020 update to its global warehouse automation market shows Dematic, Knapp, and SSI Schaefer as the 2019 market share leaders. Accelerating warehouse automation demand from e-commerce growth is propelling market growth. This year's research includes additional five year forecasts for hardware by equipment category (subsystems), hardware by load size, and retail by type.

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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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4 Truckload RFP Strategies to Achieve Efficiencies and Cost Savings

CH Robinson Transportfolio

This year, more than ever, heading into your annual truckload request for proposal (RFP) process can be daunting. As we face unprecedented market volatility, it is increasingly challenging to forecast and plan your truckload procurement strategies. In talking with customers, we often get questions like “When is the best time to do a truckload RFP? Who should I invite to participate?

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Profiles in Route Optimization Excellence – Smith Brothers Farms

Talking Logistics

It’s no secret that route optimization can have a significant impact on both delivery costs and customer service levels, especially in high volume / high density delivery operations. But what factors contribute to route optimization excellence and how are they put into practice? Has COVID-19 had an impact on this? Those are some of the. Read more Profiles in Route Optimization Excellence – Smith Brothers Farms.

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Grocers, CPG Manufacturers willing to Add a Little Supply Chain Fat in Order to Prepare for Potential Fall and Winter Demand Surge

Supply Chain Digest

Empty Shelves Mean Lost Revenue, and Many are willing to Bring in Inventory Early to Avoid Out of Stocks

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5 Parcel Surcharge Updates to Know Going Into Peak 2020

GlobalTranz

[link] As companies gear up for peak season, it’s essential to realize that parcel peak surcharges will be significantly different from previous years. UPS, FedEx, and USPS are already predicting historic parcel demands, and practically zero indications have appeared to slow the trend. As a result, it’s essential to realize a few things about parcel.read More.

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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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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Oct. 1, 2020

Supply Chain Digest

Report Alleges High Amazon FC Injuries. Major IT Hack at Leading Container Line. Boston Dynamics Says Logistics Robots Here Soon.

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Changes in inventory strategies add new wrinkle to fall shipping season

DAT Solutions

Abandoning their lean-inventory strategy, grocery stores and supermarkets have begun stockpiling groceries in readiness for a possible surge in Fall and Winter COVID-19 cases.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on Gartner Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategies 2020

Supply Chain Digest

Which Processes and Technology are Still Early in the Hype Cycle, ready for a Fall

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