Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 29, 2014

Together with logistics service provider DSV, Supply Chain Movement has created a mindmap outlining the route for the medical device supply chain, including road signs indicating potential hazards along the way. >>Please Mindmap for medtech supply chains 2014.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. With globalization, the need to partner with local logistics service providers becomes an imperative.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Brent crude oil prices Dec 2009 – Dec 2014 (Source MoneyAM.com). I use this example to illustrate the challenges (or, perhaps, the futility) of making supply chain and logistics predictions. For related commentary, see: In Logistics, Somebody Has to Own the Assets. Do Facebook and Twitter Need a Logistics Strategy?

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Jaggaer

APRIL 22, 2019

Earth Day (April 22nd) is a celebration of commitment to creating a safer, healthier and cleaner world, making it a natural time to reflect on the power and value of sustainable procurement programs. Procurement at the pivot point. Clear steps to sustainable procurement. A quick look at the regulatory landscape.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This is despite the purchase of Terra Technology Demand Sensing and Multi-tier Inventory Management (MEIO) in 2014 for 12-14M$ (including implementation). The supply chain investments of the last decade focused on improving black & white processes–order-to-cash and procure-to-pay. The solution was too black box.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Debt-laden JDA struggled to capitalize on its assets, and while revenue grew through acquisition, innovation stalled. Purchases include ICON-SCM in 2013; SERUS Corporation in 2014; Orchestro and Terra Technology in 2016; Steelwedge and Zyme in 2017; Inttra, Cloud Logistics, Entomo and Birch Worldwide in 2018; and Amber Road in 2019.

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Claritum

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. We’ve read through some of the best analyst reports and surveys to bring you this procurement fact file containing some of the most interesting findings, statistics and quotes. Click here to download a printable pdf version of the procurement fact file. Procurement.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Looking back on the training process, our research, strategy, implementation and evaluation methods closely mirrored supplier relationship management and procurement management. If you don’t have a Supplier CoC, I’d strongly suggest looking into developing one with your sourcing and procurement team. Now bear with me here….

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

The company transitioned from an innovator in the 1990s to a late adopter in the last decade. 2011-Divestiture of Pringles to Kellogg for 2.7B$ 2014-Sale of IAMS to Mars for 2.9B$ 2015-Sale of 43 P&G Beauty Brands to Coty for 12.5B$. The culture is dominated by “lifers” and technology investment is conservative.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The world of supply chain and logistics is changing every day. These 36 innovative companies have figured out how to hack their operations, gaining some financial or media recognition for their methods. Each one is featured as having done something unique to reinvent their supply chain and logistics.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Four fundamental practices: Based on (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016) research, Chinese and Iranian governments have focused their fight for SSCM based on four fundamental practices: sustainable procurement, sustainable production along with sustainable distribution , and reverse logistics. Cardwell, 2014). 2014, July 30).

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I will be wrong again,” I stated last year before making my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 , and I was right. But I was right with some of my other predictions, especially my prediction that we would see a rise in cyber attacks in 2017, with supply chain and logistics operations becoming new targets.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 5, 2017

The near-infinite processing power Cloud computing provides (along with other technological innovations) will cause everyone in the supply chain and logistics field to unlearn the way we’ve always done things, everything from the way we design software applications to how we design and manage supply chain processes.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 28, 2016

Google’s 2014 purchase of the British firm Deep Mind for something more than $ 400 million produced a bonanza of publicity earlier this year, when its game playing program whipped a human master of the ancient strategy game Go. Practical Applications: Using AI Technologies to Maximize & Compliment Logistics Resources.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Check out Procurement Report Card: Most Executives Think Procurement Isn’t Strategic Enough! Looking back on the training process, our research, strategy, implementation and evaluation methods closely mirrored supplier relationship management and procurement management. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Connecting with hundreds or even thousands of vendors and logistics service providers is the first step in enabling this process. And because not every trading partner is EDI-enabled, a relatively large percentage of them actually remain unconnected (for example, as recently as 2014, Home Depot was still faxing orders to some vendors ).

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Founded in 2000, Steelwedge was an innovator in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and was an early provider of cloud solutions for supply chain. The focus was on automating procurement. The stock hovered near $30 per share for many months in 2014. The question is will E2open be an aggregator of assets or an innovator?

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Talking Logistics

MAY 15, 2013

Last week at the Ariba LIVE 2013 conference, I led a discussion session titled “At the Intersection of Social and Business Networks” with about fifty senior executives in supply chain and procurement. Ariba plans to expand into supply chain, logistics, and inventory management processes, with the first solutions coming out in 2014.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2015

As a transportation management third party logistics company, we know at Cerasis that transportation makes up a large portion of the costs and efficiencies of any supply chain. However, with reduced life cycles, customer-driven innovative products and services have forced supply chains to be flexible and adaptable. 3) Risk Management.

