Wed.Feb 06, 2019

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Cobotics, eCommerce, and the Revolution

TradeGecko

Behind and within recent news on automation there lies two emotions: excitement and fear. Not marketing automation; nor inventory or supply-chain automation. With digital automation , it’s all upside. Physical automation is where the divide begins. Robotics has already reshaped industrial production in verticals like metals, electronics, and automotives, but over the next decade … a full-scale revolution is at hand.

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7 Reasons to Consider a Cloud Based WMS (Warehouse Management System)!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Pain Points – An Opportunity to Innovate and Expand! Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Dave Joseph at [link]. The decision to invest in a cloud-based warehouse management system (WMS) is often the result of sub-par systems in operation within the exclusive supply chain. Many legacy systems have been in service for up to 20 years or more, reports Roberto Michel of Modern Materials Handling, and supply chains can no lo

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Cognitive Computing and Intelligent Enterprises

Enterra Insights

Business circles are abuzz with terms like digital transformation and digital enterprise. The fascination with digitization in the digital age is completely understandable. The stress on digitization, however, sometimes understates the real goal of transformation — the ability to make better decisions. Bain analysts, Michael C. Mankins and Lori Sherer ( @lorisherer ), assert if you can improve a company’s decision making you can dramatically improve its bottom line.

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How Technology Empowers Freight Brokers to Work Smarter, Not Harder, to Drive Profitability

Talking Logistics

Working smarter, not harder, is critical for everybody in transportation today, but it’s especially important for freight brokers in light of the increased competition in the marketplace and the ever-more demanding expectations of shippers. What does “working smarter, not harder” mean for freight brokers? What are the biggest drivers of cost and inefficiency in the industry?

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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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China, the Bots, and Why It Matters to Your Online Business

TradeGecko

The future belongs to the bots. That’s not a warning and, thanks to cobiotics, neither is it something to fear. It’s simply the truth. Between 2017 and 2025, the global market for industrial and non-industrial robots is expected to rise 1,168.7% from $39.3 billion to nearly half a trillion dollars. And no one is investing more heavily than China. The question for small-to-medium online businesses is: “Why does the rise of bots matter to me?”.

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The 5 Benefits of Automated Lockers

AB&R

From fresh pizza to online shopping, automated lockers are sweeping the nation because of their innovative way to solve complex supply chain solutions. As the name suggests, an automated locker is just that – a locker system that can be automated to control reusable assets. However, our innovative automated lockers are not your standard break room vending machines.

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Surgery Center Case Study: Less Time at Computer, More Time in OR

Hybrent

SITUATION. Springhill Surgery Center, based in Little Rock, Ark., is a multi-specialty surgical and endoscopic center. Its six operating rooms offer a wide array of surgical specialties including orthopedic, general, ophthalmology, urology, neurology, gynecology, and eye-nose-throat procedures, and four procedure rooms support the Center’s active GI and pain management programs.

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TCV Makes $200 Million Investment in Unified Retail Planning Pioneer RELEX Solutions

RELEX Solutions

Read PDF. RELEX Solutions, a leading provider of unified retail planning solutions, today announced that TCV has made a $200 million minority investment in the company. TCV is one of the largest providers of capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry and has backed industry-leading companies, including Airbnb, Facebook, Netflix, Splunk, Spotify, WorldRemit, and Zillow.

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Living A Simple but Meaningful Life

JDA software

Oana Lipovei is a senior software engineer and comes to JDA from Blue Yonder. She shares how her upbringing in communist-era Romania has led her to focus on a simple, ‘tech-free’ life – outside of her day job, of course! – and her views on never regretting the decisions you make, and the importance of thinking before you speak. Where did you grow up?

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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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Living A Simple but Meaningful Life

BlueYonder

Oana Lipovei is a senior software engineer and comes to JDA from Blue Yonder. She shares how her upbringing in communist-era Romania has led her to focus on a simple, ‘tech-free’ life – outside of her day job, of course! – and her views on never regretting the decisions you make, and the importance of thinking before you speak. Where did you grow up?

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IoT in the Supply Chain to Help Beat the Brexit Blues

Supply Chain 24/7

With the risks Brexit could bring to the supply chain, this paper explains how to optimize your supply chain processes and eliminate inefficiencies with the help of supply chain visibility solutions and cargo tracking and monitoring.

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Trends Driving Growth of 3PL in 2019

GlobalTranz

The 3PL market is growing, and according to PRNewswire , the 3PL market will increase significantly throughout 2019, contributing to a total valuation of approximately $1.5 trillion by 2025. The astonishing growth is attributable to the expansion of e-commerce , the emergence of new markets in Asia and Europe, changes in ocean container shipping, the development of new technology and more.

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Why Simply Good Isn’t Good Enough

MPO Multi Party Orchestration

Having spent over 25 years in the supply chain industry, I noticed that while companies diligently assess their performance and capabilities, they are often unmotivated to improve as long as they do better or earn more than the year before. Satisfaction with small, incremental gains is a setback. The mindset usually stems from the presumption that additional growth demands significant spend, time, resources, and disruption.

