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Need Robust and Flexible Supply Chain Analytics? Build your own Apps

AIMMS

Apps have come to define the way we work and live in many ways. We have cars with A pps , watches running A pps , TVs that operate with A pps …as the phrase goes “There’s an App for That.” There are Apps out there for just about anything, it’s hard to imagine a world without them. Why do we love Apps so much? We get the information we need upfront, they can be used anytime, anywhere, they help us connect, and they serve a specific purpose.

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What’s the Big Deal About Cycle Counting?

Talking Logistics

Whether we like it or not, every company on the planet with any significant supply chain operation has an inventory reconciliation problem. It doesn’t matter if you are a retailer, manufacturer or logistics service provider, or if you have the latest and greatest warehouse management system. The fact is, if humans have to physically touch or scan inventory in the put away, inventory check or pick process, then errors will occur.

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Need Robust and Flexible Supply Chain Analytics? Build your own Apps

AIMMS

My takeaways from Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Conference 2016. Apps have come to define the way we work and live in many ways. We have cars with A pps , watches running A pps , TVs that operate with A pps …as the phrase goes “There’s an App for That.” There are Apps out there for just about anything, it’s hard to imagine a world without them.

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What’s the Big Deal About Cycle Counting?

PINC

Whether we like it or not, every company on the planet with any significant supply chain operation has an inventory reconciliation problem. It doesn’t matter if you are a retailer, manufacturer or logistics service provider, or if you have the latest and greatest warehouse management system. The fact is, if humans have to physically touch or scan inventory in the put away, inventory check or pick process, then errors will occur.

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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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Meeting the Digital Enterprise Transformation Imperative

Enterra Insights

Most analysts agree that businesses face an imperative to transform into a digital enterprise or lose ground to competitors that … Continued. The post Meeting the Digital Enterprise Transformation Imperative appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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A Guide to Supply Chain Management: Making Intuition More Valuable

Arkieva

Organizations, from health care facilities to manufacturing giants to small restaurants, can be viewed as an ongoing sequence of loosely coupled activities where current and future assets are matched with current and future demand across the supply chain or demand supply network (preferred term of Dr. Karl Kempf – Director of Decision Technology and Senior Fellow, Intel).

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Putting a Value on Visibility

MIT Supply Chain

Tracking the status of ocean shipments accurately and in real time is critical to the goal of achieving end-to-end visibility into global supply chains. Yet this operational Holy Grail remains elusive, despite advances in information technology. A hurdle to this goal that individual organizations can address, is the inability of companies to measure the value of visibility to […].

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Webinar ‘Mindmapping Global Trade Management’ – 6 July 2016

Supply Chain Movement

Webinar ‘Mindmapping Global Trade Management’ Date: Wednesday, July 6, 2016 | 16:00 – 16:45 CET. Location: Anywhere. Organisers: Amber Road and Supply Chain Media. Click here to register>> Companies engaging in global trade are subject to ever-increasing international regulations and legislation. A Global Trade Management (GTM) programme helps reduces the risk of liability, fines and delays at international borders, and conducting a sourcing and distribution analysis pr

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Weighing Managed Services? An Ounce of Prevention Really is Worth a Pound of Cure

TMC

Weighing Managed Services? An Ounce of Prevention Really is Worth a Pound of Cure.Connect. The demands on your logistics management operation have increased to a point where it’s time to consider adopting a managed services model. Where do you go from here? In some ways, managed services solutions are a level up from traditional third party logistics provider (3PL) models, where a 3PL handles carriers and negotiates rates for you.

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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 Cost Reduction: The Dangers of Supplier Squeezing

Logistics Bureau

I’ll begin this post with a disclaimer. I’m not for one moment suggesting that you shouldn’t address your company’s suppliers as an approach to supply chain cost reduction. I’m not even suggesting that you shouldn’t be prepared, when necessary, to negotiate aggressively. There is a time and a place when aggressive negotiation for price reductions and discounts make sense.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Week of June 23, 2016

Supply Chain Digest

Major Acquisition in the Materials Handling Industry, Direct Foreign in US Manufacturing Soars, Oil Gains Global Energy Market Share for First Time in Years, Call Center Soon to be Manned by Robots

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[e-Book] 8 Big Factors to Consider for Efficient LTL Shipping

GlobalTranz

Download the 8 Big Factors to Consider for Efficient LTL Shipping e-Book! If you are a shipper who regularly ships via the over-the-road mode of Less Than Truckload , also known as LTL, you understand there are a lot of moving parts to have efficient LTL Shipping. Efficient means executing a program that allows you to achieve maximum outcomes all while not using too many resources, too much time, or spending too much money.

