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. As was the case with last year’s conference, this event was both in-person and live streamed online.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2023

We have certainly seen more focus on women in supply chain over the last few years, and nearly every conference that I attend has tracks dedicated to women in supply chain. A central part of Amazon’s ultrafast delivery strategy is its network of warehouses that the company calls same-day sites. The company’s Supply Chain 3.0

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 18, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters blog we provide highlights and insights regarding SAP SE’s 2022 Sapphire ASUG Now customer conference held last week in Orlando, Florida. . Enterprise Cloud software provider SAP SE conducted its 2022 North America Sapphire Now customer conference last week. Executive Keynote.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I just returned from the Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain Conference in Detroit. I look forward to seeing you at next year’s conference! The post 5 Key Insights From the 2022 Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain Conference appeared first on Supply Chain Nation.

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FLEXE

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The panelists discuss supply chain challenges that plague retailers, e-commerce businesses, startups and warehouse operators across the country. Their stories relay key lessons from the field and go into detail about how they implemented on-demand warehousing strategies and what the resulting successes and lessons learned were.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

Pete Bennett, and his co-presenter, Mary Byrne, the vice president of supply and demand planning, spoke during a presentation at Kinaxis’ user conference Kinexions. The medical segment’s supply chain consists of 61 North American distribution centers and 27 global manufacturing plants. He added, “we needed results in the first year.”

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Veridian Solutions

APRIL 9, 2020

The award recognizes Veridian for its unique and transformative integrations of Körber’s suite of supply chain solutions spanning software to material handling automation to overcome complexities in warehousing and logistics. The winners were formally recognized during the annual user conference, Elevate, held March, 2020 in Orlando, Florida.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2023

Target Chief Operating Officer John Mulligan said on an earnings conference call Wednesday that the overstocking that weighed on the company last year was “in the rearview mirror” and that the retailer was turning toward getting fresh merchandise into stores for the fall.

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Meanwhile, 75% of furniture retailer, Ethan Allen’s products are made in North America. Transloading Once inventory arrives from overseas at a port or airport, deciding how to move it to the warehouse(s), store(s), or direct to consumer is the big question for shippers - Rail, trucking, intermodal, domestic air - are all options.

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FLEXE

DECEMBER 2, 2016

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Each year I go to the Consumer Goods and Technology (CGT) conference where speaker-after-speaker talks about retail/supplier collaboration. It is for this reason that I sit on the back row at most conferences watching, listening, and smiling. The ecommerce customer wants convenient delivery to the home. I am a disbeliever.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Here are some examples from the past few months: P&G : P&G is undertaking “a multibillion-dollar effort to remake an antiquated and inefficient network of factories, warehouses and offices into a new model that gets goods to stores more quickly,” reported Sharon Terlep in the Wall Street Journal this past February. “P&G

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 24, 2015

Swisslog acquires warehouse automation provider FORTE Industries in the United States. AWS revenues grew 49 percent in Q1 2015 compared to Q1 2014, while the rest of its North America business grew 22 percent. Amazon Reveals Just How Huge the Cloud Is for Its Business ( Wired ). billion by the end of this year.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 9, 2018

Last week, I attended Innovate 2018 , the company’s first user conference, and as I stood on stage to deliver my keynote presentation in front of 140+ attendees, the answer was clear: Yes. One of the new capabilities highlighted at the conference was Continuous Pool Optimization. New TMS Capabilities.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

After a three-day stoppage of rail operations impacting transcontinental shipments of key commodities and manufactured goods, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference have reached a settlement calling for final and binding arbitration of differences. West Coast ports and in inland warehouses earlier.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 21, 2015

As Joe Dixon, SVP of Supply Chain at Brooks Brothers, commented at the GT Nexus Bridges 2015 conference a few weeks ago: “SAP is our internal ERP system, GT Nexus is our external [supply chain] ERP system.”. Another great opportunity is for GT Nexus to leverage Infor’s Ming.le

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Talking Logistics

JULY 11, 2014

The Accellos 3PL WMS product has tremendous market adoption within multi-client public warehouse 3PLs and is differentiated in the market based on 3PL specific product features and domain expertise in the Accellos’ 3PL business unit. . This has been evident by the growth in WMS product sales by both Accellos and HighJump.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

This trend is a direct result of the fact that centralized DC networks have relatively more transport and less warehousing cost, and thus higher CO2 emissions, while decentralized distribution networks have more warehousing cost but less transport cost and thus a lower CO2 footprint.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Last year, I attended a three-day conference in Las Vegas conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal with product returns, unsold inventories and other capitalist jetsam. Liquidity Services operates eight regional warehouse-size facilities in North America. That rarely happens.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

