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How To Implement Predictive Analytics Into Your Company

Logility

Chances are, if you’re in marketing, sales, or one of the more technical aspects of business, you’ve used predictive analytics in some part of your job. Retail giant Amazon uses predictive analytics to study the behaviors of over 200 million customers who produce over 1 billion GB of website data per year, which results in tailored product suggestions that earn the company over $2 billion in sales a year.

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BD’s Control Tower Implementation

Logistics Viewpoints

What BD's Control Tower can do seems almost magical. But the control tower's capabilities are a result of the technology and the implementation design. This article describes the design and implementation of BD's control tower. The post BD’s Control Tower Implementation appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Contact Tracing in Supply Chain Operations

Talking Logistics

Does your warehouse management system (WMS) have contact tracing capabilities? It’s a question that will likely appear in vendor inquiries moving forward, not just for WMS applications but also manufacturing, packaging, retail, construction, and other enterprise software systems. What is contact tracing? The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) provides several core principles, including: In contact.

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How To Do Proper Retail Demand & Sales Forecasting

Demand Solutions

Being able to accurately predict customer demand, and act on those predictions, is a key skill for any business. Yet, most businesses do not know how to do this correctly. Retail businesses can be very difficult, as well, as there’s so much data to collect. If you’re a wholesaler, then much of the data doesn’t belong to you. If you’re a retailer, then you’re likely selling thousands of SKUs, making it hard just to collect data on them let alone analyze it in order t

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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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COVID-19 Has Rewritten Best Practices for Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

Nearly every industry is reviewing strategies, operations and processes with a new perspective, and many businesses are realizing they need end-to-end inventory visibility.

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Gartner describes three prevaccine scenarios for supply chain leaders

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

As the coronavirus continues to disrupt global supply chains, Gartner, Inc. has developed three scenarios to help chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) anticipate how the future may unfold.

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Acoustics Matters!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Acoustics article and permission to publish here provided by Grant Kamperschroer at straightnorth.com. Acoustics affect critical aspects of a building’s function, from productivity in the office and communication in the classroom, to the price an apartment, condominium or single-family home can command.

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Webinar: Getting Started with Supply Chain Visibility – Thursday, June 11, 9:30 am PT

Bristlecone

Supply chain visibility continues to be one of the most pressing needs of today’s business leaders. COVID-19 has reinforced that, while we may not be able to predict pandemics, with the right technology, we can certainly prepare for them. In ‘Getting Started with Supply Chain Visibility,’ Bristlecone and logistics provider Sealink – one of the fastest-growing companies in North America – discuss supply chain visibility and how you can leverage it.

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10 Primary Challenges in Managing Final Mile Distribution

GlobalTranz

When delivering goods, trust between shipper, customer, and driver is crucial. In order to keep the trust of everyone involved, the final mile distribution must be on point. If not, there may be consequences, including lost customers and even the potential for legal action. Plenty of logistics challenges may arise, and shippers need to know.read More.

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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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Webinar: Getting Started with Supply Chain Visibility – Thursday, June 11, 9:30 am PT

Bristlecone

Supply chain visibility continues to be one of the most pressing needs of today’s business leaders. COVID-19 has reinforced that, while we may not be able to predict pandemics, with the right technology, we can certainly prepare for them. In ‘Getting Started with Supply Chain Visibility,’ Bristlecone and logistics provider Sealink – one of the fastest-growing companies in North America – discuss supply chain visibility and how you can leverage it.

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It’s high time to tap the potential of the 4th Industrial Revolution

SupplyOn

It’s now more important than ever to leverage Industry 4.0 to boost productivity, increase supply chain reliability and reap the benefits of closer buyer-supplier relationships. COVID 19, its effects on the industry and the restart of production currently dominate on the agenda. Everyone is longing for a return to normality and this will be the case in a few months’ time.

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Webinar: Accelerate S/4HANA ROI with Industry-Specific Solution for Hi-Tech and Semicon – Thursday, June 18, 4 pm CET

Bristlecone

How are you keeping pace in an ever-changing industry? Long before COVID-19, semicon and hi-tech companies were facing unique supply chain challenges, including process complexity, demand volatility and slow turnaround times. As a result of COVID-19, those challenges have been amplified. Check out this webinar to learn how to respond quickly to change and deliver greater value to customers, even in times of crisis.

