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Future-Proofing Your Warehouse with a Multi-Agent Orchestration Platform: Key Features to Consider

Techgistics

Future-proofing your warehouse operation is essential in a world where e-commerce is booming and customer expectations are sky-high. A multi-agent orchestration platform can be a powerful tool for optimizing warehouse operations by connecting and coordinating different autonomous agents and systems in real-time to optimize workflow and maximize efficiency.

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Toyota Vehicle Output Hits Record as Supply Chains Untangle

Supply Chain Brain

Toyota produced a record 10.7 million cars for the 12 months period that ended March 31 thanks to increased capacity and production optimization.

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Which Industries are Most Affected by Fed Rate Increases?

NC State SCRC

NC State statistics grad students, Shaoyu Wang and Bryan Bittner collectively worked on a project to analyze the impact of the federal rate hikes on various industrial sectors. I challenged them to see if the impact of federal rate hikes could be observed on other industries – and here is what they discovered. Great job! Federal Housing Policy and its Broad Economic Impacts The project involved collecting rate and industry data published on FRED, analyzing the data, creating custom ARIMA

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Watch: Getting Ready for the Inaugural Global Supply Chain Marketing Summit

Supply Chain Brain

An update on the first-ever Global Supply Chain Marketing Summit , presented by SupplyChainBrain and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professsionals, set for June 7-9, 2023 in Amelia Island, Florida.

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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 and Logistics Stock Report Week Ending April 28 , 2023

Supply Chain Digest

See who was up and who was down

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A Practical Guide to Customer Service Levels

ShipBob

An eye-popping 94% of customers say that positive customer service experiences make them more likely to buy again. Improving your ecommerce customer service can have a strong impact on your brand reputation, customer retention, and revenue. But before you can improve your customer service quality, you need an objective way to measure it. This is where customer service levels come in.

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Three Reasons to Modernize EDI Infrastructure

Supply Chain Brain

Electronic data interchange (EDI) has been the standard for B2B supply chain communication since the 1960s and early 1970s, but it's time for an upgrade.

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Cash Basis vs Traditional Accounting for Inventory

Unleashed

The inventory accounting methods used by a business directly affect any financial decisions you make. Understanding the difference between cash basis vs traditional accounting will ensure you’re using the most efficient method for your business model, size, and geographical location. So, let’s break it down. The difference between cash basis vs traditional accounting The difference between cash basis vs traditional accounting is primarily the timing of when revenue and expenses are r

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Top 10 SCM Trends in 2023

Supply Chain Brain

Through consistent data analysis, Setlog can predict how supply chain trends will evolve and how market conditions change due to current events.

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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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Is Micro-fulfillment Right for You? Three Critical Things to Consider

Supply Chain Brain

Micro-fulfillment.

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Today’s EMS Provider Needs to Be More Than Just a Manufacturer

Supply Chain Brain

To be a success today, contract manufacturers must also offer design expertise, technical assistance, inventory management and logistics services.

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Inflation Reduction Act : How to Secure Tax Credits for Clean Energy

Supply Chain Brain

This white paper examines the tax credit and the application process as well as how it may benefit your company’s green energy projects.

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Three Problems Manufacturers Face When Digitizing Customer Experience and How to Solve Them

Supply Chain Brain

The vast majority of manufacturers are either aware of the need to improve CX. But with this fast-paced race to transform comes a variety of issues.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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Balancing Fleet Efficiency and Safety

Supply Chain Brain

Achieving a balance between fleet safety and efficiency is a complex and challenging task. This challenge is complicated by labor shortages, the demand for faster delivery times, narrow delivery windows, and new safety regulations.

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Today’s Omnichannel Fulfillment & Delivery: Creating a Competitive Omnichannel Experience

Supply Chain Brain

The white paper by OneRail, “Today’s Omnichannel Fulfillment & Delivery: Creating a Competitive Omnichannel Experience,” delves into the strategic framework for modern omnichannel fulfillment and delivery, outlining the challenges and benefits of implementation.

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Next-Generation Fulfillment Strategies and Operating Models: A Strategic Playbook

Supply Chain Brain

Read the GEP playbook for a deep dive into the demanding fulfillment constraints organizations face and how operating models are evolving through technology and innovative approaches to meet modern demands.

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2023 Manufacturing Trends : Investing in Technology to Prepare for Uncertainty

Supply Chain Brain

2023 Manufacturing Trends Survey, conducted in collaboration with more than 240 professionals from a variety of manufacturing sectors across North America.

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Supply Chain Orchestration: A New Era in Supply Chain Management

When the only certainty is uncertainty, what does that mean for today’s supply chain management approaches? This eBook delves into how supply chain orchestration can help businesses unlock agility, transparency, intelligence, and trust across their end-to-end supply chain.

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Japan Adopts New Ocean Policy to Bolster Maritime Security

Supply Chain Brain

The new five-year policy aims to strengthen Japan's maritime security in response to increased assertive actions from China and other nations.

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EDI: Migrating Toward Cloud-Based Trading

Supply Chain Brain

Download this special report to learn more about where EDI started, its benefits and where it’s headed in the future.

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5 Key Policies You Need to Comply with C-TPAT

Supply Chain Brain

CBP has changed the C-TPAT requirements and here is everything you need to know!