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Holiday Shipping Tips: Shippers Turn to Freight Analytics to Optimize In Busy Shipping Times

Intelligent Audit

The upcoming holiday shipping season is rapidly approaching. And carriers from all modes, including parcel, are working across all resources to handle the unprecedented demand. As reported by Chris Isidore of CNN.com , “‘There’s no way the parcel carriers are equipped to handle it,’ said Hannah Testani, Chief Operating Officer of Intelligent Audit.

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The Lasting Impact of COVID-19 on Global Trade

Supply Chain Brain

In an ever-changing global economy, the best way to stabilize supply chains is through superior data visibility — and knowing when and where to act as shifts occur.

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Connected Supply Chain Planning

Vanguard Software

Follow these steps for connected supply chain planning, enabling collaboration, quick adjustments, and the benefits of lower costs and increased efficiency.

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E2open Enables GEODIS to Deliver for Online Retailers

Supply Chain Brain

E2open, a cloud-based supply chain software provider, has recently enabled GEODIS, a global logistics provider.

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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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Change Is Not Always a Bad Thing

IT Supply Chain

By Marcel Gogan (pictured). Senior Software Developer. The post Change Is Not Always a Bad Thing appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

Supply chain and logistics consultant, educator, and podcast host Rob O’Byrne has over 40 years of supply chain experience. He has been helping companies design more profitable supply chains for over 25 years, most of them as founder and CEO of Logistics Bureau. He provides a wide array of educational content for supply chain practitioners, including the Supply Chain Secrets channel on YouTube and a number of books, including his latest, Supply Chain Secrets.

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Episode 102 - SCU30: Supply Chain under 30 with Dan Burke, Carrier Sales Manager at Aborn & Co.

Freight Plus

#SCU30 is where we talk with professionals under the age of thirty currently working the supply chain. In this episode, Consulting Logistics Host, Courtney Conyers, chats with Dan Burke, Carrier Sales Manager at Aborn & Co., about his experience so far in the supply chain. In this conversation Dan talks about: What drove him to pursue a career in the industry.

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Key considerations for brands and e-tailers in India who are gearing up for festive bonanza

Vinculum

The festive season is around the corner and that means customers, as well as markets, are getting ready for huge sales. Statistics show that markets can expect a growth of nearly 400% in their revenues during the festive season. We are already aware that the rest of the year has been particularly difficult due to the coronavirus pandemic and consequent lockdown.

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Firmament-Backed Envase Completes Second Transaction in October, Acquiring Tailwind Transportation Software

GTG Technology Group

Bolsters Intermodal TMS Product Suite with Best-In-Class Over-The-Road Functionality. DOVER, N.H., Oct.

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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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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (October 30, 2020)

Talking Logistics

The bikes have been taken out of the garage and put in the basement to make room for my car.This can only mean one thing: it’s the first snowfall of the year. Tomorrow is Halloween. Or has it been Halloween all year? We “fall back” an hour on Sunday. We have an election on Tuesday. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (October 30, 2020).

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Firmament-Backed Envase Completes Second Transaction in October, Acquiring Tailwind Transportation Software

GTG Technology Group

Bolsters Intermodal TMS Product Suite with Best-In-Class Over-The-Road Functionality. DOVER, N.H., Oct.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

It’s hard to believe that tomorrow is Halloween. And like everything else over the last six-plus months, Halloween will be different this year. Cities and towns across the country have released trick or treating guidelines that have either canceled the practice or changed it to ensure proper social distancing and mask wearing. In my town, for example, we have a defined timeframe for kids to go trick or treating, with the understanding that no one […].

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5 Things to Know About AI and ML in E-Commerce Peak Season | VIDEO

GlobalTranz

[link] As peak season approaches, the race is on to find the best and most successful ways to recapture revenue and deliver a better customer experience. And artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are among the latest ways that automation is getting in on the act and creating more efficient operations. So, Let’s Give.read More. The post 5 Things to Know About AI and ML in E-Commerce Peak Season | VIDEO appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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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.

