Wed.Mar 25, 2020

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How Does Demand Sensing Differ from Forecasting for Demand Planning?

Logility

The promise of demand sensing is that we can do a better job of anticipating and planning for short-term changes in demand. For today’s supply chain planner, the art and especially the science of forecasting demand have evolved. True, the past is still the best predictor of the future, but consider how that axiom can and does come to life in the real world.

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The Autonomous Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Autonomous technology continues to make an impact on the supply chain. The autonomous supply chain, as I am writing about it here, applies to moving goods without human intervention (to some degree at least). One of the more interesting examples I have seen is from the Belgian brewery De Halve Maan, which in an effort to reduce congestion on the city streets, built a beer pipeline under the streets.

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How to Find Business Opportunities Amid the Coronavirus Supply Chain Crisis

ToolsGroup

Here are ideas for grasping opportunities in the midst of the Coronavirus supply chain challenges. The coronavirus’ supply chain and business impacts are being felt around the world and in our backyards: this strange time is slamming markets, causing confusion and changing patterns of normality. A common reaction seems to be to close shop, hoard toilet paper and canned goods and expect the worst.

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Shipping Disruption: What Shippers Need to Know About DPA

GlobalTranz

The novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, has contributed to what might be described as the biggest supply chain shipping disruption of the century. According to the CDC, the total number of cases in the U.S. had jumped to 44,183 as of noon Tuesday, March 24, 2020, and even since, the totals in New York.read More. The post Shipping Disruption: What Shippers Need to Know About DPA appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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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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Supply Chains Need to be Agile and Fast

Enterra Insights

Ten years doesn’t seem like a long time; however, in today’s rapidly changing business environment, a decade can seem like a lifetime. Joe Terino, who leads Bain & Company’s supply chain work in the Americas, insists, “The consolidated supply chain of 10 years ago can no longer meet today’s business needs.”[1] He believes supply chains need to be more flexible and responsive and, to make that happen, you need to begin with strategy.

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How to Maintain the Supply Chain in the COVID-19 Crisis

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020. While no one can accurately predict the long-term effects of COVID-19, many have already felt the effects of the disease, and have been left wondering about its impact on global manufacturing and distribution sectors. As it stands, 75% of companies worldwide have reported supply chain disruptions […].

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Supply Chains in 2030: Connected, Intelligent, and Autonomous

CHAINalytics

Editor’s Note: When this blog post first came to be, no one could have foreseen what the world is enduring with the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). Yet as we look towards the decade ahead, we believe that the observations below remain valid. Some developments will take longer; others will be here much sooner because that’s … The post Supply Chains in 2030: Connected, Intelligent, and Autonomous appeared first on Chainalytics.

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Taking the mystery out of the rapid growth of COVID19 and the purpose of social distancing – some basics for Octogenarians

Arkieva

The spread of the COVID19 virus is a major concern of everyone. Typically, two critical questions are being asked: why it seemed to grow so quickly over the last few weeks and what is the impact of social distancing. This blog provides a kitchen table explanation of “rapid growth” and how social distancing might dampen growth. Taking the mystery out of the rapid growth of COVID19 and the purpose of social distancing – some basics for Octogenarians was first posted on March 25, 2020 at 7:40 am. &

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Lockdown Logistics: Don’t wait, automate!

SCJunction

Supply chains are under pressure ordinarily, and in current times with a sweeping pandemic affecting countries from the GCC, the value of automation in supply chains and warehouse management logistics is more apparent than ever.

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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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My New Normal: A Mother’s Heartache

BlueYonder

Thursday, March 12, 2020 was my last day of normal. We had family friends in from California and we enjoyed several Spring Training games (Go A’s/Go Giants), big family meals with a lot of laughter by the firepit. Going to the store for household essential and food was a hassle but surely nothing to even think about. It got real, Friday, March 13 th as our guests left and headed back to California with the sense of the unknown once they returned back to the Bay Area.

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Proactive supplier communication is critical in this pandemic

NC State SCRC

As the coronavirus epidemic shuts down the global economy, supply chain executives should be taking steps now to ensure that their supply base remains intact in the face of massive disruption. This was certainly the case in the 2008 Great Recession. We recently published a paper that demonstrates empirically that over the period of the major financial crisis, supply managers who regularly assess and develop an understanding of their key suppliers’ working capital conditions are more likely to

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Bristlecone Flash – March 2020

Bristlecone

RAPID DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION CAN TRANSFORM SOURCING IN JUST SIX WEEKS. Bristlecone AribaRDS is now certified as an SAP-Qualified Partner-Packaged Solution for SAP Ariba. With AribaRDS, businesses can transform global sourcing, gain visibility, reduce cycle times and start achieving procurement savings with SAP Ariba Sourcing in as little as six weeks with minimal downtime – and at a price point that won’t break the bank.

