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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

The History of the Shipping Container. 26 April 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the Ideal X and the birth of modern container shipping, a development that played a critical role in spurring the global economy. One visionary, Malcom McLean , features prominently in the industry’s development. But the modern shipping container has changed much more than one industry.

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3 Core Metrics & 10 Soft Metrics for Measuring Supply Chain Performance

GlobalTranz

The average Supply Chain management professional measures their Supply Chain by reviewing cost reduction. Is cost reduction all that there is in measuring Supply Chain performance? Sure, supply chain cost reduction is important in reducing the cost of goods sold (COGS) and increasing profit, but there are other measurements which should not be forgotten. 3 Key Metrics for Measuring Supply Chain Performance Beyond Cost Reduction.

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An Example of Outstanding Change Management

ToolsGroup

Managing change at the individual level is essential to realize benefits across the organization. Companies pick supply chain planning software based on the benefits to the business. But they install the software successfully—and realize the gains—when they convince users of those benefits. It’s the critical “last mile” of any implementation and can be one the hardest miles to overcome.

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Sparking a New Conversation: Let’s Build a Network of Networks

Supply Chain Shaman

Today’s supply chain is inside-out. Companies wait and process orders. They cannot sense and respond to demand. It is a struggle. The processes are largely batch and out-of-cadence with the markets they serve. Increasingly, business requirements are outside-in. The channels are multi-tier and companies are more dependent on outsourcing. Systems are growing more complex.

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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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Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2016

SCM Research

As every year, Emerald has recently announced the winners of the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2016. Several SCM-related articles have been awarded this year: A set of awarded articles falls into the area of sustainability, including articles by Tseng et al. , Tachizawa et al. , Signori et al. , Touboulic & Walker and Jaggernath & Khan.

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Video: Trinity Rail – Building a Sense-and-Respond Supply Chain

Kinaxis

by Melissa Clow How do you face uncertainty in your supply chain? According to Mike Hegedus, vice president of supply chain management at Trinity Rail, one of the most difficult things a supply chain manager faces is uncertainty in the supply chain. In their business, there are so many different possibilities of train cars that can be built. And among those different car types, they’re customized in many ways for each customer – making it nearly impossible to forecast what the customerR

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Supply Chain Visibility: A Precursor to Insight and Optimization

Talking Logistics

As digitization continues to modify the global supply chain landscape, its unprecedented data sources and solutions will lead to not only the demise of disparate information systems, but to the rise of true, end-to-end, supply chain visibility. For suppliers and mid- to large-sized companies, supply chain visibility serves as the foundation for strategic decisions and tactical improvements across the entire transportation network.

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Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2016

SCM Research

As every year, Emerald has recently announced the winners of the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2016. Several SCM-related articles have been awarded this year: A set of awarded articles falls into the area of sustainability, including articles by Tseng et al. , Tachizawa et al. , Signori et al. , Touboulic & Walker and Jaggernath & Khan.

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Utilizing Best-Practices to Create the Holy Trinity of Freight Accounting

GlobalTranz

While the State of Logistics 2014 report is slowly giving way to what will be the State of Logistics 2015 report, we couldn’t help start thinking about what will happen. However, we know postulating ideas for the future is impractical if we cannot learn from our past experiences. The economy had been hit hard, and 2014 saw a great climb from the recession.

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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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Strategic Planning is Critical to Dow Chemical’s Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

When it comes to bulk shipments of commodities, strategic planning is even more important than day to day operations. Without careful advance planning, logistics personnel can never hope to effectively manage logistics operations when they are stuck with a suboptimal supply chain network.

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5 Common Mistakes in Fulfillment Center & Distribution Center Design

The Network Effect

By Thompson Brockmann, Partner, Tompkins International. The common adage that management is both art and science is a truism. This adage serves as a way of indicating a rather complex reality involving management. Management is a science in that there are known facts and reasoning involved that produces dependable results. Management is also an art in that it requires high levels of creativity in order to steer results more favorably.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 25-29, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Lots of supply chain and logistics news to get to this week, especially on the the technology front, so let’s go straight to it. Descartes Acquires pixi. Pitney Bowes Unveils Commerce Cloud with World-Class Solutions that Enable the Full Continuum of Commerce. JDA Empowers Customers to Transform their Supply Chains with New End-to-End Capabilities. JDA Rolls Out New Transportation Management Capabilities and Taps into Big Data to Enable Real-time Visibility.

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Design for the Supply Chain Pt 7: Honest

Kinaxis

by Jonathan Lofton We’re getting into the second half of the “10 Principles of Good Design” as applied to supply chain and supply chain management ( Design for the Supply Chain ). This week we’re talking about the honesty of the supply chain management solution. Principle #6: Good design “Is honest”. “It does not make a product appear more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is.

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GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024

Your Roadmap to Smarter Spend Management in 2024 Geopolitical, economic and supply chain challenges will stick around in 2024, but don’t despair. There are strategic opportunities to leverage AI-powered technology and digital toolsets to overcome these hurdles more effectively. GEP experts in nearly two dozen critical categories guide you in the right direction in our annual comprehensive resource — GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024.

