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Agility in the supply chain: what defines it?

Aioneers

No matter how big or small, all markets are ruled by many factors and rules that are impossible to predict perfectly. In an age where conditions change by the second, it is difficult, if not impossible, to predict trends and events without the help of a framework that allows versatility and helps you to stay ahead of the game. Today, the market is defined by VUCA - Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity.

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Key Tools and Technologies to Build the Warehouse of the Future

DELMIA Quintiq

Warehouse management is no longer the static element in the supply chain, but an area that’s ready for smart transformation. In an experience economy, customers want goods made to order and delivered as soon as possible, in a way that suits their flexible lifestyles. This makes warehouse digital transformation a reality in order to sustain business and thrive amidst increasing competition and market pressures.

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Win-Win Value Chain Scenarios Require Collaboration

Enterra Insights

Today, many business professionals rightfully view their operations in terms of ecosystems or value chains. For the business to succeed, all stakeholders in the value chain must also do well. Historically, this is called a win-win scenario. In the win-win scenario, involved parties benefit more than they would otherwise have benefited. The win-win scenario is not about all sides reaching a happy compromise; it’s about all sides “winning.” Forward thinking business executives an

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Women in Engineering Day: how to encourage young women into a career in STEM

IT Supply Chain

By Rachel Hurst (pictured). COO, Domino Printing Sciences. The post Women in Engineering Day: how to encourage young women into a career in STEM appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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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Benchmarking the Modern WMS with Fuel Transport: Tecsys Receives 2021 Top Supply Chain Project Award

Tecsys

Supply & Demand Chain Executive, the executive’s user manual for successful supply and demand chain transformation, has selected Tecsys as a recipient of the Top Supply Chain Projects Award for 2021 in association with the company’s supply chain transformation project at Montreal-based logistics and transportation company, Fuel Transport. The post Benchmarking the Modern WMS with Fuel Transport: Tecsys Receives 2021 Top Supply Chain Project Award appeared first on Tecsys.

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Responses to Pandemic Ills That Slow the Recovery

MIT Supply Chain

When the Covid-19 pandemic struck, governments shifted their economies into critical care and put them on life support. While the US economy is still traumatized, it is time the government stopped treating it like a critical care patient in order to allow self-healing market forces to continue rehabilitating the patient. Similarly, the private sector needs to move out of the triage phase of its responses to the pandemic.

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o9 Solutions and vTradEx successfully entered Chinese market

o9 Solutions

Shanghai, 21 June 2021 – o9 Solutions, a premier AI-driven integrated planning and operations solution provider for the enterprise, and vTradEx, the leading brand of intelligent, mobile internet and hybrid cloud solutions in supply chain execution, have successfully jointly entered the Chinese market. The partnership, which was announced in 2020, has already proved to be extremely valuable to Chinese customers. o9 selected vTradEx as its official reseller for the Chinese market.

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Supply-Chain Crunch Likely to Linger – The Wall Street Journal.

Operations and Supply Chain Management

I thought you would be interested in the following story from The Wall Street Journal. Supply-Chain Crunch Likely to Linger. Download the Wall Street Journal app here: WSJ. – Bob.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for June 24, 2021

Supply Chain Digest

More GDP Growth than Jobs. Amazon to Buy Autonomous Truck Systems. MegaContainer Ship Orders back in Style.

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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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Benchmarking – How to Drive Performance in Volatile Times

Talking Logistics

“How are you doing?” is a conversational question we often ask friends and colleagues. But, “How are we doing?” is a more critical question companies must ask themselves. The problem is that too often companies look only at internal metrics for the answer. However, to get a complete picture of their performance, companies also need. Read more Benchmarking – How to Drive Performance in Volatile Times.

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How Energy Intensity Clouds Blockchain’s Future

Supply Chain Brain

If blockchain is ever to fulfill its potential as a reliable way of recording key business transactions, it’s going to have to burn a lot less energy that it does today.

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Key takeaways: How Railinc keeps America’s trains running with Axway’s Managed File Transfer

Axway

A critical component of U.S. transportation infrastructure, Railinc supports commercial and government organizations with the information services they need to keep their rail assets moving day and night. Axway and Railinc.

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Gas Is So Scarce in Europe That Coal Is Making a Comeback

Supply Chain Brain

Europe is so short of natural gas that the continent — usually seen as the poster child for the global fight against emissions — is turning to coal to meet electricity demand that is now back to pre-pandemic levels.

