Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 15, 2018
In Greek mythology, there is a difference between a Titan and a G od. A Titan was born of Uranus and Gaea and ruled the earth until overthrown by the Olympian gods. The evolution sprung from chaos. Titans were born through brute strength and Gods drove more refined outcomes. Supply chain leaders are competitive. The field of supply chain management–combining source, make and deliver–into a common process started in 1982.
GlobalTranz
JUNE 15, 2018
An effective warehouse management strategy is key to staying competitive and meeting consumers’ expectations in the omnichannel world. Knowing the available inventory and assets only in distribution centers is inefficient and lacks value, but when applied across an entire supply chain network, inventory visibility propagates effective warehouse management.
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Supply Chain Digest
JUNE 15, 2018
Different Methodologies of Course Lead to Different Results in Gartner and Kantar Top Supply Chain Lists
Talking Logistics
JUNE 15, 2018
If you were stranded on a desert island with a boom box and one music cassette, which band and album would you be listening to? It’s an easy question for me to answer: Depeche Mode and Violator. As my college roomates could attest to, I drained many D batteries blasting Depeche Mode music on my boom box. Some Great Reward. Black Celebration. Music for the Masses.
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.
Freight Plus
JUNE 15, 2018
Palisades, NY – Aborn & Co. was honored with the privilege of attending IBM’s B2B / MFT Innovation Day on Thursday, June 14th. The tech heavy event covered the potential relationships between AI, Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), EDI, and the end user.
Supply Chain Brief brings together the best content for supply chain and logistic professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
AFFLINK
JUNE 15, 2018
To get an idea of just how important brand consistency is, think about your business like a restaurant. When someone comes into a restaurant, it's because they expect one thing: good food. If they didn't, they wouldn't be there. If they go in expecting good food and they don't get it, they're almost certainly not coming back. Not only that, but they're going to tell a friend.
RFgen
JUNE 15, 2018
Don’t neglect fixed assets or you risk missing out on value. Fixed assets include any items that benefit your company for more than one reporting period. These items include projectors, vehicles, machinery, specialized computing systems and similar goods, and often play an instrumental role in supporting business operations. Applying inventory management best practices to these goods can go a long way in alleviating problems in this area down the road.
Freight Plus
JUNE 15, 2018
Palisades, NY - Aborn & Co. was honored with the privilege of attending IBM's B2B / MFT Innovation Day on Thursday, June 14th. The tech heavy event covered the pot ential relationships between AI, Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), EDI, and the end user. The question everyone asks is, "What is blockchain and how will we use it?" Learning about how blockchain will relate to our supply chains from a data perspective added a tremendous amount of clarity to its use potential.
Supply Chain Brain
JUNE 15, 2018
A.I. is seeping into virtually every industry, and logistics isn’t immune. Imagine systems that can sift through huge volumes of information to formulate “smart” recommendations as to routes, scheduling and pricing. Their capabilities would far exceed those of the human brain. But will carriers be able to take advantage of the output? Are containership schedules, for example, flexible enough to be tweaked every time an A.I. machine suggests it?
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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.
TradeGecko
JUNE 15, 2018
As a wholesale business, you make money when retailers buy your goods – but that’s sometimes easier said than done. If you're out of ideas on how to attract more buyers, we have 10 tips for wholesale business owners that you might be interested in!
Enterra Insights
JUNE 15, 2018
Earlier this year, Linda Brown, the Kansas school girl at the center of the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka died at the age of 76.[1] The History Channel notes, “[Brown’s lawsuit] was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
TradeGecko
JUNE 15, 2018
As a wholesale business, you make money when retailers buy your goods – but that’s sometimes easier said than done. If you're out of ideas on how to attract more buyers, we have 10 tips for wholesale business owners that you might be interested in!
DAT Solutions
JUNE 15, 2018
It’s been hard to find a truck in many markets for much of this year, and rates continue to surge to record levels. When capacity is that tight, you might be tempted to pay too much. So, how can brokers avoid overpaying for transportation? Here are a few tips: 1. Make sure your rate data is current. There can be huge swings in lane rates from week to week, especially this time of year when produce harvests and seasonal merchandise can quickly turn markets from cold to hot and back to cold
More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.
Insights Solutions Global
JUNE 15, 2018
From your product design to shipment, you can't afford to turn a blind eye to your manufacturing supplier. Here are 7 reasons why you should get them assessed.