By looking more broadly than just how can we reduce the transportation or warehousing costs, they will find the big savings, the billion dollar savings. SCN: What were the biggest themes, trends or surprises to come out of your recent Automotive Logistics conference? There’s still uncertainty about how secure growth is.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 11, 2014

It’s hard to imagine that Cargill began as a grain storage warehouse in Iowa, USA, in 1865. Cargill Animal Nutrition (CAN) is clustered around five major regions: North America; Latin America; EMEAR, including Russia; South Asia and East Asia. What is your responsibility regarding the supply chain?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2023

At the same time, the Celtics finished with the second-best record in the Eastern Conference. The failure will affect the movement of people and goods, he said Monday at an annual conference of the American Council of Engineering Companies in Washington. It seemed like a run to the Stanley Cup was inevitable.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

As was confirmed for me yet again this week at a conference, the most utilized supply chain and logistics application, the reigning champ of them all, is the Excel spreadsheet. What is a warehouse? And what is a warehouse management system? Forget cloud, social, and mobile. Forget WMS and TMS. Forget BI and analytics.

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Freightera

JUNE 29, 2017

Transport News INTL has just selected Freightera as “Best Online Freight Marketplace – North America” in their Logistics, Warehouse & Supply Chain Awards 2017! Looking ahead, Freightera is rapidly expanding in North America in 2017.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2023

I attend this conference every year, but this time, strolling the exhibition floor and surveying the 110+ technology providers’ latest wares, I was struck by a dichotomy. Breaking down those silos was the focus of a panel discussion Rob Haddock and I led at the conference. Here’s his real-world template for going about it.

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DynaSys

MARCH 8, 2019

Today, I am responsible for all of the North America marketing programs for an international best of breed supply chain planning solution company. The supply chain industry is more than industrial warehouses and a “man’s job,” I just wasn’t aware of all the opportunities available to me in the industry.

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Supply Chain Network

JUNE 15, 2011

The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) released its 22nd “Annual State of Logistics Report®,” presented by Penske Logistics, today at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The report reveals that business logistics costs rose to 8.3 percent of U.S. percent the previous year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 15, 2023

We also saw a lot of technological advances in transportation, warehousing, supply chain planning, robotics, and last mile delivery, just to name a few. I have learned so much from our sponsors and readers, both through their commentaries and user conferences, and look forward to more of the same in 2024.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For the second straight year between the conference championships and the Super Bowl, Tom Brady has announced his retirement from the NFL. Moller – Maersk is turning to flying drones to manage inventory counts in its warehouse network, the Danish firm said. This time, however, he says it is for good. Maritime containership giant A.P.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters posting, Ferrari Consulting and Research Group Managing Director Bob Ferrari pens highlights of Schneider Electric’s Innovation Summit conference and highlights of a conversation with the company’s Chief Supply Chain Officer. . Schneider Electric is a 180-year-old company with a legacy of innovation.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The organization currently serves 45,000 professional members in 100 countries, with 190 chapters in North America alone. MH&L sat down with Eshkenazi at the recent APICS 2017 conference in San Antonio, TX. . MH&L: What are the most pressing issues that APICS member companies are dealing with right now?

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 8, 2022

At our recent customer conference Blue Yonder ICON , we heard first-hand the chronic and new challenges supply chain, logistics, and commerce executives are facing and their strategies and implementations to realize the next visions. Digitalization of Warehousing Operations. A North America?n

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Elementum

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Why NASCES Gets our Nod Elementum has always made it a point to attend the North America Supply Chain Executive Summit (NASCES). It’s a well-attended event with several hundred supply chain leaders, consultants, and partners all converging at the Westin event center in North Shore Chicago. Not anymore.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Why NASCES Gets our Nod Elementum has always made it a point to attend the North America Supply Chain Executive Summit (NASCES). It’s a well-attended event with several hundred supply chain leaders, consultants, and partners all converging at the Westin event center in North Shore Chicago. Not anymore.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Amazon wins a pair of patents for wireless wristbands that track warehouse workers (GeekWire). Here are some excerpts from the article: Prestige Brands Holdings Inc…said Thursday the higher freight and warehousing costs cut into its operating margin in its most-recent quarter, and it expects the trend to continue in the current quarter.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 2, 2015

There was plenty of learning and networking at the CSCMP Annual Conference this week, which I’ll write about in a future post. SendSuite Tracking Online, which is designed for small and medium businesses, is available in 12 countries across North America, Europe and Asia.” Check out this video for a demo.

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Tailwind

MARCH 3, 2017

I attended another Coaches Site conference recently and heard from some of the leaders in Professional Hockey. He was telling me about a guy he met who invented and created a major liquor brand across North America. Well, it was sort of the way I felt for a few weeks until I realized that they had failed across North America.

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