Tue.Feb 14, 2017

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Valentine’s Day: Warm Hearts and Cold Chains

Enterra Insights

Valentine’s Day is a day of romance. You might have risen early this morning to prepare your significant other breakfast … Continued. The post Valentine’s Day: Warm Hearts and Cold Chains appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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2017 Global Industry Outlook

NFI Industries

2016 will go down as one of the most memorable years in international trade. The West Coast ports were still working to gain the trust of shippers after the port strike in 2015. Meanwhile, Hanjin Shipping went bankrupt which left some shippers frantic to find new, reliable carriers. Regulations were also hot topics this past. Read More.

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Is the Box Half Empty or Half Full?

CHAINalytics

| By Scott Gowan | Director, Transportation Competency | Chainalytics Good packaging design is one of the basic building blocks of sound, sustainable supply chains. Because it is, we’re always on the lookout for packaging improvement opportunities. We can’t help it! Problem solving is second nature. A few weeks ago, this packaging improvement opportunity came … The post Is the Box Half Empty or Half Full?

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Sustainable procurement programs on the rise, still face challenges: EcoVadis Barometer results

EcoVadis

Culminating months of research, the 2017 EcoVadis/HEC Sustainable Procurement Barometer is now live and it’s worth a thorough read. We offer an introduction to the research findings. Sustainable procurement programs are no longer optional or a mere nice-to-have, but an integral business function. That’s according to the survey research results from the new EcoVadis/HEC Sustainable Procurement Barometer , which collected input from procurement and supply chain professionals across the globe.

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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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2016 the year of economic nationalism as supply chain risk reaches record high

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Global supply chain risk grew to a record high at the end of 2016 as the CIPS Risk Index, powered by Dun & Bradstreet, rose to 82.64, from 79.14 at the end of 2015.

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Amber Road Supply Chain Collaboration Solutions

Supply Chain 24/7

Global expansion is a business reality for organizations faced with shrinking product margins, increasing competition, and a technology environment that gives customers unprecedented choice in the selection of products and services.

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Supply Chain News on Lean is Simple. So Why Is It So Hard

Supply Chain Digest

Changes from Batch Thinking are Hard to Navigate, but Lack of Lean Leadership is Top Obstacle, Expert Says

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5 Predictive & Immersive Logistics Tech Trends Driving Continual Improvement

GlobalTranz

The coming year is set to reshape how the logistics tech industry operates. Automation and robotics are leading the charge, and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is adding to the mountain of data being collected and analyzed for insights and better operations. Meanwhile, technology is stepping up to meet the added pressures and demand on the industry, and your company needs to understand where it will be felt the most. 1.

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A New Business Role Has Developed: The Citizen Data Scientists

River Logic

As better understanding of big data evolved, many organizations realized there was tremendous potential to extract actionable information from their data. However, the ability to turn unstructured data into useful information was often hampered by resource limitations and high costs.

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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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A Day of Action Sets the Tone for Future Trade

Supply Chain 24/7

President Trump’s withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership amounts to a drastic reversal of decades of economic policy in which presidents of both parties have lowered trade barriers and expanded ties around the world.

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Delivering Flowers to the Nation for Valentine’s Day

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Delivering Flowers to the Nation for Valentine’s Day | Freshspective. Every Valentine’s Day, consumers head into stores to purchase flowers at a volume that is far higher than any other day of the year. And, because they want to give their loved ones the freshest blooms possible, many Valentine’s Day floral purchases are made the day of—which means hundreds of stores around the country need to be prepared to have enough flowers on hand to meet their demand.

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Mistakes Can Be Forgiven

Tailwind

She started up the song. Millions of people around the globe were watching on TV – waiting for a memorable performance. She started and knew she was off-key – headed in the wrong direction with the song, and with the moment. So she stopped the song. She uttered an expletive, and then said. “I can’t mess this up for him.”. Hmm. I can’t mess this up FOR HIM she said.

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RFID Does Not Lie Says Retailer Lululemon

Supply Chain Digest

Item level RFID Provides Consumers with Highly Accurate Store Inventory Levels, Greatly Improves Buy Online, Pick Up In Store Success

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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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Bad Data + Lack of Standards = Lousy Supply Chain Analytics

NC State SCRC

One of the truths that is often overlooked in the splurge of press and hype around “Analytics” is the need for data integrity. You can’t have analytics without data that is reliable, timely, validated, and accurate. In a 2014 Deloitte survey of 239 chief procurement officers and directors from 25 countries, 67% of respondents stated that poor data quality was a key barrier to implementing systems.