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Switching TMS Providers: How to Know When the Time Is Right

MercuryGate

Transportation management systems (TMS) are an integral part of the supply chain industry. But just like a laptop or desktop, vendors should update their TMS platforms regularly. However, like cable, phone, or internet providers, TMS providers don’t always keep their systems up to date, which will clash with business processes. But when does a company […].

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Supply Chains in VUCA Environments with Jim Tompkins

The Logistics of Logistics

Supply Chains in VUCA Environments with Jim Tompkins. Jim Tompkins and Joe Lynch talk about Supply Chains in VUCA Environments. Jim is the Founder and Chairman of Tompkins International, a company that helps clients achieve supply chain excellence and profitable growth. About James Tompkins. Dr. James A. Tompkins is the Founder and Chairman of Tompkins International.

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How Shippers Can Unlock True Supply Chain Visibility

Kuebix

Consumers have grown to expect quick shipping and frequent status updates with every order they place. Shippers are scrambling to keep up with these new standards while strengthening their logistics operations. It is especially challenging to make sense of the overwhelming amount of data supply chains are producing as operations ramp up to match demand. […].

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How to Prepare for the Next Supply Chain Disruption

Supply Chain Brain

Recent supply chain disruptions exposed many gaps in the global trading system and geopolitical forecasting, while underscoring dangerous and expensive weaknesses in supply chain management.

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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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Elevating Supplier Experience: How Supplier Experience Adds Value

HICX Solutions

In this webinar on ‘Elevating Supplier Experience ’, Tania Seary, Founder of Procurious, is joined by Costas Xyloyiannis, CEO at HICX and Amy Fong, VP at Everest Group to discuss the benefits of improving the way in which organizations work and engage with their suppliers. . In today’s era when companies are relying more and more on their supplier community due to rapid growth, relationships with their suppliers are becoming more complex, trailblazing and harder to manage.

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We Win When Our Customers Win

Tecsys

I think it’s safe to say that supply chain software companies aren’t in it for… The post We Win When Our Customers Win appeared first on Tecsys.

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Viable Restaurant Strategies for Handling the Third-Party Paradox

IT Supply Chain

By Bruno Guicardi (pictured). Co-founder & President, digital consultancy CI&T. The post Viable Restaurant Strategies for Handling the Third-Party Paradox appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Best Android Apps for Cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Android App Automation Testing Tools! GET our EBOOK HERE. Best Android apps article and permission to publish here provided by Jean Nichols. If you were too obsessed with watching Game of Thrones, you might not know how the planet is inundated with cryptocurrencies. The California Gold Rush makes people run for the web in a way that prospectors walked west.

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4 Steps to Build the Business Case for Transportation Auditing

Intelligent Audit

Building the business case for transportation auditing might be the most important thing a company can do in today’s supply chain. As reported by Inbound Logistics , transportation auditing services possess the “expertise, technology, and processes to investigate a shipper’s bills, compare the rates charged to those for which the shipper contracted, and ferret out mistakes and duplicate bills.

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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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Record volumes at the Port of Wilmington NC

Kanban Logistics

Port volumes across the U.S. are shattering records and the Port of Wilmington NC is no exception. After a COVID-related slowdown in early 2020, volumes at the Port have continued to climb. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at these Port volumes and how they tie into logistics infrastructure enhancements within North Carolina. Port of Wilmington breaks record in March.

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Three Pillars of Customer Experience in the E-Commerce Age

Supply Chain Brain

For retailers of all sizes, delivering a positive customer experience starts with strong backend supply chain operations.

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LPAs hold the key to greater product quality and a faster manufacturing recovery

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

As UK manufacturing continues its recovery from the pandemic’s impact, its factory production growth is simultaneously being slowed by Brexit-hit supply chain disruption. Between Brexit and COVID, movement between borders is slowed. This has culminated in the manufacturing industry recording its slowest output rate for nine months, in February.

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3 Ways to Haul Smarter through Carrier Technology

CH Robinson Transportfolio

As businesses grow, they often evolve. And in a world where carriers are more critical than ever—thanks in part to ecommerce and heavier demand—that evolution means the use of more advanced carrier technology. Carriers and drivers often experience the pain of early mornings and late nights. Long days and demanding routes are part of the job description.

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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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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up 05/07/2021 – 05/13/2021

All Things Supply Chain

Fears of gas price surge after cyberattack shuts U.S. Colonial Pipeline The largest gasoline pipeline in the U.S.