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FLEXE

APRIL 12, 2017

Your logistics could mean the difference between life and death. In this article, we explore how eCommerce retailers can strengthen the backbone of the business—logistics—and leverage new, collaborative technologies to increase sales, improve customer retention, and decrease shopping cart abandonment. Seems like forever ago.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 17, 2015

For the past few years I’ve been using that phrase, which you typically find in investment literature, when making the case for innovation in supply chain management. But by 2014, the U.S. Logistics complexities in the conventional sector can quickly drive up costs and eat into profit margins, if not well managed.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 14, 2023

This tech provider was more recently named as the Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023. Reportedly, capital raised in this latest round to accelerate product innovation, including insights and tracking related to ESG and sustainability risks across a company’s extended supply chain. million in Series A financing.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 29, 2015

The Logistics Community is Gathering to Discuss its Future. Can innovative technology, new business models and eCommerce re-boot the business of logistics? Europe’s only C-level logistics event will enable you to: Benchmark your strategic plan against the industry and discover if you have a USP customers want to pay for.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Kristie Syndikus, VP Procurement at Maple Leaf Foods! Logistics Managers, Manufacturing Directors and other Supply Chain leaders often rose from the shop floor, from front-line warehousing and transportation positions. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Locus

JUNE 6, 2022

Ensuring that last-mile fulfillment becomes a revenue driver: This is crucial, as last-mile fulfillment is said to account for 53% of the costs of logistics operations. Last-mile logistics, with multiple stakeholders, nodes, and processes, clearly needs solutions for bringing about greater efficiencies, and at scale! .

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 9, 2015

In a Forbes blog post last week, Kate Vitasek highlighted an issue that continues to negatively affect 3PL-customer relationships: Procurement organizations looking to shift more and more risk on third-party logistics providers — while, of course, also demanding lower costs. approach to negotiations. Positive reviews declined 3.5

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 10, 2021

My projects in Malaysia, Philippines, China, Indonesia and eventually Vietnam, ranged from customer service and order fulfillment, shop-floor planning, inventory management, import/export and procurement. In 2014, I was appointed Global Supply Chain role with ECCO Shoes and relocated back to Singapore.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Contents Supply Chain Movement 14 – 2014 Q3. Growing differentiation among logistics service providers. Things are looking up for European logistics service providers. Their clients (shippers) are increasingly outsourcing logistics services to third-party specialists. Streamlined logistics tenders.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2016

This is not only true for financial investments, but also for supply chain and logistics predictions. Like I said last year, making supply chain and logistics predictions is like throwing darts at a moving target: sometimes you get lucky and hit the mark; other times you miss the bullseye by a mile. Photo By: MAJ Aaron Haney.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Logistics and Transportation Managers at manufacturers will have reports at their fingertips on how to continue to reduce transportation costs, a heavy portion of the expense budget, by leaning on data to continually improve. Between 2010 and 2014, the average robot sales increase was at 17% per year (CAGR). The Role of Robotics.

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Supply Chain Movement

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Last updated on December 16th , 2014. 14th annual Cool Chain & Controlled Room Temperature Logistics Europe. 13th annual supply chain standard Logistics & Supply Chain Conference. Supply Chain Innovations. Transport & Logistics Forum. Transport Logistic. Club of Logistics Directors.

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QAD

AUGUST 18, 2022

Pharmaceutical manufacturers and their supply, contract packaging and distribution partners are under constant pressure to comply with government requirements while maintaining high standards for patient safety, product quality and innovation. FDA lab tests found at least one version of the drug had no active ingredients.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 10, 2012

Logistics and Distribution. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Online providers are disrupting the retail industry because of innovation, in the true spirit of the Clayton M. Christensen book, The Innovators Dilemma. Communication Services.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 26, 2022

Ryan Rogers is the Founder and CEO of logistics tech startup TextLocate. TextLocate bridges the gap between truck drivers and logistics professionals by creating a simple way to locate freight through a proprietary text message platform that has taken the logistics industry by storm. based transportation and logistics providers.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 10, 2013

Logistics and Distribution. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. For more insights into the need to innovate supply chain and how goals translate into business and technology needs, read my latest 2-part blog series in Supply Chain Matters.

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Requis

JULY 14, 2020

It was the process of studying and writing those articles that led me to the notion that there really needed to be a community for people who as I describe as being “obsessively enthusiastic” about supply chain and supply chain innovation technology. On the New York Supply Chain Meet Up and the Worldwide Supply Chain Federation.

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EcoVadis

DECEMBER 8, 2019

PARIS/NEW YORK – (December 11, 2019) — EcoVadis , the world’s leading provider of sustainability ratings, today announces its sustainable procurement partnership with Klabin , Brazil’s largest paper and board producer and exporter. Learn more on ecovadis.com , Twitter or LinkedIn. About Klabin.

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