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What’s Driving ERP Adoption From The Shop Floor To The Top Floor

IQMS

Bottom Line: Gaining greater visibility into how costs, margins, pricing, and production efficiency contribute to stronger financial performance is what’s driving greater ERP adoption, providing greater visibility and control from the shop floor to the top floor. Knowing how solid sales and revenue pipelines are and whether each order can be fulfilled on time is dominating the minds of manufacturing leaders today.

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The Best Gifts for Supply Chains: Resilience and Agility

Vanguard Software

By infusing their supply chains with resilience and agility, businesses can strengthen their position moving forward, ensuring that future disruptions are minimized.

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Watch: Why Does ESG Matter to Supply Chains?

Supply Chain Brain

A discussion about the importance of applying environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations to global supply chains, with Jonathon Karelse, chief executive officer, and Y Nguyen, governance and risk management practice lead, with NorthFind Management.

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How POS Data Improves Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Complexity in the Retail Supply Chain! Get Our EBOOK HERE. POS Data article and permission to publish here provided by Aniko A. Supply chain management involves the conduct of the movement of goods and services. It involves all the procedures that metamorphose raw materials into finished products.

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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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Podcast | The Real Reason for Product Shortages? Not Enough Packaging

Supply Chain Brain

Many of the supply-chain shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic have one thing in common: a lack of plastic and cardboard containers to put them in.

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Roles and Responsibilities of S&OP

DynaSys

Defining the different Roles and Responsibilities of S&OP. As noted in the What Is S&OP article, a multi-functional S&OP team allows each organization to participate in plan development. Usually participate the organizations that are impacted by or has an impact on the plan. The resulting plan balances the needs of each department while also fulfilling the corporation’s strategic objectives.

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (January 8, 2021)

Talking Logistics

Looking at the way 2021 has begun, at least here in the United States, maybe 2020 wasn’t so bad after all? The storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 was a very sad day in our history. Let us hope that the remaining 357 days of 2021 will bring out the best in. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (January 8, 2021). The post Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (January 8, 2021) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Making Carrier Relationships More Productive with Noam Frankel

The Logistics of Logistics

Making Carrier Relationships More Productive with Noam Frankel. Noam Frankel and Joe Lynch discuss making carrier relationships more productive. Noam is a transportation industry veteran who has always advocated for building solid relationships between 3PLs, brokers, and carriers. About Noam Frankel. Noam Frankel is the founder and CEO of FreightFriend, a cloud-based truckload procurement platform that helps shippers and brokers build deep carrier relationships and drive digital execution.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

Welcome back. I hope everyone had a relaxing holiday season and was able to get some much-needed rest. I know I certainly did. And luckily, unlike a large number of people out there, all of my Christmas packages arrived on time (although there were a few close calls). According to new data, while UPS, FedEx, USPS, and other carriers handled a record crush of holiday packages, some 2 million packages arrived late.

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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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Makers and Movers - Cold Chain 2021: Global Access and Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccine

Supply Chain Brain

The Makers and Movers - Cold Chain 2021 is one of the biggest global virtual summits on Global Access and Distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, happening on the 4th of February.

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Amazon Gives Break to SFP Merchants

Multichannel Merchant

Amazon is giving merchants using its Seller Fulfilled Prime a break in terms of service level commitments, removing a plan to have them meet one- and two-day shipping requirements, in light of ongoing challenges on speedy delivery from carriers, CNBC reported. Merchants using SFP are required to pack and ship orders themselves, unlike Fulfilled By Amazon (FBA) where the ecommerce giant handles all the logistics, in order to display the coveted Prime badge on their listings.

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LSP Saves Customer $1.5 Million a Year With MPO Global Inbound Management

Supply Chain Brain

Challenge: A multinational oil and gas company relied on thousands of suppliers worldwide — including remote partners in Azerbaijan, Alaska and Angola — for time-critical materials. However, the company lacked adequate visibility and transportation management over it’s 60,000 purchase orders per year, resulting in incomplete deliveries, poor shipment-status insights and high administrative and process costs.

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Markings on a Shipping Container: What do They Mean?

Promptus LLC

Exporters and Importers at some point have probably noticed the distinct markings on shipping containers and many have wondered what they mean; the truth is that not too many people […]. The post Markings on a Shipping Container: What do They Mean? appeared first on Promptus, LLC.

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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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USPack Expands Pharmaceutical & Critical Parts Distribution Capabilities with Acquisition of Capital Delivery Systems

Supply Chain Brain

USPack, a national provider of high-speed final-mile logistics and a NewSpring Holdings platform company, recently announced the acquisition of Capital Delivery Systems, expanding its final-mile delivery capabilities and national footprint.

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Why a paperless warehouse environment is the best choice

Vinculum

Before the advent of digitization, businesses traditionally used a paper-based system to track their warehouse operations. Thanks to technological developments, environmental factors, and productivity improvements, more companies are starting to move to a paperless warehouse. But there are still a large number of businesses who still rely on a paper process who are reluctant to change from a paper process.

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Episode 108 - New Brand Who Dis

Freight Plus

What a way to kick off the new year, new brand, same beard. In this episode of Consulting Logistics, Kyle MacNaught takes you through the journey of rebranding and what’s in store this year on Consulting Logistics. Kyle will talk about : Why FreightPlus. What does it mean for the future of Consulting Logistics. 2020 Review. Audio only version. Kyle MacNaught.

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7 Most Common Last-Mile Delivery Challenges and Ways to Overcome Them

Shipsy

According to the recent study conducted by Accenture, approximately 66% of the millennial shoppers want e-commerce companies to offer the option for one-hour delivery in metropolitan cities. Other statistics unveiled by the report include: . Approximately 29% of the shoppers have modified their delivery time and address of their order. Around 27% of the online shoppers in the United States of America have cancelled their orders because of the unavailability of the same-day delivery service.

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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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Ultimate B2B Ecommerce Guide: Everything You Need To Know

ShipBob

Have you ever stumbled upon your favorite online brand’s products at a brick-and-mortar store? You can thank B2B ecommerce for that. There was a time when B2B companies used to only sell offline and would work directly with suppliers by phone or face to face. Today, the scenario is quite different as 73% of B2B buyers are millennials who prefer the convenience of purchasing bulk orders online.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

Welcome back. I hope everyone had a relaxing holiday season and was able to get some much-needed rest. I know I certainly did. And luckily, unlike a large number of people out there, all of my Christmas packages arrived on time (although there were a few close calls). According to new data, while UPS, FedEx, USPS, and other carriers handled a record crush of holiday packages, some 2 million packages arrived late.

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Quantum Teleportation isn’t a ‘Beam Me Up’ Technology

Enterra Insights

One of the most iconic technologies from the late Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek was the transporter, a teleportation device that allowed life forms to move from one location to another without having to physically make the journey. As Wikipedia notes, “Teleportation is the hypothetical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them.