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Big Data Poised to Play a Big Role in Ensuring Food Security

Enterra Insights

“Producing enough food, fiber and fuel for more than 9 billion people by 2050, while conserving natural resources is a … Continued. The post Big Data Poised to Play a Big Role in Ensuring Food Security appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Access The Big Benefits of an Effective Reverse Logistics Webinar Replay

GlobalTranz

Cerasis put on a 75-minute webinar entitled, The "Big Benefits of Effective Reverse Logistics" Webinar on September 30th, 2015 at 2:00 PM CST. We had a great turnout with over 170 logistics managers, supply chain officers, and those in the transportation world registering and attending the webinar. Below you can fill out the form which will grant you access to download the "Big Benefits of Effective Reverse Logistics" presentation, to include a transcript and a live recording playback.

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What You can Learn from the Port Strike Aftermath

Elementum

Months after the West Coast port strikes have ended, Los Angeles and Long Beach are finally picking up speed. But retailers are still recovering, and it could hurt their holiday preparations. After the strikes, some companies are left with too much stuff. Second quarter inventories swelled after massive gridlock forced companies to double down on production.

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Berra-isms and Supply Chain Planning

Logility

Being a huge baseball fan, I was sad to hear about the passing of baseball great, Yogi Berra. Yogi Berra was an 18-time All-Star and appeared in 14 World Series as a member of the Yankees, winning 10 of them. Berra’s contributions to MLB history are legendary, but he might be even more famous for his numerous expressions and turns of phrase that often didn’t make logical sense but still rang true.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Sustainability and the Reverse Supply Chain: The Green Eileen Story

Arkieva

At the recently concluded Supply Chain Insights Global Summit, I heard a talk from Cheryl Campbell and Kevin Cooke from the Eileen Fisher Company. Cheryl founded the Green Eileen company as a non-profit which was supported by the owner Eileen Fisher Company. She had a desire to make Green Eileen sustainable in the near future and she was looking for ways to do so.

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The Supply Chain Collaboration Journey – Part 2: Building Your Supply Chain Collaboration Roadmap

BlueYonder

In part 1 of this blog series , we shared how supply chain collaboration yielded significant business benefits and we pointed to spectacular success stories from two household names in retail and manufacturing. A leading retailer and a leading CPG company popularized supply chain collaboration back in the 80s, and laid out the path for all retailers and their suppliers to adopt or even improve their recipe.

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Supply Chain News on Trip Report for CSCMP Conference 2015 Part 1

Supply Chain Digest

SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore Summarizes Key Trends and Content from the 2015 Conference in San Diego.

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Planning FLEXibly: Is Amazon’s latest delivery service model flexible enough?

DELMIA Quintiq

While sitting in the coffee area of Post-Expo 2015 in Paris today, a 3-day exhibition dedicated to everything postal and express, I read about the launch of Amazon Flex – the Uber-like service for same-day parcel deliveries. Perfect timing, you would think – the news is triggering a lot of buzz here, indeed. The idea of crowdsourcing has been around for quite some time.

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Supply Chain Graphics of the Week on Understanding US Infrastructure Challenges

Supply Chain Digest

No Obvious Solutions, but Being Clear on the Facts is a Good Place to Start

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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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What Does Decreasing Boxcar Fleet Mean for U.S. Capacity?

Logistics Viewpoints

Part of my job is to watch transportation trends and help our customers prepare for what might happen next. So when three customers asked me the same question recently—was a capacity crisis coming with so many boxcars going out of service?—I immediately took steps to look into it. I called upon the CyBIZ Lab at the Iowa State University College of Business to look at the implications for equipment and rates in the coming decades. […].

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Supply Chain News on CSCMP 2015 Day 3 Video Review and Comment

Supply Chain Digest

SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore from the Conference Floor in San Diego

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We Just Launched Directworks 2.0. Did We Live Up to our Principles?

ivalua

This week we announced the launch of Directworks 2.0 , our new sourcing and supplier management platform. Back in February of this year, I published a post about the beliefs and principles guiding our product vision at Directworks. Now that the product has been launched, I thought it would be interesting to assess how well we lived up to those beliefs and principles.

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Advantages Of Using A Dutch Fiscal Representative

ModusLink Corporation

In my previous post, I discussed some of the common taxes companies need to understand as they expand their operations globally, as well as the advantages of having a tax or fiscal representative working on their behalf. In this blog, I am going to dive deeper into the benefits such fiscal representation can offer and […]. The post Advantages Of Using A Dutch Fiscal Representative appeared first on ModusLink Global Solutions.

