DynaSys

OCTOBER 21, 2020

From Unpredictable to Resilient and Agile. Despite the disruptions of the past years, there are some emerging key trends in Supply Chains that provide both challenges but also opportunities for manufacturers. Sustainability. The momentum towards more sustainable supply chains is coming from many directions. Consumers are demanding more environmentally friendly products, and this demand comes more strongly now after the lockdown and its effect Governments are legislating more environmentally fri

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ChainPoint

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The main KPI to measure the success of a company has always been profit. The bottom line. The shareholder value so to speak. Profit has often been the only measure and the only goal. And while we all understand that companies must be financially sustainable, there are also other factors that contribute to a company’s overall health, performance and footprint.

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Prophetic Technology

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The current pandemic affecting our daily life demands an end-to-end Supply Chain (SC) Visibility. COVID-19 showed us increasing emptied-store shelves as a result of the crisis effects; there was a lack of products, food, and various household items were scarce, people panicked, and buying patterns changed drastically.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Multimodal shipping represents how companies can find new value within their supply chains and augment efficiency without dramatically increasing landed costs. While multimodal continues to change in the wake of disruption from the pandemic this year, interest in new shipping strategies has exploded. The supply chain has been suffering due to the growing conglomerates like.read More.

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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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DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 13, 2020

High Tech remains one of the most vibrant, innovative and fast paced industries in the world. Even with global disruption from COVID-19, demand for products has remained positive, albeit with far less predictability! As consumers, we continue to drive this demand for new products and experiences and the challenges for companies to keep up have become extreme: Sudden shortages of supply and supply chain networks Increasing regulatory pressures New form factors and integration into other products

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 14, 2020

ToolsGroup’s GM of North America, David Barton, sat down for a video interview with Robert Bowman, managing editor at Supply Chain Brain , to share anecdotes and advice for supply chain planners in a year no one could have planned for. What are your customers experiencing this year in the wake of COVID-19? For some businesses, demand is soaring. For others, demand has fallen off almost completely.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The following is a 5,000 word exploration of Maersk’s strategic shift to end-to-end logistics services, based on open sources. The free report is available in PDF with supporting spreadsheets and high-resolution infographics here. As a disclaimer, WebCargo , a Freightos Group company, does offers digital services to global forwarders and carriers, including online sales portals, digital eBooking, multimodal rate management and the Freightos.com freight marketplace. .

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Companies have been whiplashed by the combination of a long running pandemic and the recession it kicked off. Better planning can help companies mitigate the effects of this crisis. Sandy Evett, the vice president of distribution and supply chain at Dawn Foods, gave a presentation on how her company has responded. The post How Can Companies Safely Surf the Pandemic’s Storm Waves?

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 19, 2020

More supply chain leaders are learning to leverage technology to improve performance and lower landed costs. Unfortunately, there remain opportunities to recapture freight spend within the freight settlement process that automated freight settlement could solve. Consider this example. According to Inbound Logistics, the costs of failure to consider automation in logistics and freight settlement is.read More.

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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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DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 7, 2020

We are more than six months into the COVID 19 global pandemic. We all have read about the toll this has taken on humankind. However, Covid as a global crisis has been also called the great enabler: we are discovering many things that we did not know about ourselves. With a small, fast pivot of the business and supplies we can enable companies to do things they thought they might not have otherwise been capable of doing.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Even in normal times, transportation professionals have their hands full dealing with all sorts of exceptions and disruptions. The current COVID-19 pandemic is further magnifying those challenges. There is only one thing we know for certain: the transportation market will continue to change and transportation professionals will need to respond effectively to whatever changes lie.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In episode four of Be Ready for Anything, hear from Martin Jertz, ToolsGroup’s Business Development Manager for Central Europe, about how organizations can build sustainability into their supply chains while trimming costs and improving efficiency. ToolsGroup · Episode 4: Designing Supply Chains for Sustainability.

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Logility

OCTOBER 13, 2020

You can’t control circumstances, but you can control your response. Take charge now to ensure the best outcomes later. We just wrapped up Disruption RX, a virtual supply chain summit designed to help companies rebound from unplanned shocks to their digital supply chain. Logility, Demand Solutions, and NGC customers, industry experts and thought leaders gathered to discuss how businesses can run smarter and faster with innovative technology that drives growth and boosts profitability.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2020

3PL Basics: An Introduction to 3rd Party Logistics with Roberto Cadena. Robert Cadena and Joe Lynch provide an introduction to 3rd party logistics. 3rd party logistics services include 5 major categories: 1.) Transportation 2.) Warehousing 3.) Logistics 4.) Technology and 5.) Special Services. Robert is the Co-Founder and CEO of a company that provides operational, sales, marketing, and technology support to over 100 3PLs, so he has a very thorough understanding of the business.

