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3 Mindsets Logistics Providers Can Change to Be More Competitive In 2018

Gravity Supply Chain

2017 was a big year for the logistics industry, from Amazon’s continued expansion, putting pressure on retailers to solve last mile fulfillment challenges, to the continued growth of IoT, bringing us closer to a reality where blockchain is used in the shipping and logistics industry… The post 3 Mindsets Logistics Providers Can Change to Be More (..)

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10 Steps to Surviving & Thriving in a Capacity Crunch

GlobalTranz

Furthermore, more carrier options is essential to landing better contracts with existing carriers when it comes time to renew or renegotiate your contracts, reports Averitt Express. Optimize Routes, and Consolidate Freight Where Possible.

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Answering the Call in Times of Disaster

Material Handling & Logistics

Because the company had invested in an integrated digital supply chain management solution, it had the ability to take a change order up until 3 pm one day and deliver on the order the following day. Meanwhile, other tools can provide visibility into available inventory at specific warehouses. Transportation management.

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The Uberization of Trucking Part 2: The Players

Freight Plus

Next week the next article in this blog series The Uberization of Trucking Part 3: Problems. One thing is certain, not everyone will be standing at the end of this battle. Who makes it through and how much they stand to gain all depends on the opportunity.

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3 Essential Supply Chain Tools to Combat Inflation

Here are 3 tools that GEP recommends for your company to use. As inflation and geopolitical instability worsen, many companies are going slow on investments. But investing in supply chain and procurement technology will help manage inflationary pressures better.

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A Recommended Approach to Warehouse Layout and Operational Design

Logistics Bureau

3) Storage & Layout Design. Stock-on-hand snapshots should be taken during peak, normal, and low seasonal periods. When planning, remember also to consider requirements for specialised storage and processing areas, such as a production room or caged-off quarantine areas.

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The Best Gift Ideas for Truck Drivers

GlobalTranz

Then, cut slits through both pieces of fabric about 3 inches in to make fringe around the perimeter and tie them together in a double knot. Two yards of fleece should be big enough. You’ll lay the two pieces on top of each other, and cut out a square about three to four inches in, from each corner.

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3 Challenges of Building Complex Dashboards with Open Source Components

Speaker: Ryan MacCarrigan, Founding Principal, LeanStudio

Many product teams use charting components and open source code libraries to get dashboards and reporting functionality quickly. But what happens when you have a growing user base and additional feature requests?

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Rethinking Supply Chains for Greater Efficiency, Resiliency, and Sustainability

Supply Chains have 3 key priorities: building resiliency, reducing costs and driving ESG performance. Read the new GEP-sponsored report by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services for strategies and digital solutions to achieve these goals.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualization Will Never Be Enough

You’ll learn: The 3 benefits of deeply embedding BI. Turning embedded analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Proven approaches to achieving analytics maturity.

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3 Mistakes Organizations Make While Developing ABM Programs

The benefits of Account-Based Marketing are clear, so what’s holding B2B professionals back? While B2B research suggests organizations are thriving through successful ABM programs, getting just one campaign off the ground is more difficult than it seems.

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Gartner Report: Everything You Need to Know About Supply Chain Control Towers

Create –– What are the steps manufacturing organizations need to build a control tower? How are these related to the five building blocks of a supply chain control tower: 1. Technology. Governance. Use –– Best practices and use case references.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

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. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late. In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.".

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Return to Success: Streamlining Returns in the Supply Chain for Enhanced Efficiency

Speaker: Cathy Morrow Roberson, Research Manager for the Reverse Logistics Association

In today's competitive business landscape, providing a seamless return experience and maintaining an efficient supply chain are critical to customer satisfaction and loyalty. Businesses need to leverage advanced tracking systems and data analytics to identify bottlenecks and improve supply chain visibility.

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Striking a Balance in the Supply Chain: Navigating Volatile Supply and Demand to Meet Customer Needs

Speaker: Tony Darnell, Shipping Manager at Lippert Components

In a new era of supply constraints and volatile demand, businesses face challenges managing supply and changing customer demands. To make smart allocations, they need to visualize inventory across multiple warehouses and cater to different customer needs.

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm up Cold Calls

Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

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Webinar On-Demand: 3 Ways to Make Your Operational Execution More Robust With S&OE

Speaker: Sander van Lokven and N.S. Krishnan

3 ways to increase rigor in your sales and operations execution to deal with the unexpected. This webinar shares: Recent findings from a new research study about S&OE. How S&OE is different from S&OP & the gap that exists. The impact on short term plans when the unexpected happens. How to use scenarios for on the fly decision making (demo).

