GlobalTranz
OCTOBER 6, 2021
OTR freight represents a long-standing aspect of supply chain operations and transportation management. As the state of the trucking market evolves and innovations improve , OTR freight management technologies and logistics service providers offer transportation management optimization to help businesses avoid significant supply chain disruption.
ToolsGroup
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Who wouldn’t want their supply chain to be “optimized,” right? Optimization is peak efficiency, using the perfect balance of inventory and resources to service customer demand without incurring any unnecessary costs or waste. However, optimization is a term that’s often misunderstood and applied incorrectly in the supply chain world. . Even in a perfectly optimized supply chain, if you zoom in on a specific process, it may appear to be running sub-optimally.
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DELMIA Quintiq
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The supply chain is the heart of an organization’s operations. The vulnerabilities in global supply chains revealed during the pandemic proved to be a wake-up call for companies and industry at large. Moving forward, supply chains will heavily rely on organizational digital transformation, which entails optimizing operations (people, process and technology) for resilience and future-readiness.
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 5, 2021
My email box is full of the “ain’t it awful blogs. ” The storyline starts with a supply chain story of a shortage–semiconductors, rental cars, plastics–and ends with an easy answer. My take? Nothing about the current state of the supply chain is easy. The burning issue of change is deep in boardroom discussions. Supply chain leaders have the ability to drive change like never before.
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
Logistics Viewpoints
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Dramtatically Reduced Service in Grocery Stores Since Pandemic was Declared. To say that the pandemic made 2020 a very challenging year would be a gross understatement. Because of service disruptions – not being able to buy toilet paper, for example – the supply chain has been more discussed than ever before. It was also a very, very tough year for supply chain professionals working in the grocery supply chain.
Supply Chain Brief brings together the best content for supply chain and logistic professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Supply Chain Game Changer
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Boost Employee Engagement in Supply Chain! Employee turnover article and permission to publish here provided by Michael Mckay. Working in supply chain management can be difficult at all levels. Regardless of whether you’re a frontline worker managing packaging, a truck driver transporting goods, or senior management monitoring budgets, the supply chain has a lot of moving parts.
Supply Chain Brain
OCTOBER 7, 2021
A Biden administration effort to untangle global chip supply snarls is facing resistance from lawmakers and executives in Taiwan and South Korea, complicating attempts to resolve the bottlenecks hurting industries from automobiles to consumer electronics.
Logistics Viewpoints
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Supply chain is once again front-page news in the general business media. Meanwhile, supply shortages and price inflation are getting the front page in consumer-focused publications and plenty of airtime on televised news. And rightfully so. Many consumers, including myself, become irritated by the sight of empty store shelves where our favorite consumer goods are typically stored.
SYSPRO Smarter ERP
OCTOBER 4, 2021
The pandemic pushed manufacturers and distributors to rapidly shift gears, from addressing work-from-home policies to managing extreme swings in demand and uncertain supply chains. A 2020 SYSPRO survey showed that 60% of manufacturing and distribution businesses were impacted by supply chain disruptions during the pandemic. In fact, 29% of businesses stated they would explore initiatives to address immediate needs and accelerate digital transformation.
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.
Arkieva
OCTOBER 6, 2021
It is important to measure and improve the forecast accuracy at the right level of aggregation. If you measure at too high a level, your accuracy picture will look better than what it needs to be as the data at high (aggregated) levels is more forecastable. By contrast, at too low a level. 4 Aggregation Mistakes When Reporting Forecast Accuracy was first posted on October 6, 2021 at 8:08 am. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva " Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial u
Supply Chain Brain
OCTOBER 4, 2021
It’s the beginning of October, just the start of what the retail world simply calls “peak.” But the industry is already in various forms of panic that usually don’t take hold until the weeks before Christmas.
Logistics Viewpoints
OCTOBER 5, 2021
After experiencing an incredibly challenging two years in the global logistics industry, I think we can let go of any expectation that the supply chain landscape will ever return to “normal.” By that, I mean that extreme uncertainty on both the demand and the supply sides will continue for the foreseeable future. Raw materials and component shortages, labor shortfalls, port closures, rising fuel costs and other forces will continue to exert enormous pressures on global supply chains in 2022.
