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How Machine Learning Optimizes the Supply Chain

Talking Logistics

Talking Logistics guest commentary by Glenn Jones (Blume Global) on how machine learning optimizes the supply chain.

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GPT-4 is set to radically change Supply Chain Network Design

AIMMS

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Revisiting Three Mega Trends Transforming Supply Chain Management

Talking Logistics

Revisiting the mega trends highlighted in Transporeon's Transportation Pulse Report 2023: labor, sustainability, and customer centricity.

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Growing a Brand and a Business with Adam Vazquez

The Logistics of Logistics

Adam Vazquez and Joe Lynch discuss growing a brand and a business. Adam is the CEO of Heard Media , a marketing firm that specializes in creating audio and video content that educates, entertains, and engages target markets. About Adam Vazquez Adam Vazquez is an experienced marketing leader who serves as the CEO of Heard Media. Adam has built memorable growth stories for numerous companies throughout the supply chain, healthcare, and technology industries, and is a leading mind for growth and ma

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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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The State of Supply Chain Control Towers: Insights from Indago Supply Chain Research Community

Talking Logistics

In June 2023, we asked members of our Indago supply chain research community — who are all supply chain and logistics executives from manufacturing, retail, and distribution companies — if they are using control towers in their supply chain operations. Surprisingly, given how long this technology has been available, only 40% of the survey respondents.

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Driving a Responsive, Sustainable and Efficient Food Supply Chain

DELMIA Quintiq

The food and beverage (F&B) industry has always been highly responsive to changes in consumer behavior, but rising food prices have brought about new challenges—pushing manufacturers to search for new ways to adapt and remain competitive in a rapidly changing market. Due to inflation and rising prices, consumers are being more frugal in spending on groceries, which can be done in a variety of ways.

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Agile Supply Chain Characteristics & Resiliency

Resilinc

Learn how to create an agile supply chain and the 6 principles to consider when developing an agile supply chain for your business.

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S&OP- How to Harness the Power of “What If” in Your S&OP Process

Logility

In an increasingly connected and dynamic global business landscape, unpredictability has become the new norm. Businesses are grappling with many uncertainties, from fluctuating market trends to unforeseen supply chain disruptions. This turbulence sends ripples through their sales and operations planning (S&OP) process, adding complex layers and challenging the essence of effective decision-making.

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Becoming a Shipper of Choice: The Difference Effective Dock Scheduling Makes in Daily Operations

C3 Solutions

Complexities of the Modern Logistics System No matter what role you play in the supply chain — whether as a manufacturer, a retailer, a distributor, or a 3PL — managing the influx and outflow of goods at your docks presents numerous logistical challenges. The hurdles faced often include operational inefficiencies such as site congestion, suboptimal dock productivity, and a time-consuming, often manual, appointment booking process with suppliers and carriers.

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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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Small Data Drives Big Transportation Results

CHAINalytics

How to use accurate weight and dimensional product data to find substantial optimization opportunities within your transportation supply chain. Pitches for transportation management systems (TMS) usually include software demonstrations in a real-world delivery scenario. They usually feature a map of a delivery area with color-coded routes, numbered stops, and truck icons proceeding along their paths … The post Small Data Drives Big Transportation Results appeared first on Chainalytics.

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The Circular Supply Chain Is Driving Corporate Decarbonization

Supply Chain Brain

Download this special report to find out how to adapt your supply chain and logistics operations to match the demands of your customers, the financial community and regulators for sustainable solutions that support decarbonization of your logistics services and the long-term viability of your business.

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The White House has today unveiled a new national cyber workforce strategy

IT Supply Chain

By Sylvain Cortes (pictured) VP Strategy at Hackuity The post The White House has today unveiled a new national cyber workforce strategy appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Attacks: One of The Biggest Cybersecurity Threats of 2023

Supply Chain Brain

Supply chain attacks are extensive, meticulously planned, and take advantage of the trust between business associates and third-party software providers.

