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5 Common Mistakes in Fulfillment Center & Distribution Center Design

The Network Effect

By Thompson Brockmann, Partner, Tompkins International. The common adage that management is both art and science is a truism. This adage serves as a way of indicating a rather complex reality involving management. Management is a science in that there are known facts and reasoning involved that produces dependable results. Management is also an art in that it requires high levels of creativity in order to steer results more favorably.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 25-29, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Lots of supply chain and logistics news to get to this week, especially on the the technology front, so let’s go straight to it. Descartes Acquires pixi. Pitney Bowes Unveils Commerce Cloud with World-Class Solutions that Enable the Full Continuum of Commerce. JDA Empowers Customers to Transform their Supply Chains with New End-to-End Capabilities. JDA Rolls Out New Transportation Management Capabilities and Taps into Big Data to Enable Real-time Visibility.

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Truth in Transparency

APICS

It’s been three years since the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh that killed 1,135 garment workers when an eight-story building collapsed. The tragedy pushed company leaders to seek greater transparency in their supply chains. It pushed consumers to think about where their goods come from and the definition of supply chain itself. This week, Reuters asked in its headline: “Three Years After Rana Plaza Disaster, Has Anything Changed?

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Transportation Procurement in India

CHAINalytics

By Linsa Godwin Sathiamoses | Consultant, Transportation, Chainalytics | Procuring transportation services is an important activity on the supply chain calendar. It is also one area where every procurement manager thinks he or she is doing a good job, until proven otherwise. By all accounts, shippers in Europe and the Americas are using transportation and analytics […].

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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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Mobile: It’s Time to Celebrate and Seize the Opportunities

BlueYonder

By Chris Love, Chief Business Development Officer, REPL Group , longstanding JDA Alliance Partner. Just about everyone recognizes that mobility matters like never before. No longer can it be seen as a nice-to-have feature for supply chain and operational applications – it’s become essential. For enterprise technology systems, a well-made mobile solution assures accessibility, familiarity and widespread adoption.

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Mobile: It’s Time to Celebrate and Seize the Opportunities

BlueYonder

By Chris Love, Chief Business Development Officer, REPL Group , longstanding JDA Alliance Partner. Just about everyone recognizes that mobility matters like never before. No longer can it be seen as a nice-to-have feature for supply chain and operational applications – it’s become essential. For enterprise technology systems, a well-made mobile solution assures accessibility, familiarity and widespread adoption.

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Made in America: What it Means to the Country

GlobalTranz

You probably know that imported products are cheaper. But are they really cheaper than products that are made in America? . Paychecks Matter. Buying American-made products creates jobs all over the country - better jobs. As of 2016, American manufacturing adds $6 Trillion to our economy , accounting for 12 million jobs. Even more, that 12 million figure doesn’t include the jobs created in the transportation of components and finished goods.

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How Do You Saw a Ship in Half… Underwater?

The Network Effect

The MV Tricolor is perhaps the unluckiest cargo ship in recent memory. It was not enough that she sank, she continued to suffer indignity while she lay submerged in the shallow waters of the English Channel. It is what happened next though, that is truly remarkable. Luckily, it was all captured on film so you can see how it unfolded. I’m talking about the resurrection of The Tricolor.

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Outsourcing Helps Subscription Companies Add Ecommerce Platform

Supply Chain 24/7

Visits to popular subscription sites are up almost 3,000 percent in the past three years.

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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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Five Questions Executives Should Ask Before Adopting the Next Big Tech Acronym

River Logic

For most CEOs and executives, the massive investment they’ve made in technologies deployed to help them with complex operational and strategic decisions have been extremely frustrating. The adoption of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system was supposed to provide a single integrated view of your business to help drive decision-making across all functional areas.

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Outsourcing Helps Subscription Companies Add Ecommerce Platform

Supply Chain 24/7

Visits to popular subscription sites are up almost 3,000 percent in the past three years.

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