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Supply Chain Brief Submitted Articles

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Find out how manufacturers and suppliers have managed through the COVID-19 crisis as SourceDay shares exclusive insights about supply chain management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The Oracle Live: Cloud Applications event highlighted the supply chain function due in part to the extensive supply chain disruptions caused by the global coronavirus pandemic. A key premise, global supply chains have depended on a certain level of predictability that is no longer available. This requires a multidimensional value framework that places increased emphasis on supply alternatives, risk exposure, tariffs, and channel complexity.

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Kuebix

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In recent years, technological advances have influenced nearly every aspect of the transportation industry. Technology has improved the ease and efficiency of training new drivers, optimizing truck routes, managing inventory and more. Trimble Transportation offers video intelligence, onboard event recording and safety analytics to help understand accidents and prevent future collisions.

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C3 Solutions

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Dock management is continuously changing. While traditional strategies relied on manual processes, digital transformation holds the power to reap significant gains through automated scheduling software and the breakdown of organizational silos. In fact, take a look at these reasons automation and storage solutions are the next frontiers to gain more effective management.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Like most transformative innovations in supply chain automation, the end state – in this case, a completely touchless supply chain – is an aspirational goal. And while technology is already being leveraged toward achieving the goal of contactless supply chain, it is an incremental process. Here’s what TMS technologies companies like UltraShipTMS are already delivering and how these incremental steps bring us closer to the ideal.

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Arkieva

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In my last post, I talked about the relationship between the mean absolute deviation (MAD) and standard deviation (STDEV) for a normal distribution. Apparently, many people had never seen the math behind it, and I got questions about the same relationship for the case where the demand was not normally distributed. MAD versus Standard Deviation for a Uniform Distribution was first posted on October 6, 2020 at 8:16 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for

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All Things Supply Chain

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The island country of Madagascar is currently feeling the impact of the pandemic on its top export: Vanilla. While consumer demand is high, vanilla prices are experiencing a downward spiral.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Many companies have a sales & operations planning process. If S&OP could be adhered to, it would maximize profitability. But it can't. Hexion is implementing a sale & operations EXECUTION process to improve agility while preserving profitability. The post Hexion is Blazing New Trails to Improved Profitability by Optimizing Agility appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Kuebix

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Amazon Prime Day is approaching quickly with a start date of October 13, 2020. While Amazon typically holds this digital shopping ‘holiday’ in July, supply chain disruptions brought on by Covid-19 led to a postponement of the event. Despite setbacks beyond their control, Amazon has high hopes for this year’s Amazon Prime Day! The 3-day […]. The post What Supply Chains Should Expect from Amazon Prime Day this Fall appeared first on Kuebix.

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C3 Solutions

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Retail is continuously looking for a bigger, better way to move freight, please more customers, avoid losses, and reduce the risk of disruption. Automation in the retail supply chain unlocks this capability, but it comes with a catch. Without efficiency in procurement processes, particularly the management of inbound freight on the dock, it will fail.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 2, 2020

With companies relying increasingly on complex global supply chains, their need for verifiable manufacturing ethics and supplier transparency is growing.

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Arkieva

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In this blog, we will illustrate through an example of these potential pitfalls (unanchored, random variation, and narrow metrics) and potential negative impact on a firm. Insight from Applied Statisticians for Forecasting: Is It Worth the Effort and the Mirage of Random Variation was first posted on October 14, 2020 at 8:09 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The definition of ERP Before we define ERP, let us start with the acronym which stands for Enterprise Resource Planning. We can define ERP as enterprise software that helps organizations manage their day to day business requirements. At a fundamental level, ERP brings together customer management, human resources, business intelligence, financial management, inventory, and supply chain […].

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Global supply chains have changed more in the last six months than they have in the last six years. Never has the need to respond with agility been more clear. Control towers are a key tool to achieve agility. New solutions are available. The post Navigating Unprecedented Times with Command and Control Centers appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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