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Targeted Marketing in the New Apple iOS Era

Enterra Insights

Consumers are becoming more skeptical about efforts to track their virtual activities. As a result, governments continue to pass laws and regulations dealing with how organizations can gather, store, and use personal consumer data. In line with these new efforts, Apple recently introduced App Tracking Transparency (ATT) with the launch of iOS 14.5. Estelle Laziuk, an analyst with Flurry Analytics, explains, “Until now, apps have been able to rely on Apple’s Identifier for Advertiser (IDFA)

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7 Big Trends in Warehouse Automation

The Network Effect

The post 7 Big Trends in Warehouse Automation appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on Can Ocean Container Carriers Maintain Asset Discipline

Supply Chain Digest

After Several Years of Restraint, Sudden Surge in New Ship Orders

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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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Why Post and Parcel Facilities Need a Best-of-Breed YMS in Their Yard

C3 Solutions

Before we get into the meat of this blog post, I’d like to start with a true story as told to us by a Senior Manager (we’ll call him, Steve) at a parcel & post company.

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A cybersecurity story for today’s CFO

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Walls and watchwords protected medieval castles against plundering masses. But firewalls and passwords cannot withstand cyber-attacks indefinitely. Ultimately, the safety of your cyber-city depends on the vigilance of its citizens. Slight paranoia also helps. Heard the one about the bitcoin billionaire who cannot remember his crypto wallet’s password?

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How To Connect Supplier Data Silos (And Empower New Tech)

HICX Solutions

How to connect supplier data silos & empower new technology. Data silos make integration difficult, reporting impossible & they do not provide a suitable platform for digitizing procurement. Connecting different data silos remains on the corporate agenda of a number of organizations. Procurement leaders continue to find that transactional systems, such as ERPs and P2Ps, are unable to solve their data management challenges.

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Over 700 Barges Stuck in Mississippi River From Bridge Crack

Supply Chain Brain

A crack in a bridge over the Mississippi River has stranded more than 700 barges, cutting off the biggest route for U.S. agricultural exports when the critical waterway is at its busiest.

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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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QAD Recognized for Best Employee Relations Practices

QAD

This past February, QAD received a Global HR Excellence Award for Organizations with Best Employee Relations Practices by the World HRD Congress in Mumbai, India. We were honored to receive this award and wanted to share some of our best practices and the value this brings to the greater QAD community of customers, employees and partners. Rupali Mahadik, senior HR manager for QAD India, shared that the World HRD Congress was seeking organizations who could exhibit effectiveness in connecting and

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How To Manage Data Quality for Indirect Procurement Spend

Xeeva

The Johari Window was a technique developed by Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham in 1955. The intent was to help an individual better understand their relationship with themselves and with others. As a framework, this technique has been used by psychologists and self-help forums to help people understand themselves, their interpersonal relationships, and group dynamics. […].

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The Best Void Fill Packaging Solutions for eCommerce Fulfillment

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Void fill packaging (also called box filler or dunnage) fills empty space in shipped parcels to keep products from moving around inside the box during transit. Using void fill packaging allows eCommerce fulfillment operations to buy bulk amounts of various-sized boxes, reducing the overall cost of packing and shipping high volumes of goods sold online.

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JAGGAER Named a Challenger in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contract Lifecyle Management

Jaggaer

The post JAGGAER Named a Challenger in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contract Lifecyle Management appeared first on JAGGAER.

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What is Mesh Networking Trends Report

This report details the capabilities of mesh networks, how they work, and the applications they thrive in supporting. Connectivity is necessary for optimal productivity, and mesh networking will soon be a significant provider of connectivity globally.

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Happening Now: Jobs report shows driver shortage not easing

West Coast and California Logistics

While the logistics industry hopes for good news on the driver shortage front, recent labor statistics are not delivering. April numbers are down from March, and March’s numbers were lower than initially thought.

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Don’t Forecast Demand, Model Your Demand

ToolsGroup

Demand modeling is different from demand forecasting. Simply put, it doesn’t forecast demand, it models demand. Forecasting typically starts with a time series of data—usually presented as a bar chart displaying demand by month or by week. It makes a projection of what will occur in future months based on what’s happened in aggregate over the last months or years.

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How to get your business ecommerce ready with the right 3PL provider

Supply Chain Brain

Ecommerce has been steadily rising since it was first introduced—but 2020 was an absolutely transformational year for online shopping. With heightened customer expectations, how will retailers perform?

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