Wed.May 15, 2019

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High-Performance Fulfillment: The 5-Point Guide to HPF Strategy

ModusLink Corporation

Today’s brands are up against increasingly steep consumer expectations for immediacy. Companies need to get products in the hands of customers faster, more consistently and without incident (like a missing part)—lest their brand reputation suffer. To meet these demands and stay competitive in their categories, companies are looking to supply chain innovation to optimize fulfillment. […].

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Ingredients of a Successful Supply Chain: Transparency, Visibility, and Traceability

Talking Logistics

As the world becomes a more digitally-enabled community of people, things, and services, technology will be embedded in almost everything. People will leverage analytics engines, machine learning, internet-connected sensors, and more to fundamentally boost efficiencies everywhere. Contrasting software tools that are meant to enhance decision-making and execution make it difficult to optimize planning, collaborate with trading partners, and deliver superior customer experiences.

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Signs It’s Time to Upgrade your ERP System, and How To Do It

My Office Apps

What do you do when you know it’s time to choose a new ERP system? ERP systems interconnect and automate key business functions such as; inventory management,order processing, production, and finances in one, easy-to-use software. It’s essential to any growing business to make sure their software isn’t holding them back, rather, propelling them forward.

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Exertis announces intention to acquire COMM-TEC GmbH

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

DCC Technology trading as Exertis1, the route-to-market and supply chain partner for global technology brands across consumer, business and enterprise, has announced the acquisition of COMM-TEC GmbH2, the supplier of Pro AV solutions to resellers and systems integrators across Europe.

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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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5 Tips for Delivering Chocolate without Melting!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Food Waste and World Hunger – The Food Supply Chain is Broken! (Videos). Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Valerie Castro at gopeople.com.au. As a chocolatier, you spend a lot of time and effort in crafting one of the most delicious and most celebrated confectioneries of all time.

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Worker Insights to Drive Action: How to Operationalize Worker Voice Using Technology

SupplyShift

Last month’s worker voice piece by SupplyShift highlighted the change management groundwork needed to occur within an organization, driven by internal champions and a collective desire to learn from their workforce – whether direct employees or across their global supply chain. But once ripples turn into tides, organizations need practical and scalable tools to operationalize worker voice.

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First NCSU Procurement Leadership Program a great success!

NC State SCRC

We held our first ever Procurement Leadership workshop this week, hosting a group of executives from Altria, American Red Cross, Cheniere Energy, Smith & Nephew, RSCS (YUM! Brands) and the US Air Force. The mix of executives from both the public and private sector create a unique dynamic, which allowed sharing of contracting strategies, cost modeling, and category management.

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Worker Insights to Drive Action: How to Operationalize Worker Voice Using Technology

SupplyShift

Last month’s worker voice piece by SupplyShift highlighted the change management groundwork needed to occur within an organization, driven by internal champions and a collective desire to learn from their workforce – whether direct employees or across their global supply chain. But once ripples turn into tides, organizations need practical and scalable tools to operationalize worker voice.

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Meet our Spring additions

Alloy

The Alloy team continues to grow quickly, and this month, we’re excited to highlight two of our newest employees?—?Tom Jones and Adrienne Alterman. They bring strong industry experience to the company, coming from the worlds of consumer electronics and CPG. As we grow, we are always striving to balance people with deep industry knowledge who intimately understand existing processes and workflows, and people that are just amazing technologists, who don’t bring any preconceived notions about how t

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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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Starting at the source: achieving a sustainable supply chain

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

With the impact of our consumer society increasingly influencing purchasing behaviour, it is clear that there has been a shift in the need for sustainable supply chains. But this is not a simple task - as political negotiations dominate the headlines, more brands are seeking opportunities in new markets, which is having a considerable impact on their carbon footprint.

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Doubling Down on the Supply Chain: How Some West Texas Producers are Facing Headwinds from Increased Complexity, Resulting in Decreased Cash Operating Costs/Barrel

Maine Pointe

Tony Planos, VP Oil & Gas , outlines some of the key challenges currently faced by West Texas operators and discusses why he believes a holistic, end-to-end supply chain approach may be the way to overcome them.

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Dutch Senate votes ‘Yes’ on child labour law.

ChainPoint

On May 14, the Dutch Senate voted yes on a new law that requires companies to commit to reducing child labour in their supply chain. This law, The Child Labour Due Diligence Act , was already approved the Dutch Parliament two years ago. The law was backed by companies such as Save the Children, Unicef, Nestlé and Tony’s Chocolonely.

