GlobalTranz
JUNE 25, 2015
Editor’s Note: This is a blog post about remembering the fundamentals in order to achieve success. Of course, we live in a high technology powered supply chain world, but often, as we noted in our 5 Upfront LTL Tips post, if you don’t remember the basics and best practices, no technology is going to fix those issues, but only make them more apparent.
AIMMS
JUNE 25, 2015
AIMMS CMO Patrick van Gent at the European Supply Chain & Logistics Summit. The European Supply Chain and Logistics Summit has established itself as one of the largest conferences in the industry. This year, lots of leading companies shared best practices and learnings from their supply chain projects and innovations. The summit offered an impressive speaker lineup, featuring Nestle, Ikea, Samsung, AIMMS clients like Merck, BP, Nampak, BASF, and Philips and our partner Oliver Wight.
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Logistics Viewpoints
JUNE 25, 2015
Supply chain execution convergence is a hot topic these days. The need for end-to-end visibility and solutions that proactively enable planning and the ability to react to the unavoidable disruptions is paramount. Organizations need to evaluate their overall supply chain approach and to consider how supply chain execution convergence can get them to the next […].
Talking Logistics
JUNE 25, 2015
Shipping and transportation are typically seen as problems businesses face on their own. After all, no two companies share the same exact supply chain. And several aspects of the industry, like bidding for carrier contracts, are highly dependent on idiosyncratic individual relationships between enterprises. But in the last few years technology has enabled communities of shippers to act collectively in ways that benefit not only the entire shipping community, but individual businesses too.
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
The Network Effect
JUNE 25, 2015
Kiran Foster/Flickr. Note: this is the final is series of posts that explored the top 10 trends affecting pharmaceutical supply chains. . First, let’s have have a recap on the what the top 10 trends are: The Rise of OTC and Generics. Growing Demand for S&OP. Optimized execution in operations, logistics, and distribution. Counterfeiting. Rising healthcare cos ts.
Supply Chain Brief brings together the best content for supply chain and logistic professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Network Effect
JUNE 25, 2015
There’s a great new report out from Chainlink Resarch called “Supply Chain Renaissance” Just what is the supply chain renaissance you ask? The report explores how supply chain management is finally moving beyond modular applications and point-to-point communications to many-to-many networks that enable complex communication across multiple parties in a supply chain.
ModusLink Corporation
JUNE 25, 2015
There is so much more to global expansion than simply operating with a different currency. No two countries are alike, and no matter how similar certain countries might seem, there is no magic bullet for supply chain solutions that will work across the board. When a company expands beyond its home country, it opens itself […]. The post Tips for Global Expansion (Part 1) appeared first on ModusLink Global Solutions.
Tompkins Blog
JUNE 25, 2015
Tompkins International - Your Supply Chain. The Right Way. Last week I read multiple articles regarding the closing of brick and mortar store locations throughout the US. The titles of a few articles stated “Hope” and “Dying Slowly”. The post Why Retailers Need To Be Using Multiple Channels appeared first on Tompkins International.
Elementum
JUNE 25, 2015
Since May, 47 million birds across 15 ofthe United States have been put down as a result of hundreds of confirmed cases of the Avian Flu. 25% of the country’s egg production has been affected, drastically limiting the supply and raising the cost of eggs nationwide. Restaurants like McDonald’s are serving a limited number of eggs , and some restaurants have limited their breakfast hours.
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.
Tompkins Blog
JUNE 25, 2015
Tompkins International - Your Supply Chain. The Right Way. Last week I read multiple articles regarding the closing of brick and mortar store locations throughout the US. The titles of a few articles stated “Hope” and “Dying Slowly”. The post Why Retailers Need To Be Using Multiple Channels appeared first on Tompkins International.
Tecsys
JUNE 25, 2015
In my last post, I introduced the longitudinal study that MIT Sloan Management Review has been conducting over the past five years. From 2010 to 2012 they indicated that 67% of those surveyed believed that analytics gave their organizations a competitive edge. In 2013, that figure stabilized at 66% revealing the so called 'Moneyball Effect' where leaders lost their competitive edge that they once enjoyed because followers matured and made analytics core competencies.
Tompkins Blog
JUNE 25, 2015
Tompkins International - Your Supply Chain. The Right Way. Join the Tompkins Supply Chain Leadership Forum 2015. This year’s keynote speaker Jim Tompkins, CEO, Tompkins International, will address the latest thoughts on supply chain practices. Jim was selected as the 2015 Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award recipient by the Institute of Industrial Engineers, IIE.
Supply Chain Digest
JUNE 25, 2015
Esha Arikapalli of JDA Software and Heather Rome Take Home the Prize
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Tompkins Blog
JUNE 25, 2015
Tompkins International - Your Supply Chain. The Right Way. Join the Tompkins Supply Chain Leadership Forum 2015. This year’s keynote speaker Jim Tompkins, CEO, Tompkins International, will address the latest thoughts on supply chain practices. Jim was selected as the 2015 Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award recipient by the Institute of Industrial Engineers, IIE.
MIT Supply Chain
JUNE 25, 2015
Air travelers perceive connecting flights are a nuisance that they try to avoid if possible. But according to new research from MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and Environment (LAE), the rapid growth of indirect flights has enabled air transportation to dramatically improve connectivity between regions across the globe. The LAE researchers analyzed flight schedules between 1990 […].
Marianne Hudson
JUNE 25, 2015
Angel investing as an asset class is continuing to grow and many accredited investors want to learn how they can best get involved. When I’m asked that question I have one simple answer—start with a local angel group. There is no better way to simplify the complexities of angel investing [.
EcoVadis
JUNE 25, 2015
EcoVadis is now powering it’s growing business with Enercoop, a unique green energy supplier. EcoVadis has taken a big step forward in reducing our own environmental footprint: we are really excited to announce that as of June 2015, EcoVadis’ Paris Headquarters office has changed electricity provider and is now using Enercoop , a supplier of 100% renewable energy.
More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.
Supply Chain Digest
JUNE 25, 2015
Dan Gilmore as Usual Reviews the Just Released State of Logistics Report for 2015
Elementum
JUNE 25, 2015
When the TAA failed in the House earlier this month, there was talk of Obama’s big Pacific Rim trade deal falling apart. Now, though, things are looking up for the President. On Tuesday night, a Senate filibuster on fast-track legislation ended, paving the way for the passing of the Trans Pacific Partnership’s fasttrack (TPA) without a necessary passing of the TAA.
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