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Supply Chain Orchestration: A New Era in Supply Chain Management

When the only certainty is uncertainty, what does that mean for today’s supply chain management approaches? This eBook delves into how supply chain orchestration can help businesses unlock agility, transparency, intelligence, and trust across their end-to-end supply chain.

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Qatar Rail courts suppliers for Doha Metro stations

Logistics Middle East

The first phase for architectural works, covering 37 stations, is set for completion by 2018 while the second, extending to over 72 stations, is due to be finished by 2030.

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The Lug Nut of Your Business

Tailwind

The Lug Nut of Your Business There is a market for alloyed metals. There is a secondary market for scrap metal. There are dealers. There are people who buy scrap metal. There are people who acquire scraps metal – legally and sometimes illegally. In some countries, criminals have gone so far as to remove the lug nuts so they can get to the alloy wheel.

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Emirates SkyCargo welcomes Boeing 777 freighter plane

Logistics Middle East

Emirates? newest 777F, which left the Boeing Manufacturing Facility in Everett, Washington, in September, flew its first mission to Hong Kong.

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The Government’s Role in Food Safety

Supply Chain 24/7

Large food companies with complex production chains have ingredients from farms and ranches all across the globe and their products processed in numerous plants; which leaves consumers with no idea where their food comes from.

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GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024

Your Roadmap to Smarter Spend Management in 2024 Geopolitical, economic and supply chain challenges will stick around in 2024, but don’t despair. There are strategic opportunities to leverage AI-powered technology and digital toolsets to overcome these hurdles more effectively. GEP experts in nearly two dozen critical categories guide you in the right direction in our annual comprehensive resource — GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024.

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New entry level for TAPA security certification

Logistics Middle East

The Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) is now offering the cargo industry a new entry level for security standards certification programme.

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Interview with Tim Cummins, CEO, IACCM: Facts & Data a Key Catalyst for Change

EcoVadis

Tim Cummins is the CEO of IACCM (International Association for Contract and Commercial Management). Tim along with IACCM has been a keen supporter of Ecovadis’ initiatives in the sustainability industry across various buying categories. He was a keynote speaker for the EcoVadis SustaIn 2015 event held last March in Paris. In this video, he discusses the importance of facts and data as a catalyst for positive change. “In these days in business, opinions are valued, judgments are res

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Emiratis say aerospace is 'least attractive job sector'

Logistics Middle East

The dominant sector chosen by males was defence and security, while banking was the preferred choice of females.

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Are You Driving Your Trucking Business Through a Fog?

Tailwind

Are You Driving Your Trucking Business Through a Fog? Pardon me for writing a blog about fog and a bog. But if you can forgive me predilection for cheesy rhyming, then you should proceed with caution…if the way is clear. Travelling to work this morning, I was running through some areas with thick fog. There is a new highway that provides me with a straight line connection between my home and my office; it runs around a very large and unique bog in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia.

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Hybrid Automation – Bridging the Gap Between Humans and Automation in the Modern Warehouse

This report explores the transformative impact of automation, the evolving role of human workers on-site, and the critical imperative of achieving optimal warehouse efficiency in the digital age.

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EU aviation ruling on compensation to hit Gulf carriers

Logistics Middle East

Any passenger from an EU country that suffers delays on a Gulf carrier will be legally entitled to compensation.

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RFID and AIDC News onTime to Get Your RFID Implant, Plus Levi Strauss Pilot Success with Intel RFID Platform

Supply Chain Digest

Transhumanist Says RFID Implants are the Way to Go, While Levi Strauss Store Achieves Nearly 100 Percent Inventory Acurracy

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Gulf Navigation Maritime helping to support seafarers

Logistics Middle East

Company provides technical, operational & crew management assistance to ?Flying Angel?

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Is business evolving too fast for your planners?

DELMIA Quintiq

How long does it take your planners to create a good plan for a single day. Four hours? 12? 24? A couple of weeks ago, I unveiled a customer’s new Quintiq optimizer. The customer’s puzzle was planning staff and equipment at a major airport. It was an exciting day because our team had spent weeks configuring the optimizer and now finally the customer was going to see the results of our labor.

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How to Create a Blueprint for Fleet Resilience

Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader

Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,