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6 Reasons Why 2021 Is the Year of Supply Chain Integration and Collaboration

MercuryGate

The majority of 2020 was a struggle for many in the shipping and transportation industry. […]. The post 6 Reasons Why 2021 Is the Year of Supply Chain Integration and Collaboration appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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Sudoku and SCM – the Binary Connection – a Path to Smarter Solutions

Arkieva

An earlier Sudoku blog recognizing Puzzle Day, provided an overview of solving Sudoku using MILP optimization and mentions these methods are helpful to find solutions in supply or central planning. This blog elaborates on “binary variables” which is the connecting technology between Sudoku and Supply Chain Management (SCM). Sudoku and SCM – the Binary Connection – a Path to Smarter Solutions was first posted on February 2, 2021 at 2:22 pm. ©2017 " Supply Chain Link Blog - Arkieva "

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Why Your Supply Chain is Brittle

Supply Chain Brain

This 6-page white paper by Nulogy explores the inherent fragility in rigid, one-to-one supply chain relationships, and how multi-party collaboration and standardized data flow leads to increased nimbleness, freedom, and service quality in your external networks.

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Automation is Dead! Long Live Automation!

Accelogix

Seth Patin, CEO of Accelogix, explains why we need a better warehouse automation paradigm that allows companies to automate people and product movements on a flexible software-defined platform rather than a traditional fixed one. By: Seth Patin, Founder & CEO at Accelogix. Warehouse automation as we know it is a walking zombie – an aging paradigm of the initial shift from pallet to case and each based product movements.

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller

As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe

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Five Problems With Today’s Demand Planning — and How to Solve Them

Supply Chain Brain

With the coronavirus pandemic and its lingering effects, companies have now experienced how challenging it can be to plan and maneuver their supply chains around uniquely disruptive, once-in-a-lifetime events. But the unfortunate truth is that less severe events overwhelm or undermine supply planning all the time. Legacy tools are no longer up to the task of getting supply where it is needed most.

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Do or Die: A Guide to Scrapping Obsolete Supply-Chain Practices

Supply Chain Brain

Organizations still using legacy tools will soon struggle to streamline end-to-end supply-chain processes — and the complexity will only increase.

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Groundhog Day and the Prediction of 6 More Weeks of Anything

QAD

The mention of Groundhog Day conjures up two interrelated references in North America. First is the 100+-year-old tradition of predicting the length of winter based on the early morning experiences of a large rodent. The second is a popular 1993 movie of the same name that tells the story of a weather forecaster played by Bill Murray who the universe forces to live the same day over and over until he achieves a greater understanding of his life and the lives of others.

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Routes to Professional Success in Automation

IT Supply Chain

By Dr Paul Rivers (pictured). CEO, Guidance Automation. The post Routes to Professional Success in Automation appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Intermodal 2021 Outlook

NFI

Intermodal 2021 Outlook Featuring Mark McKendry, Regional Vice President of Intermodal at NFI What do you think is in store for the intermodal market in 2021? One thing we’re going to see in 2021, alongside incremental capacity gains, is incremental price increases. When supply and demand dictate that price must go up, it absolutely will,… Continue reading Intermodal 2021 Outlook.

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2024 Annual T&L M&A Report

Tenney Group, an industry specialized M&A Advisory firm in the T&L space, produced the 2024 Annual M&A Report. The report contains an in depth overview of 2023 notable deals and the market, while also providing the outlook for 2024 M&A.

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Top Trucking Influencers to Watch in 2021

Turvo

Regardless of what markets do and what happens overall in the country, trucking and transportation collaboration remain an essential service. The top trucking influencers will remain a valuable source of information. During difficult times, the trucking industry still carries the bulk of loads and products, and during good times, the industry becomes even more critical for everyone.

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The Top 5 Benefits of eTendering

EC Sourcing Group

The Top 5 Benefits of eTendering. The term eTendering can be a confusing concept if the term isn’t fully explained to a buyer who’s just in the process of taking their procurement processes online. Generally speaking, eTendering refers to those processes, as it is an electronic (digital) way for the buyer to advertise their needs, connect with a supplier, and ultimately draw up a contract. .

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Shifting to a Supply Chain Career

Logistics Bureau

From Law to Supply Chain, Ariane Fernanda Mbezele , gives us an inside story of how she got into this career, her insights on digitization and many more. Best Regards, Rob O’Byrne. Email: robyrne@logisticsbureau.com. Phone: +61 417 417 307.

