Mon.Aug 09, 2021

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The Biden Administration versus Amazon

Logistics Viewpoints

Biden Hands Lina Khan the Signature Pen after Signing an Executive Order to Boost Corporate Competion. President Biden has assembled the most aggressive antitrust team in decades. Amazon appears to be one of the large platform companies in their gun sights. If Amazon were to the lose a lawsuit, and face a breakup, one of the most storied supply chains in the world would look very different.

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Maersk Acquires E-Commerce Logistics Companies in U.S. and Europe

Supply Chain Brain

A.P. Moller – Maersk has announced the acquisition of Visible Supply Chain Management, a business-to-consumer (B2C) logistics company focused on B2C parcel delivery and B2C fulfillment services in the U.S., and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Use Video Media to Build Your Customer Base!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Tips to Improve Your Marketing Campaign! Video media article and permission to publish here provided by Carol Trehearn. All businesses must stand out and make a long-lasting impression on their target audience. If you don’t, you fail to make an entrance, and you close the door behind you.

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Signposts and Roadblocks on the Path to Green Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

It’s tough finding a global supply chain today that isn’t nominally committed to achieving a green future. But coming up with a road map for reaching that destination takes more than inspiring words in an annual statement.

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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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Password security is more important than ever

IT Supply Chain

By Adam Philpott (pictured). EMEA President, McAfee Enterprise. The post Password security is more important than ever appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Strategies for Meeting Increasing Customer Demand (white paper)

USC Consulting Group

If you have noticed — or, in many cases, been run over by — dramatically increasing customer demand for your products, you’re not alone. Now that restrictions have been lifted in many parts of the country, and the world, consumers are spending money again. And spending. And spending. All of that increased customer demand translates to the need for ramped-up production across a wide swath of industries, from manufacturing to mining to agriculture to pulp and paper — and the list goes on.

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How Sustainable Supply Chain Management Improves Ecommerce Stores

ShipBob

A typical ecommerce supply chain starts with sourcing raw materials to produce finished goods , which are then transported to a warehouse or fulfillment center before they end up with their end consumer. Once orders are placed, items are packaged using dunnage and other materials to keep items safe during transit. Packages are then shipped to their destination via ground, air, or sea.

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Why Is the SCM Discipline So Silent About the Climate Crisis?

SCM Research

The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released today. Bringing together the latest advances in climate science, it addresses the most updated physical understanding of the climate system. Even without this new IPCC report, it should be clear that our planet is in an existential crisis: The scale and intensity of the recent floods in Germany have broken all records and the ongoing fires in Greece have reached biblical proportions; Greek Prime Mini

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Supply Chain News on Distribution Labor Costs Continue to Rise

Supply Chain Digest

Walmart Offering Weekly Bonuses of as Much as 250 Dollars

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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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Change to Crypto Provision in Infrastructure Bill Blocked

Supply Chain Brain

The amendment’s failure represents a blow to the crypto industry, which had pushed hard in recent weeks for more narrowly targeted oversight.

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Supply Chain New on Are Electric Highways the Best Answer to Electrify Freight Truck

Supply Chain Digest

Many Benefits, but How would Massive Costs get Paid for

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Watch: The Increasing Pressure to Ensure Ethical Supply Management

Supply Chain Brain

Are companies taking their eye off the ball when it comes to monitoring the ethics of their suppliers?

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Consumers are starting to sense an open banking transformation

Axway

Axway’s just-released consumer survey reveals an interesting dissonance in attitudes around open banking and financial services.

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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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Has the Internet of Things Revolutionized Supply Chain Operations?

Enterra Insights

Several years ago, the staff at Blume Global wrote, “[Internet of Things] devices have revolutionized supply chain management (SCM). It’s much easier to understand where goods are, how they are being stored and when they can be expected at a specific location.”[1] Fast forward to 2021 and it’s reasonable ask if the Internet of Things (IoT) has really revolutionized supply chain operations.

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New FreightPlus FreightPlus Appoints Jason Clifford as Chief Technology Officer

Freight Plus

Innovative managed transportation provider continues to invest in technology and expands executive team with new role. QUINCY, Mass — FreightPlus, a data-driven managed transportation solutions provider, has announced the expansion of its executive team with the hiring of Jason Clifford as its first Chief Technology Officer.

