Wed.Mar 20, 2019

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Can Blockchain Unblock Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What Exactly is Blockchain? And How Does it Work? (Infographic). Article written by, and permission to publish here provided by, “SK” Sanjeev Kumar Roy at [link]. When people hear about Blockchain technology they think of “Bitcoin” and because of this association – The underlying Blockchain technology has been always been viewed suspiciously due its rather radical approach to data sharing on an open platform

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How Cloud Technology is Transforming Supply Chain and Logistics Management

AFFLINK

Cloud computing is expected to grow by 17.3% in 2019, its industry totaling $206.2 billion. Through cloud technology, companies can leverage large pools of IT resources rather than having to build their infrastructure. Cloud technology empowers companies to deploy resources on an as-needed basis instead of having to invest in static inventory. And, as with many other industries, cloud technology can be used to improve upon and optimize the supply chain and logistics industry.

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The Chainmail Effect on How Globalization Impacts the Supply Chain

Supply Chain Digest

Enabling Markets and Regions to Link to Others With Less Cost and Risk

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Apparel and footwear: At what point is missed sales better than excess inventory?

Kinaxis

by Harish Iyer. In adidas’s recent earnings call, CEO Kasper Rorsted warned that adidas would miss its 2019 growth target because its supply chain was unable to meet the huge demand for its mid-priced apparel, especially in North America. adidas expected this to result in a one to two percentage point drop in its revenue growth, translating to a drop in revenue between €100 and €200 million.

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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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Deliver On-Time and In-Full with a Retail Consolidation Program

Talking Logistics

The pace of change in today’s retail environment is faster than ever. E-commerce and shifting, more demanding consumer behaviors have led retailers to tighten requirements for shippers across the board. Penalties for late or partial shipments are steep and can make or break a shipper’s relationship with a retailer. Shippers can mitigate this challenge with a retail consolidation program.

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Deliver On-Time and In-Full with a Retail Consolidation Program

Talking Logistics

The pace of change in today’s retail environment is faster than ever. E-commerce and shifting, more demanding consumer behaviors have led retailers to tighten requirements for shippers across the board. Penalties for late or partial shipments are steep and can make or break a shipper’s relationship with a retailer. Shippers can mitigate this challenge with a retail consolidation program.

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8 Things to Not Miss at ProMat 2019

Veridian Solutions

ProMat 2019 is set to take place April 8-11, 2019 at McCormick Place, Chicago. The four-day conference brings together 950 exhibitors and the thousands of supply chain and manufacturing software vendors. It’s an excellent opportunity to connect with other businesses and learn how you can take your supply chain to the next level. The conference is so expansive that it can be hard to decide which seminars and booths to visit.

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3 Common Problems with eCommerce Inventory Management

Unleashed

The scope of eCommerce is vast. Shopping on the internet moves fast. It’s a relatively boundary-free marketplace. As long as you can provide products to keep up with demand, the opportunities are endless. However, keeping up with your stocktake across one channel is hard. In today’s marketplace, business owners aren’t operating with one channel to sell their inventory.

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 3.18-3.22

Freight Plus

Freight market softening, Adidas running out of sneakers?, counterfeit goods account for $500b of global trade, "Where's my freight?!" and so much more in this week's ATSCNYNTK.

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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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SCJ & Manhattan 2019 User Conference: 6 Key Takeaways

SCJunction

The Supply Chain Junction (SCJ) and Manhattan Associates 6 th Annual User Conference took place mid-March at the Wanderers Club, Johannesburg. This event was well attended by both existing and potential customers from many of South Africa’s largest retail, wholesale and 3PL companies.

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 3.18-3.22

Freight Plus

Normal. 0. false. false. false. EN-US. X-NONE. X-NONE. Carrier earnings begin to feel impact of softening trucking freight market. On Monday, Convenant Transportation became one of the first carriers to show the results of a depressed freight market as their first quarter earnings failed to meet expectations. The company has seen per tractor YoY revenues drop by 4.8%.

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Steps to Realizing Your Leadership Potential

BlueYonder

This Wednesdays for Women is another article in the “Lessons from Leaders” series featuring ideas from JDA leaders on topics of interest to anyone seeking insights and experiences that can help them grow their own leadership skills. In today’s blog, Sangeeta Bajaj, senior director, strategic partner marketing and member of the JDA Winning Leadership program, shares what she learned about realizing your leadership potential. .

