Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2020

We’ve been receiving a number of questions from customers asking how to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 (aka coronavirus) on their operations, employees, customers and carriers. The good news is there is a lot that can be done now with your existing logistics and supply chain solutions. You could also quickly take advantage of new ones to be safe and mitigate the financial impact on your business.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 26, 2020

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Featuring Our 10 Best Inventory Management Articles! Inventory Management Best Practices article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Dave Joseph at veridian.info. Supply chain leaders are continuously looking for ways to improve inventory management, and the role of technology in the supply chain offers significant advantages.

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Prophetic Technology

MARCH 26, 2020

The Supply Chain ( SC ) has been growing up to such an extent, that it is getting much more complicated each day; to the same degree, manufacturing challenge and competition are escalating fast in no time.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 26, 2020

Supermarkets are heavily impacted by unexpected peaks in demand and product unavailability from areas that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This global health crisis has uncovered vulnerabilities in our food supply chains, affecting the capacity of food retailers to ensure its continuity. It is critical for retailers to quickly respond to these sudden changes, but many struggle with this because their planners still rely on spreadsheets and legacy tools to plan their logistics operat

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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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Talking Logistics

MARCH 26, 2020

Note: Today’s post is part of our “Editor’s Pick” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide practical knowledge and advice on timely and important supply chain and logistics topics. This post by John Richardson from Transportation Insight’s blog looks at Aesop’s fable about the ants and the grasshopper as a.

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QAD

MARCH 26, 2020

One October, when I was about 10 years old, my family and I traveled from the east coast of the United States to Michigan for a relative’s wedding. As we were driving on the highway, I saw a lot of trucks filled with things that looked like footballs. My mother, a Michigan native, told me that those were sugar beets and that they were used to make sugar.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 26, 2020

The U.S.-China trade war already had American companies rethinking their relationships with Chinese manufacturers. Then came two additional nails in the coffin.

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Tive

MARCH 26, 2020

A big congratulations to Vincent Rivait of BOA Logistics. Food Logistics, the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product through the global food supply chain, has named Vince to its 2020 Food Logistics Champions: Rock Stars of the Supply Chain award.

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Stord

MARCH 26, 2020

Friday, March 27, 2020 How do you ensure you can fulfill customer orders and maintain service standards during unforeseen and unprecedented events like COVID-19? By leveraging a flexible inventory management system that operates on a cloud-based software so you can respond quickly to customer and business needs. What can a dynamic inventory system do?

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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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BlueYonder

MARCH 26, 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. . During times of distress, nothing brings comfort like returning to basics and simplicity.

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RFgen

MARCH 26, 2020

Overview. COVID-19 is forcing the supply chain to evolve into a new paradigm to fulfill needs of mass labor shortages, industry shut downs and consumer base living almost entirely at home. In the uncertain times ahead, we will rely on the new supply chain more than ever. Technologies like mobile barcoding and data collection will be necessary to augment a small workforce and create real-time transparency while safeguarding health and human safety.

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MercuryGate

MARCH 26, 2020

The cold supply chain remains susceptible to many risks, and for grocers, the threat of inefficiencies related to food-related freight claims remains high. Failure to properly process claims in a timely manner may result in an inability to recoup delivery shortages and damage recoveries. What’s more, failures within such claims could lead to a delay […].

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RFgen

MARCH 26, 2020

Overview. COVID-19 is forcing the supply chain to evolve into a new paradigm to fulfill needs of mass labor shortages, industry shut downs and consumer base living almost entirely at home. In the uncertain times ahead, we will rely on the new supply chain more than ever. Technologies like mobile barcoding and data collection will be necessary to augment a small workforce and create real-time transparency while safeguarding health and human safety.

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Freight Plus

MARCH 26, 2020

A market update and summary of the round table discussion from March 25, 2020. What is going on with Intermodal? . We are still seeing excess capacity in the IMDL mode. If you can afford the increase in-transit time, IMDL is a good mode of transport. Are you seeing tender acceptance lower? Yes, we are seeing tender acceptance rates lower again. However, any locations where COVID-19 has been a particular hot spot, we are seeing difficultly in tender acceptance.