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Removing the 3 Barriers to Building a Predictive Supply Chain

Machine Learning and AI are not magic bullets to solve all supply chain problems. Despite many software companies slapping AI on everything the reality is that there are a lot of hurdles to overcome before AI can be effective. Learn how to leap them.

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Your Triple-Threat Solution for Resilient Planning and Execution

Speaker: Len Pannett - Supply Chain and Operations Transformation Expert | Board Advisor - UK Ministry of Defence | Mentor | Author | Keynote Speaker

Our focus will be on the following objectives: Triple Objective of Additive Manufacturing: Learn how additive manufacturing reduces costs, boosts resilience, and enhances sustainability Focus on Implementation: Understand its capabilities and implications, and optimize supply chain operations for holistic benefits Overcoming the Data Challenge: Address (..)

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The Supply Chain & Logistics Journey: Humble Beginnings, Troubled Present, Amazing Future

Speaker: James A. Tompkins, Ph.D.

For the last 3 years, we have seen supply chain and logistic chaos. September 14th, 2022 at 12:30 pm PDT, 3:30 pm EDT, 8:30 pm BST. The first 20 years of work on supply chains beget efficiency, the next 10 - efficiency and effectiveness. Going forward, supply chains will be at the core of organizational success.

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ESG Reporting: It Is Inevitable, But It Doesn’t Mean That It Must Be Complicated

Download VesselBot’s White Paper, and learn all about the requirements of the new regulations regarding Scope 3 transportation emissions and the importance of measuring CO2 transportation emissions with high accuracy. Meanwhile, the SEC proposes rule changes on climate-related disclosures in the US.

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Start Considering Risk in Your Supply Chain Design with these 4 Steps

According to PwC, more than 60% of companies said that their performance indicators had dropped by 3% or more because of supply chain disruptions. If you’re not considering risk in supply chain design, you’re gambling with your company’s future. Yet 60% of companies pay only marginal attention to risk reduction processes.

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8 Supply Chain Technology Trends for 2022 and Beyond

Based on extensive research, TadaNow offers eight trends we believe companies should plan for: 1. Multi-Tier Supply Chains. Rise of the Digital Duplicate & Digital Twin of the Organization (DTO). Rise of Cognitive Control Towers. Focus on Local Regions. Blockchain Expands Supply Chain Capabilities.

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The Keys to Business Continuity Planning

Speaker: Ron Spiteri, Director of TXM Lean Solutions

Wednesday April 21st, 2021 at 12:30PM PDT, 3:30PM EDT, 7:30PM GMT How to develop Prevention, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery strategies. Keys to creating a risk assessment and reduction matrix.

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The Current State Of Warehouse Technology

Speaker: Cathy Morrow Roberson, Founder and Head Analyst, Logistics Trends and Insights, LLC

September 19, 2019 12:30 PM PDT, 3:30 PM EDT, 8:30 PM BST Automation. Visibility Technology.And more!

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Reshoring – The Future of Supply Chains

Speaker: Rosemary Coates - Board Member & Founder at Reshoring Institute, Best-selling Author, Host of the Frictionless Supply Chain podcast

September 1st, 2022 at 12:30 pm PT, 3:30 pm ET, 8:30 pm BST In this webinar, Reshoring Institute founder Rosemary Coates will teach you: What is happening in the supply chain today. How reshoring can help with disruptions. Supply chain trends to watch out for in 2023. How to reduce risk.

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Key Questions for a Successful Distribution Network

Speaker: Irina Rosca, Director of Supply Chain Operations, Helix

January 30, 2019 12:30 PM PST, 3:30 PM EST, 8:30 PM GMT. How to gain end-to-end visibility into any causes of delay in your global supply chain. How to use demand data to predict which goods might be flying off the shelves, and where to store them.

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The Perfect Delivery: 6 Key Challenges and How to Overcome Them

Speaker: Tim McLean, Managing Director, TXM Lean Solutions

Thursday January 21, 2021 at 12:30PM PST, 3:30PM EST, 8:30PM GMT How to overcome those reasons in your supply chain to achieve perfect delivery. How a practical approach that combines Lean thinking with traditional supply chain approaches delivers the best results.

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Prove ROI and Make the Business Case for Industrial Content Marketing

Speaker: Achinta Mitra, Founder and President, Tiecas Inc.

July 9, 2019 12:30 PM PDT, 3:30 PM EDT, 8:30 PM BST How to work with in-house Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to leverage their knowledge. How to make a strong business case for industrial content marketing and get buy-in from your C-Suite.

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Discover 4 Use Cases for Applying AI to Your Recruiting Processes

Recruitment AI technology uncovers the most qualified candidates. This technology automates recruiting routines and facilitates natural conversations, resulting in higher productivity and a better candidate experience. Download the eBook to learn more!