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What to Know About Capacity Planning In The New Era Of Digital

River Logic

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How to Build Your Supply Chain Digital Twin Using Sensor Data

Roambee

The market for Digital Twins is estimated to grow from $3.8 billion in 2019 to $35.8 in 2025 as per a recent report. But are you fully acquainted with the concept of Digital Twin and how to leverage it in your supply chain system?

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Four Signs That It’s Time to Rethink Transportation Management

Talking Logistics

Is your supply chain at a crossroads? Customers want next-day or same-day shipments, IT departments are overextended, and your transportation management system (TMS) has become unmanageable. If your company is among the estimated 60 percent of organizations that have yet to adopt a TMS, or has an older application — or worse, “systems” that are. Read more Four Signs That It’s Time to Rethink Transportation Management.

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What cold chain logistics services do 3PLs provide for candy products?

West Coast and California Logistics

Candy products come in all shapes, sizes and colors, but share many of the same needs from a logistics standpoint. They all need to be carefully handled throughout the supply chain so that they reach customers exactly as intended. In this article, we’ll examine the cold chain logistics services a third-party logistics provider (3PL) can provide to protect the integrity of your products every step of the way.

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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

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Easy Tricks to Ensure Your Business Will Succeed!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. A Formula For Achieving Game Changing Results! Business will succeed article and permission to publish here provided by Joelle Peters. Starting a business can be downright terrifying. There are hundreds of unknowns, from how your business will be received to making the right decisions for your brand.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Supply Chain & Logistics Supply

ThroughPut

Speed in decision-making, speed in reducing cycle-times, speed in operations, and speed in continuous improvement. According to Gartner , supply chain organizations expect the level of machine automation in their supply chain processes to double in the next five years. At the same time, according to a recent study, annual Industrial IoT (IIOT) spending by growing companies is estimated to be a whopping $500 billion by the year 2020.

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Why You Should Move Secondary Packaging Closer to the Consumer

Consumer Goods Logistics

Much of the cost and complexity in CPG supply chains happen post manufacturing. Think about it. You might have one product – a potato chip – that gets packaged in dozens of ways. Historically, this final packaging has been handled as a discrete supply chain function by contract packaging companies. But an increasing number of CPG companies are recognizing the huge cost advantages – as much as 30% of combined warehousing, packaging and freight costs – of performing secondary packaging in the dist

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The Future of Modern Supply Chains is Speed through AI

ThroughPut

Guest Post by Anita Raj, AI & Industry 4.0 Evangelist. Speed in decision-making, speed in reducing cycle-times, speed in operations, and speed in continuous improvement. According to Gartner , supply chain organizations expect the level of machine automation in their supply chain processes to double in the next five years. At the same time, according to a recent study, annual Industrial IoT (IIOT) spending by growing companies is estimated to be a whopping $500 billion by the year 2020.

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Why You Should Move Secondary Packaging Closer to the Consumer

Consumer Goods Logistics

Much of the cost and complexity in CPG supply chains happen post manufacturing. Think about it. You might have one product – a potato chip – that gets packaged in dozens of ways. Historically, this final packaging has been handled as a discrete supply chain function by contract packaging companies. But an increasing number of CPG companies are recognizing the huge cost advantages – as much as 30% of combined warehousing, packaging and freight costs – of performing secondary packaging in the dist

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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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What To Do With All of This Data? Robinson Labs Has the Solution

CH Robinson Transportfolio

One of the most frequent comments I get from customers is: “We have so much data but we don’t know what to do with it.” Everyone in the logistics industry says this but they’re each trying to answer different questions – from how do I get my products delivered to customers faster to meet the ever-changing consumer demands to how can I improve dwell times and on-time performance?

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Burden or Benefit? Transportation Automation Is Here to Stay

MercuryGate

Shippers and logistics service providers (LSPs) continuously strive to find the best way to increase profitability and reduce overhead freight and transportation management expenses. Supply chain leaders leverage transportation automation technology to achieve these goals. Some shippers continue to conduct manual, repetitive processes, despite the capabilities and benefits of automation features within a transportation management […].

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The Top Freight KPIs You Need to Succeed

GlobalTranz

Tracking the right key performance indicators (KPIs) can mean the difference between success or failure in your logistics enterprise. The top freight KPIs you need to succeed enable continuous improvement, rely on real-time visibility and apply the latest in freight analytics capabilities. Furthermore, the use of freight metrics and KPIs is a testament to the.read More.

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US Production Execs Support Increased Tariffs Despite the Risks of Recession

Logistics Viewpoints

When you read business magazines, it is easy to get the impression that business executives are overwhelmingly opposed to increasing tariffs. When it comes to US manufacturing executives, that is not true. A majority of manufacturing executives believe that a global recession is likely in 2020 (61%) and that an extended trade war would likely lead to a global recession (70%).

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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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Carriers: Work with Bulk Freight Brokers to Secure Backhaul Trucking

Bulk Connection

As important as backhaul trucking is to carriers, it can still sometimes get lost in the shuffle. Or, backhauls may simply be hard to come by within your lanes. No matter what the reason is, bulk freight brokers are here to help.