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Essity leans on digital tools to fortify their manufacturing supply chain while improving machine health and productivity

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Augury, the AI-based Machine Health solution provider, has announced that Essity, the global provider of professional hygiene, consumer tissue and personal care products, has chosen Augury’s machine health solutions to help drive the digital transformation of its supply chain.

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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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4 FAQs About Multienterprise Supply Chain Business Networks

MPO Multi Party Orchestration

Gartner recently released the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Multienterprise Supply Chain Business Networks (MESCBN). According to Gartner, “MESCBNs are an essential technology component to a successful digital transformation.” While this is undoubtedly true, businesses rarely say “I need a MESCBN solution.” Instead, they address pain points, such as a lack of visibility or inability to swiftly resolve exceptions.

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Freight markets slowly coming back to life

DAT Solutions

Freight markets have slowly been rebounding in May, with the normal seasonal uptick providing some relief for transportation companies that have suffered during the COVID-19 crisis.

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Supply Chain News on Virus Crisis Stressing Freight Carriers in Different Ways

Supply Chain Digest

Truckload Volumes Drop Sharply but May have Bottomed, while Store Shipping Stressing FedEx

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Companies rush to replace ‘just in time’ supply chains with ‘just in case’ contingencies as Covid-19 upe nds global manufacturing | South China Morning Post

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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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Supply Chain DigestWeekly Supply Chain and Logistics Stock Report for Week Ending May 15, 2020

Supply Chain Digest

All but one stock in our index was negative last week

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After Covid 19, SME Manufacturers Need Inventory Planning Even More. Here’s Why

StockTrim

The impact of Covid-19 on themanufacturing sector will be larger than anything we have seen before. Small manufacturing firms are less likely to have deep enough pockets to get through the recession than large firms, and this pandemic could be the last straw for some that have been struggling.

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Can a ?Monorail? for Containers Solve Port Congestion?

Supply Chain Brain

At a time when ports are suffering from severe congestion and scarcity of land, one designer of cargo-handling equipment is proposing a radical new way of moving ocean containers between ship and shore.

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In Memoriam: Bruce H. Nielson, J.D.

Enterra Insights

I’ve had the pleasure, over many years in business, of meeting and working with some extraordinary people. Fortunately, I’ve been able to call many of them my friends. One such person was Bruce Nielson, who, for many years was a close outside counsel of mine and represented my company Enterra Solutions, LLC, on most of our technology and commercial transactions until he left private practice to capstone his career at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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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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3 critical insights for successful eCommerce omnichannel strategies

SCJunction

We don’t just care about your smart warehouse and how our software can help you to shape your business’ transition to omnichannel in this climate. We need you to understand the WHY and HOW so that you can better manage this necessary evolution within your company.

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Adelius brings a strong partnership to Axway

Axway

Adelius is a System Integrator and Managed Services company that provides engineers specialized in IT production and operations.

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Executive Insight: Creating a Digitally Resilient Supply Chain

Bristlecone

Executive Insight: Creating a Digitally Resilient Supply Chain. By: Dhaval Buch, CEO, Bristlecone. Nobody wants a crisis, but the reality is that every crisis has its opportunity. Every company, at some point during this crisis, has undoubtedly realized the criticality that if you can’t supply your product, you don’t have a business. I think business leaders around the world have a unique opportunity to grasp this moment of crisis and use the learnings from it to accelerate the digitization of

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How To Build A Lasting Wholesale Partnership

EMERGE App

Wholesalers and distributors occupy a special place in the market for goods and products. You could even say it’s an almost enviable position. You buy goods directly from manufacturers and suppliers. And then you sell to your customers — retailers of all shapes and sizes. These retailers then sell to consumers — you and me. Then, what’s not to like about it?

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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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How To Build A Lasting Wholesale Partnership

EMERGE App

Wholesalers and distributors occupy a special place in the market for goods and products. You could even say it’s an almost enviable position. You buy goods directly from manufacturers and suppliers. And then you sell to your customers — retailers of all shapes and sizes. These retailers then sell to consumers — you and me. Then, what’s not to like about it?

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