Kinaxis

JUNE 19, 2017

Order fulfillment channels are becoming more complex as the possible combinations for purchase and returns explode. Global purchasing power. Emerging economies, those classed as part of the E7 (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Turkey), are hitting the leaderboard of the top 10 countries with the most purchasing power.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2014

This is why, for Cerasis, it is KEY for us to educate you on this practice of reverse logistics, because this flow of logisitcs will only increase over the coming years. Instead of becoming overwhelmed with data, managers should identify and focus on the most useful warehouse metrics to gather, report, and apply.

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MIT Supply Chain

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

On September 30, 2014, supply chain education will take a major step into the digital age with the start of SCx, an on-line educational program developed by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) for thousands of professionals across the globe. Procurement and purchasing. Risk and resilience.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 29, 2018

“More than a quarter of all revenue for sellers on Amazon globally was from cross-border transactions in 2017, up more than 50 percent from the year prior, Amazon Vice President Eric Broussard said in an interview,” as reported by Jeffrey Dastin in a recent article in Reuters. Your order from the U.S.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 16, 2016

LogTech venture capital investments have been growing rapidly these past years, as recently reported by CB Insights. This was driven by growing Internet access and customer education, while mobile devices are enabling purchases anywhere, anytime (1/3 of Black Friday’s sales were made on mobile devices this year).

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 3, 2015

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” We are systemically evaluating each industry in the Supply Chain Insights Metrics That Matter series of reports. Finance needs education.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 3, 2019

As we’ve learned from Kotter’s 8 Step Change Model (hyperlink), utilized as a framework to implement and achieve organizational change, the first 2 steps to create change boil down to one thing: People. Gauge Output, Report and Refine. Having leadership in place will put a face behind the movement? Get Marketing Involved.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 1, 2020

Advanced analytics are required to unlock this value. Purchases are always documented. That in turns leads to more educated and informed decisions with the use of analytics.” Not surprisingly, companies that employ advanced analytics to improve decision making and execution have the results to show for it.”[6].

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 4, 2020

It ensures consistent repeat purchases over time, regardless of price, convenience or even a global pandemic. Corona’s ‘do nothing’ strategy appears to have paid off — Brand Finance Annual Report in August 2020 named Corona as the world’s most popular beer brand. Brand loyalty is a key factor in customer retention.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Each of us creates data whenever we make a telephone call, use the Internet, make a purchase with a credit or debit card, and/or use a merchant’s loyalty program. Seth Rao, CEO of FirstEigen, reports, “Boston Consulting Group identified poor quality of Big Data as that ‘horseshoe nail’ that could lose wars.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2016

For example, Infor purchased GT Nexus in 2015; OpenText purchased GXS in 2014, GHX purchased H-Card, LLC today; E2open purchased Terra Technology in May 2016 and Orchestro on Monday. Thoma Bravo purchased Elemica in June 2016. As a result, the vendors need to educate not just sell to the market.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 29, 2015

Descartes Reports Fiscal 2016 First Quarter Financial Results. March 2015 North American Freight Numbers. per-order fee for goods purchased by noon, provided their order size is at least $35. I would love to see the pricing and financial model Amazon uses to justify these decisions. NAFTA freight totaled $96.1

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 24, 2024

The RTS staff reports, “The United States discards more food than any other country in the world: nearly 60 million tons — 120 billion pounds — every year. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports, “In 2015, the USDA joined with the U.S. billion tons of food every year.”[1] ” What Can Be Done?

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The conference was a great opportunity to interact with logistics and procurement executives in an environment of open dialogue and discussion. There is no question that the oil and gas sector is under a huge amount of pressure to drive cost savings. Many executives are simply naive when it comes to this area.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Omni-channel has put new focus on the store and its role within the customer’s path to purchase. That was a central theme of Nikki Baird, managing partner of RSR Research, when Supply Chain Nation sat down with her to discuss her predictions for retail in 2015 as part of our Expert Insight series. Here are Baird’s thoughts.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As we head into 2016, we are featuring our most read articles of 2015 in our five main categories: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. Yesterday we published the top 10 most read manufacturing articles of 2015. . As always our goal is to educate and inform.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. They saw a steady drop in inventory and reduced working capital by about 50% over the period of 2011-2015. Shell operates as a single-instance of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The reason?

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GlobalTranz

MAY 6, 2015

Top management knows that lean can add value , but many still haven’t moved past the initial education stage into full-scale lean supply chain implementation. There should be metrics involved to monitor these objectives to ensure success across the supply chain. However, cost reduction all depends on your relationship with your 3PL.

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Alloy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

keeping up with fast changing consumer demand, where a social media influencer can turn a product “hot” very quickly, and standing out in a crowded environment, where the salespeople in the store often have a major impact on purchase decisions. These challenges are some of the reasons Youth to the People turned to Alloy.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The S&OP Pulse Check 2015 suggests S&OP practitioners are left behind in confusion: 62% of respondents think there is not enough innovation in S&OP systems. Over the first few months, I quickly learned that it was much more than supplying reports and data. 71% think we need more industry standards around S&OP.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The S&OP Pulse Check 2015 suggests S&OP practitioners are left behind in confusion: 62% of respondents think there is not enough innovation in S&OP systems. The S&OP Pulse Check 2015 suggests S&OP practitioners are left behind in confusion: 62% of respondents think there is not enough innovation in S&OP systems.

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Arena Solutions

AUGUST 4, 2021

ISO 9001:2015 is a standard within the ISO 9000 family of international quality standards that is considered the most widely adopted approach to quality management systems. Ongoing Customer Education and Support. Do you have access to adequate support and educational resources (e.g., ISO 9001 Compliance. BOM Management.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 2, 2018

If you start on the factory floor, you start creating change step by step,” says Sofie Nordström, co-founder of QuizRR , a Swedish training and education venture for ensuring corporate social responsibility (CSR). Launched in 2015, the program has trained some 45,000 workers in more than 200 factories over the past two years.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 5, 2021

The SDGs developed by the UN are a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a “blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all” The SDGs were set up in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and are intended to be achieved by the year 2030 and are included in a UN Resolution called the 2030 Agenda.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Branding your supply chain means using your supply chain as a vehicle for your brand story to inspire loyalty and secure profits in the long term” ( Mee 2015 ). Supply chain transparency lives on a broad spectrum, as you can now deduce as an educated reader. Here-in-lies the first level of supply chain transparency, which?—?in

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 14, 2015

No, there will not be as many jobs, unfortunately, in the manufacturing industry (with just today a report released about how by 2025 we will see more than 800,000 manufacturing jobs disappear even further than the peak in 1979) in the future. TheMfgInstitute (@TheMfgInstitute) December 11, 2015. million Americans in October 2015.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Knowledge is formally defined as facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. Not surprisingly, companies that employ advanced analytics to improve decision making and execution have the results to show for it.”. Capturing knowledge.

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NC State SCRC

MAY 21, 2020

Beginning in 2015 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine led a standing committee to inform Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) decision-making. ” The Act would: Require publicly reported national assessments on a weekly basis to determine national critical equipment supply and requirements.

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The goal is to educate, to entertain, to delight or to inform. Educate your audience: The more people know about coffee, the more they can do with the beans they purchase – and if your brand is the one that taught them cool new techniques, your name is the one they’ll remember when they go shopping.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 7, 2015

If we can provide value there, show our expertise, and get in front of those in manufacturing, we can educate, provide continual improvement, and in all transparency, show potential shipper customers that we understand their needs beyond just freight. What manufacturing content would you like to see in 2015? Read the Full Blog Post.

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