How Supply Chain Analytics Jobs Are Changing in the Digital Era
River Logic
MARCH 24, 2020
While the term algorithm implies complexity, this isn't necessarily the case, as an algorithm is simply a set of rules used to solve a problem.
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Supply Chain Coronavirus Fears: The State of Uncertainty in the Freight Market
GlobalTranz
MARCH 24, 2020
Truckers and shippers have real fears over the effects and long-term impact of the supply chain coronavirus disruption. The coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, continues to change basic supply chain functions. UPS and FedEx both have released statements professing their need to continue shipping as an essential business, but it will be harder for smaller,read More.
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Food Supply Chain Workers Play Heroic Role During Covid-19 Outbreak
Enterra Insights
MARCH 24, 2020
As a result of panic buying, the Covid-19 outbreak stripped store shelves of essential items. Despite repeated assurances from politicians and supply chain professionals that sufficient goods were in the supply chain, store shelves emptied as fast as they could be restocked. “If there’s one image that captures the panic seeping through the United States,” wrote Michael Corkery ( @mcorkery5 ) and Sapna Maheshwari ( @sapna ), “it might be the empty store shelves where toilet pape
How to Prepare your Supply Chain and Prevent Inventory Stockouts During Events like COVID-19
Stord
MARCH 24, 2020
March 25, 2020 National emergencies and crises like COVID-19 rely on supply chains to deliver groceries and medical supplies to communities across the globe, but they also have a demonstrable disruptive effect. The demand spike for some goods leaves certain manufacturers and retailers scrambling to keep up, while others aren’t able to ship out inventory at all as e-tailer resources are rerouted toward emergency supplies.
Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story
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
10 Supply Chain KPIs And Why You Need To Focus On DOS (Days Of Supply)
TradeGecko
MARCH 24, 2020
Guest post by Excelsior Integrated Today's world moves at the speed of light and to stay relevant we need to make quick decisions. To achieve this, we require actionable, easy to interpret and smart key performance indicators that assist our decision-making process.
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Covid-19 is Testing the Agility of Your Supply Chain!
Adexa
MARCH 24, 2020
Covid 19 has been tough on supply chains. However, it has given the companies a tremendous opportunity to raise their response level and mitigate their risk in future crises. The recent surge of shortages including toilet paper, alcohol, sterilizers, latex gloves and so on has forced certain producers to change their product mix, and/or increase their production, to better serve the rapidly changing market demand.
Truckload Portfolio Diversification: Addressing the risks of a core carrier program—in soft & tight markets
CHAINalytics
MARCH 24, 2020
The post Truckload Portfolio Diversification: Addressing the risks of a core carrier program—in soft & tight markets appeared first on Chainalytics.
What are the 3 Decision Rules for Inventory Control?
Unleashed
MARCH 24, 2020
Effective inventory control is a process. It involves many areas of an organisation and is a delicate balance between the three categories of inventory costs. As one of a business’ greatest assets, inventory is also the cause one of the hardest decisions manufacturers, retailers and eCommerce businesses have to make. Therefore, it is important to establish a set of guidelines to improve inventory decisions and optimise inventory control.
How COVID-19 Will Impact Softline Retailers
BlueYonder
MARCH 24, 2020
Blue Yonder is committed to helping its customers face the unexpected. To provide insights into the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and its impact on supply chains around the world, we are delivering a blog series to help anyone looking for support and advice. Our experts, who have spent years in the supply chain industry, share their insights. . Softline retailers have been battling store closures and traffic declines in malls for several years.
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.
WFH – How to be productive
Proxima
MARCH 24, 2020
When you work for a consultancy you get used to working remotely. Sometimes you are squeezed into a corner on a client site, sometimes you are running video conferences from a hotel room at 4am, sometimes it’s in a coffee shop capitalizing on free WIFI and hot drinks. You might go days or weeks without going into your main office, but somehow it works.
There is no future without integrated production and logistics networks
SupplyOn
MARCH 24, 2020
True supply chain resilience requires an integrated production and logistics planning Much has already been written about flexible production and logistics networks, especially in economically turbulent times. However, the reality in many companies is still that production program planning and logistics planning run side by side in a non-integrated manner.
Liquidity – How to achieve it
Proxima
MARCH 24, 2020
Cash may be king, but don’t cash in. According to figures released by Trade Shift, cross border trade in China fell by 56% in the week commencing February 16th, 2020. This was roughly mirrored by Global B2B international trade patterns in the week commencing 8th March, 2020. In China, it took somewhere between one and three weeks before signs of recovery were seen across some economic indicators, namely Property Transactions, Coal Production and the movement of people and goods.
