Fri.Nov 11, 2016

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Retail Imports on the Rise as Holiday Shopping Starts Up

Material Handling & Logistics

Retailers are importing more during the holidays as they expect to sell more products this year than last. read more.

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Want to know where products come from? Introducing Open Sourcemap

Sourcemap

People have a right to know where things come from. That's why we're launching a brand new platform for supply chain transparency: Open Sourcemap. It's full of exciting new features, including Official accounts - for radically transparent brands - and the fastest, most powerful interface for supply chain mapping. So get in there, make some supply chain maps, ask your friends and colleagues to do the same, and soon there will be an even bigger directory of supply chains available to the public.

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Transportation Route Planning: Are you leaving money on the table?

3GTMS

Route planning has been at the core of TMS systems since the beginning. But even though the industry has gotten more complex , the basic concept of route planning hasn’t. Here’s how I explained it in this article for Supply & Demand Chain Executive : Logistics professionals still have to create a large set of transportation options that span all of the possible ways to move the freight, plus allow providers wide latitude in how they structure the options… In the past, software created simpli

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Veterans Day 2016

Enterra Insights

One of the bitterest U.S. presidential elections ever held is now over; but, the divisiveness it fomented will likely linger … Continued. The post Veterans Day 2016 appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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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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Supply Chain Risk Management: Could You Face a Category 4 Supply Chain Disaster?

Kinaxis

by Joe Cannata With Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful storm to threaten the Atlantic Coast in over 10 years that has already brought severe damage to Haiti, the Bahamas and several Southeastern U.S. states, obvious disruptions to supply chains and supply chain risk management were a given. Many of the states affected contained key ports and supply destinations, as well as transportation and logistics hubs.

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New Carrier Onboarding Software: Fast, Accurate, 100% Mobile

DAT Solutions

When a freight broker uses a carrier for the first time, the onboarding process can be cumbersome and time consuming for both parties. This week, DAT Solutions launched a new version of its carrier onboarding product that simplifies the process for both brokers and carriers. DAT OnBoard ™ is the only commercially available onboarding software where carriers can complete the entire onboarding process using a mobile device.

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ModusLink & COBI – A Smooth Ride to Success

ModusLink Corporation

Whether it is your choice leisure activity, your way of staying active and in shape, or your main method of transportation, cycling has continued to gain popularity all across the globe. From the mountains to the urban settings, cyclists are hitting the ground in droves. With technology finding its way into virtually all aspects of […]. The post ModusLink & COBI – A Smooth Ride to Success appeared first on ModusLink Global Solutions.

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Manufacturing as an Economic Key

APICS

In the United States, as in other areas of the industrialized world, factories have changed. Many have moved to lower-wage countries, leaving industrial wastelands in their place. Earlier this week, in “Small Factories Emerge as a Weapon in the Fight Against Poverty,” The New York Times focused on one such area in Baltimore. There, Marlin Steel is a success story, maintaining its ground and producing metal baskets for bigger manufacturers such as Ford, Boeing, and Merck.

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Lightening Fast Delivery in China for Singles Day

Supply Chain 24/7

Singles Day is now the largest shopping day in the world and about four times bigger that Black Friday in the US, and Alibaba made over $14 billion in just 24 hours.

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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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Efficiency and Competition Ring in the Holiday Season

BlueYonder

Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. Did you know that the supply chain is already preparing for the holidays, from warehouse to consumer? Here’s a quick roundup of some interesting stories to get you in the holiday mood. Even the big players just can’t get enough warehouse space.

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Veterans Day: A Time to Remember and Recognize Our Nation’s Heroes

Supply Chain 24/7

As we remember the sacrifices made by all veterans since the nation’s founding, we thank all those who have served, and especially those who are still putting their lives on the line on our behalf around the world.

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Countdown to Black Friday: It’s the Final Countdown, So Get Your Shipments Up in the Air

CH Robinson Transportfolio

It’s not too late to get your product to store shelves in time for Black Friday, thanks to the swift performance of air cargo service. With significantly shorter lead times than other modes, air cargo can get your product to market in as little as a day. It adds efficiency and flexibility to your supply chain and better equips you to quickly replenish inventory throughout the holiday shopping season as consumers sweep through aisles or fill their online shopping carts.

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Ready to Serve: How and Why You Should Recruit Veterans

Supply Chain 24/7

Employers need employees with great technical skills, and while veterans certainly possess more than an ample amount of these much-needed skills, they also have some much-desired competencies HR and talent management professionals look for in job candidates.

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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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Chinese Consumers Break Record on Largest Shopping Day

Material Handling & Logistics

Bloomberg. Sales on Alibaba's e-commerce platform reached $15 billion on Singles' Day dwarfing both America’s Cyber Monday and Black Friday. read more.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 7-11, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Brexit passed. The Cubs won the World Series. Donald Trump won the presidency. What’s next? In each case, the sun rose and set the next day, and it rose again today. There are already countless “What Will the Trump Presidency Mean for [Fill in the Blank]?” articles and blog posts being written. In the case of supply chain, the focus is on trade agreements and transportation infrastructure investments.