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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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Business Analytics: Will 2019 Corporate Challenges Repeat 2018?

River Logic

Wondering what the top corporate challenges were in 2018? Here’s the summary: River Logic customers have turned to business analytics to help answer some of their toughest questions this year, ranging from labor shortages to managing growth. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates global growth in 2018 at 3.7%, tasking businesses with challenges like demand planning, capital expenditures, product portfolios, production locations, and long-term planning.

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Partial loads: A slow season secret weapon?

DAT Solutions

I try my best to avoid markets where demand is low, but that gets difficult at this time of year.

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China, the Bots, and Why It Matters to Your Online Business

TradeGecko

The future belongs to the bots. That’s not a warning and, thanks to cobiotics, neither is it something to fear. It’s simply the truth. Between 2017 and 2025, the global market for industrial and non-industrial robots is expected to rise 1,168.7% from $39.3 billion to nearly half a trillion dollars. And no one is investing more heavily than China. The question for small-to-medium online businesses is: “Why does the rise of bots matter to me?”.

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Partial loads: A slow season secret weapon?

DAT Solutions

I try my best to avoid markets where demand is low, but that gets difficult at this time of year. It's tough to get to a hot market at a decent rate per mile right now, but before giving in to a less desirable price – or waiting until the market changes – try looking for partial loads. Most of the time it only takes two partials going to the same area to get a rate that will be much higher than the price for one full truckload running the same lane.

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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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Is Using Excel for Inventory Management Really That Bad for My Business?

Unleashed

If you run a small business – or if you used to run one and your business has gotten bigger – you’re probably familiar with Excel. This versatile little piece of software is great for budgeting, accounting, scheduling, project management, customer relationship management and more. In particular, Excel can be a really handy tool for inventory control and management when you’re just starting out.

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PCB (Printed Circuit Board) Reliability Test Methods

Insights Solutions Global

PCB is crucial to all the electrical or electronic products. How to ensure the good quality of PCB? The answer is reliability tests. We summarize 9 basic tests in this post, click in and read!

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Why Master Data Management is Important in Trade Compliance

3rdwave

Since most master data management solutions are unable to accommodate for trade compliance data specialization, MDM in trade compliance can be a challenge.

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The Logistics of Canadian eCommerce

Supply Chain 24/7

U.S. companies have found that a logistics plan that works well for the U.S., cannot simply be replicated for operating in Canada.

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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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Why You Should Change to a Cloud ERP System Immediately

My Office Apps

Why You Should Change to a Cloud ERP System Immediately. Are you worried you may not be collecting and interpreting data on your company’s resources quickly enough? Computer programs can make data processing faster, but creating and setting one up on your own can be both complicated and inefficient. We call this process Enterprise Resource Planning (or ERP), and My Office Apps is here to make the process quick, and rarely said of ERP software, simple.

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PCB (Printed Circuit Board) Reliability Test Methods

Insights Solutions Global

PCB is crucial to all the electrical or electronic products. How to ensure the good quality of PCB? The answer is reliability tests. We summarize 9 basic tests in this post, click in and read! The post PCB (Printed Circuit Board) Reliability Test Methods appeared first on Insight Solutions Global.

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Why Master Data Management is Important in Trade Compliance

3rdwave

Product and Account data are foundations on which all organizational activity operate. In most organizations, the ERP is meant to be the repository of the organizations’ master data. That is, ‘important’ data is housed there. However, Master Data Management is seen as a challenge in most organizations. Why is that? The reason is the operative term, important.

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Measuring Public Procurement Value, Part 1

ivalua

The post Measuring Public Procurement Value, Part 1 appeared first on Ivalua.

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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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Why Master Data Management is Important in Trade Compliance

3rdwave

Product and Account data are foundations on which all organizational activity operate. In most organizations, the ERP is meant to be the repository of the organizations’ master data. That is, ‘important’ data is housed there. However, Master Data Management is seen as a challenge in most organizations. Why is that? The reason is the operative term, important.

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PCI Case Study: Hybrent’s Solution Revolutionizes Reporting & Streamlines Operations for One of the Largest Multi-Specialty Physician Groups in Iowa

Hybrent

SITUATION. Physicians’ Clinic of Iowa (PCI) is one of the largest private, multispecialty physician groups in Iowa, with locations in Cedar Rapids and Waterloo. With more than 80 physicians, surgeons, and healthcare providers to support, PCI spends millions of dollars each month on the supplies they need. Like most organizations, PCI wanted to ensure their money was being spent in the most responsible and efficient way possible.

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Why Master Data Management is Important in Trade Compliance

3rdwave

Product and Account data are foundations on which all organizational activity operate. In most organizations, the ERP is meant to be the repository of the organizations’ master data. That is, ‘important’ data is housed there. However, Master Data Management is seen as a challenge in most organizations. Why is that? The reason is the operative term, important.