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Logistics Performance Management Hinges on Data & Actionable Insights

Intelligent Audit

Many moving parts must work in unison for logistics processes to fall into place. Having a strong network is critical for logistics performance management. A strong carrier network can ensure the supply chain runs as planned, and consists of the use of analytics platforms to retrieve data and yield actionable insights. This is combined with automated technology systems and other analytical processes.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. 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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Fried-chicken stores in Angola and Zambia hungry for cloud-based inventory planning

StockTrim

South African start-up, Supply Run provide supply chain and operations support for clients across Africa. One of their clients is Hungry Lion – a popular fast-food, fried-chicken franchise. Hungry Lion has restaurants across the African continent, and Supply Run’s Alex de Sousa supports staff at their Zambia and Angola franchises.

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Supply Chain News on Chemical Company Cabot Shares Thoughts on Great Success with Sustainability

Supply Chain Digest

MAPI Does Interesting Interview with Gordon Reynolds, Global Environmental Affairs Director

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3Gtms Discusses Ways to Combat Parcel Carrier Capacity Shortages on Talking Logistics

3GTMS

Our Vice President of Corporate Development,?JP Wiggins, connected with?Adrian Gonzalez?of?Talking Logistics?to discuss the current capacity shortage for parcel shippers like UPS, USPS, and FedEx. They touched on ways shippers can avoid parcel shipping shortages and surcharges. Read more for solutions and a link to JP and Adrian’s entire conversation.

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Supply Chain News on Amazon and UPS see Booming Q4 Results with ecommerce Spike

Supply Chain Digest

Amazon Revenue Soars Past 100 BillionDollars in Q4, while UPS Sees 21 Percent Revenue Growth

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GEP Outlook Report 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders have faced their share of disruption and economic turmoil these past four years. Whether from geopolitical tensions or the havoc caused by the pandemic and its aftershocks, plenty of challenges remain. Despite this, leaders are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel — inflation is decreasing, interest rates are leveling off and supply chain volatility is easing.

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New data shows more signs of softening truckload markets

DAT Solutions

The freight market in the past year has been marked by exceptionally tight capacity caused by imbalanced carrier networks, which pushed an historically high number of shipments over to the spot market. That placed a great deal of pressure on contract rates, but there are signs that the pressure is releasing.

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Supply Chain News on FedEx Unlikely to Follow UPS in Leaving LTL Market

Supply Chain Digest

LTL Business is More Profitable, Strategic to FedEx than it Was to UPS

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Profiles in Leadership: Tim Cook

Enterra Insights

Character and Values Matter. In today’s global environment character and values matter, especially when you lead one of the world’s largest companies. Tim Cook ( @tim_cook ), CEO of Apple, is setting an example of ethical leadership. Such leadership is essential in the Digital Age. As CEO of an emerging Autonomous Decision Sciences company, I, along with my technology team, think daily and deeply about creating Intelligent Agents capable of making decisions ethically — decisions that refle

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Five Shipping Challenges That Put Vaccine Delivery at Risk

Supply Chain Brain

The pandemic has exposed a flaw in the delivery industry that existed long before the hampered vaccine rollout: an inability to scale fleets quickly and affordably during demand surges.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Capgemini

ivalua

The post Capgemini appeared first on Ivalua.

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Rogue Captain’s Mid-Ocean Detour Tips Investors to Crisis at Sea

Supply Chain Brain

In one of the most hidden horrors of the pandemic, cargo ships turned almost overnight from engines of global commerce into floating prisons.

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Do Your eCommerce Order Fulfillment Services Cost Too Much?

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

An eCommerce business lives or dies on the customer experience, making it essential for online sellers to fill orders quickly in a way that keeps customers happy. While this means you shouldn’t cut corners to save costs, you also don’t have to overspend to get top-notch eCommerce order fulfillment services. This blog will discuss some areas to review when seeking to reduce the cost of eCommerce order fulfillment.

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Jeff Bezos's Departure Opens a New Age for Amazon

Supply Chain Brain

Bezos will resign as CEO of Amazon.com later this year and hand day-to-day control to Andy Jassy, his longtime head of Amazon Web Services.

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More Than 40 New Manufacturers Join Configura’s Platform in 2023

More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.

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Omnichannel Retail Strategy to Drive Future Order Profitability

Tecsys

As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues and the pandemic begins to stabilize, we’ll soon be… The post Omnichannel Retail Strategy to Drive Future Order Profitability appeared first on Tecsys.

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Fuel Me Announces Launch of Cloud-Based Fuel Purchasing and Roadside Assistance App

Supply Chain Brain

Fuel Me is a cloud-based technology platform that allows customers in the commercial transportation and construction industries to purchase fuel and receive emergency roadside assistance services on their mobile devices.

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Sustainable Packaging for Small Business Shippers

Freight Center

As a small business shipper, you know the importance of packaging your cargo properly. You go out of your way to make sure your products are packed, palleted, crated or boxed to get from point A to point B without a hitch. With many business owners and customers trying to lessen their carbon footprints, using sustainable packaging is becoming more common, and in some cases, it is becoming more efficient.