Fri.Jan 22, 2021

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The Future of Drones in the Supply Chain

Kuebix

Logistics industry innovators are always looking to create solutions that will cut costs and improve operational efficiencies. One application of technology that’s becoming increasingly popular within supply chains is drones. While drones are commonly applied in warehouses to help with inventory management, their purpose is starting to extend further down the supply chain to final […].

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Winter Can Turn All Supply Chains Cold

Enterra Insights

The release of Coronavirus vaccines has shone a spotlight on the importance of cold supply chains; however, I want to discuss what happens to supply chains when the weather turns cold. When most of us think about the onset of winter, we envision shoveling sidewalks and driving on slippery roads. Supply chain managers, however, must think about much more than clearing away snow and poor road conditions.

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Understanding the Impact of Good Financial Management for Procurement

Procurement Academy

The key to successful procurement operations is having superb financial management. Despite being overlooked by many organizations, making sure that these two areas work in harmony can help your business achieve success. Indeed, spending is the primary action in procurement, and a misalignment in your finances can easily impact your procurement plans and disrupt your access to the supply chain.

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10 Small Business Inventory Management Tips!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Featuring Our 10 Best Inventory Management Articles! Get Our EBOOK HERE. Small business inventory management tips article and permission to publish here provided by Simcha Michael. Many overwhelming strategies, processes and techniques will come your way if you have to learn and perform inventory management.

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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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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up 01/15/2021 – 01/21/2021

All Things Supply Chain

British hospitals to use blockchain to track COVID-19 vaccines Two British hospitals are using blockchain technology to track the storage and supply of temperature-sensitive COVID-19 vaccines, which is one of…

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6 Operational Excellence Strategies to Score the Touchdown Every Time (video)

USC Consulting Group

All championship-caliber teams are able to transfer plays on a chalkboard to game winning performances on the field. There is a strategy laid out and the players execute that plan to perfection. This is no different for a manufacturer’s operations team looking to achieve operational excellence. Operational excellence strategies must involve every player in an organization knowing and driving the game plan.

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Podcast: Digital Solutions Innovator Philip Black

Requis

Philip Black is a proven technology implementation leader in several industries, including energy. As the global emerging solutions lead at Wood PLC, he currently specializes in developing blockchain solutions for multiple industries including infrastructure, mining, industrial, and power. He has implemented real-time monitoring systems for clients in the United States and the Middle East.

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Understanding the Impact of Good Finance Management on Procurement

Procurement Academy

The key to successful procurement operations is having superb financial management. Despite being overlooked by many organizations, making sure that these two areas work in harmony can help your business achieve success. Indeed, spending is the primary action in procurement, and a misalignment in your finances can easily impact your procurement plans and disrupt your access to the supply chain.

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What is Integrated Business Planning (IBP)?

DynaSys

Integrated Business Planning (IBP), as mentioned in the What Is S&OP? article, is a process that Executive Management frequently uses. Also, it ensures that the company allocate sufficient financial resources to each operational unit of a corporation; in order to supports the overall strategic direction of the company. IBP also ensures that the supply chain and operations plans fit with the corporate financial plan. .

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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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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (January 22, 2021)

Talking Logistics

We already have a guinea pig and a hamster as pets. What happens when you add a rabbit to the mix? I don’t know, but I’m going to find out this weekend. For years, my youngest daughter has been begging me to get her a pet rabbit (my wife was already on board). “I’m allergic”. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (January 22, 2021). The post Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (January 22, 2021) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Podcast | Managing Vendor Compliance With Health and Safety Rules

Supply Chain Brain

If you’re a business that’s outsourcing services, don’t think for one moment that you’re shedding responsibility for the health and safety of a vendor’s staff when they show up on your premises.

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Seven steps to identify and prevent lost sales

Alloy

Follow these steps to ensure the right product is on the shelf when and where a shopper wants it, so your brand never misses out on a sale. Identify specific instances of OOS (out-of-stocks) or phantom inventory. By analyzing granular POS and inventory data provided by your retailers, you can identify OOS and phantom inventory at the SKU-location level.

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How smart warehouse technology can grow your warehouse capabilities

SCJunction

With made-to-order products, personalised service, and priority shipping becoming the norm, your warehouse operations need to get smart. We look at the many ways in which smart warehouse technology can change your business.

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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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Avoiding Amazon Vendor Central Chargebacks

TPSynergy

Every Vendor Central (VC) supplier is familiar with the frustration of receiving a chargeback and seeing deductions from their payment. Due to the immense effort required to list and market a listing on Amazon, it’s important to limit or prevent these chargebacks from occurring. WHY CHARGEBACKS HAPPEN. There are various reasons as to why a chargeback happens.

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Port Drayage 2021 Outlook

NFI

Port Drayage 2021 Outlook Featuring Aaron Brown, Senior Vice President, NFI Cal Cartage What do you think will be in store for the drayage industry in 2021? I fully expect that the huge increases in volume that we’ve seen so far through the third and fourth quarter will continue in the next year and. Read More.

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Intel to Outsource More Chips – The Wall Street Journal.

Operations and Supply Chain Management

I thought you would be interested in the following story from The Wall Street Journal. Intel to Outsource More Chips. Download the Wall Street Journal app here: WSJ. – Bob.

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What’s Stymieing Progress on IMO’s 2020 Zero-emission Shipping

American Global Logistics

Reduction of zero-carbon emissions made little progress since January 1, 2020. Progress in 2021 will likely also lag. That’s because many issues surrounding implementation remain unresolved. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) mandated the reduction of emissions by 50% by 2050. The baseline for emissions reduction is emissions from 2008. For the foreseeable future, implementation is […].

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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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Maersk Ship Loses About 750 Containers at Sea – The Wall Street Journal.

Operations and Supply Chain Management

I thought you would be interested in the following story from The Wall Street Journal. Maersk Ship Loses About 750 Containers at Sea. Download the Wall Street Journal app here: WSJ. – Bob.

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Preventing Covid-19 From Outrunning Humanity

MIT Supply Chain

Photo by Marc Rafanell López on Unsplash As delays in Covid-19 vaccinations inflict an increasing toll of deaths and economic ruin upon the US, the newly inaugurated Biden administration is releasing all doses of approved vaccines in federal storage to the states. The aim is to speed up the rate of inoculations. Several healthcare experts have warned against this action due to the risk of not having enough vaccines for a second jab.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

With the ongoing pandemic, all of life’s big events are different, even on the global stage. On Wednesday, Joe Biden was officially inaugurated as the 46 th president of the United States. The logistics around the event were difficult, but again they were different. The biggest difference this year was the size of the crowd. Normally, a presidential inauguration will have hundreds of thousands of attendees; Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration had close to 1.8 million attendees.