Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 2, 2016
During the spring, I get to spend a lot of time in airplane(s) attending and speaking at technology confer ences. I have done this for a decade. However, this year is different. I feel more disruption in the air. There is a confluence of factors. The technology market for new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is drying up. Excess ERP consultants line the bench.
AIMMS
MAY 4, 2016
It comes as no surprise that business and supply chain leaders are seeking new approaches to get ahead in the analytics age. Implementing an analytics strategy, and in particular implementing prescriptive analytics, can significantly improve revenues and drive down costs. How can you ensure that your team is prepared to embrace these new technologies and approaches?
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ToolsGroup
MAY 3, 2016
If you (or your boss) are measured by your company's Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) or a similar metric, then you want to turn assets into cash. Whether the message comes down from the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) or even private equity investors, either way it's pretty much the same thing: free up cash from the business. Inventory optimization is one proven way to do it.
GlobalTranz
MAY 5, 2016
The studies of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) have shaped the logistics industry into what it is today. Logistics, the discipline that manages the shipping and distribution of goods to consumers, has made momentous strides in recent years with help from new technology. For students, logistics is an interesting and challenging field to pursue.
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
Kinaxis
MAY 4, 2016
by Alexa Cheater In honor of Star Wars Day (yes, that’s a semi-real thing), I thought I’d resurrect my Star Wars blog series. In this latest installment, I explore what the small, but mighty, Jedi Master Yoda can teach us about supply chain. While he might not have said them directly about supply chain management, these pearls of wisdom still apply.
Supply Chain Brief brings together the best content for supply chain and logistic professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Enterra Insights
MAY 2, 2016
“They help give Coke its distinctive bite and Doritos its cheesy kick,” writes Candice Choi (@candicechoi). “But the artificial and … Continued. The post The Complex World of Flavors appeared first on Enterra Solutions.
The Network Effect
MAY 6, 2016
Jim Tompkins, CEO, Tompkins International, discusses the importance of a consumer-driven supply chain in terms of the biggest threats and opportunities to retailers today. I’m not sure that the retailers get the level of disruption or the level of transformation that’s taking place in the workplace. Obviously they see some of it because they’re very smart people but they’re so busy executing and so busy following what they’ve done for years, I’m not sure they get the store versus eCommerce thing
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 3, 2016
Multinational companies can have thousands of Tier 1 suppliers, and in the extended multi-tier supply chain it could be hundreds to thousands of upstream suppliers. How can companies insure that companies they source from are not engaged in slave labor?
Talking Logistics
MAY 2, 2016
Editor’s Note: Today’s post revisits some great advice offered by supply chain and logitics executives to students and young professionals in past episodes of Talking Logistics. We originially shared these brief video excerpts in 2013 and 2014, but we’ve compiled them here again in case you missed them the first time. We asked these executives the same question: What advice would you give to students and young professionals interested in a supply chain and logistics career?
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.
Enterra Insights
MAY 3, 2016
The business landscape has been ever changing since the first marketplace was established. Craftsman who may have enjoyed a monopoly … Continued. The post Digital Enterprise Transformation: Changing or Adapting to the Business Landscape? appeared first on Enterra Solutions.
4WL Consulting
MAY 3, 2016
Domestic and international shipping are very different. Managing transportation within the US can be complex and volatile – no one is saying it isn’t difficult – but the details of coordinating the average truckload or LTL shipment don’t compare to the complexities of shipping internationally. The main reason for the differences are that every cross-border shipment is subject to laws, regulations, duties, and paperwork requirements that take country and mode-specific expertise to understan
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 2, 2016
Supply chain operating networks are finally beginning to emerge. They will change what supply chain software platforms look like in a few years. In particular, innovative new approaches to supply chain risk management have emerged.
Talking Logistics
MAY 6, 2016
Another busy week, so let’s go straight to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention, headlined by a major acquisition in the transportation management systems (TMS) market: Kewill Announces Acquisition of LeanLogistics. Apple & SAP Partner to Revolutionize Work on iPhone & iPad. Amazon partners with Atlas Air Worldwide for cargo services (MarketWatch).
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Enterra Insights
MAY 4, 2016
We’ve all seen little figurines with their arms stretched wide standing on a pedestal engraved with “I love you this … Continued. The post Targeted Marketing: Arms Open for Millennials but no Embrace Yet appeared first on Enterra Solutions.
