GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The long and unpredictable peak shipping season continues to challenge supply chains. A 2021 Peak Shipping Season survey conducted by Edelman Intelligence found hiring to be a strong concern among supply chain decision makers with 90% having a strong need to increase hiring to account for peak season and beyond.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

For the first in seven years, I was not heads-down preparing for The Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. Pre-pandemic only 30% of supply chain leaders were satisfied with their supply chains, and during the pandemic, business leader satisfaction is falling precipitously. Supply is the challenge.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 11, 2021

As far as forward-thinking companies are concerned, control towers are passé in 2021. There has been considerable confusion about the term ‘control tower’ in recent years. And then there is the misleading association with military command & control centres for managing disasters or crises.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 4, 2022

the world’s first multi-enterprise collaborative platform specifically designed for the global supply chain. Ron Richardson is the Chief Revenue Officer at Turvo , a technology company that empowers shippers, carriers, LSPs, and brokers with a streamlined, connected approach to supply chain management. About Turvo.

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The Network Effect

APRIL 27, 2017

Putting the Consumer at the center of the supply chain universe In a previous post, Rise of Supply Chain Control. The post Building a Better Supply Chain Control Tower appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The transportation execution and visibility systems (TES) market has seen significant growth over the last few years due to a variety of factors, including the growth of e-commerce, the strong ROI tied to these solutions, the rise of control towers and visibility requirements, capacity fluctuations, and the expansion of ecommerce.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 23, 2024

As a result of climate change, global food value chain security is increasingly being called into question. Proponents of indoor agriculture note that most cities have vacant high-rise buildings that could be turned into vertical farms. ”[1] Reducing transportation costs is another benefit of urban agriculture.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2022

The transportation execution and visibility systems (TES) market has seen significant growth over the last few years due to a variety of factors, including the growth of e-commerce, the strong ROI tied to these solutions, the rise of control towers and visibility requirements, capacity fluctuations, and the expansion of ecommerce.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 11, 2018

Tight capacity and rising rates in the trucking market was arguably the top headline of Q1 2018. But as you can see from the list below, technology-related topics and trends — such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, and “the digital supply chain” — are also attracting a lot of interest and attention.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Supply Chain Disruption. In a series of blog articles, the Product/Solution Marketing team explores innovative solutions to guard against supply chain disruptions. Unfortunately, what we’re seeing in China may be only the beginning of a new era of supply chain disruption driven by climate change. In the U.S.

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Adexa

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Role of Time & Space in Building Resilient Supply Chains. Control Towers in supply chain and current IBP systems tend to show the “current” state of the supply chain or the kind of problems we might run into in the future by way of planning technology.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 25, 2019

Respectfully, he opened the dialogue asking, “ Lora why are you writing a book on supply chain management? Over the course of the last decade, business and technology leaders stuffed supply chain management processes into narrow functional silos. We started with a discussion on control towers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. During the pandemic, the supply chain discussions take new importance. While the supply chain technology market lost its allure at the start of the last decade, it is now cool again. The supply chain career is new. Reflection.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The new year is also a good time for supply chain professionals to evaluate how their value chains need to transform in the months and years ahead to meet changing business conditions, such as the recent coronavirus outbreak. I believe most professionals will discover their supply chains need to become more agile.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain Visibility – An Overcomplicated Challenge! I found this striking that there is so little multi-tier Supply Chain visibility. The broader value chain includes every supplier’s supplier and every customer’s customer. Subscribe Here!

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 25, 2023

“When corporations wish to revamp their supply chains and gain more visibility into the everyday workings of their business,” she writes, “Digital twin technologies can provide the solution.”[2] One of the most promising technologies to emerge over the last decade is digital twin technology.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Blog post originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Argentus at [link] , a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement. Is Your Supply Chain Ready To Recover? Automation is one of the hotter topics in the supply chain community – as it is across the entire economy.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It took years of wandering for the supply chain to end up in the morass in which it currently finds itself. Although portions of the supply chain are functioning well, many consultants believe a true transformation is needed in order to make the global supply chain more resilient.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 7, 2017

But before I bring out the lawn mower and tool box, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Mondelez Says Cyberattack Cost it Business (WSJ – sub. Walmart is building giant towers to solve the most annoying thing about online ordering (Business Insider). ACT Research: N.A.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 5, 2015

How confident are you in your organization’s supply chain , and its ability to actually perform in a way that supports your business needs? It means almost two-thirds of executives aren’t confident about their supply chain’s capabilities! Control tower analytics and visualization. But it’s not all bad news.

