Fri.Mar 20, 2020

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Adapting Supply Chains to the New Normal

Maine Pointe

The importance of contingency planning to protect resilience is key in today's hyperconnected global supply chains. Burton White, EVP CPG & Retail at Maine Pointe offers his advice on how to weather the storm when the unexpected happens and how to be better prepared when the next one hits.

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Importance of a Risk-Aware Supply Chain

BlueYonder

Blue Yonder is committed to helping its customers face the unexpected. To provide insights into the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic and its impact on supply chains around the world, we are delivering a blog series to help anyone looking for support and advice. Our experts, who have spent years in the supply chain industry, share their insights. A recent McKinsey & Company “COVID-19: Briefing Note” 1. highlighted end-to-end supply chain actions to consider in the response to COVID-19 (slide 24)

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The Importance of International Transportation Visibility in a Global Pandemic

3rdwave

Visibility has been the major topic of Supply Chain professionals for the past 20 years. In a time of normalcy, it is important, in the time of Covid-19, it is proving to be critical. . Where is my product? That is a question that anyone involved in the global supply chain is asking…sometimes hysterically. Having inbound product level visibility is crucial to ensuring that the demand side of the organization can operate smoothly.

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Top Warehouse KPIs to Succeed in 2020

GlobalTranz

Key performance indicators (KPIs) provide an invaluable way to judge the efficacy of operations, determine opportunities for improvement, improve customer experiences, and better manage supply chain functions, including warehouse management. Supply chain leaders that wish to remain proactive to risks of disruption and improve operations through 2020 and beyond need to understand the top warehouse KPIs and how.read More.

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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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Making Sense of the Complex: In Supply Chain Planning

Vanguard Software

Supply chains are becoming increasingly complex, and so are their planning practices. Making sense of these complexities is often a manual, time consuming, and iterative process. But it doesn’t have to be.

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WHITE PAPER: Digital Transformation in Procurement – A CPO’s Agenda

Bristlecone

Digital transformation is all about leveraging technologies to create or modify existing business processes, corporate culture and customer experience in ways that deliver value. The ability to save on labor costs, accelerate processes, enhance supplier relationships and improve decision-making are all drivers for digital procurement transformation.

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COVID-19: The Impacts on Parcel Shipping

EnVista

How the Coronavirus is Affecting the Parcel Industry. The effects of the Coronavirus are causing some interesting and trying times. COVID-19 has disrupted the global economy, sparing no industry. No one in the parcel industry, let alone the supply chain industry, has experienced anything like this before. Parcel shippers are affected in multiple ways.

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9 Ways to Reduce Chargebacks with your Vendor Compliance Program

Freight Plus

In this episode, we share 9 ways you as a shipper can reduce the number of chargebacks you are experiencing in your vendor compliance program. 1, Audit, Audit, Audit: In order to avoid chargebacks, you first need to identify them by auditing your invoices. The five most common are: Late/Missing ASN, Missing/Invalid GS1-128 (UCC128) Labels, Bad Ticketing, Order Fill Rate, Early/Late Shipments.

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Guiding Principles for Success in Your Enterprise’s Master Data Management

Vinculum

Look at most successful businesses, enterprises or retail stores; the leading reason behind their success is their master data management solutions. Data is known to be one of the valuable assets this 2020. All thanks to the technological revolution, there has been data generated at an unprecedented pace. What power does data hold? Technology has advanced, so have the number of enterprises that are thoroughly maintaining databases.

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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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The Importance of International Transportation Visibility in a Global Pandemic

3rdwave

Visibility has been the major topic of Supply Chain professionals for the past 20 years. In the time of Covid-19, it is proving to be critical.

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The last American cowboy and next American hero

Proxima

As I sit at my home in Nashville, TN, observing the aftermath of the recent tornados while playing witness to daily changes in the world, I had a thought. It occurred to me that there is an entire industry, and specifically a resource group, that ties emergency events together in a surprising way, one that is often overlooked. This unique group of people has been tasked to help our country restore and sustain.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 14 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

We all knew this day would come eventually. I just don’t think any of us saw it shaking out quite like this. After 20 years, 18 post-seasons, 14 Pro Bowls, 6 Super Bowl championships, 4 Super Bowl MVP awards, 3 regular season MVP awards, and the most dramatic comeback in Super Bowl history, Tom Brady is no longer a Patriot. My belief, along with most of those in new England, was that Brady would re-sign […].