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Open banking, open API, PSD2: A story of conservative banks in France!

Axway

Financial services that can be assembled and disassembled like a Lego game? This is the promise of Open Banking advantages and the opportunities it has to offer.

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Understanding How Business Intelligence and Reporting Impact Your Business

Unleashed

When you’re running a warehouse, you need to be in the loop with what’s going on, what product is moving where, and if your inventory control is working how you intended it to. There are a few different ways to gain this understanding — some inventory managers turn to reports, while others use business intelligence to support their operational needs.

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The Top 5 Food Industry Trends in 2020

ITradeNetwork

In recent years, we’ve seen that consumers increasingly want the food they eat to be fresh, healthy, trustworthy, and convenient. We expect this to continue in 2020, pushing the industry in new directions.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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Trends and Predictions 2020: Food and Grocery

Enterra Insights

Food is one of the essential needs all humans have in common. In an extended essay entitled “A Room of One’s Own,” the late Virginia Woolf, wrote, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” One can only dine well if good food is available. Professionals in the food supply chain work hard to ensure good food finds its way from farm to fork.

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Will Amazon or Walmart Acquire FedEx?

Intelligent Audit

It’s no secret, at this point, that Amazon has its eye on the delivery business. The company has dominated the eCommerce space, the only logical next step is to do the same for delivery – not only for its own shipping but as a full-fledged carrier in its own right. However, while Amazon’s march toward eCommerce dominance has been staggering, it has not been without competition.

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How to Protect Shipments from Freezing Temperatures

Freight Center

Temperatures are going down, and winter is officially here. Many shipments contain items that have the potential to freeze in lower temperatures, which could result in damage or loss. Don’t let the cold hurt your freight and bottom line. Check out how to protect shipments from freezing temperatures below.

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5 Procure to Pay Risks Procurement Teams Could Miss

ProcurePort

Procure to pay has to do with getting goods and supplies from suppliers or manufacturers and paying for them. As a company, it is important to run a procure to pay system if you are concerned about managing cash flow, making profits and doing business with reputable suppliers. In this post, we’ll look at 5 […]. The post 5 Procure to Pay Risks Procurement Teams Could Miss appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.

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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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15 Ways to Reduce Costs for Oversized and Heavy Freight Shipping

I.C.E. Transport

For global shippers of oversized (e.g., machinery, construction equipment) and heavy freight (e.g., stone, tile, metal, forgings, castings and even bottled water), keeping freight costs low requires added expertise and, sometimes, a little creativity. Here are 15 ideas to reduce costs for oversized and heavy freight.

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Will FedEx or Walmart Acquire FedEx?

Intelligent Audit

It’s no secret, at this point, that Amazon has its eye on the delivery business. The company has dominated the eCommerce space, the only logical next step is to do the same for delivery – not only for its own shipping but as a full-fledged carrier in its own right. However, while Amazon’s march toward eCommerce dominance has been staggering, it has not been without competition.

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Claritum continues to expand

Claritum

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Bath, UK (Jan 22, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced further expansion in the team. “David and Paul are two key new hires to the Claritum team.” said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum. “David joining our development team, to bring additional data analytics focus, and Paul joining the Sales team to engage in new business growth.”.

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Tailwind presenting at Cargo Logistics Canada Expo & Conference!

Tailwind

Cargo Logistics Canada is North America’s Multi-modal Supply Chain Expo. It addresses the needs of cargo owners, managers and agents who contract the flow of goods through Canadian supply chains. CLC encompasses the entire cargo spectrum – all major transportation modes and all cargo types, under one roof. We are proud to announce that Tailwind’s Director of Product Design & Delivery, Kyle Shaw, will be a speaker on the Tech Hub Stage.

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GEP Outlook Report 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders have faced their share of disruption and economic turmoil these past four years. Whether from geopolitical tensions or the havoc caused by the pandemic and its aftershocks, plenty of challenges remain. Despite this, leaders are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel — inflation is decreasing, interest rates are leveling off and supply chain volatility is easing.

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How to Protect Shipments from Freezing Temperatures

Freight Center

Temperatures are going down, and winter is officially here. Many shipments contain items that have the potential to freeze in lower temperatures, which could result in damage or loss. Don’t let the cold hurt your freight and bottom line. Check out how to protect shipments from freezing temperatures below. What Are Freeze Protection Services? Freeze protection services , or protect from freeze services, protect cold-sensitive shipments from exposure to freezing temperatures during transit.

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TMS + Integrated Real-Time Visibility | MercuryGate Infographic

MercuryGate

The post TMS + Integrated Real-Time Visibility | MercuryGate Infographic appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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Claritum continues to expand

Claritum

Bath, UK (Jan 22, 2020) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced further expansion in the team. “Paul is a key new hire to the Claritum team.” said Prof. Richard Hillum, Executive Chairman at Claritum. “Paul joining the Sales team to engage in managing our new business growth.”. Paul joins the Claritum Sales team.