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How High Is Your Control Tower?

Talking Logistics

The recent disruptions worldwide have exposed how important end-to-end visibility and control are to building the resiliency required to survive and thrive in changing conditions. Being equipped when disruptions occur means knowing what’s going on at every tier in your supply chain, understanding cross-functional impacts, quickly executing decisions and continuously monitoring and optimizing the results.

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5 More 2021 Trends in the Supply Chain to Start Thinking About Now

GlobalTranz

The saying goes- the only thing staying the same is that everything keeps changing. And the statement becomes especially true with supply chain management. It’s crucial to track the 2021 trends in the supply chain needed for success. Advanced solutions that mirror these trends will enable success in the coming year. During a year of.read More. The post 5 More 2021 Trends in the Supply Chain to Start Thinking About Now appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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5 Success Factors in Effective Omnichannel Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

This year with the global pandemic, Black Friday was different from before. Luckily, we did not have to set up our camping tents in front of our favorite stores, but just logged in to their mobile apps. Online shopping has been on a steady rise since 2010. With the global pandemic, it became a necessity. Consumers who realized the ease of use of online shopping – choosing items from the warmth of their seat and […].

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COVID-19 Vaccine Logistic Challenges: Helpful Lessons from Complex Manufacturing

Arkieva

Today we will discuss a few of the logistics challenges from the perspective of an industry expert with lots of time in the trenches. With all due respect to public health and government experts, their experience cannot match those with substantial time and proven success in these industries. Arkieva is ready to help Delaware. COVID-19 Vaccine Logistic Challenges: Helpful Lessons from Complex Manufacturing was first posted on December 3, 2020 at 8:04 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog -

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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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Watch: A New Supply-Chain Resilience Stress Test

Supply Chain Brain

Kris Timmermans, senior managing director and global lead for supply chain operations with Accenture, and David Simchi-Levi, professor of engineering systems at MIT, discuss their joint effort in creating a stress test for assessing the risks to supply chains of major disruptions.

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Technology's Role in Delivering a Vaccine Across the Globe

Supply Chain Brain

Supply-chain technologies — including artificial intelligence — can help distribute a COVID-19 vaccine more quickly, and to more people.

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How the Dutch Armed Forces’ Change Management Approach Contributed to 3D Printing Adoption

DiManEx

Last month, we participated in the AM for Defense Conference , a virtual event which offered a window into the innovative uses of Additive Manufacturing in the defense industry. Our CEO, Tibor van Melsem Kocsis, joined our customer Maj. Stephan Wildenberg from the Dutch Armed Forces on stage to share insights from their transition to digital warehousing.

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Conducting a PPAP Audit in an Age of Supply Chain Flexibility

AFFLINK

Supply chain flexibility is this year's buzzword in the wake of COVID-19, but supply chain quality remains equally important. If you don't want your efforts at supply chain flexibility to go awry, you need the ability to perform fast and thorough PPAP audits. What's a PPAP Audit? PPAP stands for the "Production Part Approval Process." This audit process was initially used by the automotive industry—although it's often used in broader contexts—to ensure that a supplier can deliver tools, parts, o

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Mission of the Century: LogiNext Mile to enable the Covid Vaccine Supply Chain

Loginext

LogiNext announces the launch of world's first complete covid vaccine supply chain distribution platform. Enabled for the needs of the pandemic, this SaaS platform can be used by healthcare and government organisations to distribute the vaccine effectively.

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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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MPO and ALKIMIUS Announce Strategic Partnerships in Latin America

Supply Chain Brain

MPO and ALKIMIUS Group have recently announced a new strategic partnership to reshape the digital supply chain landscape in Latin America.

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How Can a Transportation Management System (TMS) Promote Sustainability?

IT Supply Chain

By Martin Verwijmeren (pictured). CEO & Co-Founder of MPO. The post How Can a Transportation Management System (TMS) Promote Sustainability? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Small Business Shipping During the Holidays with a 3PL

Freight Center

The holidays are a hectic time for everyone, especially for small business shippers and supply chain managers. Not only do you need the right shipping solutions, but you need them at the best rates and on a deadline. Shipping freight without expert guidance makes accomplishing all of this pretty challenging. So how can you meet all these needs and ship easier?

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Which is The Best Mobile App Development Methodologies For 2020 & Beyond?

