Freightos

MAY 26, 2015

Logistics makes the world go around. But if you work in the supply chain industry, chances are that your friends start yawning when you say what you do. So you tell them the story of how clothing gets to the racks at The Gap. Or you explain what the 40′ containers they get stuck next to in traffic are. We’re here to help. We’ve rounded up our 10 favorite supply chain and logistics infographics and videos that paint a picture of the global supply chain.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 28, 2015

Editor’s Note: Omni- and multi- channel is transforming transportation’s supply chain and logistics processes. And omni-channel isn’t just for retailers anymore. In fact, when we launched our end-to-end transportation management e-commerce solutions for less than truckload shipping with WebShopApps almost 2 years ago, we saw a plethora of industrial companies, distributors, and manufacturers turn to our LTL solution in order to open up more channels of revenue and to meet B2B consum

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Kinaxis

MAY 25, 2015

by Jennifer Bell If your business is currently leveraging SAP APO as part of your enterprise architecture, now is the time to upgrade to Kinaxis RapidResponse. You may be asking why now and how does this make me a supply chain hero? As you know, SAP has announced their intention to discontinue support for their APO suite. This can be a scary time, especially if you have good adoption of APO within your user community.

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AIMMS

MAY 28, 2015

This month, I had the pleasure of attending Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix. The theme of the event was “ The Art of Supply Chain: Creative Solutions for the Next Generation.” Its agenda included over 60 sessions covering the full spectrum of supply chain—from strategy and planning to distribution and logistics. In almost every way this is a large and very professionally run conference with over 1500 attendees, everything you would expect from a Gartner event.

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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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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 27, 2015

You’ve just been analyzing your supply chain’s performance over the last 2 quarters. It’s not looking too good. Your boss wants to see improvements to the bottom line and it has to happen by the end of the year. With such a tight deadline, you can’t afford to waste time combing through lengthy reports to come up with fresh strategies that could or could not work.

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Kinaxis

MAY 28, 2015

by CJ Wehlage In part one of this blog series , I noted the changes, or lack thereof, to Gartner’s list of the Top 25 Supply Chains. After realizing little has changed, with the exception of creating a new “Masters” category, which doesn’t really fix anything in the rankings, I had two important thoughts and an epiphany. Amazon’s #1 Position makes me think of two things: Where in the world is Google ?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 28, 2015

Conflict minerals – Tantalum, Tin, Tungsten and Gold (3TG) – and supply chain transparency will be in the news. Monday, June 1, is the deadline for more than 6,000 Public U.S. companies to file reports with the SEC to disclose whether their products contain conflict minerals. The US passed a legislation in 2010, called “Dodd Frank Act Section 1502“, […].

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The Network Effect

MAY 29, 2015

Retailers need to adapt to next and next and then to next. As I have predicted, e-commerce has taken a huge toll on brick & mortar stores and retailers need to adjust their supply chain. A supply chain now must accommodate the need to be omnichannel retail, omnichannel logistics, and omnichannel delivery. Some of the retailers that are being affected by e-commerce this year are: Retailer.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 27, 2015

“It feels like a new JDA.”. That’s how JDA Software’s CEO, Baljit Dail, summarized the feedback he was getting from customers and partners at FOCUS 2015 , the company’s user conference held last month in Orlando, FL, which had more than 2,000 attendees from 30 countries. As Dail said in his keynote address, the new JDA is less about the new logo and tagline (“Plan to Deliver”), which the company unveiled last October , and more about listening to customers better, something he admitted the compa

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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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SCM Research

MAY 27, 2015

Many theory-testing efforts in our field are made by borrowing theories from other fields (e.g., transaction cost economics or resource-based theory ), adapting them to a supply chain context and deriving hypotheses that are eventually tested statistically. By doing so, we have reached a lot! But we also need our own theories. For example, several years ago, Lambert & Cooper (2000) noted: “One of the most significant paradigm shifts of modern business management is that individual busi

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

MAY 27, 2015

I recently had a lengthy discussion with someone from the UK Armed Forces who was preparing to lead his men into a dangerous part of the world. I enquired about the logistics of delivering people, arms, ammunition and machines to the right place at the right time. Running out of anti-dandruff shampoo may prompt you to select a white shirt in the morning but running out of bullets when under fire provides a very different challenge.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 28, 2015

“When you think of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, you might think of high tech fields like Nanotechnology or microchip … Continued. The post Big Data and Technology are Changing the Face of Agriculture appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Big Data Supply Chain Software Data Education 118

The Network Effect

MAY 29, 2015

Steve Gray/Flickr. We don’t often plug these types of things on this blog, but given the level of interest our demand sensing posts have gotten, and the overall interest in the market place, I want to alert you to next week’s webcast where I will be presenting. We’ll talk about how one of the world’s largest CPG companies is doing demand sensing at the world’s largest retailer…it’s a project that I’m personally involved in, and it’s sure to b