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Should You Buy or Lease Your Photocopier?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Copy Machine Problems and How to Fix Them! (Sponsored). Buy or Lease Your Photocopier article and permission to publish here provided by Daniel Calvin at number1officemachines.com.au. Photocopiers are an integral part of any workspace. Nearly every office nowadays is equipped with a multifunctional copy machine, one that can carry out essential operations, from printing to scanning and photocopying.

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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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The Unrealized Benefits of Supply-Chain Serialization

Supply Chain Brain

With today's enterprise resource planning systems, companies can view aggregate shipping locations of each distributor, wholesaler and reseller. Most of the time, though, product tracking ends there.

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Financial Moves to Make Before You Retire!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Financial moves article and permission to publish here provided by William Rovetto. It seemed so far away back when you were 21. Now you’re 60 and retirement is looming large on the horizon. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, the average American male retires at 65, while women retire at 63.

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Optionality is Key to Managing Supply Chain Risk in Manufacturing

Maine Pointe

Risk preparation and optionality. Collin Ziemerink EVP Industrial Manufacturing & Services at Maine Pointe considers the immediate actions manufacturing companies can take to weather the current storm and prepare for the next one.

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Avoiding Basic Walmart Deductions

SupplyPike

Deductions, or chargebacks , can hit your wallet hard. Some of them you can dispute , but others are far more difficult. In the end, it’s best to just avoid them altogether. Here are some of the most common Walmart deduction codes that you may see and some best practices on ensuring you don’t see them again. Codes 10 and 11. Code 10 is “ Price Difference as Documented ” and code 11 is “ Pricing Overcharge ” , meaning that in the first case, an allowance is being applied incorrectly leading to a

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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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Brexit and the Global Distribution Landscape

Veridian Solutions

The fears of how the global distribution landscape would change following Brexit were founded on the uncertainty that the referendum created. According to the Washington Post , Brexit would create a break among its trade-dependent partners, including Ireland. Without a successor agreement in place, financial costs could lead to supply chain meltdown and even threaten the state of the EU, not to mention omnichannel supply chains.

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Safety First. Business Forward.

AB&R

Your AIDC Experts Are Here For You. To Our Valued Clients: On behalf of all of us at American Barcode and RFID Inc. (AB&R), I hope that this message finds you in good health and high spirits. During these challenging times, the health and safety of our team members is our top priority. We are taking all necessary precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our physical office.

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Podcast: Dyan Finkhousen on GE’s Transition to a Digital Platform Ecosystem

Requis

GE went from a high-quality, highly complex, but traditional legacy supply chain to an agile digitized innovator. The success and lessons learned from this transformation have incredible value for other industrial supply chains that haven’t yet made the leap to full digital transparency. Platform and innovation expert Dyan Finkhousen talks about the key challenges GE faced and the strategies GE used with Supply Chain Next host Richard Donaldson.

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The Coronavirus Is Shattering Traditional Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

Having the flexibility to quickly adapt to abrupt supplier changes is key to surviving the crisis.

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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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Supply chain companies to launch healthcare industry exchange

Resilinc

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for March 26, 2020

Supply Chain Digest

Retailer Boosting Wages, Adding Jobs. From Underwear to Face Masks at Hanes. Truck Rates and Deadheading Rising.

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Is Cloud Based TMS Software Right For Your Transport Logistics?

3GTMS

Transportation management systems (TMS) software has been around for decades. Most companies have been using the same system for quite some time, but they may be finding that their software no longer meets their needs. Today, many legacy TMS systems simply can’t keep up with the demands of modern customer delivery service demands, and they’re […].

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The Thin Supply Chain Line

Supply Chain Digest

The Supply Chain Keeps Back Chaos, Can It Hold

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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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Parcel Shipping in TMS

Talking Logistics

When it comes to transportation management systems (TMS), there is always something new to talk about. That’s because the technology continues to evolve rapidly in response to changing market forces and customer requirements. One area of growing demand and innovation is parcel shipping, which was one of the driving forces behind 3Gtms’s recent acquisition of.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Wee on What Food Items are Missing from Store Shelves

Supply Chain Digest

Can the Grocery Supply Chain Keep Performing

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[Video] Parcel Shipping in TMS

Talking Logistics

Mitch Weseley, CEO and founder of 3Gtms, and Bill Knapp, former CEO and now general manager of Pacejet, a division of 3Gtms, discuss the growing role and importance of parcel shipping in transportation management systems (TMS). Podcast version (click to play): The post [Video] Parcel Shipping in TMS appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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