SMB Shippers Find Stability With 3PLs During COVID-19
Freight Center
MARCH 24, 2020
As the novel coronavirus COVID-19 wreaks havoc with every facet of life in America and around the globe, small-to-medium-sized business (SMB) operators search for stability wherever they can find it. Health and supply chain issues are always on their plates, but not at the level they are today. In some parts of the country, entire metropolitan areas, such as the San Francisco Bay area, are on virtual lockdown, as people have been instructed to “shelter in place.
The Big Payoff of Application Analytics
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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.
Supply Chain News on What You Make Largely Determines Coronavirus Strategies
Supply Chain Digest
MARCH 24, 2020
CPG Manufacturers Overwhelmed with Demand, while Discrete Manufacturers from Cars to Apparel See Demand Collapse
AI is Changing Everything We Thought About Forecasting Demand
Logistics Viewpoints
MARCH 24, 2020
The rise of cloud computing, smart devices and IoT have all resulted in a massive data explosion. By 2025, the amount of data will double every 12 hours. AI now has the ability to consume data far more efficiently than humans, delivering on the possibility of insights and predictions never before imagined. But McKinsey reports that only 33% of organizations are effectively using internal and external data to take advantage of AI capabilities.
Update on Supply Chain News on Second MODEX Attendee found to Have Corona Virus
Supply Chain Digest
MARCH 24, 2020
Appears to have been Close to Dozens or Hundreds of Other Attendees
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.
Procurement Unwrapped Podcast: Episode 2 – What is the Perfect Digital Procurement Journey?
ivalua
MARCH 24, 2020
The post Procurement Unwrapped Podcast: Episode 2 – What is the Perfect Digital Procurement Journey? appeared first on Ivalua.
Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Contest Starting March 25, 2020
Supply Chain Digest
MARCH 24, 2020
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Procurement Unwrapped Podcast: Episode 1 – What’s Procurement Unwrapped All About?
ivalua
MARCH 24, 2020
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Global Teamwork Makes the ‘Dream’ Work
QAD
MARCH 24, 2020
The QAD team in India was recently recognized as a Dream Company to Work For in the IT Sector by the World HRD Congress. QAD is honored to receive this recognition. . What is the ‘Dream Companies to Work for’ List? The ‘Dream Companies to Work for’ list includes companies that have human resource (HR) policies and leaders who demonstrate a deep need to adapt to the business environment and manage disruptions and complexity.
Monetizing Analytics Features
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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.
COVID-19 Open Source Projects and Resources
Dragon Innovation
MARCH 24, 2020
As we all continue to confront the global crisis of COVID-19 , it’s been amazing to see the hardware and manufacturing community step up to contribute in so many different ways. From the 3D printing community to the open source design community , we’re all banding together to help fight this problem.
Xeeva recognized as a solution leader by Spend Matters – understanding why it matters and what’s unique?
Xeeva
MARCH 24, 2020
Spend Matters SolutionMap, an extensive independent benchmark of procurement technology providers has been published multiple times for the last several years. Procurement professionals have been using these SolutionMaps to track market development and disruptors, assess provider capabilities based on their needs, and identify their best-fit provider shortlist.
Why are E-retailers with a Single Shipping Fulfillment Center at Risk?
Amware Logistics and Fulfillment
MARCH 24, 2020
Internet Retailer recently polled 100 E-retailers about their fulfillment networks. According to the survey report , about half of those businesses deliver orders nationally from a single shipping fulfillment center. Not only does this strategy limit delivery speed and increase parcel shipping costs, it creates huge risk of a wholesale business interruption.
What is Mesh Networking Trends Report
This report details the capabilities of mesh networks, how they work, and the applications they thrive in supporting. Connectivity is necessary for optimal productivity, and mesh networking will soon be a significant provider of connectivity globally.
The World’s Largest Brands Are Using Inventory Accuracy and Yard Automation to Fight COVID-19 Chaos
PINC
MARCH 24, 2020
In an uncertain world where supply chain disruption is becoming a certainty, here’s how good inventory management enabled by automation can help companies gain the supply chain visibility they need to keep the wheels turning. When the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) responded to an outbreak of respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus in late-2019, the outbreak’s far-reaching consequences couldn’t have been predicted.
What Goes WRONG in Logistics Outsourcing? (Role Play)
Logistics Bureau
MARCH 24, 2020
Watch this worst-case scenario roleplay (starring Rob as John Jones – the customer – Logistics Manager from OZ Health, and starring Rob again as George Smith – the 3PL Provider – Ops Manager at AAA Distribution). Take a closer look at how John fails to do the following points: 1. Establish clear outsourcing objectives. 2. Identify what is being outsourced. 3.
Xeeva recognized as a solution leader by Spend Matters – understanding why it matters and what’s unique?
Xeeva
MARCH 24, 2020
Spend Matters SolutionMap, an extensive independent benchmark of procurement technology providers has been published multiple times for the last several years. Procurement professionals have been using these SolutionMaps to track market development and disruptors, assess provider capabilities based on their needs, and identify their best-fit provider shortlist.
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