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 28, 2015

In the global economy, ever-higher customer expectations combined with demographic and economic shifts are making it increasingly difficult to predict customer demand. Adequate forecasting and demand planning is essential if supply chains are to deliver products in line with the required service level. Supply Chain Movement has collaborated with Logility, a provider of supply chain software, to devise this Demand Orchestration Mindmap outlining the route, with road signs indicating potential ha

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 24, 2015

I participated in the Diversity Alliance 4 Science event last week held in Newark, NJ. For those of you who don’t know, this is a fantastic event held by most of the major life sciences companies, to encourage networking and open collaboration with a host of small, minority-owned, women-owned, and veteran-owned businesses. Life Science companies have a commitment to increase the value of their minority spend, and all of the majors (GSK, Merck, Pfizer, Novartis, Amgen, BiogenIdec, Teva, T

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Enterra Insights

MAY 27, 2015

In Part 1 of this article, I noted that there are five principal ways that machines learn. They are: Supervised … Continued. The post Machine Learning: A Primer for the Technically Challenged, Part 2 appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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BlueYonder

MAY 26, 2015

Ask any supply chain professional: what is the first thing you need to make better decisions? I’ll bet the answer will be: more information. But what makes us so curious about data? Why do we need to know detailed information analyzed from several angles and layers? I’ll tell you why: because in the supply chain universe mistakes cost you money.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 28, 2015

Involvation, a supply chain consulting firm with Dutch roots, has joined forces with two partners to launch The Value Chain Academy: a continuous supply chain management-related learning experience at both operational and strategic level for large organisations. “Companies are being required to adapt increasingly quickly in order to survive, and that is only possible with flexible employees who are able to work on their own development,” says Alfons Willemsen, partner at Involvation.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 26, 2015

The domestic shipping industry sits at a crossroads. With economic growth increasing demand for trucking capacity and an aging population of drivers not being replaced by the younger generation disinterested in trucking as a career option, something is going to have to give. Transportation planners and managers have long suffered the pain of capacity crunch and recent government regulations have only exacerbated the challenges.

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Tompkins Blog

MAY 26, 2015

Retailers need to adapt to next and next and then to next. As I have predicted e-commerce has taken a huge toll on brick and mortar stores. The post How Today’s E-commerce Requires the Evolution to NEXT appeared first on Tompkins International.

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Elementum

MAY 28, 2015

Source: FDA Voice. More Indian Drug Makers Get A Slap On the Wrist. Earlier this month, major Indian drug manufacturers Cipla and Wockhardt were both pressed to recall large drug lots after receiving FDA warning letters. A statement from Cipla cited impurity and degradation test failure as the cause for its recall. Meanwhile Wockhardt’s factory is now under an import ban from the U.S.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 28, 2015

Contents Supply Chain Movement 17 – 2015 Q2. Publishing date: 15 May 2015. 7 | News & Background. – Launch of Supply Chain Professionals Club in Turkey. – Winner of the last quarter: Raytheon. – Loser of the last quarter: Roll-Royce. – Supply chain disruption reported as the fastest rising threat. 12 | Supply Chain Journey: demand driven on command.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 26, 2015

On a personal level we’ve all thought about chartering an entire plane to some far off, exotic locale at some point or another. Not having to deal with long lines, cramped leg room, and strangers in the next aisle over sounds like paradise, especially for people who fly often. For many of us, this will only ever be wishful thinking because many times the negative aspects of flying via private plane outweigh the positives.

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Global Trade Management

MAY 28, 2015

The package delivery turns out to be a wrong delivery, the new LCD TV screen ordered remains black, the auctioned designer piece turns out to be plagiarism - in everyday life, we are often suffering the effects of improper handling of goods. Which is a minor inconvenience for the private citizen, causes in industry and trade high economic damage. Today's supply chains are polynomial and international with a high degree of complexity anda lack of transparency.

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Elementum

MAY 27, 2015

Making Waves. Walmart has announced that it plans to add 1 million jobs to the United States by investing $250 billion in U.S.-manufactured goods over the next decade. The retail giant cited a shift in consumer sensibilities and an opportunity to boost revenue as the biggest factors in their decision – adding jobs will increase disposable income, and with more consumers willing to pay more for domestic-made goods, both Walmart and their customers should reap the benefits.

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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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Supply Chain 24/7

MAY 24, 2015

The Global Supply Chain and Risk Management Survey is a study of the supply chain operations and risk management approaches of 209 companies with a global footprint. As globally operating organisations, they are exposed to high risk scenarios ranging from controllable risks, such as raw material price fluctuation, currency fluctuation, market changes or fuel price volatility, to uncontrollable ones such as natural disasters.

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Supply Chain Digest

MAY 25, 2015

All Three Modes Followed Showed Improvement in Q1, While Union Pacific, Knight Transportation, and and Old Dominion Continue to Put Up Impressive Numbers

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GlobalTranz

MAY 27, 2015

How Can USMTO Reports Help Drive Manufacturing Sales and your Bottom Line? The United States Manufacturing Technology Orders (USMTO) data report is compiled monthly by the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). Who is Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT)? If you attended or exhibited at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (aka IMTS – gotta love all these acronyms!

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