SYSPRO Smarter ERP
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Before COVID, new technologies in manufacturing took years, sometimes decades, to become fully accepted. The pandemic, however, has speeded up those transitions by years. If you want to argue that these changes are in technology only, there was a recent Bloomberg article which noted that: “companies from noodle makers to semi-conductor giants are spending on new plants and machinery in ways they haven’t done for years.” Currently, much of the industrial world is like the consumer wor
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IT Supply Chain
OCTOBER 6, 2021
By Martin Verwijmeren (pictured). CEO & Co-Founder of MPO. The post The Future of Supply Chains Is AI: How to Start Small to Win Big Over Time appeared first on IT Supply Chain.
Supply Chain Brain
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Tom Garrison, vice president and general manager of client security strategy with Intel Corp., assesses the current state of supply chain security, and discusses what companies must do to become more resilient to cyberattack.
Logistics Viewpoints
OCTOBER 8, 2021
A few week ago, I wrote an article about the transformative nature of the plant-based meat supply chain. Over the last few years, Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods have been creating meat substitutes that promise to eat “more like meat.” Fast food chains around the country have been introducing meatless burgers, and now Burger King is offering a first: meatless chicken nuggets.
Adexa
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Announcing the relaunch of our website For immediate release Marketing Manager Contact: Ron Wilson | (310) 642-2122 | rwilson@adexa.com. Los Angeles, California – Oct., 2021 We are very excited to announce the launch of our newly designed website. We wanted to make the new website more informative, faster, easier to navigate, and more user-friendly.
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IT Supply Chain
OCTOBER 7, 2021
By Mark Bowling (pictured). Vice President of Security Response Services, ExtraHop. The post The Ransom Disclosure Act: A step in the right direction appeared first on IT Supply Chain.
Supply Chain Brain
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The gridlock of container ships outside the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach may have been the cause of a major oil spill off the coast of California, according to authorities.
Supply Chain Game Changer
OCTOBER 6, 2021
3rd party integrations article and permission to publish here provided by Christopher at On The Map Marketing. Strategic Supplier Relationship Management – Do’s and Don’ts. You have just started an online business and you want your store to be user-friendly and loaded with great products. One of the most important things to running a business is to manage your supply chain effectively and consider 3rd party integrations, or partnerships.
HICX Solutions
OCTOBER 7, 2021
For the twelfth episode of Supplier Experience Live from HICX, we are joined by James Meads. James is an advisor on cloud-based procurement software solutions and an advocate for best-of-breed. Based in Bulgaria, he has aligned his business to focus on the three megatrends which will shape procurement and supply chain for the next five years: driving digitalization , improving sustainability , and reducing supply chain risk.
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Shippers and logistics service providers are pressured to match the “Amazon effect” for fast and efficient service across multiple B2C, B2B, and D2C channels. Perfect order delivery - on-time and in-full at the lowest possible cost – is critical. However, recent surveys of supply chain stakeholders reveal that many don't have the technology necessary to achieve it.
IT Supply Chain
OCTOBER 5, 2021
By Kieron Harding (pictured). IT Infrastructure Engineer, GRC International Group. The post Facebook Outage – Insights from an IT Infrastructure Engineer appeared first on IT Supply Chain.
Supply Chain Brain
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Faced with a supply-chain squeeze that’s increased prices across the economy, the U.K. government is seeking to recast the crisis as a good news story for British workers.
QAD
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of QAD Adaptive ERP 2021.1, the latest version of QAD’s next generation ERP solution that includes the Adaptive User Experience (UX) and the QAD Enterprise Platform. We are also excited to unveil updates to other areas in the QAD Adaptive Applications solution portfolio. As organizations seek to boost business responsiveness and flexibility to address disruption, this latest release progresses our customers’ ability to advance the busin
Tecsys
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Many healthcare supply chain leaders believe they have visibility into supply inventory. With all of… The post Are Inventory Management Issues in Healthcare Supply Chains Blurring Your Visibility? appeared first on Tecsys.
More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.
IT Supply Chain
OCTOBER 5, 2021
By Neil Ballinger (pictured). Head of EMEA, EU Automation. The post The maintenance challenges of motors operating in harsh environments appeared first on IT Supply Chain.
Supply Chain Brain
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Blume Global Inc., a provider of execution and visibility supply chain technology solutions, has launched a Learning and Development initiative to provide continuing education programs through Coursera Inc., an online learning platform, and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Unleashed
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Here we break down the inventory management strategies of seven successful manufacturers and retailers around the globe. While most of our examples are large multinational companies, your SME can employ many of the same tactics and principles. These examples show there isn’t a benchmark inventory management strategy that trumps all others. Instead, you’ll need to do your homework to choose the right inventory management system to suit your budget, your business needs and the size of your c
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