Kinaxis
JUNE 22, 2016
by Melissa Clow This guest post comes to us from Argentus Supply Chain Recruiting , a boutique recruitment firm specializing in Supply Chain Management. We’re always trying to stay on top of Supply Chain developments at Argentus. And this sometimes takes us into looking at the emerging technologies that are poised to have a significant impact on the function.
Logistics Viewpoints
JUNE 22, 2016
Last week I read the Logistics Viewpoints guest post by Chainalytics discussing the pitfalls of decision-marking biases. Although the Chainalytics article focuses on supply chain decision making, these biases can apply to business forecasting as well. Reading this article made me interested in my own potential decision-making biases. I chose to take time on Friday to review some of the research I have conducted during my ten years as an analyst at ARC Advisory Group. […].
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River Logic
JUNE 22, 2016
The essence of business can be viewed as an organization's ability to deliver more value to customers than their competitors. In a global marketplace, this often manifests itself as a constant downward pressures on prices, as each business struggles to maintain and expand on market share in the face of strong competition from both foreign and domestic competitors.
The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog
JUNE 22, 2016
Phat Doan, Mandy Kuo, Philip Okwo, Brendon Pezzak, Roxana Ruvalcaba, Christopher Tang, and David Zhao, UCLA Anderson School. In the U.S., Feeding America is a national human services agency that distributes food donated by large food manufacturers (such as Kraft) to a nationwide network of food banks (Figure). At each food bank, 20% of the foods is provided by Feeding America and the remaining 80% is donated by the local food manufacturers and distributors.
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
AFFLINK
JUNE 22, 2016
Self-driving cars have been on many manufacturers’ minds since Google announced that it had mastered the technology in 2011. With the invention of improved GPS, camera technology, and navigation systems, it seems like the self-driving car isn’t far away from becoming a reality. There are so many supply chain optimization benefits the self-driving car could bring, from improved automation to standardization.
Supply Chain Brief brings together the best content for supply chain and logistic professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Supply Chain Digest
JUNE 22, 2016
Hong Kong Tops the List by Far, and While No US Area Made the Top 10, Rates are Rising Fast Here
GlobalTranz
JUNE 22, 2016
“You have to see this kid from Davidson,” said my friends who had brought me to a small college gym in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 2008, as I watched a midseason college basketball game of little importance. And sure enough, just a few minutes in, this painfully skinny sophomore comes flying off a screen several feet behind the three-point line, still dogged by a defender, and then somehow sets his feet and still moving laterally lets an improbable shot fly.
Supply Chain Digest
JUNE 22, 2016
Global Energy Consumption Falls to Just One Third of Economic Growth, while Low Prices End String of 15 Straight Years of Decline in Oil Share
Infosys Supply Chain Management
JUNE 22, 2016
An year of perseverance, hard work, intense discussions and night outs has come to an end and the results, I would say, have been impressive. In fact, the go-live for this transformational ERP program was the smoothest one I have witnessed in my 10 year long career. The client was from utility industry located in Las Vegas & had a customer base of approximately 2 million including residential, commercial and industrial customers.They provided natural gas service to parts of Arizona, Nevada,
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.
Techgistics
JUNE 22, 2016
Travel time by warehouse pickers typically accounts for 50-60% of the total order fulfillment costs and considering that Amazon ships upwards of 5 billion items per year , optimizing the order fulfillment process has an enormous impact on Amazon’s bottom line. In 2012, Amazon acquired Kiva for $775 million and rolled out robots in their distribution centers in 2014.
Enterra Insights
JUNE 22, 2016
“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having,” Booker T. Washington once remarked, “except as a result of hard … Continued. The post Cognitive Process Automation™ can be Good for Business and the Soul appeared first on Enterra Solutions.
Elementum
JUNE 22, 2016
How will Panasonic benefit from being the exclusive supplier of batteries for Tesla? Panasonic As Tesla’s Sole Supplier of EV Batteries. It was recently reported that a shipment of 120 tons of Samsung SDI battery cells arrived at a California Tesla development facility in April, destined for the company's factory in Palo Alto. As soon as the report was published, different speculations filled the Internet that Samsung will be supplying EV batteries for Tesla’s Model 3 vehicles.
ModusLink Corporation
JUNE 22, 2016
For a strong—and above all loyal— customer relationship, today’s organizations need to have an excellent customer engagement center staffed with highly trained, internationally oriented people who can effortlessly switch between customers’ preferred communication channels, whether it be website, telephone, Twitter or Facebook. Consistent Answers It seems simple, but there are plenty of pitfalls.
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Supply Chain Movement
JUNE 22, 2016
The German retailer dm-drogerie markt owns more than 3,200 stores in 12 European countries. In Germany alone, dm opened 144 new stores in the past 2014/2015 fiscal year. In order to have a platform and device independent application for resource planning in all dm stores, the health and beauty retail company standardized and centralized its retail management solution including all user interfaces with the help of inconso.
EcoVadis
JUNE 22, 2016
David Cowell , Chief Procurement Officer at Coca-Cola Enterprises, took part in the EcoVadis SustaIn 2016 Conference as speaker in a panel discussion along with GSK CPO Jean-Yves Rotté-Geoffroy. In this short interview recorded at the SustaIn conference, Mr. Cowell touches on key best practices for embedding sustainability into the business, such as setting targets internally and externally, and getting traction with suppliers in carbon reduction and other sustainability criteria.
Tailwind
JUNE 22, 2016
I was driving my car some years ago. My lovely little daughter, all of the age of 7, and a bit of a ‘chatterbox’, was giving a tour of our neighborhood to her little girl friend in the backseat. As we drove by the school she said; “Do you know that we have over 350 kids in our school? I am not sure which one I am.but.” Out of the mouths of babes.
Tailwind
JUNE 22, 2016
I was driving my car some years ago. My lovely little daughter, all of the age of 7, and a bit of a ‘chatterbox’, was giving a tour of our neighborhood to her little girl friend in the backseat. As we drove by the school she said; “Do you know that we have over 350 kids in our school? I am not sure which one I am…… but…… ”. Out of the mouths of babes.
More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.
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