Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Based on the current trends, North America could rival OPEC in oil and production. Implementing proven procurement processes for oilfield trucking. Employing software-as-a-service TMS technology to achieve district level visibility. There has been a significant resurgence of the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The surging Delta virus, devastating floods in China and Germany and cyber attacks on South African ports are amongst the latest in a series of events that continue to send shock waves throughout the system. The impact? And for our global supply chains, that transformation cannot happen fast enough.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

What Will Impact Procurement Processes in 2021? The research encompasses organizations across industries and sectors, with focus on North America and EMEA. However, because of the trend toward digital transformation, organizations have had to invest substantially in new technologies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. Current technologies and processes focus on volume trade-offs. The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. Source E2open Shipping Index).

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

More specifically, it took 83 days for container transport from Europe to Asia, and 88 days from North America to Asia. SUPPLY CHAIN DIVERSIFICATION ENABLED BY TECHNOLOGY WILL BUILD RESILIENCE. AI requires a powerful network to retrieve data from internal systems and ecosystem partners. Internal data alone won’t cut it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. Current technologies and processes focus on volume trade-offs. The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. Source E2open Shipping Index).

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 7, 2021

He works alongside clients ranging from some of the largest food and beverage businesses in the world to the brightest up-and-coming CPG brands in North America. Starting his career in carrier procurement and management within a Fortune 100 logistics company, Lynch has held positions of responsibility in all areas of?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2023

Core to their success was scenario planning on multiple fronts, together with smart investments in technology. While many companies assemble great sourcing and procurement teams when it comes time to renegotiate freight contracts, they often fail to provide good documentation that allows them to negotiate from a position of strength.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With evolving business models, changes in customer expectations, to technology advancements, the transportation and logistics sectors remain in the spotlight. Steve works closely with leading manufacturers, retailers, logistics service providers, and technology firms. These and more are all questions Martijn’s news platform covers.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 9, 2022

In fact, today you can procure freight rates from your transportation providers right in your TMS. There are many reasons to supplement your spot freight procurement with automated processes sooner rather than later. Access real-time rates earlier in your procurement process—making it easier to cover loads and secure quality service.

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ShipBob

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Supply chain convergence refers to the process of integrating all aspects of a supply chain into a unified system. It’s a form of supply chain digitization that ensures every element, from sourcing raw material inventory to product delivery, is coordinated and managed through a centralized platform.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Focus on warehouse automation has come full circle since the last big automation movement of the ‘90s, but today with a significantly better set of tools and technological improvements enabling more robust digital transformation and warehouse automation. At the forefront were: politics , the economy and technological advances.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 18, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides highlights and perspectives regarding SAP SE’s 2023 annual Sapphire and North America ASUG customer conference held this week both as an in-person and live streamed event. Partner has broad implications relative to collaboration, transparency and skin in the game.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

In our initial 2024 posting last week, we highlighted two acquisitions related to supply chain technology providers. We are further including key highlights of equity investments in rather promising new industry focused direct materials technologies. Magazine as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 14, 2019

Michael Watson, an instructor at Northwestern University and a founding partner at Opex Analytics, explains, “‘AI’ is a tech buzzword that seems to take on a new meaning each time you hear it. All these recommendations are being made by AI systems. Technology is changing more rapidly than any time in history.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Our Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Technology column reflects a number of significant recent announcements that depict an ongoing active cycle of tech developments. Updates included in this edition include: Coupa Software Entering Definitive Agreement to be Acquired. Trimble to Acquire Transporeon.

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ivalua

MARCH 14, 2019

Ivalua builds momentum as technology platform of choice for public sector procurement. Nitor Partners, LLC, a strategic partner to Ivalua, will drive contract delivery by leveraging Ivalua’s technology platform.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 18, 2022

Enterprise Cloud software provider SAP SE conducted its 2022 North America Sapphire Now customer conference last week. This year’s event took note of the company’s 50 th anniversary as an enterprise technology provider which is a milestone itself.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Against this backdrop, our 2020 predictions represent insights from across the ToolsGroup community for technology and practices that support greater supply chain resilience. The growing momentum around systems-based thinking in supply chain planning has given rise to the “digital twin”–the ultimate ‘what-if’ scenario planner.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

For shippers and retailers to understand the true peak season meaning, they will need a firm grasp on the realities of inflation, expectations, and the use of technology to get through it. Now, it’s also important to realize that produce grown in North America may not be subject to lockdowns in Shanghai, but there’s another factor at play.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2023

Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem) needed a technology that facilitated fast solutions to pressing problems. They chose an analytics platform from Seeq. The software was designed with operations and engineering workers in mind. This is a testament to the effective use of technology and cross site collaboration.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

They’ve re-tooled, re-innovated and revamped how the world sees the supply chain and logistics industry. Supply & Demand ChainExecutive is the only supply chain publication covering the entire global supply chain, focusing on trucking, warehousing, packaging, procurement, risk management, professional development and more.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 30, 2022

The MIT perspective is that of a new generation of analytical tools in areas of optimization, simulation and data science provide an opportunity to deploy, manage or modify a more data-driven supply chain process. . As an example, today the company has over 1,000 planners performing supply chain analytics on a daily basis.

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Bristlecone

MAY 31, 2020

Bristlecone has introduced several new fixed-price, fixed-scope offerings for SAP products across supply chain planning, procurement and execution. North America. S/4HANA system support for North American electronics company. IBP S&OP deployment replacing tech company’s homegrown system. Learn More.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

Complications throughout the system have affected transshipment operations with increased rollovers because of blank sailings heavily impacting global transshipment ports in 2022 when compared to 2021. With AI in forecasting, not only is the number of full containers clearer, but an estimation of available empty containers is also procured.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

In today’s highly competitive marketplace, understanding how your company’s procurement strategy and results compare with industry peers is critical. To learn more on this topic, watch “ Best Practices for Freight Rate Procurement in Today’s Market.”. We believe there is no such thing as a bad outcome from a benchmark event.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Judah Levine November 15, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 6% to $1,711/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) climbed 3% to $2,421/FEU.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2023

He works alongside clients ranging from some of the largest food and beverage businesses in the world to the brightest up-and-coming CPG brands in North America. Can you help articulate what the weaknesses are in our current supply chain systems? You can find synergies by leveraging data analytics and geographic pricing trends.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2018

Visibility Enables Faster Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash processes : for example, you can leverage Electronic Proof of Delivery (ePOD) and geofencing to initiate invoicing and payment process. . million in-cab devices connected to its network, and 80 of the Top 100 brokers in North America were using its solution.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

For example, US-based companies may be quite fortunate if they have access to manufacturers right on their doorstep in Mexico, a country with far lower labour costs than the rest of North America. Access Industry-Leading Technology Outsourcing can help your company to exploit technology to improve supply chain efficiency.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JULY 18, 2013

Companies are often forced to collaborate with partners both vertically and horizontally in their extended supply chain network, and these partners expect them to integrate their processes and systems. Executives concur that strategic frameworks and tools are needed for engaging the entire network in the management of risk and disruptions.

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Unleashed

AUGUST 28, 2022

The manufacturing industry is a thriving area that keeps finding applications for upcoming technologies in its various processes. Manual methods that relied solely on a keen eye are now the core of some leading manufacturing software. Specific aspects of managing inventory include procurement, storage, and utilisation tracking.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 25, 2018

I had a great opportunity to meet with CEO Pete Suerken from Resin Technologies Inc. (RTi), RTi bring together an analytical network that spans the globe and 20 billion pounds of transactional benchmarks, which gives them the ability to bring knowledge and transparency to clients and a clear vision regarding the resin markets.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2014

He is responsible for manufacturing, procurement, supply chain planning, logistics, quality, social responsibility and final product engineering. Prior to joining Starbucks, he worked at the executive leadership level in Europe, Latin America and North America at ICI, a global chemical company. Companies are different.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 27, 2015

With my son’s travel baseball team scheduled to begin its season next weekend, the coaches are employing some field maintenance tools you don’t normally see at a baseball field: For all of you who play baseball in California, Texas, and Florida, you have it so easy my friends. Infor Delivers Dynamic Cloud Solution for Supply Chain Execution.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 12, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog features our May 12, 2023 edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a synopsis capsule of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news. In this edition, we include six added news capsule events that has occurred across the supply chain technology spectrum: Livent Corp.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 8, 2022

At ICON, Rogelio Antillon, Associate Manager of Global Procurement – Transportation, detailed its massive transportation network, which includes over 60 lane owners, 9,000 lanes and 1.2 Rogelio discussed how in response, PepsiCo is using an advanced TMS and digitalization to support a more nimble procurement strategy [ watch the video here ].

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