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (March 20, 2020)

Talking Logistics

I hope everyone is well and healthy. It is incredible how quickly the world has been turned upside down by this coronavirus outbreak. There’s a lot of uncertainty at the moment, except for one thing: that we will all get through this and reach better days by working together. On a brighter note, this month. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (March 20, 2020).

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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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Supply Chain News on Second MODEX Attendee found to Have Corona Virus

Supply Chain Digest

Appears to have been Close to Dozens or Hundreds of Other Attendees

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Business Intelligence Analyst

ivalua

The post Business Intelligence Analyst appeared first on Ivalua.

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up: 03/13/20 – 03/19/20

All Things Supply Chain

European and North American manufacturers shut down as China comes back online As the coronavirus outbreak continues, many large manufacturers, particularly those in the automotive sector, are shutting down their…

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ivalua

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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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Engineering to Order at Kratos Space – Making Parts Availability a Strategic Advantage

The Smart Software

The Kratos Space group within National Security technology innovator Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., produces COTS s software and component products for space communications - Making Parts Availability a Strategic Advantage. The post Engineering to Order at Kratos Space – Making Parts Availability a Strategic Advantage appeared first on Smart Software.

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Coronavirus: Challenges and Best practices for Transportation Programs A Round table Discussion

Freight Plus

A market update and summary of the round table discussion from March 19, 2020. What should we expect for accessorial charges, specifically detention and demurrage? We have seen a lot of ancillary charges that are starting to creep in the ocean mode. Some shippers are looking to move international shipments through the air. Some organizations are choosing to air freight to get the product in their customers' hands faster.

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D365 Developer Series: X++ Chain of Command

EnVista

Using C hain of C ommand in X++. Chain of command has been available in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for a few years (since Platform Update 9), and we’re still seeing miscommunications around the topic. In this week’s blog, we will answer: What is it? How do I use it? When would I use it? What does it replace?

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Coronavirus: Challenges and Best practices for Transportation Programs A Round table Discussion

Freight Plus

A market update and summary of the round table discussion from March 19, 2020. What should we expect for accessorial charges, specifically detention and demurrage? We have seen a lot of ancillary charges that are starting to creep in the ocean mode. Some shippers are looking to move international shipments through the air. Some organizations are choosing to air freight to get the product in their customers' hands faster.

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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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COVID-19 and Your Trucking Company: Best Practices on the Road

Tailwind

Protecting Your Trucking Company from COVID-19. Tailwind can help. COVID-19 is having a significant effect not only on our health, but also the way that we do business. . In some of the most affected areas of the world, businesses are shuttering as quarantines and travel bans are coming into place. But for the most part, business can’t stop. This is especially true for trucking companies.

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FreightCenter Takes Care of You During COVID-19

Freight Center

Dear Valued Customers,

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It's Time to Address the Logistics Nightmare Still to Come

Supply Chain Brain

When the pandemic ends, the logistical problems will not.

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How a Virus Pandemic Led to a Toilet Paper Shortage

ThroughPut

The post How a Virus Pandemic Led to a Toilet Paper Shortage appeared first on ThroughPut.

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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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Warehousing: Optimize Storage Locations!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Disruptive Warehouse Technologies for Any Company! . “We just spent several millions of dollars on a new Warehouse Management System for our E-Commerce Online Distribution Centre. We do not need to spend any more money on our Supply Chain.” That sounded very intriguing to say the least.

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How to be Productive during the Global Lockdown: The ThroughPut Playbook to Maintain your Output Levels

ThroughPut

Across the United States and much of the world, we find ourselves in the middle of another week of escalating situations stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. The deaths in Italy have surpassed those in China. California has over 40 million people on lockdown with New York following suit today. Schools have been postponed or outright cancelled until further notice, with restaurants being encouraged to only offer take-out, pick-up or delivery.

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Embracing a Smart City System-of-Systems Approach

Enterra Insights

Watching time-lapse videos of city life is always fascinating. They help viewers understand the pulse of life unique to each urban environment. Charles Towers-Clark ( @ctowersclark ), founder and Chairman of Pod Group, observes, “To untangle the complexities of a city, first you must understand the people that live there. Gathering data around local population changes, demographics, economic growth and decline, and political and social allegiances is essential when planning a city or making smal