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Retailers’ secret advantage for lightning-fast order deliveries

Logistics Viewpoints

How and when an order is delivered plays a huge role in the experience of an omnichannel retail consumer. Particularly in an industry where retailers offer most of the same items at similar prices, the speed of delivery can be a customer’s deciding factor. The need for speed and convenience in our lives – combined with shorter and shorter delivery promises by online giants like Amazon – have helped shift expectations from multi-day deliveries to […].

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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 Lead Change with Minimal Resistance

The Network Effect

Leading change is not easy. One of the difficulties is gaining support from staff members. Communicating the rational for change and repeating your message is important in order to gain staff support. Explain the Change The first step is to begin on a positive note and be convinced yourself that the change is for the […]. The post How to Lead Change with Minimal Resistance appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Vans and Reefers Have a Friend in California

DAT Solutions

Shippers and freight brokers are singing a Merle Haggard classic this week, to their van and reefer BFFs: "L.A. traffic is bad this time of year, but there's a friend of yours in California sure wishes you were here.". Load-to-truck ratios are way up in the Golden State for vans and reefers, and there are more loads available there right now than in any state except Texas and Georgia.

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ModusLink Wins a Gold Stevie® Award in the 2016 American Business Awards

ModusLink Corporation

We are thrilled to share the great news that ModusLink has been awarded a Gold Stevie® Award in the “Innovation of the Year – Business Service Industry” category of the 2016 American Business Awards, the premier business awards program in the United States. The award winners were celebrated during a gala event in New York […]. The post ModusLink Wins a Gold Stevie® Award in the 2016 American Business Awards appeared first on ModusLink Global Solutions.

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How to Lead Change with Minimal Resistance

Tompkins Blog

Leading change is not easy. One of the difficulties is gaining support from staff members. The post How to Lead Change with Minimal Resistance appeared first on Tompkins International.

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GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024

Your Roadmap to Smarter Spend Management in 2024 Geopolitical, economic and supply chain challenges will stick around in 2024, but don’t despair. There are strategic opportunities to leverage AI-powered technology and digital toolsets to overcome these hurdles more effectively. GEP experts in nearly two dozen critical categories guide you in the right direction in our annual comprehensive resource — GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024.

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State of the Logistics Union 2016

Supply Chain Digest

Logistics Costs as Percent of GDP Down Slightly in 2015, as Metric Taken Lower for Past 10 Years Under New Methodology from New Lead Author AT Kearney

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Warehouse Labor: Talent Matters More Than Ever

Consumer Goods Logistics

In a recent survey of logistics executives, we asked them to name their biggest challenge related to warehouse labor management.

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Can Your Supply Chain Keep Up?

APICS

According to a Reuters report, Target is cracking down on suppliers to better compete with Amazon and Walmart. Target’s new policies, which took effect May 30, require suppliers to provide a single day arrival date for shipments to Target's warehouses and do away with delivery “grace periods.” Suppliers who fail to deliver on time will be charged late fees of 5 percent of the order cost, an increase from their previous 1 percent to 2 percent.

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Harnessing the Power of Digitization

BlueYonder

When you hear about the potential impact that digitization technologies can have on the supply chain — in terms of how they could be leveraged to re-imagine or redefine business practices — it’s hard not to be optimistic about the future. Last week we shared highlights of a recent research study conducted by SCDigest. Of the 203 organizations surveyed, 66 percent of respondents believe that digitization technologies will provide their organizations with significant competitive advantage over the

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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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Harnessing the Power of Digitization

BlueYonder

When you hear about the potential impact that digitization technologies can have on the supply chain — in terms of how they could be leveraged to re-imagine or redefine business practices — it’s hard not to be optimistic about the future. Last week we shared highlights of a recent research study conducted by SCDigest. Of the 203 organizations surveyed, 66 percent of respondents believe that digitization technologies will provide their organizations with significant competitive advantage over the