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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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Key takeaways: How Railinc keeps America’s trains running with Axway’s Managed File Transfer

Axway

A critical component of U.S. transportation infrastructure, Railinc supports commercial and government organizations with the information services they need to keep their rail assets moving day and night. Axway and Railinc.

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AstraZeneca Vaccine Faces More Supply Hurdles, Now From Thailand

Supply Chain Brain

AstraZeneca Plc’s COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing partner in Southeast Asia has missed a delivery target in Thailand and shipments to other countries in the region have been delayed, the latest setback for a shot that was meant to be the backbone of the global inoculation effort.

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Key takeaways: How Railinc keeps America’s trains running with Axway’s Managed File Transfer

Axway

A critical component of U.S. transportation infrastructure, Railinc supports commercial and government organizations with the information services they need to keep their rail assets moving day and night. Axway and Railinc.

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D4t4 Launches Celebrus Fraud Data Platform to Address Growing Digital Threats

Supply Chain Brain

D4t4 Solutions, an innovator in customer data, management, and analytics, has launched the Celebrus Fraud Data Platform.

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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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Key takeaways: How Railinc keeps America’s trains running with Axway’s Managed File Transfer

Axway

A critical component of U.S. transportation infrastructure, Railinc supports commercial and government organizations with the information services they need to keep their rail assets moving day and night. Axway and Railinc.

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Behind the Same Day Eight Ball

Cathy Roberson

Speed and technology are the two ingredients that companies compete on when it comes to the last mile. UPS’s investor and analyst virtual conference a couple of weeks highlighted these two ingredients. But will it be enough? Investments in tracking, automating sorting facilities, and route optimization are among the technology enhancements the company has made to help improve efficiencies and speed.

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Interesting Facts About the Logistics Industry 

AB&R

Interesting Facts About The Logistics Industry . When we receive a package, we often don’t think about the time, effort and careful planning it took just to get it to our door. Often an invisible part of our society, the logistics industry silently makes same day shipping and other phenomena happen every day. . Logistics isn’t a new or modern concept.

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Key takeaways: How Railinc keeps America’s trains running with Axway’s Managed File Transfer

Axway

A critical component of U.S. transportation infrastructure, Railinc supports commercial and government organizations with the information services they need to keep their rail assets moving day and night. Axway and Railinc.

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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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Agility is not Resilence

Logistics Viewpoints

Gail Sayers, the Most Agile Halfback of all Time. Business professionals talk about “agility” and “resilience” as if they are the same thing. They are not. A company with an agile supply chain can react quickly to big increases or decreases in demand. An agile company is like a half back in football that can dart quickly to the left or the right depending upon the opening.

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6 Steps to Overcoming Supply Chain Challenges in 2021

USC Consulting Group

Most of the challenges supply chain players face in today’s market are related to the pandemic and economic shutdowns. Even so, they’re no different than what companies have dealt with in the past, or what will come after. Understanding what those challenges mean for the greater market calls for a brief look at current events and existing obstacles. 1.

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Mining! The Backbone of Bitcoin Technology

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Understanding the Bitcoin Mining Process! Mining! The Backbone of Bitcoin Technology article and permission to publish here provided by Jean Nichols. Bitcoin was released as a digitalized coinage in the year 2008 at the very first glance. However, the characters rendered by the cryptocurrency king transformed the digitalized coinage into a speculative asset.

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Once Again, Here is Why JIT Matters

Supply Chain Digest

Media Reports on the End of Just in Time Really do not Get Lean

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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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World Procurement Congress 2021 Virtual event and Physical event

ivalua

The post World Procurement Congress 2021 <br>Virtual event and Physical event appeared first on Ivalua.

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Freightera is the Technology Impact Awards Finalist for ‘Tech Culture of the Year’

Freightera

We are proud to call ourselves a TIA finalist for the second year in the row, and for the third time ever! ”Resilience and inspiration” is the theme for this year’s awards, and we are on the final list with some of the greatest tech companies in BC and beyond. Below is the full press release from BC Tech Association, as published on Newswire : VANCOUVER, BC , June 17, 2021 /CNW/ – With British Columbia’s tech sector powering the province’s economic recovery from th

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The Logistics of Setting up a Baling Operation

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Supply Chain Carbon Footprint Reduction Strategy! (Infographic). Baling operation article and permission to publish here provided by Carol Trehearn. All modern recycling plants should have some kind of baling operation on site. Baling is the process of squeezing recycled materials into cubes and then tying them together using baler wire.