Mon.May 13, 2019

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Executives see AI, Cognitive Analytics and Cloud as the Path to Innovation and Speed to Market

JDA software

According to research, executives are investing in new cloud-based AI and cognitive analytics capabilities that will provide them with end-to-end visibility and traceability across their extended supply networks, starting them on the road to autonomous supply chains. CXO executives increasingly understand that satisfying fast-changing customer demand in today’s digital marketplace won’t happen if they continue to rely on the same legacy systems and technologies that may have served them well in

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Quick Start Guide to Using Machine Learning for Demand Planning

Brookes Supply Chain Planning Blog

Anyone who has done demand planning knows it is extremely complex, with forecasting challenges and rapidly shifting consumer demand, often exacerbated by seasonality, new product introductions, promotions, and myriad causal factors (e.g. weather, social media). The good news is that these characteristics make demand planning a perfect fit for artificial intelligence solutions.

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To Ease the Squeeze of New Tariffs, Focus on Compliance

Supply Chain Brain

A year after tariffs on more than 1,300 Chinese goods first sent importers reeling, the news supply chain managers everywhere have been dreading is finally here.

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Five Technologies for a more agile Procurement Process

Procurement Academy

Agility is vital to keep every business up and running. Procurement is one of the functions, which requires constant change. Today, procurement teams are expected to play a strategic and tech-enabled role. Before, procurement teams had two focuses: cost reduction and risk mitigation. The advent of automation and cloud services has led to more emphasis… The post Five Technologies for a more agile Procurement Process appeared first on Procurement Academy.

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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 Chain Visibility: Beyond “Where’s My Truck?”

Talking Logistics

I’ve been an industry analyst for over 20 years and achieving timely and accurate supply chain visibility has always been — and continues to be — a top priority for companies across all industries. It’s an ongoing challenge because supply chains continue to get more fragmented, more global, and more dynamic. The good news is that advancements in technology are addressing some of the historical challenges companies have faced in gathering, sharing, and analyzing real-time data from ma

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How Logistics Is Proving that Amazon Needs to Be Regulated

Freightos

A version of this article originally appeared on JOC.com. . A few days ago, Amazon announced one day delivery plans. In itself, that’s a big deal, but its significance is compounded when you consider the trucking shipment volumes such a move will require; it’s essentially jet fuel for their new freight brokerage business. Take into account their FBA warehouse footprint, NVOCC license, and SEC reports flagging forwarders as competition, and you have a solid reminder that Amazon is coming for gl

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Retail Apocalypse Predicted to Continue

Enterra Insights

An apocalypse is defined as an event involving destruction or damage on an awesome or catastrophic scale. Over the past several years, thousands of brick-and-mortar retail stores have closed in what has been called the Retail Apocalypse. A couple of years ago, Robin Wigglesworth ( @RobinWigg ) charted the beginnings of the Retail Apocalypse and noted it shouldn’t have been a surprise “given the vast overbuilding of stores and shopping malls in recent decades.”[1] Wigglesworth a

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Ports, Shippers, Companies to Accelerate Blockchain Deployment Across Supply Chains

Material Handling & Logistics

Over 100 organizations and experts representing large shippers, supply chain providers and governments have joined the World Economic Forum project to speed up use of blockchain technology.

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9% increase in transparency since 2017 and brands as a force for good: transparency roundup

Provenance

Shoppers are increasingly demanding more information behind the things they buy. So we’re here to bring you the key developments, innovations and events from the businesses leading the way. Welcome to our monthly Transparency Roundup. In the fashion industry and want to learn how transparency can increase sales and drive engagement? Join our webinar in partnership with Common Objective on the 12th of June.

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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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Robotic Warehouses: Why Are Companies Straggling Behind the Movement?

Veridian Solutions

Robotic warehouses have great potential. Supply chain leaders across the globe scour the latest technologies and capabilities of robots. The reasoning is simple; robots offer a tireless army of workers without the hassle of managing human laborers. Unfortunately, significant obstacles to robotic warehouses still result in some companies eyeing the technology with suspicion, if not contempt.

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ToolsGroup Names David Barton General Manager of North America

ToolsGroup

BOSTON (May 13, 2019) – ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, announced today that David Barton has joined ToolsGroup as the new general manager of North America. Barton will be responsible for all operations, including sales, professional services, customer success and administration. Barton succeeds Patrick Smith, who served as managing director for North America from 2011 to February 2019.

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Humanless Warehousing: Tips to Prepare for a Robot-Driven Future

Veridian Solutions

Mujin, a Tokyo-based company, has developed and deployed the first fully automated, humanless warehousing robotic systems, reports CNBC. Unfortunately, significant challenges continue to plague the idea of humanless warehousing, yet the benefits of automation and robotics must not be ignored. Supply chain leaders need to understand these facts and follow a few tips to prepare for a robot-driven future.