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Navigating Black Friday This Year

iDrive Logistics

Black Friday, which falls on Friday, November 26th this year, is over three months away, however, retailers have been gearing up for months. This article will dive into what to expect on Black Friday, how businesses can still make Black Friday a win despite inventory shortages and carrier capacity constraints; and finally, when and where. The post Navigating Black Friday This Year appeared first on iDrive Logistics.

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Hepsiburada – E-Commerce Retailer

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

Demand Planning and Pricing Solutions for Category Management Hepsiburada achieved automated forecasting and inventory optimization, supplementing historical sales data with web searches, click rates and conversion. The post Hepsiburada – E-Commerce Retailer appeared first on Solvoyo.

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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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FreightPlus Appoints Jason Clifford as Chief Technology Officer

Freight Plus

Innovative managed transportation provider continues to invest in technology and expands executive team with new role. QUINCY, Mass — FreightPlus, a data-driven managed transportation solutions provider, has announced the expansion of its executive team with the hiring of Jason Clifford as its first Chief Technology Officer. In his new role, Clifford will be responsible for the company’s technology strategy, as well as driving implementation and innovation in FreightPlus’ next stage of growth. .

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Hepsiburada – E-Commerce Retailer

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

Digital Transformation for Forecasting, Inventory Optimization and Procurement Hepsiburada automated their approach to detect slow moving inventory and optimize price actions to meet budget targets. The post Hepsiburada – E-Commerce Retailer appeared first on Solvoyo.

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The Omnichannel “Click and Collect” Model

Vinculum

Since lockdown measures are slowly being lifted, retailers are preparing to reopen and re-establish contact with their clients while adhering to health authority instructions. For consumers who aren’t yet ready to shop in-store, Click & Collect is emerging as an alternative, with a 45.8% growth rate expected over the next five years in the UK.

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LogiNext Transportation Automation Platform sets high security standards

Loginext

Data security is one of the bedrocks and foundational pillars that hold the LogiNext Transportation Platform. A dedicated team of engineers and analysts continuously ensure rigorous testing and stay up to date with the latest technology to ensure all data within our systems is safe and secure.

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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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Volkswagen Battles Tesla by Making Own EV Batteries – The Wall Street Journal.

Operations and Supply Chain Management

I thought you would be interested in the following story from The Wall Street Journal. Volkswagen Battles Tesla by Making Own EV Batteries. Download the Wall Street Journal app here: WSJ. – Bob.

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3 Companies Using an MRP System

Unleashed

Material Requirements Planning (MRP) software can be a great option when a business is struggling to juggle the multiple elements of the manufacturing process. Here we look at the way three companies have implemented an MRP system, and how this has benefitted their businesses in different ways. MRP software – an overview Before we move on to our three case studies, here’s a quick overview of what MRP is.

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Virgin Sets $450,000 as Space-Ride Price – The Wall Street Journal.

Operations and Supply Chain Management

I thought you would be interested in the following story from The Wall Street Journal. Virgin Sets $450,000 as Space-Ride Price. Download the Wall Street Journal app here: WSJ. – Bob.

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Creating Apps Faster Than Ever with FasTrack™

TrackVia

Forms are everywhere and are great candidates for digitizing your processes at work, right? We see paper forms in doctor’s offices, on job site safety audits, vendor questionnaires, and a million other places. But what if the form is only in paper format and you don’t have a PDF copy or a Word document? This one single piece of paper has been photocopied a million times and it seems like it will be that way forever.

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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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Product Update, July 2021

Precoro

Prepayments — a Brand-New Feature. Prepayments is a brand-new feature in Precoro. It allows you to prepay Purchase Orders and see all the prepayments against Purchase Orders and Invoices with a new Prepaid status. All orders with prepayment selected as a payment term are available by clicking on the info card in the Orders list. If you want to know more about prepayments in Precoro — please, check out this article in our knowledge base.

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Proxima’s 2021 Summer Reading List

Proxima

Whether staying at home or venturing abroad, a lot of us will be taking some much-needed downtime in the coming weeks. If you’re looking to use that time to get through a book or two then we thought it might be helpful to share some recommendations of books that the team at Proxima have enjoyed so far this year. To spark some new ideas for your business or career, you could try: Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire by Brad Stone.

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Senate Passes $550 Billion Infrastructure Plan in Win for Biden

Supply Chain Brain

The Senate passed a $550 billion infrastructure plan that would represent the biggest burst of spending on U.S. public works in decades, sending the legislation to the House where its fate is in the hands of the fractious Democratic caucus.

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