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Innovate Today, Own Tomorrow | What We Learned At Velocity 2019

MercuryGate

The post Innovate Today, Own Tomorrow | What We Learned At Velocity 2019 appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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How to Create a Blueprint for Fleet Resilience

Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader

Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,

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Contract Data Management With AI

ivalua

Christopher Bourez, Artificial Intelligence Architect at Ivalua. Contract Lifecycle management is an area we have seen huge demand in over the last year or two. Many of our customers leverage our contract management solution for both authoring or contract repositor. One significant area of Artificial Intelligence is language understanding, also called machine reading comprehension (MRC), and the new technologies in this field lead the way for thousands of new applications, such as sourcing, tre

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Get More Value Out Of iTradeFresh With The iTradeNetwork Platform

ITradeNetwork

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Contract Analysis leveraging AI – A Technical Overview

ivalua

Christopher Bourez, Artificial Intelligence Architect at Ivalua. Contract Lifecycle management is an area we have seen huge demand in over the last year or two. Many of our customers leverage our contract management solution for both authoring or contract repository. Over the last year, Ivalua’s AI team has been hard at work buil ding an AI layer across the platform.

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The Only 3 Ways to Improve Your Sales with Steve Elwell

The Logistics of Logistics

A few weeks ago, I had Steve on the podcast to discuss buying behavior. In that interview Steve said something like “there are only 3 ways to improve sales” which I found very intriguing. In today’s podcast, Steve and I will discuss those 3 ways to improve sales. Steve, I got lots of great feedback on the buying process podcast, but now I want to discuss The Only 3 Ways to Improve Your Sales.

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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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Getting to Know You: Artificial Intelligence and Targeted Marketing

Enterra Insights

In the musical “The King and I,” Anna sings, “Getting to know you. Getting to know all about you. Getting to like you. Getting to hope you like me.” Those lyrics could well be a chorus sung by today’s marketers. Getting to know consumers helps marketers target the right people with the right message for the right products at the right time.

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Ivalua Solution Brochure

ivalua

The post Ivalua Solution Brochure appeared first on Ivalua.

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3 Ways to Boost Your Warehouse Management with ERP

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

So, your warehouse is bulging – why? Because product demand is high and you’re holding buffer-stock to protect your customer service as all well-trained inventory managers do. But are you holding the right stock? Are you actually protecting the brands you know because your ear to the market is too far removed? And suppliers, maybe you’re […]. The post 3 Ways to Boost Your Warehouse Management with ERP appeared first on SYSPRO US.

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Inbound Freight Pricing Changes: 8 Ways to Go About Informing Vendors

GlobalTranz

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Strategic Cost Management Approaches to Unlock Growth and Increase Profitability

How can businesses gain a competitive edge in an era marked by relentless competition and economic fluctuations? The secret is mastering strategic cost management strategies. This GEP bulletin, "Strategic Cost Management Approaches to Unlock Growth and Increase Profitability," breaks this down into clear, actionable steps. Discover how these strategies can boost your enterprise's financial health, helping not only to keep up but to excel in today's market.

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Protected: Get More Value Out Of iTradeFresh With The iTradeNetwork Platform

ITradeNetwork

This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Protected: Get More Value Out Of iTradeFresh With The iTradeNetwork Platform appeared first on iTradeNetwork.

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How the Federal Employment Agency in Germany innovates thanks to APIs

Axway

Bundesagetur für Arbeit needed an all-encompassing solution to secure its foundation for API innovation. Axway’s AMPLIFY™ API Management provided the solution. About Bundesagetur für Arbeit.

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Society Cannot Afford to Limit Drug Take-back to Two Days per Year

Inmar

With the opioid crisis devastating families and entire communities, Inmar leveraged its network and experience handling pharma returns to develop a solution that’s available to consumers any day – protecting people and the environment. The post Society Cannot Afford to Limit Drug Take-back to Two Days per Year appeared first on Inmar.

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Managing Organisational Change in your WMS Implementation: A Guide

SCJunction

Whatever your industry, you know that a process overhaul is likely to create change throughout your organisation, whether you’ve anticipated it or not. Since we know our systems and understand the far-reaching impact of updating your warehouse management systems, we’re taking the guesswork out of it.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Transport Procurement: Effectively manage freight costs in a dynamic market

CHAINalytics

The post Transport Procurement: Effectively manage freight costs in a dynamic market appeared first on Chainalytics.

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The Advanced Inventory Optimization Handbook

Supply Chain 24/7

Leading organizations have shown that right-sizing inventory buffers and restructuring where and how inventory is held can drive powerful financial benefits and adds tremendous value to the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process.

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Clear Spider Makes A Remarkable Debut

Clear Spider

Clear Spider proves itself as superlative inventory management software and arrives on GoodFirms list of best inventory management software. GoodFirms is a B2B platform, which helps companies in choosing the best software with its reliable research and review methodologies. The well-qualified researchers at GoodFirms evaluate the listed software based on its features, capabilities, past reviews, […].