Wed.May 20, 2020

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COVID-19 & SCM – Importance of Operations Management to Overcome the Limitations of Data-Driven

Arkieva

An often-heard theme in supply chain management (SCM) and COVID-19 is “data-driven” – being data-driven is the path to success. For COVID-19 “science-driven” is often said in the same sentence. For SCM demand or customer-driven replaces “science”. This blog will point out a few examples in the COVID-19 challenge demonstrating COVID-19 is an OM challenge.

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The State of Uncertainty in the Freight Market!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 10 Vital Supply Chain Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic! Freight market article and permission to publish here provided by Kevin Jessop at cerasis.com. Truckers and shippers have real fears over the effects and long-term impact of the supply chain coronavirus disruption. The coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, continues to change basic supply chain functions.

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LTL and FTL Shipping: Which is Best for You?

SupplyPike

Learn about: Key differences between LTL and FTL shipping Shipping options offered by Walmart. Did you know that you do not have to hire and pay for a full truck if your freight is much less than a truckload? Freight carriers offer a variety of choices for transporting commercial shipments. Two widely used means of transportation are less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping and full-truckload (FTL).

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Impact of COVID-19: Insights from Indago Supply Chain Members

Talking Logistics

This time of the year, I’m usually on the road delivering keynote presentations at industry conferences. But with all in-person events cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, I am at home like everybody else. COVID-19, however, has not cancelled the need for supply chain and logistics professionals to stay informed of industry trends, and for. Read more Impact of COVID-19: Insights from Indago Supply Chain Members.

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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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Preparing for the Retail Holiday Season during the Pandemic

Enterra Insights

Normally, by this time of year, retailers are well into their planning for the end-of-year holiday season. This year is an obvious exception. Jim Shea, chief commercial officer for First Insight, observes, “The novel coronavirus and the precautions governments and individuals are taking to protect themselves from infection have already had a powerful impact on the global economy.

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Stepping Forward to Meet Opportunity

BlueYonder

In this week’s Wednesdays for Women, we interview Beth Morgan, the founder of boom! , which launched in September 2019 with a vision to empower women in supply chain for the benefit of all. Members represent all supply chain and procurement functions and span multiple industries across 30 different countries, bringing a rich diversity of experience, thinking and ambition.

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On-Demand Webinar: Comprehensive Liquidity and Supply Chain Resiliency

Taulia

In this webinar, Craig Jeffery of Strategic Treasurer and Vincent Beerman of Taulia discuss: Overcoming challenges and ensuring liquidity through various levers Access to debt and capital markets, AP and AR forecasting and modeling Supply chain resiliency and how to enhance organizational posture through flexibility The post On-Demand Webinar: Comprehensive Liquidity and Supply Chain Resiliency appeared first on Taulia.

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Is COVID-19 the New Driving Force Behind Supply Chain Digitalization?

EazyStock

For many businesses the spread of Coronavirus has acted as a catalyst and accelerator to digitalization. Manufacturers, suppliers and wholesalers across the US have been forced to adopt new ways of working with social distancing closing offices and reducing operational capacity. At the same time, companies are dealing with erratic customer behavior and badly disrupted supply chains.

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Key strategies to increase supply chain resilience

MAVES

How can 3PLs increase their resilience? And what are the changes that 3PLs need to adapt to, to ensure long-term success? There are a few key strategies to enable your supply chain to increase resilience and prepare for long-term business success, which includes: rapid tailoring of supply systems to changing consumer behavior, agile supply system setups enabled by advanced technology, logistics coordination across and within the global value chain, adoption of new ways of working and governing t

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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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Supply Chain by the Numbers for May 20, 2020

Supply Chain Digest

Walmart Blow Out Revenue Quarter, New Fund to Subsidize Reshoring, Pulling Out of China Takes a Long Time, Uber Freight Future Now Unclear

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Amazon, FedEx, and UPS Prepare for the Post COVID World

Logistics Viewpoints

On Monday, my home state of Massachusetts announced the official details regarding the state’s four-phase plan to re-open the economy during the coronavirus pandemic. Phase 1 comes in a two-wave approach, with some business opening immediately and others opening on May 25. One group that found the approach disappointing is retailers. Many Massachusetts retailers see this plan as potentially too little too late.

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Autonomous Final Mile Delivery Service: News and Reports Affecting the Future of Drones in Logistics

GlobalTranz

Few topics carry more weight than the idea of autonomous trucking in final mile delivery service. While experts continue to debate the risk versus benefit of drones on the road and in the air for logistics purposes, companies across the US are actively working to develop and deploy the technologies in real-world settings. In fact,read More. The post Autonomous Final Mile Delivery Service: News and Reports Affecting the Future of Drones in Logistics appeared first on Transportation Management Com

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on Another Incomprehensible Chart

Supply Chain Digest

Is It a Chart on Global Cotten Trade Flows, or an Abstract Painting

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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 use QuickBooks for wholesale distribution

TradeGecko

Retail refers to the business model of a merchant that sells products directly to the end consumer. Wholesale on the other hand is when a merchant sells products to other businesses who then distribute through different channels to the end user.