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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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3 Considerations On Your Commerce Transformation Journey

BlueYonder

In an increasingly challenging commerce space where order management capabilities form the backbone of a retailer’s fulfillment infrastructure, retailers, distributors, 3PL’s, and manufacturers are challenged by monolithic, legacy technology that no longer fits their needs. The traditional approach has been to rip out and replace the current technology, which means a long, expensive, and resource draining project that could take several years and create unintended disruption to operations.

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Everybody forecasts to drive inventory planning. It’s just a question of how.

The Smart Software

Often companies will insist that they “don't use forecasts” to plan inventory. They often use reorder point methods and are struggling to improve on-time delivery, inventory turns, and other KPIs. While they don't think of what they are doing as explicitly forecasting, they certainly use estimates of future demand to develop reorder points such as min/max.

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Apple App Store APIs on fingerprinting

IT Supply Chain

By Eduardo Azanza (pictured) CEO at Veridas The post Apple App Store APIs on fingerprinting appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Test-Table

Supply Chain Brain

The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the supply chain management industry.

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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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Changing Developments in North America Transportation and Logistics

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides yet another news capsule update focused on what is turning out to be rapidly changing developments impacting global and U.S. transportation and logistics services activity. U.S. LTL Trucking Firm Yellow Has Ceased Operations On Sunday at Noon, one of the oldest U.S. trucking firms, Yellow , formerly known as YRC , elected to cease operations after a series of financial and other liquidity and operational challenges.

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Three Keys to Riding Out Economic, Labor, and Technology Risks

Maine Pointe

Inflation is cooling, but will that last? Consumer confidence is up, but will that last? Much of the pandemic-related labor shortage and supply chain disruption has been mitigated, but will that last?

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Eliminate the Disconnect between S&OP and S&OE

Adexa

Eliminate the Disconnect between S&OP and S&OE According to a recent study by Gartner , “ Companies that use ONE solution across the full planning horizon reduce the risk of disconnect between S&OE and S&OP” and “Single (S&OP+S&OE) solution does support seamless planning across planning horizons.” The problem with current S&OP and S&OE processes is that they were designed around the spreadsheet technology of the 80’s.

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India: A rising giant in the world of supply chain management!!

Global Trade Management

India is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. The growth in real GDP during 2022-23 is estimated at 7.2 percent compared to 9.1 percent in 2021-22, according to data released by India's Central Statistics Office (CSO). Boasting a robust economy and favorable demographics, it's no wonder many international companies are eyeing India as a prime location to set up their manufacturing facilities and supply chains.

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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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The White House has unveiled a new national cyber workforce strategy

IT Supply Chain

By Sylvain Cortes (pictured) VP Strategy at Hackuity The post The White House has unveiled a new national cyber workforce strategy appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Building an Agile and Resilient Food Industry Supply Chain at the 2023 FMI Supply Chain Forum

Supply Chain Brain

As the food industry emerges from post pandemic supply chain disruptions there is much work that needs to be done to restore supply chain equilibrium.

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How to Improve Writing Skills with Artificial Intelligence?

IT Supply Chain

By David Fowler (pictured) Content Writer The post How to Improve Writing Skills with Artificial Intelligence? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Demand and Supply: Connecting the Dots with AI

Supply Chain Brain

In this whitepaper, artificial intelligence (AI) company Peak takes a deep dive into all things demand forecasting, supply chain and the role of AI

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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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Supply Chain News onAmazon Now Making Same Day Delivery Commonplace

Supply Chain Digest

Same and Next Day Deliveries now Four Times 2019 Levels, as it Pushes for Still More

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Analytics Help Insulate Against Volatility Five Ways

Supply Chain Brain

In the North American freight market, shippers are playing it cautious in both their procurement and their transportation planning. How should they allocate their freight between the spot market and contracts?

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Supply Chain News on Long Predicted, has the Freight Recession Finally Showed Up

Supply Chain Digest

Switch in Consumer Behavior Keeping Freight Low even as Economy is Decent

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