Loginext
JUNE 15, 2018
Today we speak to an industry veteran with close to two decades of raw delivery management experience. Liam O’Sullivan has earned matchless following and adulation in his career. He is the Director of Operations at International Post Corporation (IPC), Brussels, Belgium.
Locus Robotics
JUNE 15, 2018
The explosive growth of e-commerce, frequent seasonal promotions, and meeting service-level agreements are creating more peak periods than ever in the DC. These peak periods bring unique challenges to your fulfillment center, and no other time of the year is more challenging for e-tailers and 3PL’s than the period between Thanksgiving & Christmas.
Insights Solutions Global
JUNE 15, 2018
From your product design to shipment, you can't afford to turn a blind eye to your manufacturing supplier. Here are 7 reasons why you should get them assessed. The post 7 Reasons Why Assess Manufacturing Suppliers in China appeared first on Insight Solutions Global.
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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.
Locus Robotics
JUNE 15, 2018
The explosive growth of e-commerce, frequent seasonal promotions, and meeting service-level agreements are creating more peak periods than ever in the DC. These peak periods bring unique challenges to your fulfillment center, and no other time of the year is more challenging for e-tailers and 3PL’s than the period between Thanksgiving & Christmas.
The Supply Chainer Report
JUNE 15, 2018
The 2018 SAS Health and Life Sciences Executive Forum is an event in which global leaders across the health care ecosystem are coming to discuss key issues and opportunities around next-generation analytics. The main target of 2018 session held at Madrid was to get a deeper understanding of new analytical technology applications in pharma and health care and their potential benefit to pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers, and patients and communities worldwide.
Locus Robotics
JUNE 15, 2018
The explosive growth of e-commerce, frequent seasonal promotions, and meeting service-level agreements are creating more peak periods than ever in the DC. These peak periods bring unique challenges to your fulfillment center, and no other time of the year is more challenging for e-tailers and 3PL’s than the period between Thanksgiving & Christmas.
APICS
JUNE 15, 2018
A recent report by McKinsey & Company details how digital solutions can help procurement specialists achieve some often-overlooked savings for tail spend.
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The unfortunate truth is that you will always have low stock and backorder issues with your supply chain. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be prepared to handle them. This brief video explores some of the primary drivers of inventory issues – and how modern technology and best practices can mitigate these issues and ensure a superb customer experience.
Locus Robotics
JUNE 15, 2018
The explosive growth of e-commerce, frequent seasonal promotions, and meeting service-level agreements are creating more peak periods than ever in the DC. These peak periods bring unique challenges to your fulfillment center, and no other time of the year is more challenging for e-tailers and 3PL’s than the period between Thanksgiving & Christmas.
Tailwind
JUNE 15, 2018
Our local strawberries are in season. I always love summer in this ‘little corner of Canada’ that I live in. I am not sure it was fate, but it was certainly serendipitous that I found myself living in the most southwestern tip of the mainland of Canada – in a small community wedged against the US border, an endearing community on a land-locked peninsula.
Material Handling & Logistics
JUNE 15, 2018
The people who command six-figure salaries to negotiate multimillion-dollar deals with major brands are being replaced by software that predicts what shoppers want and how much to charge for it. Amazon.com Inc. has long used robots to help humans move merchandise around its warehouses. Now automation is transforming Amazon’s white-collar workforce, too. .
Freightera
JUNE 15, 2018
Happy Father’s Day, all the fathers out there! You may not feel like a superhero every day, but in our eyes, you’re rocking it! ??. Click on the image to see Freightera superman fly. The post Happy Father’s Day! appeared first on Freightera Blog.
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Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.
BlueYonder
JUNE 15, 2018
Friday in 5 – News from around the supply chain landscape, served up in one place to keep you up-to-date. . This week: Chef’d meal kits come to Walgreens and Duane Reade; a tax law typo has U.S. restaurants and retailers unhappy; Microsoft takes on Amazon Go with checkout-free retail tech; a new report counts the costs of logistics failures; and truckers in China park their trucks to protest high fuel prices.
BlueYonder
JUNE 15, 2018
Friday in 5 – News from around the supply chain landscape, served up in one place to keep you up-to-date. . This week: Chef’d meal kits come to Walgreens and Duane Reade; a tax law typo has U.S. restaurants and retailers unhappy; Microsoft takes on Amazon Go with checkout-free retail tech; a new report counts the costs of logistics failures; and truckers in China park their trucks to protest high fuel prices.
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