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How to use Root Cause Analysis in Supply Chain Management

All Things Supply Chain

Most consumers realize that the products they purchase are the result of a global chain of suppliers and logistics.

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Technology’s Role in Enabling Supply Chain Sustainability

Talking Logistics

More than 15 years ago, Walmart’s CEO at the time, Lee Scott, gave a speech titled “Twenty-First Century Leadership” that arguably kicked off the supply chain sustainability era. Over the years, some companies have made sustainability a priority while others have not. What is the current state of supply chain sustainability? Are more companies making.

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Supply Chain Innovation Summit

Adexa

Traditionally supply chain planning has been about efficiency, optimization of resources and on-time delivery. However, as we have seen in the recent pandemic as well as other disruptions such as Suez Canal blockage, resiliency of the supply chain has become of utmost importance. There is a premium to be paid for being resilient and the ability to mitigate risk.

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MercuryGate Sees Gartner TMS Magic Quadrant Rank of “Challenger,” Thanks to Rapid Expansion of International Presence

MercuryGate

MercuryGate Global Capabilities on Full Display Defining success in the modern supply chain often comes down to how well a vendor stacks up when analyzed by a truly independent third party. Each year, Gartner takes on this colossal task by reviewing an armada of potential TMS solutions, as well as other industry vertical technological capabilities, […].

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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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Cybersecurity in Shipping Logistics: The Rising Threat

USC Consulting Group

When you think of shipping and transportation, perhaps the last thing you consider is the threat that cybercrime can pose to the industry. However, as technology advances and systems become increasingly connected to online networks, cybersecurity is a necessity of modern shipping logistics. Meanwhile, all kinds of digital attacks are increasing against a wide variety of industries.

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5 Key Takeaways from our 2021 Inventory Optimization Survey

AIMMS

The post 5 Key Takeaways from our 2021 Inventory Optimization Survey appeared first on AIMMS.

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Global Supply Chain News on Growing Congestion has Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach Pondering 24 x 7 Operations

Supply Chain Digest

Would be Enormously Complex Undertaking, Requiring Synchronization of Many Parts

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Happening Now: Record U.S. Imports from Asia Continue in March

West Coast and California Logistics

An article from the JOC shows that U.S. imports from Asia continued to climb in March. In fact, March was the second-busiest month on record, with imports jumping 22% from February and a whopping 90.5% compared to last March.

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Want to Make Integrated Business Planning a Success? Here’s How.

Logility

Integrated business planning (IBP) is gaining traction as more companies look at refining their sales and operations planning (S&OP) process. It’s worth the effort to document what IBP means for your business, if for no other reason than you can’t implement what you can’t define. To that end, let’s reiterate the distinction between IBP and S&OP before we dive into some tips on how to make integrated business planning a success.

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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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Watch: Can Importers Still Use the ‘First Sale’ Rule for Goods From China?

Supply Chain Brain

Dana Watts, counsel with Miller & Chevalier, explains the “first sale” rule for reducing U.S. importers’ duty levels, and discusses whether it remains a viable method for achieving that purpose.

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Inventory software grows with herb expansion

Unleashed

This article first appeared on Food Magazine. Starting a business from scratch can be daunting. Especially when you accidentally fall into it. That’s what happened with Renae Colbert, who along with her husband Chris, started up medicinal herb business Herbal Connection six years ago. Coming from a corporate background, Colbert wasn’t totally green to the nuances of B2B enterprise, but she was to herbs and their medicinal properties.

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Panasonic Announces Acquisition of Blue Yonder

Supply Chain Brain

Panasonic Corporation has recently announced that it has acquired Blue Yonder, an end-to-end, digital fulfillment platform provider.

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How Pure Storage Withstood the Pandemic

Logistics Viewpoints

Mike Fitzgerald, Vice President of Operations at Pure Storage. Pure Storage never stocked out during the pandemic. That was not because demand for their products tanked. Product sales were down by 8%, but the company did grow by 2% overall in the last fiscal year based on strong performance in subscription services. While demand from many customer’s decreased, some of their customers did place unexpectedly large orders and needed those orders fulfilled quickly.

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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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Understanding Online Consumer Behaviors for a Better Customer Journey

ShipBob

There’s been a rapid evolution in online consumer behavior. . This evolution is the byproduct of drastic changes in ecommerce as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Launching ecommerce in the future far beyond any reasonable or predictable expectations, COVID-19 triggered a new age of retail. . This new age of retail is marked by the transition of the customer buying experience from brick-and-mortar shopping to online shopping.

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What is Order Management Software? A complete guide to OMS.

Vinculum

In the present e-commerce world, the importance of an order management system cannot be undermined. Particularly when you are handling orders from customers across the globe. You need an order management system that will ensure efficient customer service, minimize error and keep your business safe. An order management system (OMS) always helps you automate your back-office processes and make them more efficient.

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5 Major Delivery Woes for Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs)

Shipsy

As per Statista, the online food delivery sector is expected to generate a revenue of USD 151,526 Million in 2021. The revenue is expected to grow at an annual growth rate (CAGR 2021-2024) of 6.36%, resulting in a projected market volume of USD 182,327 Million by 2024. Platform-to-consumer is the largest market segment with an expected market volume of USD 79,608 Million in 2021.

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Consuming APIs and IPAs is not that different

Axway

Beer can be brewed to perfection, but it’s up to the consumer to enjoy the golden liquid up to its very last sip. The same principle is true for APIs.

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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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International trade April 2021 News [Procurement – Logistics – Compliance]

DocShipper Sourcing

During the month of April, the Covid-19 pandemic is still present all over the world and due to this pandemic, events have occurred that have had on the impact of international trade. Here you can read the news of April 2021 in more detail. The post International trade April 2021 News [Procurement – Logistics – Compliance] appeared first on ?Sourcing services.

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Consuming APIs and IPAs is not that different

Axway

Beer can be brewed to perfection, but it’s up to the consumer to enjoy the golden liquid up to its very last sip. The same principle is true for APIs.

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How to Establish Your Brand in Food Importing and Exporting!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Common Mistakes in Importing and Exporting! (Infographic). Food importing and exporting article and permission to publish here provided by Emma Wilson. Nations are dropping international trade barriers, making global trade more accessible, much faster and progressive. The world is now more connected, courtesy of better transport and communication infrastructure.

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Consuming APIs and IPAs is not that different

Axway

Beer can be brewed to perfection, but it’s up to the consumer to enjoy the golden liquid up to its very last sip. The same principle is true for APIs.

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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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Experts Ponder the Future of AI and Machine Learning

Enterra Insights

Finding a futurist who doesn’t think artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will continue to impact our lives is like trying to find a living Dodo bird. Andrew Ng ( @AndrewYNg ), Co-Founder of Coursera, an adjunct professor at Stanford, and former head of Baidu AI Group and Google Brain, states, “Just as electricity transformed almost everything 100 years ago, today I actually have a hard time thinking of an industry that I don’t think AI will transform in the next several

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Multidomain MDM versus domain-expert MDM approach

HICX Solutions

Supplier Information Management, or SIM, is leading the digital transformation in Procurement. Two dominant approaches for the implementation of SIM are multidomain MDM (Master Data Management) versus domain-expert MDM. The overwhelming advice when undertaking a supplier-related data project is to: “Evaluate a solution based on business requirements, rather than data problems to fix.”.

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How the Vaccine Got Distributed So Quickly — and Lessons Learned for Next Time

Supply Chain Brain

President Biden far surpassed his original goal of administering 100 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines within his first 100 days in office, but the initiative couldn’t have succeeded without a substantial manufacturing and logistics infrastructure backing it up.