Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2015

Volatility in pricing trends are opportunities to lock in contractual rates, though shippers and logistics providers must also maintain flexibility to leverage spot buys as needed. Hire smart data analysts. Disaggregate freight spend data. Money power and strong-arm negotiation tactics only go so far. He currently serves as Sr.

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ShipBob

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Think about your most recent purchase. This sequence of events involves many moving parts, including purchasing, packaging, shipping, and transporting materials to distributors to sell to the end customer. Logistics startups are often born out of opportunities to solve problems and inefficiencies. Venture Funding: $25M U.S.

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Bristlecone

OCTOBER 23, 2019

This year’s Customer Excellence Award for Best Supply Chain Transformation goes to Ferrara Candy – for making incredible strides in its digital transformation journey amidst a string of M&A activity that continues to add extreme complexity to Ferrara’s global supply chain. It’s very easy to acquire data,” he said.

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ShipBob

MARCH 30, 2020

Now more than ever — at a time when people are choosing online over in-store to adhere to social distancing practices — the communicated speed at which consumers will receive their orders can play a deciding role in whether they choose to buy from your online store or a competitor’s. What is needed to excel at ecommerce logistics?

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BlueYonder

JUNE 12, 2019

I grew up outside of Chicago and I’m the only girl out of six siblings. That role is where I learned more about using data to understand how consumers think or feel about the product/service they are buying. Where did you grow up and where do you live now? I grew up surrounded by little brothers that I used to boss around.

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ShipBob

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Match invoices to shipping log You’ll want to double check your purchase orders or invoices against your shipping log to make sure there aren’t any discrepancies. Using technology that keeps inventory counts synced in real-time rather than using something static like Excel helps with the following. 3PLs like ShipBob help with this. “We

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Requis

JUNE 25, 2020

She is VP of Membership for the CSCMP Chicago Roundtable and was the 2019 CSCMP Edge conference chair. After having met thousands of professionals at conferences over the years, I’ve realized that the best ones have these things in common: Firstly, we are data-focused, logical people who are very processed oriented.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 12, 2019

I grew up outside of Chicago and I’m the only girl out of six siblings. That role is where I learned more about using data to understand how consumers think or feel about the product/service they are buying. Where did you grow up and where do you live now? I grew up surrounded by little brothers that I used to boss around.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 11, 2016

In business why wouldn’t you measure your performance against your peers and against relevant industry sector data? At Wenzel we watch the PMI ( Purchasing Managers Index ) and the USMTO (United States Manufacturing Technology Orders) numbers and compare them with our own performance. So not good news on the whole.

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EazyStock

APRIL 23, 2019

I have worked at EazyStock for 5 years from our offices in Malmö, Chicago and now Stockholm. EazyStock is a system that calculates forecasts and purchasing parameters and automatically classifies and categorizes all items based on their current behavior. Congratulations, Julia! Thank you!

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EazyStock

APRIL 23, 2019

I have worked at EazyStock for 5 years from our offices in Malmö, Chicago and now Stockholm. EazyStock is a system that calculates forecasts and purchasing parameters and automatically classifies and categorizes all items based on their current behavior. Congratulations, Julia! Thank you!

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 15, 2022

As we walked, I reflected and kept asking Scott, “How can we optimize outcomes if companies are not clear on what defines excellence?” Sean strongly believed that the sales group knew what the customers wanted and that tight supply chain integration to sales information would drive excellent results. At the first meeting. I listened.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 15, 2022

As we walked, I reflected and kept asking Scott, “How can we optimize outcomes if companies are not clear on what defines excellence?” Sean strongly believed that the sales group knew what the customers wanted and that tight supply chain integration to sales information would drive excellent results. At the first meeting. I listened.

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ShipBob

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Demand forecasting is the process of using predictive analysis of historical data to estimate and predict customers’ future demand for a product or service. Proper demand forecasting and inventory control can help ensure a business doesn’t buy insufficient or excessive inventory. How ShipBob makes demand forecasting easier. Conclusion.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

This week, I spoke at the Chicago CSCMP round table event. I was an avid student of supply chain excellence; and in this role, I watched as best-of-breed solution after best-of-breed solution replaced with more complicated technology. In my analysis of the supply chain planning benchmarking data, I can see it. I was a skeptic.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

My schedule had me on a plane to Chicago at the time of the presentation. Decrease data latency and friction between organizational silos. Design the supply chain outside in with the processes minimizing data latency and maximizing cross-functional process understanding to minimize the impact of organizational silos.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Cloud & Big Data. « Demand Planning in CPG industry - Practising the Best Practices | Main | Retailer Multi-Channel Operations Capabilities Get an Early Test in the 2011 Holiday Buying Season » Factors Influencing Delivery Address Amendment. Supply Excellence. Business Process Outsourcing. Customer Service.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

We dug deeper – and found that procurement executives wanted data to help compare how much they were spending to market information, in order to understand their supply markets. Think about it for a moment: Major companies spend a lot of money buying cans, logistics, marketing services, whatever, spending billion of dollars.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Located in Chicago, the facility opened in 2015 , making it the first LEED Platinum certified manufacturing plant in the industry. The facility was designed with scalability in mind, making use of software, automatic data collection, and other solutions to streamline operations. manufacturing facility in 2014.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 30, 2019

At the end of the day, customers buy based on value not on the cool factor of the technology. The consumption logic—data movement from silo-to-silo– is downward, not bi-directional, from tactical to executional planning. Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , September 3rd-6th, 2019, to be held at UI Labs, Chicago, IL.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 18, 2022

Every single business should be able to democratize an excellent delivery experience and provide it to their customers. I’m dialing in from our quarters in Chicago. We originally started in India, and we set up our global headquarters in the US, in Chicago. I moved to the US in December 2021 right in Chicago.

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