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Country Risk Scores Mapped and Explained

EcoVadis

As an additional service to our customers, EcoVadis provides profiles on over 150 countries. These profiles cover information on risks across four themes: Environment, health & social, human rights and governance. The profiles are accessible on the EcoVadis platform and available through a subscription to this additional service. The individual country profiles are made up of a quantitative section which includes scores on each theme as well as an overall score out of 10 (10 being least risk

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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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Steps to Realizing Your Leadership Potential

JDA software

This Wednesdays for Women is another article in the “Lessons from Leaders” series featuring ideas from JDA leaders on topics of interest to anyone seeking insights and experiences that can help them grow their own leadership skills. In today’s blog, Sangeeta Bajaj, senior director, strategic partner marketing and member of the JDA Winning Leadership program, shares what she learned about realizing your leadership potential. .

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Overcome Challenges in Managing Product Assortment in Drug Stores

RELEX Solutions

Drug stores are seeing a major shift in how assortment is managed. Years ago, a store may have stocked between 7,000 and 8,000 over-the-counter SKUs. Today, retailers have to account for and optimize anywhere between 15,000 and 20,000 SKUs. Add to that the introduction of fresh and convenience products in many locations, and the scale and scope of a merchandiser’s responsibilities have grown enormously complex.

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RFID, AIDC and IoT New Round Up for March 20, 2019

Supply Chain Digest

Perhaps New Record for Bar Code Label Switching Theft. Smart Glasses Starting to Get Some Supply Chain Traction.

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FMCSA Red Flagging Brokers with Bonds Pending Cancellation

GlobalTranz

The beginning of November 2018 saw a change in how the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) marks carriers, brokers and forwarders whose surety bond or insurance is about to expire or is being canceled. Now, the public page of entities licensed with the FMCSA will display information if an entity’s insurance or bonds pending.read More.

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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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New ELD deadline: Will it trigger a capacity crisis?

DAT Solutions

Freight markets were upended by the capacity crunch that followed the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate in December 2017. The next phase of the mandate begins in December 2019, and it may end up being just as disruptive. The new milestone expands the regulation in two dramatic ways: 1. No more AOBRDs. The ELD requirement becomes more stringent in December.

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Don’t Waste Your Time Integrating Different Warehouse Software Programs Together

My Office Apps

Don’t Waste Your Time Integrating Different Warehouse Software Programs Together. Running a business requires coordinating the work of several different departments. Fortunately, there are many software programs available that can help you manage, measure, and control these activities to help achieve maximum effectiveness and efficiency. There are different ways of doing this, however.

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REPORTING AND ANALYTICS IN PROCUREMENT

Eyvo

Reporting and Analytics in Procurement. by Bhargavi Nake. When organizations adopt digital procurement, they look at it from a cost savings perspective but eProcurement goes way beyond that as we have discussed in our previous blog ‘Procurement Beyond Savings’. However, the points made in that blog are from a different perspective than what we are going to discuss now.

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On Microsoft’s Accusation of Foxconn IP Infringement

Insights Solutions Global

A few days ago, Microsoft, the technology giant, filed a lawsuit against Foxconn, a Chinese OEM, for violating a patent agreement and not paying the patent fees in time. Microsoft required that Foxconn pay for the due royalties, the audition fee and fee from consulting lawyers. In response, Foxconn’s chairman Terry Guo said on his… Continue reading On Microsoft’s Accusation of Foxconn IP Infringement.

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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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Merchants Shift Closer to the Consumer

Supply Chain 24/7

As Black Friday 2018 made loud and clear, most consumers today would prefer to have an online omnichannel shopping experience than a traditional in-store visit.

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REPORTING AND ANALYTICS IN PROCUREMENT

Eyvo

Reporting and Analytics in Procurement. by Bhargavi Nake. When organizations adopt digital procurement, they look at it from a cost savings perspective but eProcurement goes way beyond that as we have discussed in our previous blog ‘Procurement Beyond Savings’. However, the points made in that blog are from a different perspective than what we are going to discuss now.

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On Microsoft’s Accusation of Foxconn IP Infringement

Insights Solutions Global

A few days ago, Microsoft, the technology giant, filed a lawsuit against Foxconn, a Chinese OEM, for violating a patent agreement and not paying the patent fees in time. Microsoft required that Foxconn pay for the due royalties, the audition fee and fee from consulting lawyers. In response, Foxconn’s chairman Terry Guo said on his […]. The post On Microsoft’s Accusation of Foxconn IP Infringement appeared first on Insight Solutions Global.

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Your Silos are Costing You Customers

Convey

With news of Amazon around every corner, it’s clear that the retail behemoth is […]. The post Your Silos are Costing You Customers appeared first on Convey.

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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.