EMERGE App
MARCH 18, 2019
Introduction. Growing up in the 1990s, you might have heard the term “Six Sigma” at the dinner table or in the news. It is not the name of an elite special forces team. Instead, it refers to a quality management improvement process used by large scale manufacturers. In reality, Six Sigma aims to keep product variation and thus defects to a minimum.
Kuebix
MARCH 18, 2019
What’s the Big Deal? Drones are classified as “a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) which typically refers to a pilotless aircraft that operates through a combination of technologies, including computer vision, artificial intelligence, object avoidance tech, and others.” Their flexibility to perform virtually any report or inspection and easily collect and share data has allowed them […].
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Material Handling & Logistics
MARCH 18, 2019
The direct impact on Boeing suppliers may be minimal, but it's a looming point of worry for a sector that hasn't had much of anything to worry about during the past few years.
DAT Solutions
MARCH 18, 2019
Just as rates were about to turn around, they took another hit last week. Extreme weather closed highways and forced cancellations and delays. A huge snowstorm in Denver last week closed three interstate highways: I-25, I-70 and I-76. In Nebraska, snow followed by rain led to “historic flooding” that shut down traffic on I-80. The highways are open now, but there are still flood warnings in six states: Nebraska, parts of neighboring South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota, plus eastern Ari
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
Unleashed
MARCH 18, 2019
Did you know that better inventory management and control is one of the biggest parts of running a successful business and yet it is one that is often put on the back burner for misconceptions of that it is not a major profitable pursuit? Business owners know that holding inventory stock ties up a lot of cash, that’s why good inventory management is crucial for all businesses.
Supply Chain Brief brings together the best content for supply chain and logistic professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Insights Solutions Global
MARCH 18, 2019
The cost of investing in China is increasing, and trade war limits the profit. So these companies ultimately choose Malaysia, including HP, IKEA, and H&M. Is Malaysia a place that irreplaceable? How to manage your supply chain better?
Veridian Solutions
MARCH 18, 2019
Retail is dying. Or… retail is thriving. Those opposing thoughts exist in every aspect of today’s evolving supply chains; although, the conversation changes based on who is talking, says Trevor Sumner via Forbes. Even when the retail wars seem to have claimed their last victim, another store fails. As reported by CNN, Payless is the latest national chain to move to liquidate all assets and shut down.
Herlitz Inventory Management
MARCH 18, 2019
Retailers with multiple locations inevitably have to deal with higher inventory costs because they need to hold the same items in multiple locations. As a result, distribution costs tend to be higher as well. Many retailers therefore utilize a distribution and ordering method known as Hub and Spoke replenishment. Hub and spoke means that instead of having each distribution center order from various vendors individually, one DC acts as a hub.
Insights Solutions Global
MARCH 18, 2019
The cost of investing in China is increasing, and trade war limits the profit. So these companies ultimately choose Malaysia, including HP, IKEA, and H&M. Is Malaysia a place that irreplaceable? How to manage your supply chain better? The post Move Manufacturing Production to Malaysia From China? appeared first on Insight Solutions Global.
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.
GlobalTranz
MARCH 18, 2019
Parcel rapid delivery is used to describe same-day and next-day delivery, but it actually implies any delivery requiring two or fewer days to complete. According to Chain Store Age, the value of rapid delivery is stark with most consumers willing to pay a premium for faster delivery of their packages. With the explosion of e-commerce.read More. The post 5 Reasons Why Parcel Rapid Delivery is to Become the Shipping Standard for 2019 appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.
Talking Logistics
MARCH 18, 2019
Streamlining and automating the procure-to-pay (P2P) process is something many companies are focused on, especially those dealing with hundreds, if not thousands, of suppliers and high volumes of purchase orders, shipments, and invoices. What are the current challenges companies are facing in their efforts to streamline and automate their P2P processes?
Axway
MARCH 18, 2019
Ten years ago, we took on a strategy to build REST APIs for our products–to build our UI on those APIs and at the same time publish these APIs as *the* product APIs.
