Wed.Sep 08, 2021

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Are You Prepared For The Next Chip Shortage?

ToolsGroup

The worldwide chip shortage is bad and getting worse. Yet another aftershock of the COVID-19 pandemic, computer and hardware chips have been slow to recover amidst uncertain market conditions and a worldwide supply chain that was completely unprepared to deal with the impact. Severe supplier delays and material shortages have been felt on both the consumer and industry level – just ask any teenager still trying to get their hands on a PlayStation 5.

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FourKites Ocean Visibility: A Next Generation Solution

Logistics Viewpoints

When it comes to real-time visibility, the market is becoming more important and more robust than ever before. Billions of venture capital dollars of investment are being poured into companies that can integrate real-time visibility data with transportation to provide a more informed ETA for shippers and carriers. The need to know where products are, whether they are on the way to the warehouse, store, or customer, when there are delays, and alerts for these delays, is critical to ensure a posit

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Finding the Right Balance in Last-Mile Delivery

Talking Logistics

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of a research report published recently titled “Last-Mile Delivery: Finding the Right Balance.” The research, based on a survey of supply chain and logistics professionals conducted by Adelante SCM and commissioned by Locus, explores how technology can help companies achieve the right balance in last-mile delivery — that.

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German Premium Automobile Manufacturer Deploys Dassault Systèmes’ Solution for Production Planning and Scheduling at E-Drive Production Sites in Europe

DELMIA Quintiq

Rollout of Dassault Systèmes’ DELMIA Quintiq applications completed at BMW Group’s E-Drive production sites in Dingolfing, Leipzig and Regensburg, the first deployments in plants across Germany To better master the rapid evolution and perturbations of the complex automotive components production supply chain, Dassault Systèmes aims to empower better, faster decisions to improve manufacturing’s key performance indicators The DELMIA Quintiq environment synchronizes demand from vehicle plants for c

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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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RCCP versus MPS: How Are They Connected? Elixirs and the Wrong Question

Arkieva

A reasonable question supply chain folks often ask themselves is ‘What is the relationship between Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) and Master Production Scheduling (MPS)?’ However, this is the wrong question to ask oneself. This blog will address the transition from AS to central planning as best practices and demonstrate that with a firm’s due diligence they can make the transition successfully.

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The role that ERP systems can take in helping IM&E

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

There’s no doubt that the COVID pandemic has led to major changes in the way companies work. It has also emphasized how fragile supply chains really are. Manufacturers have realized that while they may aim to be stable, what they really need is to be agile. How rapidly can you adapt if something changes quickly like it has done? How do you ensure delivery if once reliable supply chains break?

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Intel Will Invest Up to $95 Billion in European Chip-Making

Supply Chain Brain

Intel is investing heavily in efforts to expand and reset global semiconductor supply chains.

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Limitless Cost Reductions: Fallacy or Feasible?

LevaData

For those in discrete manufacturing, one of the most widely accepted truths is that continued cost reductions are vital for both success and survival. Organizations continue to push their supply management teams to find new, innovative ways to reduce costs and protect profits. Traditionally, the feasibility of year-after-year incremental cost reductions has been called into question.

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Vietnam’s Supply Chain Role to Grow Despite Covid, U.S. Chamber Says

Supply Chain Brain

Covid has disrupted but not derailed Vietnam’s expanding role in global supply chains and growth prospects.

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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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Supplier Engagement Best Practices – Key Takeaways From Our Webinar

SupplyShift

The need for supplier engagement has never been greater — an engaged supply chain drives impact and lays the foundation for businesses to collaborate with suppliers to address our most pressing sustainability issues. Yet today, supplier engagement efforts have been lacking. On September 2nd, we were joined by leaders from Anthesis Group , Anheuser-Busch InBev , and SCS Consulting Services to explore the “whys” and “hows” of supplier engagement, and discuss the challenges businesses are facing i

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Take your supply chain to the NeXt level

DynaSys

Still not registered for NeXt, the Digital Supply Chain conference powered by QAD DynaSys? What are you waiting for? On October 14th, QAD DynaSys proposes an hour-long live stream to meet customers and supply chain planning experts. You might be wondering what’s new this year? This year, you will hear from QAD DynaSys’ customers and their challenges covering: How to optimize real-time, end-to-end supply chain visibility How to improve competitiveness with an agile, collaborative, and connected s

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Supplier Engagement Best Practices – Key Takeaways From Our Webinar

SupplyShift

The need for supplier engagement has never been greater — an engaged supply chain drives impact and lays the foundation for businesses to collaborate with suppliers to address our most pressing sustainability issues. Yet today, supplier engagement efforts have been lacking. . On September 2nd, we were joined by leaders from Anthesis Group , Anheuser-Busch InBev , and SCS Consulting Services to explore the “whys” and “hows” of supplier engagement, and discuss the challenges businesses are facing

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Communication is Key

BlueYonder

Habib Isaac is a Renewal Manager at Blue Yonder. Based in Monterrey, Mexico, Habib gives us a peek inside his career journey along with lessons learned after his team was moved entirely remote due to COVID-19. Habib also shares valuable advice for individuals just starting their career journey for the best way to learn and navigate their career with zero experience.