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Manufacturing’s Symbiotic Relationship with Technology

Enterra Insights

A million years ago manufacturing was a very personal business. Individuals constructed their own tools and weapons. Those items, however, … Continued. The post Manufacturing’s Symbiotic Relationship with Technology appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Disruption: The Social Supply Chain

The Network Effect

This is the fifth article in our ongoing series on Disruption. If you missed the earlier ones, read them here: Disruption Part 1 , Disruption Part 2 , Disruption Part 3 , Disruption Part 4. Another element of disruption affecting enterprise technology and the supply chain are social networks and the resulting “social supply chain.” What is the “social supply chain”?

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Discover, Disrupt, and Deliver (Takeaways from LeanLogistics ClientConnect 2016)

Talking Logistics

“There are no sacred cows here,” said Chris Timmer, Chief Commercial Officer at LeanLogistics (a Talking Logistics sponsor) in his opening remarks at the company’s ClientConnect 2016 conference last week. He was referring to the “Discover, Disrupt, Deliver” theme of the conference, which is also LeanLogistics’ guiding philosophy today: continuously work to discover what customers need and what LeanLogistics can do to better to meet those needs; be willing to disrupt themselves by continuously qu

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The Evolving Transportation Conversion: Intermodal

NFI Industries

Intermodal transport takes the phrase ‘planes, trains, and automobiles’ to a whole new level with the ever evolving transportation trend. Intermodal transportation is defined as a long-haul movement of shipping containers and truck trailers by rail, combined with a (usually much shorter) truck movement at one or both ends. In 2014, intermodal was the largest.

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How to Create a Blueprint for Fleet Resilience

Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader

Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,

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Cognitive Process Automation is needed in the Cognitive Era

Enterra Insights

“The automation of knowledge work will be this decade’s engine of growth,” according to the Institute for Robotic Process Automation … Continued. The post Cognitive Process Automation is needed in the Cognitive Era appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Digital Disruption: What You Should Be Asking Yourself

The Network Effect

There’s no doubt businesses are in the early stages of a massive disruption. Whether we call it a revolution, as Ankit Jamwal does in the article below, or whether it’s a continuation of the computer revolution, Jamwal’s article at Industry Week is enlightening and a wake up call for companies that are on “cruise control.” .

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Moving Beyond Madness to Methods in Supply Chain Decision Making

CHAINalytics

By Vikas Argod | Manager, Supply Chain Operations, Chainalytics | Sivaram Murthy, Senior Consultant, Integrated Demand & Supply Planning, Chainalytics | Data models provide insights, but humans make decisions, and those decisions are not always rational Behavioural economics research explores the nature of human decision-making, biases –like the “anchoring effect”, a common tendency to rely […].

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Update Your Outdated Supply Chain in 1 Step

AFFLINK

Leading a supply chain’s transformation from a tactical to a strategic approach can make even the most seasoned professional gulp. It’s a big change, and nobody likes change. If you do it right – with a foundation of automation and data – it requires a capital investment. But the supply chain is changing rapidly, and sticking with your outdated processes will end up costing you even more.

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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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Truth in Transparency

APICS

It’s been three years since the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh that killed 1,135 garment workers when an eight-story building collapsed. The tragedy pushed company leaders to seek greater transparency in their supply chains. It pushed consumers to think about where their goods come from and the definition of supply chain itself. This week, Reuters asked in its headline: “Three Years After Rana Plaza Disaster, Has Anything Changed?

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Are You Overlooking Last-Mile Logistics Solutions?

MIT Supply Chain

If companies can find better ways to navigate the last mile in traffic-clogged big cities, they will open up new business opportunities in a vast and growing market. The MIT Megacity Logistics Lab is collaborating with leading enterprises to redesign last-mile logistics. Meanwhile, companies may not know it, but they already have the tools needed […].

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Effectiveness equals Efficiency? How to become “world-class” at nothing.

Arkieva

Though it sounds like a joke, many executive teams are exactly on this path. In this blog we’ll define why and how to avoid an infamous future. Effectiveness equals efficiency. The 1-dimensional view of Supply Chain. In her book “Supply Chain Metrics that Matter”, Lora elegantly captures that many companies mistake efficiency for effectiveness. To my feeling, it’s much more widespread than we’re willing to admit.

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Transportation Procurement in India

CHAINalytics

By Linsa Godwin Sathiamoses | Consultant, Transportation, Chainalytics | Procuring transportation services is an important activity on the supply chain calendar. It is also one area where every procurement manager thinks he or she is doing a good job, until proven otherwise. By all accounts, shippers in Europe and the Americas are using transportation and analytics […].

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Monetizing Analytics Features

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. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Inbound Logistics Names ModusLink a Top 100 Logistics IT Provider

ModusLink Corporation

Today we are thrilled to share the news that ModusLink has been recognized by leading supply chain publication Inbound Logistics as one of their Top 100 Logistics IT Providers for our Entitlement Management Solution. With over 400 nominations submitted from logistics solution providers all across the globe, it was reaffirming of our commitment to our […].

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New global supply chain planning tool for United Biscuits

Supply Chain Movement

After a complete Business Process and Planning Cycle design review with OM Partners, United Biscuits (UB) has started the implementation of OMP Plus for all their demand and supply planning processes. The OMP Plus implementation is part of an important supply chain transformation project for UB ensuring standardization and simplification across both processes and systems.

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Do you want to go places? My Advice for recent college graduates

Arkieva

If you are a recent college graduate or are going through college, you are at the doorstep of what I hope is a long and fruitful career. What follows is my take on what a person should do at this step of their life journey. As I write this blog, I am going to make an assumption that the college graduate in question is pursuing their area of interest.

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