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Companies Cannot Transform Through AI Alone

Logistics Viewpoints

UPS dominated business and trade headlines for a day in late January when the world’s largest package delivery company announced plans to cut 12,000 full- and part-time management jobs as part of a new initiative called “Fit to Serve.” I was speaking with the Chief Supply Chain Officer at one of the world’s largest CPG companies.

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How Satisfied Are Companies With Their TMS?

Talking Logistics

Read more The post How Satisfied Are Companies With Their TMS? Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of “Satisfaction with TMS Software,” a research report that highlights results from a survey conducted with members of Indago’s supply chain research community and JBF Consulting’s customer community. The global transportation management.

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How Supply Chain & Logistics Companies are Mitigating Labor Shortages

Logistics Viewpoints

The study also provided insight into what companies are doing to address it. The research report What Are Companies Doing to Survive the Supply Chain and Logistics Workforce Challenge? In addition, the report shows what companies are doing to attract and retain employees to mitigate workforce challenges today and in the future.

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Is Every Company a Delivery Company?

Talking Logistics

I’ve commented several times about Meg Whitman’s statement a few years ago that “every company is a technology company.” Read more Is Every Company a Delivery Company? The post Is Every Company a Delivery Company? The post Is Every Company a Delivery Company? Robinson’s announcement of a.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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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CPG Companies Support Regenerative Agriculture

Enterra Insights

Skeptics might believe the regenerative agriculture movement is some kind of fringe movement to be ignored by mainstream companies. A consortium of 12 food companies, including Mars, PepsiCo and McDonald’s, announced a plan to scale up the amount of regenerative farmland. ”[3]. Support from CPG Manufacturers.

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What Kills Warehousing Companies with Summitt Hogue

The Logistics of Logistics

Summitt Hogue and Joe Lynch discuss what kills warehousing companies. Summitt is the founder of Growe , a Dallas-based commercial real estate firm focused exclusively on serving the various needs of third-party logistics companies across the United States.

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

But many companies fail to achieve this goal because they struggle to provide the reporting and analytics users have come to expect. It will show you what embedded analytics are and how they can help your company. Every application provider has the same goals: to help their users work more efficiently, and to drive user adoption.

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The Definitive Guide to Embedded Analytics

But many companies fail to achieve this goal because they struggle to provide the reporting and analytics users have come to expect. It will show you what embedded analytics are and how they can help your company. Every application provider has the same goals: to help their users work more efficiently, and to drive user adoption.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

That's what drove the five companies in this eBook to change their approach to analytics. Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today's data-driven applications. And they won’t cut it for your end users, your development team, or your business.

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How a Fortune 500 Company Transformed its Supply Chain Using a Digital Twin-Enabled Control Tower

Supply chain plays a crucial role for this Fortune 500 automotive manufacturer. With the onset of COVID-19 in 2020, along with demand and supply fluctuations in the subsequent years, many manufacturers, including this one, saw significant stress on their global supply chains.

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Blueprint to Modernize Analytics

As the value of modern in-app analytics becomes clearer, more companies are making analytics a priority before it becomes a problem. The longer you wait to modernize your application’s analytics, the harder you’ll eventually feel the pain of lost customers and missed revenue. If it sounds like a daunting task, that's because it is.

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CIO: Here's Why Analytics is Eating the Supply Chain

Life science companies are adopting innovative cloud technology to provide a single source of truth for end-to-end supply chain decision-making.

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Hadoop and the Modern Data Supply Chain

With the advent of Big Data, companies now have access to more business-relevant information than ever before and are using Hadoop to store and analyze it.

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How a Global CPG Leader Optimized $500M of Direct Materials Spend and Exceeded Savings Goal

A Fortune 500 CPG company partnered with GEP to improve end-to-end category management, optimize direct spend categories, and increase strategic focus on tail spend. This is essential reading for all procurement and supply chain leaders.