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Design for the Supply Chain Pt 1: Industry 4.0

Kinaxis

by Jonathan Lofton Maybe because I was a Mechanical Engineer in a previous life I carry around a strong bias for good design (without debating what ‘good’ design is, I’ll just reference ‘ Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design ’ since it’s seemed to have stood the test of time). I’m always commenting to my wife about whether I think something is designed well or not.

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The Biggest Mistake When Selecting a 3PL

Talking Logistics

One of our most popular Talking Logistics episodes of all time is Important Factors to Consider When Evaluating and Selecting a Third-Party Logistics (3PL) Partne r (6,220 views to date), which we summarized in a follow-up post and also included in our first Talking Logistics YOUniversity course, Fundamentals of Selecting and Working with 3PL Partners.

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The Future of Distribution and Fulfillment – What We Know, and What We Will Find Out

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC Advisory Group, in partnership with DC Velocity magazine, has just launched an online survey of logistics practitioners to evaluate the future direction of today’s distribution facilities, technologies, and practices. The survey is designed to obtain a multi-faceted overview of the changing demands placed on fulfillment operations and how practitioners are responding by adjusting processes, investing in technology, reconfiguring DC layouts, and expanding networks.

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Big Data Analytics are Improving Business Performance

Enterra Insights

“Nobody needs to be told that data is becoming more complex,” writes Adrian Bridgwater (@ABridgwater). “Every user realises that all … Continued. The post Big Data Analytics are Improving Business Performance appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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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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4 Reasons for the Supply Chain Talent Shortage

Elementum

“We’re like Rodney Dangerfield—we don’t get no respect.” Professor Yossi Sheffi, a Professor of Supply Chain Management at MIT, chuckles when I ask him why there’s such a shortage in supply chain talent. He, like a number of supply chain professionals I spoke to over the past month, was lamenting the fact that the term “supply chain” doesn’t do a great job of suggesting the complex work involved in running the manufacturing, movement, and storage of a product.

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Demand-Driven Technologies Evolved

synchrono

By John Maher. When I first began instituting demand-driven practices in the late 90s, we were into creating pull, eliminating waste, and getting on a path of continuous improvement. Technology at the time was seen as an inhibitor rather than an enabler. Most people active in Constraints Management and Lean Manufacturing were abandoning their technology and going to purely manual solutions.

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Transparency is the new Sustainability

NC State SCRC

The focus on corporate sustainability often calls for companies to increase transparency in all aspects of an organization’s operations, and much more so in the supply chain. Apparel and electronics companies that source all of their products from factories in emerging countries are especially targeted for allegedly hiring contractors that push the boundaries of human rights labor laws.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on How is the Pipeline of Women in the Supply Chain Progressing

Supply Chain Digest

Percent of Women in Supply Chain College Programs is Growing, but Industry Not Seeing the Impact Yet in Terms of Senior Management Roles

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Manufacturing and Logistics: Manufacturers Look towards Logistics Efficiency to Stay Competitive

GlobalTranz

A traditional viewpoint of manufacturers reveals many flaws in the efficiencies of standard shipping, transportation, and other logistics processes. Inherently, manufacturing and logistics go hand in hand. Manufacturers must receive raw material inbound and send out product to customers outbound. To take a quick step back, logistics refers to the forward and reverse flow of goods and services to retailers, businesses, and consumers.

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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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Readers Sound Off on Detention

DAT Solutions

FLEET MANAGEMENT TOOLS. Track trucks and measure detention time with DAT InView™ DAT InView features. 4 ways to compete with big fleets. Contact us for a demo. We recently posted a reader poll with a couple questions about detention times. We wanted to know how often your trucks are detained for more than two hours, and how often you're able to collect a detention fee when it happens.

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Forecasting: Academia versus Business

Arkieva

In a recent discussion on LinkedIn, a question was asked: Is there a disconnect between the academia and business world when it comes to forecasting? As you can imagine, this is a matter of checking the record and reporting on what one finds in the data. Since I neither have the data, nor the resources available to conduct this research, it is somewhat of an overreach for me to comment on this.

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How to Keep the Flu from Invading Your Office

AFFLINK

The flu has been spreading across the country with a vengeance this year, and the flu season isn’t over yet. In the U.S., flu activity typically peaks between December and February, and new cases may continue through May. And, with the CDC reporting a recent uptick in flu activity, small and large business alike are right to be fearful of the implications the virus can have on the office.

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Fashion industry: the value of a line sheet template

Collaborate Cloud

One of the many facets of successfully running a fashion business is implementing a foolproof system to manage inventory, digital assets, and product costs. This is solved with the implementation of a line sheet template, which responds to the needs of fashion businesses that have multiple retail channels, from brick-and-mortar stores to e-commerce platforms.

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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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Everyone Is Sick of the 3 Worst Bottlenecks in America

GTG Technology Group

Bottlenecks are the bane of truckers everywhere. Across the United States, they’re wasting thousands of hours of drive time and causing safety hazards for people on the road. Recently, the American Highway Users Alliance and the American Transportation Research Institute’s ranked a list of the worst bottlenecks in America. About the Studies. The reports studied the effects of the worst bottlenecks and the positive impact that fixing them would have on the economy.

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VIDEO: Man sucked from airliner after bomb explodes

Logistics Middle East

Video has emerged of the aftermath of an explosion aboard an airliner that set one passenger on fire as he was sucked from the aircraft.

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The New Logistics Part 1: Pop-Up Warehousing

FLEXE

<p>One of the key findings was that the vast majority of warehouse and fulfillment organizations, industry-wide, experience significant fluctuations in volume at specific times throughout the year. And almost every survey participant said they expect these capacity issues to continue or become even more pronounced over time.</p> <p>In our study, about 70% of the survey respondents also stated that they don’t have a viable solution when these problems ari

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FOCUS: EasyJet to use hydrogen cells to power planes

Logistics Middle East

The UK-based budget airliner easyjet has announced plans to use hydrogen fuel cells on their planes, an aviation first.

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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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Truckers and Freight Brokers, Close the Gap in Your Business!

Tailwind

Truckers and Freight Brokers, Close the Gap in Your Business! My 10-year-old daughter recently went to the dentist to have a procedure completed whereby the gap between her two front teeth would be rectified. I don’t generally play the genetic blame game (especially when it does not work in my favour), but she gets it from my husband’s side of the family.

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Burning man sucked from airliner after bomb explodes

Logistics Middle East

One passenger was reportedly on fire as he was sucked from the airliner after a bomb exploded shortly after take-off.

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Aramex reports profit plunge for Q4 of 2015

Logistics Middle East

The logistics giant Aramex has reported a 36 percent decrease in net profit for the fourth quarter of 2015.

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DXB air cargo volumes grow despite DWC transfer

Logistics Middle East

Cargo volumes at Dubai International saw steady growth of 3.4 percent last year.

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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.