Tue.Dec 13, 2016

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Heard It through the Grapevine? Now Your Demand Forecasting Can Too

ToolsGroup

Editor's Note: This is the third in a three part series on advanced demand analytics to improve demand forecasting. Part One of the series, on New Product Introduction (NPI), can be found here. Part Two of the series, on Using Weather and Climate Data to Improve Forecasting , can be found here. When you hear the phrase “I heard it through the grapevine” you may think of the 1960s hit song.

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Your Supply Chain Strategy is Your Business Plan (Unless It’s Not)

Talking Logistics

More than 14 years ago, when I was still a relatively new supply chain analyst, I attended the CSCMP Annual Conference, and I still remember these words delivered by Michael Eskew, former Chairman and CEO of UPS, in his keynote presentation: “We’re seeing a dynamic shift in the relationship between business plans and logistics, a shift from the perception of our industry as a back-end process to a front-end strategy that informs and supports the entire business plan.

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Distribution Center Optimization

NFI Industries

The distribution center (DC) is a key component of the supply chain, providing organization and storage as a product moves from manufacturer to consumers. E-commerce fulfillment is a growing part of the supply chain and one of the major influences on distribution centers. With an increased demand from consumers, optimizing DCs is more important than.

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UltraShipTMS Makes 2016 Food Logistics’ FL100

Supply Chain Collaborator

Leading B2B Publication Releases Annual List of Notable Software & Technology Providers. December 15, 2016 – Fair Lawn, NJ – Extending the series of wins in 2016 both in terms of new business and industry recognition, UltraShipTMS is once again to be included in Food Logistics magazine’s list of top software and technology companies. For the 12 th consecutive year, Food Logistics surveyed software and technology companies that specialize in the unique challenges of the food and beverage sup

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

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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Cognitive Apps for Supply Chain Management [New Products]

Material Handling & Logistics

FusionOps has introduced a suite of next-generation cognitive applications that apply machine learning techniques and AI to identify and capitalize on opportunities that optimize business performance. read more.

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Retailers Keep the Ports Humming during the Holidays

Material Handling & Logistics

Imports at major U.S. ports are up over 2015 as retailers are making sure their shelves are well stocked for the holidays. read more.

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More Insights on Deploying the Digital Supply Chain

NC State SCRC

On the second day of our executive focus group on the LIVING Supply Chain, the group took the opportunity to share insights regarding the emerging trends in the future of supply chains, with a focus on digitization, development of analytics and a focus on emerging technologies. The executives spent a good amount of time emphasizing the importance of “getting the question right” when it came to building analytical insights.

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Samsung Fixing Abuses Found in Its Supply Chain

Material Handling & Logistics

“We identified one of our labor supply companies to be in violation of the hiring process of migrant workers, and as consequence, we terminated our contract with this company. The remaining labor supply companies are under investigation.”. read more.

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December Retail Vendor Performance Management Bulletin Newsletter Now Available

Supply Chain Digest

Inlfection Point in Retail Supply Chains Part 3, RSR Research on Retail Supply Chiain Execution, More

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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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Big Data and Ethics

Enterra Insights

“When Facebook researchers manipulated how stories appear in News Feeds for a mood contagion study in 2014,” writes Sarah Zhang, … Continued. The post Big Data and Ethics appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Retail Vendor Performance Management News Round Up for December, 2016

Supply Chain Digest

Excellent On Demand Videocast on Successful Vendor Compliance, RSR Benchmark Report on Supply Chain Execution

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5 Business Tips from a 20-Year Brokerage

DAT Solutions

Brian Sutton, CEO. George Copeland, CFO. Brian Sutton and George Copeland co-founded Austin Freight Systems (AFS) 20 years ago, after the freight brokerage they were working for lost its biggest customer. At that time, both men already had 19 years of transportation experience under their respective belts. Today the company has 14 employees, including Sutton, the CEO, and Copeland, the CFO.

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Balance and Segmentation – What the Election Can Teach Supply Chain

Kinaxis

by CJ Wehlage If you haven’t already, please read Bill Dubois’s blog, “ Latest Polls Show We’ve Lost Faith in Polls ”. Bill speaks to three factors, unpredictability, high randomness and variability. In my opinion, these are factors that led to the pollsters being so far off on the 2016 US election, and how supply chain practitioners can help these pollsters to improve.

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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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Industry Trends to Expect Next Year

ModusLink Corporation

As the year winds down, some will be sad to see 2016 go – while others will be happily showing it the door and changing the locks after it’s gone. Regardless of whether it was a good or a bad year for you, the hope and promise of the new year will soon be upon […]. The post Industry Trends to Expect Next Year appeared first on ModusLink Global Solutions.

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Distinctions Between Discrete and Process Manufacturing

synchrono

Process manufacturing is different, distinct, and distinguishable from discrete manufacturing. Process manufacturing uses formulations versus discrete manufacturers use Bills of Materials (BOMs) and assembles along a routing. Process manufacturers blend a batch – often a literal recipe found in food and beverage manufacturing. Discrete manufacturers are typically ETO (engineer-to-order), which includes make-to-stock (MTS), make-to-order (MTO), and assemble-to-order (ATO) production facilit

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #7

Supply Chain Trend

Introduction. In the last 30 years S&OP improved performance in many businesses. However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. Whatever maturity model or consultancy support companies use, S&OP seems to get stuck. Worse, overall S&OP development and progress seems to have stalled.

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More than playing trucks

Tailwind

“V-a-r-o-o—o-o-m. Sc-r—e-e-e-e-e-ech……… BOOM!”. “Mr. Pratt, Mr. Pratt… what are you doing?”. “Oh hi, Prab… I was just playing with some trucks in my office. This guy driving the green rig wasn’t paying attention and ran the red light… and kaboom… he hit the guy in the gray Freightliner. Quite a pile-up don’t you say.”.

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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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RFID, AIDC, and IoT News on It Starts, as Measures in US, Japan Going to Track People with Automatic Identification

Supply Chain Digest

Stuff of Science Fiction May be Closer than We Think

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Divide and Conquer

BlueYonder

The Pizza Problem. I love pizza and frequently order from a shop that guarantees to deliver a pizza to my doorstep within 30 minutes from placing the order. I’ve always wondered what it takes for them to receive an order, prepare a pizza, get it packed with sides, travel to the destination locality, search for the correct house and then ring the bell – all within 30 minutes – every single time.

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Afternoon Coffee: AWS Educate Expands Global Reach, Trump Picks ExxonMobil CEO for Secretary of State

Aera Technology

AWS Educate announced Monday it is expanding the number of countries in which its Cloud Career Pathways are available. The new reach totals 36 countries, an addition of 31 new regions from the originals in the United States, India, Singapore, South Korea, Japan and China. To learn more about AWS Educate and its significance to the evolving talent supply chain, check out Andrew Karpie’s recent coverage.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Surviving Business Start Up Stress & How to Deal With It

GlobalTranz

Many fresh graduates work hard to get that one good business idea and then work on it instead of opting for a traditional career. While the eventual success looks great, to get there, you have to wade through a very turbulent sea of difficulties and what we call “start-up” stress. Such is the stress associated with a start-up that we have given it, its domain.

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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.