Kinaxis
MAY 2, 2016
by Melissa Clow Does your organization have a massive worldwide supply chain network? A diverse IT landscape? These were some of the challenges Schneider Electric was facing. Their network is made of about 250 factories, about 100 distribution centers, various IT systems and a significant number of products. The company decided they wanted to build an extended visibility network to be able to better address customers, deliver products on time, and move from reactive supply chain to a proactive o
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 4, 2016
In September I began, in February I reflected on, and this week I completed ARC’s Supply Chain Planning Global Market Research Study. I’m going to take this opportunity to summarize some of the study’s key findings. Supply Chain Complexity Meets Planning Intricacy Global supply chains continue to be increasingly complex. This is not only due to outsourcing and an ever extending supply chain, but also due to competitive forces such as shorter product lifecycles and […].
Elementum
MAY 6, 2016
How will China's new regulations on pharmaceutical wholesalers affect manufacturer costs and drug prices? In April, China’s state council toughened regulations on its pharmaceutical industry, banning wholesalers from selling non-compulsory vaccines directly to hospitals, clinics, and government health authorities. This change comes as the result of a scandal made public on March this year in which around $90 million worth of drugs were reportedly sold illegally in a number of provinces.
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Supply Chain Network
APRIL 30, 2016
Future of Retail as an Omni-Channel ‘Internet of Things’ | Jeff Ashcroft | LinkedIn. The future always comes faster than we think. Even more so in the evolving world of fast retailing where websites are now merging with bricks and mortar stores to create what last April I dubbed The Endless Store. How will retailers manage in stores without boundaries inhabited 24/7/365 by almost 8 Billion shoppers armed with mobile computing and payment devices?
Resilinc
MAY 4, 2016
With any growing business discipline, there will always be the need for publications that are both insightful and engaging. As global supply chains become more interconnected and entangled, there is a growing demand in the supply chain management community for books, case studies, critical success stories, best practices, and publications that provide concise and intriguing intelligence into supply chain risk management and resiliency.
APICS
MAY 4, 2016
In the previous blog we revisited the concepts of push and pull as a prelude to a full discussion of pull system inventory replenishment techniques. To summarize, in a push system inventory flows down the bill of distribution echelon structure in anticipation of customer demand.
MIT Supply Chain
MAY 3, 2016
A team of MIT and Harvard University students won the first-ever MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize this month for an idea to make India’s temperature-controlled supply chain for food — or cold chain — more affordable. The team, GoMango, is developing smart, modular, refrigerated shipping boxes that can be rented out individually to cut costs […].
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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.
Arkieva
MAY 5, 2016
As a Phd in inventory optimization, I’ve started my supply chain career in adjusting inventory parameters with surgical precision. I was, and I still am passionate about applying statistics and advanced analytics to the supply chain domain. I’m still training supply chain experts on how to do this. I’m still involved in research where we redefine the boundaries of what science can do for you.
NFI Industries
MAY 3, 2016
In the past twelve months, 75% of companies reported at least one supply chain disruption 1 , which came in the form of strikes, breakdowns, and natural disasters. This past month, countries in Asia experienced twin earthquakes that disrupted many supply chains including those of top automotive manufacturers. Supply chain disruption continues to be one of the.
Oracle SCM
MAY 6, 2016
Knowing what’s happening—or what’s not happening—is critical to your manufacturing organization and to your business. But in addition to visibility, you also need an integrated supply chain so you can communicate situations quickly and efficiently to other supply chain stakeholders, such as procurement and order management. And you need more information.
C3 Solutions
MAY 6, 2016
Software as a Service (SaaS) is quickly becoming a more acceptable and feasible choice for companies seeking to update existing systems or acquire new ones. In our recent whitepaper, " SaaS Supply Chain Management Systems ", we explored—in depth—the landscape of SaaS versus licensed software, along with considerations about costs, security, functionality and selecting a supplier.
More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.
Supply Chain Collaborator
MAY 6, 2016
A Chinese proverb recently observed in a fortune cookie states, “May you live in interesting times”. Today’s retailers should consider themselves lucky then, because their industry is experiencing some very interesting times. Driving unpredictability are technologies both causing retailers’ challenges (like online sales portals) and solving them (like TMS, YMS and other logistics IT).
CHAINalytics
MAY 5, 2016
By Rob Kaszubowski, CPP | Packaging Engineering Manager, Chainalytics | Clamp truck handling is on the rise. This mode helps quickly move products through the supply chain. But it also puts some extreme horizontal forces on products’ packaging. How much pressure is too much? Read on. It was bound to happen….the rise of machines! Well, not […].
ModusLink Corporation
MAY 5, 2016
Companies spend any amount of dollars necessary – on everything from research & development, to product assembly, to packaging and shipping – in order to get a new product out and ready for its consumers, regardless of whether it’s being sold via brick and mortar, e-commerce or both. While a company’s forward logistics operations may […]. The post Moving Forward After a Reverse Logistics Pitfall appeared first on ModusLink Global Solutions.
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