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The Many Flavors of Transportation Management Systems

CHAINalytics

With the many current challenges facing transportation – driver shortages, higher customer expectations, and the demands of e-commerce – the need for mastering the vast quantities of related data has never been greater. A recent webcast by Kevin Zweier, our Vice President of Transportation, delves into the role of TMS and what you should look … The post The Many Flavors of Transportation Management Systems appeared first on Chainalytics.

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The role of seasonality in demand forecasting success

Alloy

Seasonality is incredibly persistent. Even through the tumult of 2020 – waves of Covid-19, lockdowns, re-openings, etc. – seasonal trends seemed to remain intact. These charts comparing earnings at publicly traded food companies during the four most recent quarters to the same quarters a year before show the general pattern of sales over the course of the year tended to stay the same.

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Shipper Prep Tips for the CVSA Roadcheck, 72-Hour Capacity Reduction

GlobalTranz

While the world is ready for a strong return to economic and logistics stability, there’s another risk on the horizon. The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CSVA) International Roadcheck is set for May 4-6, 2021. Also known as the CVSA roadcheck, it spans three days. CVSA-certified inspectors will commit a blitz of inspections across North America, creating a sudden strain on resources for both domestic and cross-border freight.

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How WMS Suppliers Helped Their Customers Hit the Covid-19 Curveball

Logistics Viewpoints

Hitting an unanticipated curveball is arguably one of the most difficult tasks in sports. In fact, people commonly use it as a metaphor in business situations “I didn’t meet the deadline. They threw me a curveball.” The analogy rests on the difficulty of adjusting to a curve when anticipating a fastball. Proper positioning, mechanics, and responsiveness are required to successfully adjust to the pitch.

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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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Want to Make Integrated Business Planning a Success? Here’s How.

Logility

Integrated business planning (IBP) is gaining traction as more companies look at refining their sales and operations planning (S&OP) process. It’s worth the effort to document what IBP means for your business, if for no other reason than you can’t implement what you can’t define. To that end, let’s reiterate the distinction between IBP and S&OP before we dive into some tips on how to make integrated business planning a success.

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Experts Ponder the Future of AI and Machine Learning

Enterra Insights

Finding a futurist who doesn’t think artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will continue to impact our lives is like trying to find a living Dodo bird. Andrew Ng ( @AndrewYNg ), Co-Founder of Coursera, an adjunct professor at Stanford, and former head of Baidu AI Group and Google Brain, states, “Just as electricity transformed almost everything 100 years ago, today I actually have a hard time thinking of an industry that I don’t think AI will transform in the next several

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Golf and How to Avoid Shanking Your Next WMS Project

Logistics Viewpoints

Ever since COVID tested the supply chain industry’s ability to deliver under duress, many firms began looking to ramp up their game by installing a new warehouse management system (WMS). After all, if the latest technology couldn’t keep them on the fairway, what could? The fact is there are many WMS solutions out there, and choosing the wrong one will not only fail to improve your game, it may drive your operation clear out of bounds.

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What Can You Do to Ensure Your Supply Chain Stays Compliant?

Logility

Know your vendors and apply consistent policies and procedures. Compliance is an ongoing challenge for businesses today. True corporate responsibility involves more than just your products and internal operations; it’s incumbent upon you to ensure compliance across the supply chain. Lack of supplier insight can result in your organization violating government regulations; working with providers who don’t share your company values; or getting caught up in trade embargoes, sanctions, and labor and

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Technology’s Role in Enabling Supply Chain Sustainability

Talking Logistics

More than 15 years ago, Walmart’s CEO at the time, Lee Scott, gave a speech titled “Twenty-First Century Leadership” that arguably kicked off the supply chain sustainability era. Over the years, some companies have made sustainability a priority while others have not. What is the current state of supply chain sustainability? Are more companies making.

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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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Intelligent Supply Chain Technologies for the Future!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Investment Challenges – Real and Imagined! Intelligent Supply Chain technologies article and permission to publish here provided by Dan Weinberger , UN Supply Chain Expert and CEO of Morpheus Network. Amid the thick covid-clouds, organizations are preparing to make their way back to regular business to maximize profitability and make up for the lost time.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Noid is back. For those unfamiliar, let me explain. In 1986, when Domino’s Pizza was pushing its 30-minute delivery timeframes, it introduced the Noid in its advertising campaigns. The Noid, wearing a red skin-tight suit with rabbit ears, was a “physical manifestation of all the challenges inherent in getting a pizza delivered in 30 minutes or less.

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The Dangers Behind SCM-to-SAP Integration – What They Are and How to Avoid Them

Logility

Running a complex, global enterprise from one large suite of seamlessly integrated applications is a powerful vision, and SAP has done well to implement this vision. However, organizations that are reliant on supply chain management software from an ERP vendor can find themselves perpetually stalled , never actually achieving the functionality and visibility required for seamless supply chain planning to enable increased service levels, minimized inventory, fact-based decision-making, better h

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How satellites and AI help achieve zero deforestation in supply chains

All Things Supply Chain

Maintaining a sustainable supply chain can seem like a daunting task, especially if you’re an FMCG company needing to communicate with suppliers, traders, growers and farmers.

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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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3 Innovations Driving Sustainability in Supply Chains

Kuebix

Sustainability has been an increasingly important topic of conversation in business operations. In order to better understand the source of harmful gas emissions, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol has broken them down into three categories: Scope 1 – All direct emissions from the activities of an organization that are under their control. Scope 2 – Indirect […].