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Global Supply Chain News on Just How Bad will It get for Ocean Container Carriers

Supply Chain Digest

Maersk Says Q2 Container Volumes will Fall 20 to 25 Percent

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FTC’s ‘Made in USA’ Claims Penalty Paves Way for Additional Enforcement

Supply Chain Brain

Here's what we can learn from the Federal Trade Commission's recent $1 million fine against Williams-Sonoma — and practical advice for companies interested in making “Made in USA” and other U.S. origin claims in their advertising and labeling.

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Covea

ivalua

The post Covea appeared first on Ivalua.

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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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The Axway Thank You Day

Axway

For 10 weeks now, all of Axway has been working from home, along with many other businesses across the globe.

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How Promotions Planning Software Enables Collaboration That Pays Off

ToolsGroup

Promotions planning is challenging, but promotions planning software can help alleviate some of the common pain points companies face when they try to improve their forecast accuracy and increase promotions generated revenue. After spending half my career in marketing and the other half in supply chain, there’s one thing I know for certain: marketing and supply chain don’t speak the same language.

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Adopting Technology and Upskilling Employees is Vital during COVID-19

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

No crisis is an isolated, neatly contained incident, and the COVID-19 outbreak is exceptional by any standards. In order to future-proof and position your organization’s sustainable long-term growth, digital transformation requires a combination of talent, digital skills, and the use of available technologies. With no end – or certainty – insight, it necessitates that organizations […].

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May 20, 2020 Round Table Discussion Summary

Freight Plus

A market update and summary of the round table discussion from May 20, 2020. What are we hearing about reshoring? There has been a lot of buzz about reshoring in the news and on blogs lately. It will be interesting to see how much of a trend this becomes over the next 18 months. At the end of the day, for many companies, it comes down to the availability, quality, and financials.

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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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Re-skilling the Workforce – After COVID/Before COVID

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

We all know that the world is going through a major change that will lead to us running our lives differently than we did BC (Before COVID). What some businesses are beginning to realize though is that their workforce will need to learn new skills AC/DC (After COVID/During COVID). There’s an old joke: A CFO says […]. The post Re-skilling the Workforce – After COVID/Before COVID appeared first on SYSPRO US.

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Webinar | Autonomous Mobile Robots: The Latest Applications and Use Cases from Leading Suppliers and Users

Locus Robotics

Wed, Jun 17, 2020 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT. Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are changing the automation landscape. AMRs zip around vast stacks of products, ferrying the latest purchases for shipment across the world. They are replacing forklifts, pulling 1,000-kg payloads around a factory. Robots are stitching together production processes by moving products from one conveyer belt to another.

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Taking a fresh look at supply management

Proxima

Post-COVID, we now know that your relationships with your suppliers will change. Managing them through the rearview mirror on past performance won’t be enough. You will need to engage with them and seek to influence their future behavior. Supply Management will become 4D Supply Engagement. You have learned much in the last two months. First, you have found out that risk management processes for identifying and managing future risk went out of the window and did not work.

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May 20, 2020 Round Table Discussion Summary

Freight Plus

A market update and summary of the round table discussion from May 20, 2020. What are we hearing about reshoring? There has been a lot of buzz about reshoring in the news and on blogs lately. It will be interesting to see how much of a trend this becomes over the next 18 months. At the end of the day, for many companies, it comes down to the availability, quality, and financials.

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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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The case for digital transformation

Proxima

There are two phrases which come to mind when reading through the results of the Proxima Digital Transformation Survey , these are ‘Customer Centricity’ and ‘Best of Breed’. The two are intrinsically linked and may hold the key to faster deployment and enhanced adoption of digital solutions, and therefore the route to better data, more informed conversations and smarter decisions.

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May 20, 2020 Round Table Discussion Summary - Coronavirus

Freight Plus

A market update and summary of the round table discussion from May 20, 2020. What are we hearing about reshoring? There has been a lot of buzz about reshoring in the news and on blogs lately. It will be interesting to see how much of a trend this becomes over the next 18 months. At the end of the day, for many companies, it comes down to the availability, quality, and financials.

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ProcurePort Announces the Release of SpendPilot ™, Further Expanding Spend Data Analysis

ProcurePort

ProcurePort announces the launch of SpendPilot ™, a fully automated Spend Analysis Software that allows large organizations to cleanse, categorize and run analytics on their organizational spend. Accurate and comprehensive spend data is crucial in improving spend management. As procurement shifts to a new digital age, teams need to ensure their processes are transitioning smoothly […].