IT Supply Chain

By Juned Ghanchi (pictured). Co-Founder & CMO At Indianappdeveloper. The post Which is The Best Mobile App Development Methodologies For 2020 & Beyond? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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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How to Benefit from Trucking Companies!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Minimum Load for Trucking! Get Our EBOOK HERE. Benefit from trucking article and permission to publish here provided by Saeed Darwish. Are you looking to work with a trucking company to transport your products? If so, you want to make sure that you get the most out of transport services.

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Retailers’ final Christmas order dates are in meltdown, so shop now

IT Supply Chain

By David Jinks MILT (pictured). ParcelHero’s Head of Consumer Research, The post Retailers’ final Christmas order dates are in meltdown, so shop now appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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BR Williams Celebrates 5 Years in Mobile, AL

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

BR Williams is celebrating the 5 th anniversary of their Mobile, AL distribution center and thanking the Mobile team for their incredible work over the years. Established in 2015, the Mobile, AL distribution center and leased warehouse space is strategically located in Mobile County, Alabama near the Port of Mobile. As it is nearly five hours from the home office in Oxford, the Mobile location employs a full dispatch and trucking division, along with the employees in the warehouse and distributi

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Online shopping has changed logistics forever

IT Supply Chain

By Stephen Hayes (pictured). Managing director, Beckhoff UK. The post Online shopping has changed logistics forever appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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.

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Benefits of IoT in the Warehouse

3PL Insights

The internet of things, or IoT, encompasses interrelated, internet-connected objects that allow data to be collected and transferred over a network without human interaction. In a warehouse, these “objects” can include sensors for warehouse machinery and temperature, RFID tags for goods, wearables for employees, automated robots, and warehouse management systems.

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6 financial reasons to switch to automated piece picking

6 River Systems

The e-commerce boom has increased the load on warehouses and distribution centers. To accommodate the surge in demand, distribution centers and warehouses are ramping up hiring. However, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic , there was a shortage of workers in the market, resulting in a surge in the labor costs throughout supply chains. The average hourly wage of a warehouse employee has increased by 16% over a decade.

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Four Strategy Shifts Toward Building an 'Antifragile' Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

Making these four shifts is proving to be table stakes for companies looking to compete on a global scale.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Dec. 3, 2020

Supply Chain Digest

Christmas Toy Inventories in Danger Zone, UPS Stops taking Some Retailer Shipments, US Purchasing Managers Index Strong in November, Brick and Mortar Sales Drop Sharply

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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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In Trade’s 2020 Comeback, Globalization Is Alive and Kicking

Supply Chain Brain

The COVID-19 pandemic was supposed to put the final nail in the coffin of globalization and prompt a retreat into a new era of protectionism. Instead, some are now calling the crisis the Great Accelerator.

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Let’s Discuss Cognitive Technologies

Enterra Insights

One of the most oft-used, computer-related terms being tossed about in business circles is “artificial intelligence” (AI). Arvind Narayanan ( @random_walker ), an associate professor at Princeton, asserts, “Most of the products or applications being sold today as artificial intelligence (AI) are little more than ‘snake oil’.”[1] That may sound harsh; however, Siegel explains, “The much better, precise term would instead usually be machine learning — which is genuinely powerful and ev

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Five Key Rules to Thrive as a Woman in Technology

Tecsys

A 2015 study shows that despite an increase in women with STEM degrees, the proportion… The post Five Key Rules to Thrive as a Woman in Technology appeared first on Tecsys.

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5 Success Factors in Effective Omnichannel Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

This year with the global pandemic, Black Friday was different from before. Luckily, we did not have to set up our camping tents in front of our favorite stores, but just logged in to their mobile apps. Online shopping has been on a steady rise since 2010. With the global pandemic, it became a necessity. Consumers who realized the ease of use of online shopping – choosing items from the warmth of their seat and having them delivered in a couple of days – gained a new habit.

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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.

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What is Contract Management? Your Procurement Guide

ProcurePort

Contract management is one of the key duties procurement and sourcing teams must attend to. An orderly contract management process can grow business and increase revenue. To get the best value from each supplier contract, it is imperative to know and understand exactly what is contract management. Contract Management Defined What is contract management anyway?

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The top warehouse challenges in Saudi Arabia and how to solve them

SCJunction

In this blog, we continue our dive into warehousing in the GCC economy to help you identify hotspots and solutions to keep your warehouse on track with best practices and successful fulfillment.

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Source-to-Contract (S2C) Demo

ivalua

The post Source-to-Contract (S2C) Demo appeared first on Ivalua.

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