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BlueYonder

MAY 17, 2022

At the same time, tire manufacturers have suffered from extreme volatility, raw material shortages with rapidly rising prices, a shortage of global transport capacity and increased costs caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic and additional disruptive forces. However, this isn’t the end of the industry’s concerns.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

When you’re talking about assessing risk and making the best choices for a global, end-to-end supply chain that spans thousands of miles and involves dozens of trading partners, the stakes are a lot higher. Supply-side risk and disruptions are taking many forms. Probably the best example is the daily weather forecast.

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Kinaxis

MARCH 18, 2015

It’s been about a decade since companies began talking about the dream of a truly “ demand-driven ” supply chain. It’s been 10 years since companies began striving to create “demand-driven” supply chains. Watch now: 10 Years After: How Close Are We to True Demand-Driven Supply Chains?

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 24, 2023

Significant Upheaval Terence: From collaboration to planning to control towers and logistics, automotive companies and suppliers are digitalizing processes and systems at a historic pace to improve competitiveness, profitability, and customer-centricity. What does this mean for the supply side?

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 5, 2022

Seldom, if ever, has the global supply chain received so much attention as it did in 2021. Some critics have called for a complete overhaul of the global supply chain, insisting current operations can’t be fixed. Supply Chain Trends. Digital Supply Chain Transformation.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 7, 2022

That is certainly the case for the supply chain. Zakhar Shapurau, Vice President of Research and Development at Xeneta, writes, “To say that the internet of things is taking supply chain management by storm is something of an understatement. The exchange of information is a time-proven way of making things better.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 7, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS)! Digital Supply Chain strategies article and permission to publish here provided by Alejandro Carrera. Effective digital supply chain strategies can help organizations stand out from the crowd. Subscribe Here! Blockchain.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 6, 2020

While we continue to work with global retailers and supply chains to provide solutions to these developing trends and challenges, we wanted to further our understanding from the consumer’s point of view. Many consumers’ holiday shopping budgets were impacted by a potential rise in retail prices as a result of Chinese tariffs.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 27, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog features our March 27, 2023 edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news. This move, estimated to represent upwards of 2.5 This move was outlined in a 10-Q filing with the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 21, 2022

This week, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) , with sponsors Penske Logistics and consulting firm Kearney , released the 33rd Annual State of Logistics Report to organization members and the industry as a whole. This report provides a snapshot of the U.S. This Year’s Report Themes and Key Messages.

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Kinaxis

MAY 9, 2016

by CJ Wehlage Two years ago, I made some very bold predictions on the 2014 Top 25 Supply Chains, and about 80% of them were true. Last year, I made the not-so bold predictions, as the Gartner 2015 Top 25 Supply Chain rankings were pretty much unchanged. P&G = Control Tower. Apple = Leverage.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 6, 2020

While we continue to work with global retailers and supply chains to provide solutions to these developing trends and challenges, we wanted to further our understanding from the consumer’s point of view. Many consumers’ holiday shopping budgets were impacted by a potential rise in retail prices as a result of Chinese tariffs.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Is your global end-to-end supply chain management (SCM) strategy set to keep up? The McKinsey Global Institute, a leading technology research firm, says less than one percent of available data is currently being accessed by businesses – who primarily mine it for alarms and real-time control. The Rise of End-to-End SCM 4.0.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 16, 2021

As e-commerce growth is continuing at a rapid pace, companies are having to rapidly change their logistics footprint (both operational and physical) and fulfillment to match rising customer expectations. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems,” Simon Tunstall and Dwight Klappich, 30 June 2021.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 6, 2020

While we continue to work with global retailers and supply chains to provide solutions to these developing trends and challenges, we wanted to further our understanding from the consumer’s point of view. Many consumers’ holiday shopping budgets were impacted by a potential rise in retail prices as a result of Chinese tariffs.

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JDA software

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The mislabeling of popular fish species is out of control, charging unknowing consumers a premium for salmon (28% mislabeled), red snapper (67% mislabeled), and lemon sole (nearly 88% mislabeled). Don’t miss any of the insights from this 2-part blog series – enter your details above, to the right to subscribe to our Supply Chain Nation blog.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 11, 2018

” Looking beyond Amazon for the causes of the apocalypse, Kaplan writes, “A rise in direct-to-consumer (DTC) activity by suppliers, spurred by e-commerce, may be to blame.” With the rise of direct-to-consumer activity, supplier/retailer relationships simultaneously become both friendly and rivalrous.

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