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How Pure Storage Withstood the Pandemic

Logistics Viewpoints

Mike Fitzgerald, Vice President of Operations at Pure Storage. Pure Storage never stocked out during the pandemic. That was not because demand for their products tanked. Product sales were down by 8%, but the company did grow by 2% overall in the last fiscal year based on strong performance in subscription services. While demand from many customer’s decreased, some of their customers did place unexpectedly large orders and needed those orders fulfilled quickly.

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Supply Chain – Finance Connection: A Supply Chain Improvement Case Study

Arkieva

In this blog, we will demonstrate the link between Finance and Supply Chain and how this understanding can help define supply chain improvements by understanding elements of the Balance Sheet and Income Statement. Using the SCOR idea of Benchmarking the financial parameters should be benchmarked against a peer group of companies to highlight areas of improvement.

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Watch: Why Hasn’t A.I. Caught On More in the Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Brain

Rich Nanda, principal for strategy and analytics with Deloitte Consulting, traces the pace of adoption of artificial intelligence in business and the supply chain, and predicts that the technology is on the verge of wide acceptance.

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Strategic Cost Management Approaches to Unlock Growth and Increase Profitability

How can businesses gain a competitive edge in an era marked by relentless competition and economic fluctuations? The secret is mastering strategic cost management strategies. This GEP bulletin, "Strategic Cost Management Approaches to Unlock Growth and Increase Profitability," breaks this down into clear, actionable steps. Discover how these strategies can boost your enterprise's financial health, helping not only to keep up but to excel in today's market.

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Supply Chain Innovation Summit

Adexa

Traditionally supply chain planning has been about efficiency, optimization of resources and on-time delivery. However, as we have seen in the recent pandemic as well as other disruptions such as Suez Canal blockage, resiliency of the supply chain has become of utmost importance. There is a premium to be paid for being resilient and the ability to mitigate risk.

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Continuous Warehouse Optimization and The DC Technology Gap

Logistics Viewpoints

Distribution is no longer a backwater of the economy, due in large part to the upheavals brought on by ecommerce. Today’s DCs and fulfillment centers are a major driver of employment growth and a highly visible proving ground for autonomous robots and other next-generation technologies. But there is a technology gap between gleaming new automated facilities and tens of thousands of existing warehouses and distribution centers that pre-date the warehouse building boom of the past 5-10 years.

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Essential Inventory Replenishment strategies

Prophetic Technology

Inventory Replenishment has to do with buying and moving inventory, whether raw materials or finished goods, from stockpile storage to primary storage and finally to the selling point.

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How to end the stress test for your supply chain

Supply Chain Brain

In this whitepaper, Setlog summarizes their predictions for what's to come in supply chain management in 2021 and outlines how you can alleviate the stress on your supply chain right away.

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The Art of Consistent Perfect Order Delivery: Smart Order Fulfillment Through Orchestration

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.

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Manufacturing Production Methods Explained

Unleashed

Manufacturing production is the process of making finished goods from raw products through the use of human and machine labour, in the most efficient and cost-effective way. There are three methods of manufacturing production: make to stock, make to order and make to assemble. In this article, we’ll look at the three types of manufacturing production methods, discuss their strengths and drawbacks.

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The Customer is Not Always Right! Protect Your Customer Service Employees

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 5 Ways To Make Customers Feel Valued! Protect your customer service employees article and permission to publish here provided by Angela Martin at HKM Marketing. The belief that the customer is always right may seem like a great way to attract and retain customers. However, it may end up doing more harm than good to your business as customers may not be right all the time.

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Bipartisan Consensus on Chinese Threats: U.S. Must Build New Supply Chains with Allies

Resilinc

While the pandemic has given procurement managers fresh ammunition to advocate for greater resiliency within their corporate supply chains, geopolitical experts and a bipartisan coalition of legislators argue that the U.S. government must retool supply chains to reduce national security vulnerabilities that stem from China’s dominance in mining and manufacturing.

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Attabotics Partners With AltaML and Amii on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Capabilities for Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

Attabotics, a 3D robotics supply chain company, today announced a partnership with AltaML, a Canadian applied artificial intelligence and machine learning company, and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), a center for artificial intelligence research and application, to further develop capabilities in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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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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Demand Planning and Forecasting through Predictive Planning

Prophetic Technology

The supply difficulty, deficiencies and scarcity of products that the pandemic brought into light make Supply Chain (SC) leaders comprehend the importance of being prepared to move beforehand from such crisis effects instead of responding to the disruptions caused whilst happening. They see the importance of getting Demand Planning software to suit their requirements fully.

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What is Inventory Management?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Featuring Our 10 Best Inventory Management Articles! Get Our EBOOK HERE. Inventory makes the world go round. Stockpiles of raw materials, components, sub assemblies, finished goods, returned goods, and reclaimed and refurbished materials enable all aspects of industry to function and all aspects of the economic engine to run.

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Healthcare companies can partner with 3PLs for supply chain visibility

Kanban Logistics

The coronavirus has taught us all many valuable lessons. For companies within the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, the pandemic has further highlighted the importance of supply chain visibility. In this article, we’ll examine the role that third-party logistics (3PL) companies can play in providing this visibility. Supply chain visibility in the wake of COVID.