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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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Kairos Research, NC State, and ASU wins IARPA contract to analyze hidden risks in complex supply chains.

NC State SCRC

If you look far enough back in history, you will find the literal definition of a linchpin to be an item which kept the wheels from falling off wooden carts. During the recent COVID-19 crisis, we have all experienced firsthand the consequences of the wheels falling off global supply chains, resulting in shortages in items ranging from cleaning supplies to microchips.

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Sorgfaltspflichtengesetz: the German Supply Chain Act

ChainPoint

There’s a new piece of legislation coming in Germany: the Sorgfaltspflichtengesetz (Lieferkettengesetz). Per January 1 st 2023 companies with at least 3.000 employees will bear more responsibility for the working conditions in their entire supply chains. One year after that, smaller companies will be held to the same standards. So, what does this mean?

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Prepare Your E-Commerce Strategy for Peak Season 2021

Intelligent Audit

In today’s volatile transportation and shipping industry, parcel carriers maintain a significant advantage over other transportation service providers — a peak season e-commerce strategy. Many market experts and analysts predict this advantage will continue into and even beyond the upcoming peak season flux as the dynamics between shippers and carriers continue to scale, adapt, and shift with consumer needs and demands.

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‘Taking stock of technology could help SMEs build resilience amid supply chain volatility,’ states Thrasio

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

As businesses around the UK continue to contend with unprecedented global supply shortages, Thrasio has been quick to assert the importance of a technological-driven approach to supply chain management in order to build resilience.

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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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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on Amazon Air coming to an Airport Near You

Supply Chain Digest

70 Percent of US Population Now Lives within 100 Miles of an Amazon Air Served Airport

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The Hybrid Work Revolution Is Already Transforming Economies

Supply Chain Brain

Today’s white-collar staff are living through a radical transformation of professional life — one that economists say is already beginning to jump-start economic productivity and accelerate innovation.

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Supply Chain News Is Poor Financing a Root Cause of the US Manufacturing Decline

Supply Chain Digest

Proposed New US Bank could be Game Changer, Some Say

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Supply Chains Continue to Be Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered

Enterra Insights

A refrain from a Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart song from the Broadway musical “Pal Joey,” could be a tune sung nightly by today’s supply chain managers. It goes: Couldn’t sleep. And wouldn’t sleep. Until I could sleep where I shouldn’t sleep. Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered am I. The reason supply chain managers are having difficulty sleeping and finding themselves bewitched, bothered, and bewildered is that supply chain operations were supposed to norma

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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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Immersive Video, AI and the Tech Shaping Retail's Next Phase

Supply Chain Brain

By leveraging these technologies, retailers and their partners can better meet the demands of today’s customer.

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API complexity holds enterprises back

Axway

Over the last couple of years, we’ve noticed a new phenomenon. We started calling it “ API complexity. ”. Until recently, APIs were considered a hot new technology.

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How to Ship Products to Amazon’s Warehouses?

DocShipper Sourcing

So you have found the perfect product you were looking for, sourced its samples through a reliable supplier and you are satisfied with the samples. Now you are ready to sell them on Amazon and you need to send the products to Amazon storage. It’s an exciting step to start working with Amazon FBA. If … The post How to Ship Products to Amazon’s Warehouses?

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Common cash flow problems and how to solve them

Taulia

82% of businesses fail because of cash flow problems. But even the businesses who don’t fail still have to face them in one form or another. How can your business prepare for the inevitable issues with cash flow it’s bound to face at some point in its future? The best solution to cash flow problems is two-fold – understand what the potential risks are and implement technological tools to help you pre-empt them.

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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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Q8 Case Study

Repl Group

As one of the largest fuel players in the Benelux market, Q8 knew that to continue growing their convenience retail offer, modernising their retail site systems was essential to compete in the rapidly changing and highly competitive environment.

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Automated Invoice Processing: Eliminate Manual AP Tasks

ProcurePort

For a long time, businesses and organizations have depended on manual AP systems to process their invoices. However, with evolving business dynamics and with changing priorities, there’s a pressing need for enterprises to adopt invoice automation. If you’re still dependent on a manual system to process your vendor invoice, not only is your system obsolete, […].

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API complexity holds enterprises back

Axway

Over the last couple of years, we’ve noticed a new phenomenon. We started calling it “ API complexity. ”. Until recently, APIs were considered a hot new technology.

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