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Is Time Running Out for Organizations to Transform into Digital Enterprises?

Enterra Insights

Prior to the pandemic, a number of studies concluded organizations only had a short-period of time to begin their digital transformation journeys. Back in January 2020, as the first news reports about the pandemic were making headlines, Bob Violino ( @BobViolino ) reported a survey conducted by Kong found 39 percent of respondents expected their companies “to go under or be acquired by 2023” if they failed to transform.[1] At the same time, Birger Thorburn, Chief Technology Officer a

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Transportation Market Constraints: Developing A Shipper Action Plan

Talking Logistics

Last year, the pandemic disrupted the transportation market, throwing supply and demand out of balance. That imbalance continues today, with tight capacity, increased rates, and ongoing uncertainty for shippers. How will these imbalances impact the transportation market going forward? Is it possible for shippers to find capacity without killing their budgets?

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Guide to FMCG Supply Chain – Digital

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

Welcome to the Digital edition of our FMCG supply chain guide. The related Source, Plan, Make & Deliver overview articles can be found here. Each discipline is a key room in the Enchange Supply Chain House which provides a guide to your supply chain improvement journey. What, you do not do Digital? You will fall behind competition, and very quickly.

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Empowering Value-Based Decision Making in Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Brain

The Anaplan for Supply Chain solution, offered on the Anaplan cloud-native platform, takes a holistic approach to supply chain management by enabling real-time visibility across the network.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Inventory Planning Becomes More Interesting

The Smart Software

Just-In-Time (JIT) ensures that a manufacturer produces only the necessary amount, and many companies ignore the risks inherent in reducing inventories. Combined with increased globalization and new risks of supply interruption, stock-outs have abounded. So how can you execute a real-world plan for JIT inventory amidst all this risk and uncertainty?

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Negotiating 3PL Warehousing Contracts

West Coast and California Logistics

While the supply chain benefits of working with a third-party logistics (3PL) provider are commonly understood, some companies still feel uncertainty when negotiating the warehousing contract at the outset. In this article, we’ll examine some of the key contract considerations and provide helpful tips for getting warehousing relationships off on the right foot.

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How to Mitigate Risk in Your Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

International trade is complex due to global networks consisting of manufacturers, business partners, suppliers, and other third parties with the possibility of risk in every link within the supply chain. To successfully mitigate these potential risks, it is important for you to understand the myriad connections that may trigger exposure.

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What is ECommerce Order Fulfillment and Why is it Important?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Featuring Our 10 Best Warehouse Order Fulfillment Articles! Get Our EBOOK HERE. What is ECommerce Order Fulfillment article and permission to publish here provided by Daniel Choi. Ecommerce is the future of the modern economy. With many countries placing restrictions to protect the health of their citizens or initiating a lockdown altogether, eCommerce is often the only option to keep the economy going.

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Operations Excellence is Key in a Supply/Demand Imbalanced Environment

Maine Pointe

For manufacturers, the picture across the US is one of accelerating demand, labor shortages, raw materials scarcity and spiraling costs. Without immediate action, it's a pattern that could impact your productivity and impede your organization's growth for the foreseeable future. In this article, Simon Knowles, Chief Marketing Officer at Maine Pointe (SGS), discusses how integrated operations excellence is key to enhancing visibility, driving improved throughput and resolving supply/demand/distri

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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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What to Look for Before Investing and Storing Bitcoin!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Understanding the Bitcoin Mining Process! Investing and storing bitcoin article and permission to publish here provided by Jean Nichols. As we all know that portable devices are becoming one of the crucial parts of everyone’s day-to-day lives, whether you’re using them for working or entertainment purposes as well.

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FedEx to Blaze the Trail of Mobile Robotics Interoperability

Logistics Viewpoints

MassRobotics announced (May 18th) the release of what it claimed to be the “ World’s First Open Source Autonomous Mobile Robot Interoperability Standards.” The MassRobotics AMR Interoperability Standard is designed to assist organizations in the deployment of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) from multiple vendors and have them work together in the same environment, better realizing the promise of warehouse and factory automation.