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Executives see AI, Cognitive Analytics and Cloud as the Path to Innovation and Speed to Market

BlueYonder

According to research, executives are investing in new cloud-based AI and cognitive analytics capabilities that will provide them with end-to-end visibility and traceability across their extended supply networks, starting them on the road to autonomous supply chains. CXO executives increasingly understand that satisfying fast-changing customer demand in today’s digital marketplace won’t happen if they continue to rely on the same legacy systems and technologies that may have served them well in

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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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Flicking the switch to digital

Requis

It’s Saturday morning and your alarm goes off. You roll over, pick up your phone and immediately have access to the world at the touch of a button. After scrolling through the news and social media, you may check emails and reply to a few, all before sitting up and getting out of bed. While you cook your breakfast, you order your weekly groceries online.

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Case Arena: Optimizing a Complex, Global Supply Chain

RELEX Solutions

Case Arena: Optimizing a Complex, Global Supply Chain. Customers » Case Studies. Background and targets. From Tolentino in Italy’s Marche region, Arena designs, commissions and wholesales waterwear, sports apparel and equipment around the globe. It outsources manufacturing to Europe and the Far East. A global brand running wholly owned subsidiaries and exporting to more than 100 countries, it runs a multi-level distribution network centered on a global DC in Italy and 2 regional DCs in France an

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Gartner Supply Chain Executive Forum 2019 Day 1 Video Review and Commen

Supply Chain Digest

SCDigest Editor Dan Gilmore from the conference floor in Scottsdale, AZ

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Inbound Freight Reporting: 16 Ways to Use Freight Data to Evaluate Spend by Supplier

GlobalTranz

When shippers grow too comfortable with inbound freight management activities, mistakes occur, and failure to recognize the signs of poor visibility in inbound freight management will result in higher costs. Fortunately, inbound freight reporting leverages the capability of advanced systems and data-driven workflows to improve visibility and evaluate freight spend by the supplier.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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Supply Chain News on Amazon Betting Big on Automating the Packing Process

Supply Chain Digest

Testing Machines that Precisely Buils Shipping Cartons around Order Items

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Planning accuracy…can you get too much of a good thing?

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Walmart Is Tightening OTIF Requirements. Can Suppliers Step Up Their Game?

Supply Chain Brain

Suppliers are scrambling to meet Walmart’s tighter standards for delivery performance — and they can expect the giant retailer to keep raising the bar.

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4 Technology Pillars to Achieve Process Optimization in Manufacturing

Seebo

Understand how to achieve manufacturing process optimization by following these steps. The post 4 Technology Pillars to Achieve Process Optimization in Manufacturing appeared first on Seebo Blog.

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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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Effective Reverse Logistics: Protecting the Bottom Line and Gaining Competitive Advantage

Supply Chain Brain

In an increasingly competitive industry, retailers can no longer rely on providing the right product at the right price, with customer service taking center ground in the battle for consumers’ hard-earned cash.

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Inventory Control: Proactive vs Reactive Management

Unleashed

Inventory control is a tricky process. Essentially, the goal of inventory control is to maximise profits with the smallest amount of investment into your inventory. Meanwhile, this target needs to happen without compromising on customer satisfaction levels. Inventory control is complex. Understanding the multitude of factors that come into play on a daily basis is no easy feat; it takes time and a strong fundamental framework to manage it properly.

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E2open and Amber Road Announce Definitive $425 Million Acquisition Agreement

Supply Chain 24/7

Customers to receive unprecedented integration of E2open’s and Amber Road’s end-to-end supply chain and global trade management capabilities – delivered with the speed of the cloud.

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APPROVALS AND THEIR IMPORTANCE IN PROCUREMENT

Eyvo

The procurement department is usually misunderstood by many in an organization. The reasons are simple – first, they think that there are numerous complex steps involved in the entire P2P process or second, who really keeps a tab on maverick spending? We know that organizations have started the shift from traditional to digital procurement. Making this shift has benefitted companies and adapting to these technologies has been harder than it looked.

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GEP Outlook Report 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders have faced their share of disruption and economic turmoil these past four years. Whether from geopolitical tensions or the havoc caused by the pandemic and its aftershocks, plenty of challenges remain. Despite this, leaders are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel — inflation is decreasing, interest rates are leveling off and supply chain volatility is easing.

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Introducing ShipChain’s Backend Services

Shipchain

If you’ve been following our blog , trends in logistics, or just the news in general, by now you know that blockchain is a big deal. Imagine a world in which all of your data is virtually unhackable, secure, and unable to be tampered with. Now imagine removing third-parties and their added costs entirely. You’re looking at higher profits, increased productivity, and fewer instances of unethical business or fraud due to the added transparency.

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To Ease the Squeeze of New Tariffs, Focus on Compliance

American Global Logistics

Supply Chain Brain —A year after tariffs on more than 1,300 Chinese goods first sent importers reeling, the news supply chain managers everywhere have been dreading is finally here. Last week’s tariff increase from 10 percent to 25 percent, which went into effect May 10, gave organizations less than a week to plan for the […]. The post To Ease the Squeeze of New Tariffs, Focus on Compliance appeared first on AGL.

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Preparing Your Workplace for the Creeping Opioid Crisis

Supply Chain 24/7

On June 13, 2018, the White House passed a series of legislations addressing one of the most pressing concerns gripping the American workforce: opioids.

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