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FLEXE

MARCH 26, 2020

Hear from the Co-Founders and CEOs Convoy, FLEXE, and Flexport and get their take on COVID-19 and its impact on the retail and supply chain industries.

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Consumer Goods Logistics

MARCH 26, 2020

As the percent of online sales grow and as the line between web and traditional retail store fulfillment blurs, E-retailers and brands need to assess their fulfillment capabilities and those of their 3PL omnichannel distribution partners. Following are 8 tips to maximize efficiency in an omnichannel environment.

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Resilinc

MARCH 26, 2020

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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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Consumer Goods Logistics

MARCH 26, 2020

As the percent of online sales grow and as the line between web and traditional retail store fulfillment blurs, E-retailers and brands need to assess their fulfillment capabilities and those of their 3PL omnichannel distribution partners. Following are 8 tips to maximize efficiency in an omnichannel environment.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 26, 2020

The business world has changed dramatically over the past few decades. Terms like big data, omnichannel operations, digital marketing, targeted marketing, personas, and others are scattered all over the business landscape. Business leaders are told big data is the new oil; but, they must also acknowledge that data breaches can make data a liability.

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ivalua

MARCH 26, 2020

The post Laerdal – How Can Digitalization Help Save Lives? appeared first on Ivalua.

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Axway

MARCH 26, 2020

The past couple of weeks have been challenging for all of us. We are all confronting something that we don’t completely understand, with an undefined timeline and with outcomes that we cannot control.

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TradeGecko

MARCH 26, 2020

Leading cloud accounting solutions provider QuickBooks recently published a report on the main strategies and tips for small businesses. In conjunction with LinkedIn, QuickBooks surveyed 3,671 small businesses owners, diving into their budgets, marketing channels and consumer preferences to determine the most profitable strategies for accelerated growth.

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Provenance

MARCH 26, 2020

How are beauty and personal care brands helping tackle the Covid-19 crisis? The Independent’s Ellie Fry shares the projects underway– from providing essentials to the most vulnerable to getting anti-viral products into the hands of authorities as a top priority. “You can help support those in need through many of these initiatives, by purchasing products from brands who are donating profits to charities, or by donating money to the organisations, like Beauty Banks, who are deliverin

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Arena Solutions

MARCH 26, 2020

As of this writing, more than 16,230 deaths worldwide have been attributed to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). [1] Because social distancing 1 is the most effective way to slow the transmission of COVID-19, U.S. companies began to send their employees home to work in mid-February. Today, with “shelter in place” orders spreading from the Bay Area to the East Coast, knowledge workers across the U.S. are settling into new routines.

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Freight Plus

MARCH 26, 2020

A market update and summary of the round table discussion from March 25, 2020. What is going on with Intermodal? . We are still seeing excess capacity in the IMDL mode. If you can afford the increase in-transit time, IMDL is a good mode of transport. Are you seeing tender acceptance lower? Yes, we are seeing tender acceptance rates lower again. However, any locations where COVID-19 has been a particular hot spot, we are seeing difficultly in tender acceptance.

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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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Freight Center

MARCH 26, 2020

Shippers everywhere rely on their freight broker to get them the solutions they need and to help them reach their goals. But how do you measure freight broker effectiveness? How do you know the freight broker you’re currently working with is the right one for you? We break it all down for you with 10 ways to measure freight broker effectiveness, so you can make sure your shipping department is getting all the necessary support it needs.

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Clear Spider

MARCH 26, 2020

We are Here for You. Clear Spider serves clients across the world. Regardless of where you are and how you use our inventory management system, here is our commitment to ensure your organizational needs and requirements will continue to be met. Client Service and Success. Our support service will continue to be available to our clients during this time.

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LevaData

MARCH 26, 2020

Every day, we wake up to a new event disrupting businesses. In 2020, those disruptions are flowing into our personal and professional lives at a scale unlike anything we have seen before. As we deal with personal safety, it is also clear that our professional lives are also under siege with the economic impact that has been triggered with Covid-19. This will truly test our resiliency in many ways.

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