DAT Solutions
MARCH 18, 2019
Pricing freight is all about supply and demand, and nothing lets you measure the markets faster than DAT's Hot Market Maps. Whether you're a broker who needs to know where trucks are hard to find or a carrier looking for where you'll have a negotiating advantage, Hot Market Maps provide the most up-to-date view of available loads versus trucks for every freight market.
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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.
Parade
MARCH 18, 2019
Starting with Location Data Creating a carrier system of records and intelligence system will be the first step towards freight brokerage digitization. What is carrier intelligence and why is it so critical for a freight brokerage to implement? A robust carrier intelligence system uses a mixture of data sources that crosses multiple data sets, multiple systems of record like a Transportation Management System (TMS), a Carrier Management System (CRM) and other valuable information pools like gove
ToolsGroup
MARCH 18, 2019
When a business finds itself in a declining market, failing to stay in lock step with customer demand poses an existential threat. Trends and other market forces that impact commercial opportunities need to appear on the planning radar. Therefore, traditional push-driven supply chains are wholly unfit for this situation. Fine paper is an example of an industry whose total addressable market has been shrinking for decades and looks set to continue (see figure).
Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 18, 2019
In the never-ending struggle for advantage between shippers and ocean carriers, the latter appear to have the upper hand for the moment.
Repl Group
MARCH 18, 2019
How much would it cost to replace all your legacy systems? Depending on the size of your business, it could be hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of pounds. For most organisations, costly, high-risk, time-consuming replatforming programmes are out of the question. Connecting old systems to new offers a superior alternative that allows operations to continue unabated and enables your business to innovate and keep up with the pace of change.
More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.
Rootstock
MARCH 18, 2019
With the coming of St. Patrick’s Day, we celebrate manufacturers who are using personalization to provide those holiday-themed products we know so well. When the parade passes by and marchers are all wearing the green, remember that it’s Cloud ERP that makes all those specialty items possible.
Vecco International
MARCH 18, 2019
Leading 3D printer manufacturing company to deploy next generation supply chain management system to orchestrate supply and demand across their rapidly expanding global supply chain. MALVERN, PA, January 15, 2019 — Vecco International, provider of an advanced end-to-end cloud-based supply chain management solution, today announced that Formlabs, the industry leader in 3D printing technology, has selected Vecco to manage the company’s global supply chain in support of their rapid internatio
Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 18, 2019
After months of contract negotiations between United Parcel Service and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union’s chief negotiator announced that the union had reached a tentative agreement.
GTG Technology Group
MARCH 18, 2019
If You Drive a Truck, Watch Out for These Health Threats. These days, Americans are taking their health and well-being more seriously than ever. The health of individuals varies depending on their lifestyle, so they have different requirements and risks. A trucker, for instance, has very specific health issues to watch out for. Learn more about some of the common illnesses of truckers, and how you can combat each one.
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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.
AB&R
MARCH 18, 2019
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing it right. That’s the approach we take each time we start a relationship with a new customer. Our time-tested Solution Process is our approach to delivering world-class technology that improves the efficiency of the supply chain. Our process is based on nearly 40 years of experience gained from successful installations and projects.
Shipchain
MARCH 18, 2019
Blockchain and Ethereum technology can be very confusing if you don’t have a background in either. It seems that every time I mention that I work for a Blockchain company, the conversation inevitably goes to how exactly it works and what it all means. One aspect that can appear daunting is understanding an Ethereum wallet. Upon first glance, it looks like a long random string of characters.
Enterra Insights
MARCH 18, 2019
Silos have been symbols of farming for decades. Today, however, one is more likely to read about data silos in businesses than storage silos on farms. Business silos, and the data contained in them, are remnants of industrial age organizations. Half a dozen years ago Laurie Sullivan ( @LaurieSullivan ) wrote, “In the past the departments like sales, marketing, customer service, public relations, and supply chain typically used their own datasets, keeping the information in silos.”[1] Unfortunate
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