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How Background Check Technology is Changing HR!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Ground Rules for Creating a High Performance Organization (HPO)! Background check technology article and permission to publish here provided by John Brooks. There’s no doubt that recruitment is an HR department’s most important function. Manually screening applications and verifying their contents would be tiring and time-consuming.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for June 10, 2021

Supply Chain Digest

Kroger Launches First Drone Deliveries. Consumers Really like Amazon. Metals Prices are Headed Higher.

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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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Packaging for Meaningful Sustainability – Asking the Right Questions

CHAINalytics

Looking to make your packaging system compatible with a better world? There are foundational approaches that will guide your journey and help make your products and their protection less taxing on the world around us. It starts with asking the right questions and keeping an open mind while you seek out answers. A sustainable design … The post Packaging for Meaningful Sustainability – Asking the Right Questions appeared first on Chainalytics.

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Supply Chain News on Go Southwest Young Manufacturer

Supply Chain Digest

Sun Belt States Increasingly Destination for US Manufacturers

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A Retailer's Guide to Optimizing Post-Covid Labor and Operations

Supply Chain Brain

Adapting to the rapidly changing landscape will require many retailers and distributors to look twice at their tools, technologies and fulfillment strategies.

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How to Classify Your Medical Device for FDA Approval

Arena Solutions

Companies looking to market and sell medical devices in the United States must obtain approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The first step to obtaining approval is classifying your medical device. This is a critical step, as it determines the type of premarket submissions and applications that will be required for FDA approval. It also helps you further define your regulatory requirements throughout the product lifecycle and set realistic commercialization milestones.

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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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Bloom & Wild set to blossom with SnapFulfil

SnapFulfil

Rapidly expanding online floristry leader, Bloom & Wild, has signed up to a five year SaaS (Software as a Service) contract with warehouse management system innovator SnapFulfil. The pioneer of letterbox flowers (carefully hand-packed and sent in bud, so they last longer) has moved to optimise its warehousing and distribution efficiencies – and chose cloud-based SnapFulfil WMS because of its renowned flexibility, functionality and low total cost of ownership.

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Watch: Tracking the COVID-19 Crisis in India

Supply Chain Brain

Bert Burger, economist and resident expert on India with Atradius, details the state of that country’s struggle to contain the COVID-19 virus.

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Product update, May 2021

Precoro

Substitute users It is essential to have the possibility to delegate documents and actions to another user. Precoro can ensure that your processes will not be disrupted even if the key employee leaves the company. Now, you can choose a substitute when disabling a user. Precoro will ask the substitute to take some actions in the disabled user's documents.

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Three Things to Look for in a Forklift Service Provider

Supply Chain Brain

Here are three numbers that can help determine if your service and maintenance program is performing in the ways you need.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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UK employees ‘not equipped’ to work from home permanently

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Following the news that numerous blue-chip businesses, such as KPMG and Ernst & Young, have adopted a permanent hybrid working model, new research indicates that workers do not feel they have the tools or technology they need to work from home.

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time:matters expands Sameday Air service between Europe and USA via Paris

Supply Chain Brain

Time-critical shipment specialist time:matters has announced the expansion of its Sameday Air service between Europe and the U.S. via Paris.

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Is your organization event-enabled?

Axway

In the center of consumers, organizations and applications are crucial, valuable data that is expected to be fresh, relevant, and delivered at lightning-fast speeds. Real-time data.

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Ossia and Sensata-Xirgo Launch Wireless Power Trailer Tracker System

Supply Chain Brain

Ossia, a specialist in wireless power, has announced a collaboration with Sensata-Xirgo Technologies to create the Cota-powered Trailer Tracking Yard Management Solution.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

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.

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Is your organization event-enabled?

Axway

In the center of consumers, organizations and applications are crucial, valuable data that is expected to be fresh, relevant, and delivered at lightning-fast speeds. Real-time data.

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JBS Paid Hackers $11 Million After Cyberattack Hit Plants

Supply Chain Brain

JBS USA said it paid $11 million in ransom to the criminals responsible for the cyberattack that disrupted operations across North America and Australia.

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Buying Channel Strategy: The Secret to Ending Procurement Value Leakage

ProcurePort

How can you plug the value leaks in your buying channels procurement? When procurement teams are faced with outdated, cumbersome, laborious procurement systems they will more often than not cut corners in a bid to simply get things done. Unfortunately, the subsequent result of this is that vetted suppliers are overlooked and best sourcing in […].