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What Scares Me in Supply Chain Halloween 2020

Supply Chain Digest

From a Likely Looming Economic Downturn to the Impact of Robotics, Here are the Top Supply Chain Goblins

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up 10/23/2020 – 10/29/2020

All Things Supply Chain

British companies dread a Brexit border breakdown British companies are having to face bureaucracy which threatens chaos at the border if they want to sell into the world’s largest trading…

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Supply Chain and Logistics Stock Report for Week Einding October 30, 2020

Supply Chain Digest

See who was up and who was down

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Podcast | A U.S. Producer Challenges China’s Dominance in Rare Earth Mining

Supply Chain Brain

The 17 “rare earth” minerals that are essential to so many high-tech products today, from electric cars to magnets and military systems, aren’t literally rare, but their mining and production is.

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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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Price and book loads digitally through the DAT marketplace with Parade

Parade

Parade partners with the most critical tools that freight brokers use to discover capacity. Today, we’re excited to announce the next step in our partnership with DAT. DAT Freight & Analytics has the industry’s largest marketplace for spot truckload freight through its DAT One applications. We’ve expanded our integrations to enable our broker customers to digitally book freight with carriers across the DAT network.

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Cowbell Cyber Brings Cyber Insurance Coverages to ?Manufacturing and Construction

Supply Chain Brain

Cowbell Cyber, an AI-powered cyber insurance provider for small to mid-sized businesses, recently announced its plan to provide coverages specific to manufacturing, construction and various other classes of business, closing the insurability gap for industries vital to the U.S. economy.

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Fa?bio Jacinto our Griffin Spotlight — bringing success to Latin America

Axway

Every month, in our “Meet the Griffin” Series, Axway presents an outstanding employee we feel embodies Axway’s culture and is a great example of commitment, achievement, journey, motivation, and work ethic.

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4 Types of Purchase Order every Business should Know

EMERGE App

Every company wants to keep tabs on their spending. Purchase orders help firms determine how much they need to spend on purchases. Well, the buying process doesn’t happen blindly as some legally binding documents are prepared for that purpose. In this article, you’ll learn everything you need to know about the four types of purchase orders. But first, let’s get to understand what a purchase order is.

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GEP Outlook Report 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders have faced their share of disruption and economic turmoil these past four years. Whether from geopolitical tensions or the havoc caused by the pandemic and its aftershocks, plenty of challenges remain. Despite this, leaders are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel — inflation is decreasing, interest rates are leveling off and supply chain volatility is easing.

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Price and book loads digitally through the DAT marketplace with Parade

Parade

Parade partners with the most critical tools that freight brokers use to discover capacity. Today, we’re excited to announce the next step in our partnership with DAT. DAT Freight & Analytics has the industry’s largest marketplace for spot truckload freight through its DAT One applications. We’ve expanded our integrations to enable our broker customers to digitally book freight with carriers across the DAT network.

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Firmament-Backed Envase Completes Second Transaction in October, Acquiring Tailwind Transportation Software

Tailwind

Bolsters Intermodal TMS Product Suite with Best-In-Class Over-The-Road Functionality. DOVER, NH, October 28, 2020 – Envase Technologies, a mission-critical software platform for the intermodal supply chain, announced today the acquisition of Tailwind Transportation Software, an industry-leading Transportation Management System (TMS) built for freight brokers, intermodal, and over-the-road trucking companies.

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Halloween 2020

Enterra Insights

It will be interesting to see what kind of masks trick-or-treaters wear this Halloween — if they venture out at all. Party City is betting people won’t be celebrating as much this year as in years past. Ben Unglesbee ( @Ben_Unglesbe e) reports, “Party City plans to open just 25 pop-up stores under its Halloween City banner this year as it navigates a holiday disrupted by the pandemic. … The number of stores represents a 91% reduction compared to last year’s announcement o