Tue.Jun 21, 2016

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When SMBs Hit the Inventory Planning Complexity Wall

ToolsGroup

Inventory planning is especially important to small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs). Nobody wants to tie up more working capital than necessary in inventory, but SMBs typically have leaner resources, and a higher cost of capital means it’s more expensive to fund excess stock. And if a company is growing rapidly, capital is not only costly but may even require selling valuable equity.

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Go Horizontal!

Supply Chain Shaman

Functional silos define today’s supply chain organization. The silos compete. They lack alignment. This lack of alignment is an impediment to improving balance sheet results. I am a product of traditional, silo-based thinking. My first job was in manufacturing in the 1980’s. I did not understand warehousing and transportation until reassignment to a logistics role in 1985.

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Understanding Today’s Supply Chain Complexity: There’s No Substitute for Hard Work!

Arkieva

I was lucky to attend the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix last May. 1 of the keynote speakers was Mike Duke, the former CEO of Walmart. He summarized his career in 10 pieces of advice he got from 10 key persons throughout his life. His parents, his teacher, his first boss, … Advice #1 received from his parents: “There’s no substitute for hard work”.

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Kicking Off A Career in Supply Chain

NFI Industries

Finals are complete, diploma accepted with proud family and friends looking on, and celebrations commencing. Now the post-college graduation reality sets in for graduates…the job hunt. Whether majoring in something specific to the field or any variety of business related degrees, the supply chain industry provides a plethora of career opportunities for qualified and motivated.

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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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Rethinking Green: 4 Questions for Supply Chain Sustainability

RFgen

Companies need the right data to plan green supply chains. Once a company decides to go green, the next question they have to ask is: How? Eliminating waste in supply chain logistics management is a noble – and often profitable – goal, but how can a company set eco-friendly standards and ensure expectations are met? There are traditional best practices and regulations devised by government officials and environmental organizations.

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Rethinking Green: 4 Questions for Supply Chain Sustainability

RFgen

Companies need the right data to plan green supply chains. Once a company decides to go green, the next question they have to ask is: How? Eliminating waste in supply chain logistics management is a noble – and often profitable – goal, but how can a company set eco-friendly standards and ensure expectations are met? There are traditional best practices and regulations devised by government officials and environmental organizations.

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Jobs Sustainability: Robots and Your [Old] Job

Enterra Insights

You may have read that Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer, just fired 60,000 employees and replaced them with … Continued. The post Jobs Sustainability: Robots and Your [Old] Job appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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How Penetrated is the WMS Market?

Logistics Viewpoints

If you wanted to learn how penetrated the WMS market was, how would you go about it? You'd hire a market research firm. But for the market research firm doing the analysis, it can be a devilishly tricky project. Buyers of this type of research need to understand the complexities and limits of this research.

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5 Critical Factors That Could Be Impacting Your E-commerce Sales

3PL Insights

Have your e-commerce sales slowly been trending downwards? Are you generating less revenue this year compared to previous years but don’t quite know what the problem is? There are a number of elements that can have an impact on your online business’ sales. Consider the following five factors to see if these corrections are in order to get your sales figures climbing back up again: Expensive shipping rates are the No. 1 factor that causes shoppers to abandon their e-commerce shopping

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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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The Value of Real-Time Information

AIT SureShip

One of the difficult things about using the technology of the past is that the reporting is archaic. Imagine looking at figures showing what has happened in the past. What if the figures appear to be incorrect, and the controller remembers that a couple of customer accounts were not updated prior to month end? The entire report is thrown off. One of the amazing things that we can provide to our clients is real-time information rather than yesterday’s data!

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Five Steps to Navigating Supply Chain Analytics Data Challenges

Talking Logistics

Having been in the game of supply chain analytics for so long, we’ve noticed that data is the single biggest challenge our customers and consultants encounter. Supply chain data is distributed in myriad enterprise and external databases, access to the data is limited, it’s in many different formats and structures, it’s missing important pieces and it’s in huge volumes.

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New Hours of Service Legislation. for Blogs?

Tailwind

Knock, Knock. “Come on in. Sit down.what’s up?” “Hello Mr. Pratt?” “Yes.” “I am Winston Marsden of the Department of Blogsportation, most people call us the DOB. We are here to conduct an audit of your Blogging activity over the past 18 months.” “Well, I sure am glad that somebody is interested.

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East and West Coast Ports to Battle for U.S. Region After Panama Canal Expansion

CH Robinson Transportfolio

East and West Coast Ports to Battle for U.S. Region After Panama Canal Expansion.Transportfolio. Editor’s note: This post originally ran in October 2015. Since the Panama Canal is scheduled to open this Sunday, June 26, we wanted to share it with you again. You might think that shippers along the East Coast will be the biggest beneficiaries of fierce competition between the East and West Coast ports.

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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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Why Do The Majority Of DCs Still Use Paper For Picking?

Lucas

A 2015 survey by Peerless Research found that 60% of all DCs are using paper for picking.* This is a remarkable statistic given that nearly two-thirds of all U.S. adults own a smartphone.** Think about it. Smartphones are ubiquitous in our personal lives, yet the majority of warehouses are still using pen and paper for picking. How is this possible?

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New Hours of Service Legislation… for Blogs?

Tailwind

Knock, Knock. “Come on in. Sit down…what’s up?”. “Hello Mr. Pratt?”. “Yes.”. “I am Winston Marsden of the Department of Blogsportation, most people call us the DOB. We are here to conduct an audit of your Blogging activity over the past 18 months.”. “Well, I sure am glad that somebody is interested. My staff ignores it, my wife thinks it’s stupid, and only the odd person stumbles across it when they get lost looking for trucking software or old Mel Torme records on eBay.”.

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Imperial Tobacco improves collaboration with a behavioral clustering approach

RELEX Solutions

Leading supplier supports retailers with an improved category understanding, driving targeted and customer focused insights. Below you can find highlights from a recent case study exploring how Imperial Tobacco is supporting its retailers using Galleria’s behavioural clustering software. Read the full case study here. The Challenge. A recognized global leader and the largest tobacco manufacturer in the UK, Imperial Tobacco works in collaboration with a variety of retail partners across 160 count

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Global Logistics News on What Markets have the Highest Warehouse Rents Worldwide

Supply Chain Digest

Hong Kong by Far Tops the List, but What US Metro Area Saw by Far the Highest Increase in 2015

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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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Two More Free Supply Chain and Logistics Webinars

Logistics Bureau

We’re ‘ramping up’ our popular Supply Chain and Logistics webinar schedule with a couple of great topics, so it’s time to check your diaries. Education (next week) and Transport Optimisation (the week after). Transport Fleet Optimisation. This is a major area of opportunity I see amongst our Consulting clients. And indeed for many of our clients we ‘do it’ for them.

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Parcel Shipping Vs LTL Shipping: Which is A Better Option?

GlobalTranz

While LTL shipping may have been the gold standard for shippers in the past, more shippers are starting to turn to a combination of parcel and less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping to cut costs and drive profits. However, the age-old rule of packages of less than 150 pounds being designated as small package or parcels is evolving. Today, packages more than 150, provided the packages adhere to size requirements, may qualify for parcel services.

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