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Quintiq World Tour, Istanbul – Plan for better efficiency

DELMIA Quintiq

'How do manufacturers manage a complex multi-product plant? How can companies overcome the bullwhip effect – a natural inefficiency that magnifies small increases in order to size all the way down the supply chain? Are there ways for companies operating at maximum capacity to speed up on delivery? Join us at the Quintiq World Tour event themed ‘Smart Planning, Smart Business’ in Istanbul on November 6, 2014.

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Check the box if you’re demand-driven….

The Network Effect

'Note, this is part three of an ongoing series. In part one and part two I explained how the terms “shelf-connected” and “demand-driven” have been in use for years within the supply chain community, but only recently has demand-driven value network technology emerged and matured enough to truly be a game-changer. Here is part three of the checklist with explanations.

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FMCG Supply Chains - For Whom the Bell Tolls in Romania?

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

'We hadn’t seen R. in the last three years. Now this happened in the middle of the street and after the kisses and hugs, the usual ‘how do you do’ followed. People were pushing us angrily, a clear sign that we had to continue this conversation elsewhere, in a quiet place. And so we did. R. visited us the next day to give us the big news. “I have decided to move in France!

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“Plan to Deliver” with JDA: Company Identity Touts Customer Value, Ability to Deliver More Intelligently and Delight Today’s End Consumer

Supply Chain Network

'“Plan to deliver” tagline succinctly reinforces JDA’s leading end-to-end solution suites — offering everything from “planning to delivery” for retailers, manufacturers and distributors. SCOTTSDALE, AZ and NEW YORK, NY – October 28, 2014– JDA Software Group, Inc., and Lippincott, a leading global branding firm, today unveiled a new brand identity and logo for JDA featuring an important new tagline for the company: “Plan to deliverTM.”.

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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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Visualizing Supply Chains in Distress

MIT Supply Chain

'There is no better way to show the impact of major disruptions on supply chains than to convey the level of risk involved through a clear, impactful, visual device. MIT CTL researchers Ranjana Mary Ninan and Christopher Sean Wang created such a device for their SCM Program thesis Visualizing and Quantifying Global Supply Chain Risk . They collaborated with two service providers, Sourcemap and AIR Worldwide, to develop an interactive mapping tool that evaluates operational risk, and flags the r

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Week of Oct. 30, 2014

Supply Chain Digest

'HP 3D Printing Breakthrough, China May be Creating its Own Robot Bubble, US Truckload Rates Continue to Soar, Goldman Sachs Says Oil Prices to Keep Falling'

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Addressing a Legal Threat to Local Delivery Operations (The FedEx Ground Case on Driver Classification)

Talking Logistics

'The recent ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that FedEx misclassified its Ground drivers as independent contractors is “a shot across the bow” to companies offering local delivery. That’s because most companies with a local delivery component to their business — whether a national furniture retailer offering scheduled delivery or a tech startup with an app offering one-hour food delivery — treat drivers as independent contractors to avoid all the extra costs that come wit

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on The Rapidly Declining Costs of Solar Energy

Supply Chain Digest

'Remarkable Decline in Solar Panel Costs have Made Solar Quite Competitive, and Likely to Undercut Other Sources Soon.

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Startup Bubble? Savvy Angels Help Entrepreneurs Avoid Burning Cash

Marianne Hudson

Some well-known investors - namely Benchmark partner Bill Gurley and Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Marc Andreessen - have recently sounded the alarm about a tech bubble. The fear is that huge valuations and quick cash burns by tech startups are out of control and will derail the startup market. While the [.

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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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Dubai Metro fault leaves rush hour commuters stranded

Logistics Middle East

'Thousands of passengers were affected on Wednesday evening.

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GES reports 8% gross revenue growth in UAE

Logistics Middle East

'Figures correlate to growth between January and September 2014.

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'The piracy battle is far from won'-UAE minister

Logistics Middle East

'UAE urges co-ordinated response against terrorist groups.

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