Resources

Supply Chain Orchestration: A New Era in Supply Chain Management

When the only certainty is uncertainty, what does that mean for today’s supply chain management approaches? This eBook delves into how supply chain orchestration can help businesses unlock agility, transparency, intelligence, and trust across their end-to-end supply chain.

Mastering Order Management: Backorders & Out-of-Stock Inventory

The unfortunate truth is that you will always have low stock and backorder issues with your supply chain. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be prepared to handle them. This brief video explores some of the primary drivers of inventory issues – and how modern technology and best practices can mitigate these issues and ensure a superb customer experience.

How to Conduct Workplace Incident Investigations to Create Safer Workplaces

This white paper provides a comprehensive overview of global workplace incident trends, focusing on the top three biases leading to such incidents. It also highlights the significance of CSA Z1005 as a risk management standard and outlines the ROI of thorough incident investigations, covering emergency response to post-incident interviews. Additionally, it introduces an Investigation Evidence Gathering Matrix.

Sifted's Peak Season Shipping Checklist

Sifted

Are you ready for your best peak season performance yet? Every year brings new challenges for parcel shippers, and over the last few years, the chaos has been unreal. But don’t let the pressure get to you; you can pull multiple levers today to create a secured, revenue-bursting season. Grab your free Peak Season Checklist and learn how to: Identify quick wins in your operations Put your performance first and exceed customer expectations Modernize your distribution network Become a subject matter

Exploring the Advantages and Hurdles of Direct Store Deliveries

FourKites

Direct Store Delivery, or DSD, is a common practice among global suppliers and retailers – like PepsiCo, Frito Lay, CVS, and Dollar General – and its popularity is growing, with the global DSD market expected to reach $1.19 trillion by 2027. Download this eBook for exclusive insights into direct store deliveries, challenges, benefits, and future trends.

Your Supply Chain Challenges, Solved!: 5 Guides

FourKites

Download these 5 comprehensive guides designed to solve the toughest challenges facing supply chains today. After helping 1,200+ of the world’s most recognized brands to enhance and optimize their supply chains, FourKites has crafted step-by-step guides to help you solve your business’s most pressing challenges. The guides include: reducing transportation costs, improving customer satisfaction, optimizing inventory management, increasing workforce efficiency, and achieving sustainability and ESG

5 Steps to 100% Inventory & Asset Accuracy: A Warehouse Manager’s Guide to RFID

We’re excited to share a guide created in collaboration with our partners at Zebra and T&W Operations, experts in RFID Smart Solutions. The guide is “5 Steps to 100% Inventory & Asset Accuracy.” It highlights the use cases, benefits, and challenges of implementing RFID into your warehouse and supply chain operations and finding the right partner to get you there.

ESG Reporting: It Is Inevitable, But It Doesn’t Mean That It Must Be Complicated

In these challenging times, climate change must inevitably be a top-of-mind priority. We need to act now by making the right decisions. 2022 was the year of corporate commitments to sustainability, and 2023 is the year where promises become proposals, mission statements become metrics, and aims become actions. New regulations have been set regarding the corporates, and they must comply.

Driving Effective Collaboration With Your Supply Chain Partners

Supply chain ecosystems today are still operating without the capabilities to effectively orchestrate and collaborate with their external trading partners – and in doing so, are exposing their fragility and inefficiency. In order to build an agile and responsive supply chain network that can withstand the conditions of today’s marketplace, supply chains need digitally enabled, intelligence-driven solutions for effective multi-enterprise collaboration.

Start Considering Risk in Your Supply Chain Design with these 4 Steps

If you’re not considering risk in supply chain design, you’re gambling with your company’s future. According to PwC, more than 60% of companies said that their performance indicators had dropped by 3% or more because of supply chain disruptions. Yet 60% of companies pay only marginal attention to risk reduction processes. By incorporating risk analysis into the supply chain design process, you can start making smarter supply chain decisions that address both financial and resiliency business obj

Next-Gen AI-Based Demand Planning: Turn Your Insights Into Accuracy in 1 Day

Artificial intelligence designed for demand planning brings the following benefits: Immediate forecast error reduction of 15-40%: this drives optimal service & stock levels. No onboarding time since the models are self-tuning: say goodbye to long & costly implementation times. The planner gets insight into the drivers of demand: what is the impact of seasonality, price changes, or promotions?

Learn How to Transform Procurement with Team Procure Cloud

Learn how Team Procure is helping companies streamline their procurement by implementing a cloud-based procurement platform across their organization. Team Procure Cloud offers a comprehensive solution to procurement management, streamlining the entire process from purchase requests and approvals to supplier management and inventory control. One of the key features of the platform is the custom approval workflows, which are tailored to each department within an organization.

2023 Procurement Planning: How Shippers Can Navigate Disruption With More Agile Strategies

In 2023, shippers have an opportunity to reimagine their supply chain operations so they’re well equipped to navigate any future disruption. Establishing a resilient supply chain network design will require an agile procurement strategy—one that’s cost effective and unrestricted, and allows shippers to toggle their resources to address freight market issues impacting their network.

Fulfillment Options and Solutions for Amazon Seller Fulfilled Prime (SFP) Program

This on-demand webinar by industry experts details how Amazon’s strict requirements for its SFP program are changing the face of eCommerce for third-party sellers, and why DTC Sellers must quickly adapt to the new norm of nationwide 1-day and 2-day delivery.

Downloadable Training Guide: Quoting With CargoWise Modules

With this training tool for freight forwarders, learn how to use CargoWise Quotations and One Off Quotes to create rate cards and spot quotes in order to improve the efficiency and accuracy of your internal processes.

The Essential Guide to Modern Supply Chain Analytics

Supply chains have been modernizing for years. But today, the pressure to digitize is greater than ever. Global competition, extreme weather, increasing customer expectations, and mounting regulatory action – together with disruptions from the pandemic – have made it critical to gain visibility and in-the-moment agility at every point in the chain. Succeeding in this environment requires a modern approach to data – one that continuously funnels real-time information from suppliers, partners, war

5 Powerful Prescriptive Analytics Examples in Supply Chain

Prescriptive analytics is a type of advanced analytics that optimizes decision-making by providing a recommended action. Supply chain, with its complex planning questions, is typically an area where optimization technology is required. Read about 5 use cases. Supply Chain Network Design. Sales and operations planning (S&OP). Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE).

2022 Peak Season Shipping Checklist

Guarantee success with this free Peak Season Checklist—a guide for parcel shippers to navigate the chaos of Q4. This checklist will help you efficiently manage your supply chain to prepare for holiday spikes in volume and demand.