Fri.Jul 08, 2016

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The Top 5 Transportation Management Blogs of 2016 …So Far

GlobalTranz

Today, we wrap up our series on the top 5 blogs in our 4 main categories ( Freight , Manufacturing , Logistics , and Supply Chain ). Our last post covered the Top 5 Supply Chain blogs of 2016. Today's post will cover the top 5 Transportation Management blogs from 2016 so far. I encourage you to scroll through the main four categories blogs or the Cerasis blog in general so you can catch some great content.

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How do you streamline planning for tomorrow’s supply chain?

Kinaxis

by John Westerveld What does your planning organization look like? Is it a series of silos? Individual fiefdoms throwing requirements back and forth over the wall? What are they spending their time doing? Are they drudging through the tedious work of placing orders with suppliers? Releasing orders to the factory? How much time are the spending truly adding value to the supply chain and how much time are they spending doing simple, mechanical, yet important activities?

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Replenishment: Real Time Advantage

The Network Effect

In today’s environment of demanding and fickle consumers, the importance of meeting customer demand and minimizing out-of-stocks is crucial. How do you do that? There are a number of considerations, in this article I’ll cover one of the major ways, lead time reduction. In part two I will discuss another often-overlooked and underappreciated line of […].

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This Week in Logistics News (July 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

It was a relatively quiet week for supply chain and logistics news, with robots and weak freight demand dominating the headlines. Heavy-Duty Truck Orders Fall to Lowest Since 2010 (WSJ – sub. req’d). Air cargo firms feel the pressure from plunge in freight prices (Reuters). Honeywell To Acquire Intelligrated, A Leader In Supply Chain And Warehouse Automation Technologies.

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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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C3's Top 4 Must-Reads on The Internet of Things

C3 Solutions

Welcome to C3 Solutions' Top Must-Reads series - Volume 1. Throughout the years, our reader ship have clearly voiced their interest for educative and informative content on multiple supply chain topics. It quickly became obvious that the supply chain & logistics professional were hungry for helpful information and practical insights that could guide them in applying best practices and prepare them for future industry challenges.

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Freight Consolidation: Bridging the Gap between LTL and Full Truckload

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Freight Consolidation: Bridging the Gap between LTL and Full Truckload. Partial truckload shipments—shipments that don’t fill a full truck—are commonplace in supply chains, and they’re often moved by less than truckload (LTL) common carriers or full truckload carriers. While both are effective, there is a third option that can provide more opportunity for bottom line savings and increased efficiency: freight consolidation.

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4 Reasons Brands Consider Packaging Changes

RFgen

Companies may change packaging when green materials become available. Companies invest a lot in keeping their products up to date and in line with what consumers desire. Adjustments to materials, designs and manufacturing processes are routinely implemented to respond to disruptive trends and customer feedback. This sense of reinvention should also apply to the packaging used by a company.

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Reframing Labor, Human Rights In The Supply Chain & Sustained Company Performance Conference Recap

EcoVadis

Insights from experts, key lessons and best practices. human rights, labour rights. The recent Skytop Strategies conference on Reframing Labor, Human Rights and Sustained Company Performance at Bard College in New York convened professionals and academics from a diverse range of organizations for a discussion on labor and human rights in the private sector.

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Hostess Brands Update: Score one for Supply Chain Operations

Consumer Goods Logistics

I loved reading the news recently about Hostess Brands going public. Score one for supply chain operations, although this aspect of Hostess’s resurgence gets little mention in media coverage of this story. That’s the invisible industry hard at work.

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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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Dynamic Warehousing Quarterly Pricing Report

FLEXE

<p>This is the first report in a quarterly series that will highlight trends and insights in the dynamic warehousing market. It marks the first time dynamic warehousing has been analyzed in detail and serves to establish benchmarks for future reports and analyses. Dynamic warehousing is a relatively new business model that’s been gradually taking hold in the supply chain and logistics industries over the last</p> <p>18 to 24 months.

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Does Brexit Vote Signal the End of Globalization?

Enterra Insights

“The historic ‘Brexit’ vote was about much more than a small island’s fear of immigration and a remote European government,” … Continued. The post Does Brexit Vote Signal the End of Globalization? appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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Dynamic Warehousing Quarterly Pricing Report

FLEXE

This is the first report in a quarterly series that will highlight trends and insights in the dynamic warehousing market. It marks the first time dynamic warehousing has been analyzed in detail and serves. to establish benchmarks for future reports and analyses. Dynamic warehousing is a relatively new business model that’s been gradually taking hold in the supply chain and logistics industries over the last. 18 to 24 months.

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Selling E-Commerce in Africa

APICS

In Lagos, Nigeria, curbside salespeople used to offer anything from plantain chips to mobile phones. In fact, street trading and street hawkers are a cultural tradition in this largest city in Nigeria. In a June 30, 2016, New Yorker article, Jake Bright describes these merchants and Jumia, the company that might change commerce as Nigeria, and perhaps even Africa, knows it.

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GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024

Your Roadmap to Smarter Spend Management in 2024 Geopolitical, economic and supply chain challenges will stick around in 2024, but don’t despair. There are strategic opportunities to leverage AI-powered technology and digital toolsets to overcome these hurdles more effectively. GEP experts in nearly two dozen critical categories guide you in the right direction in our annual comprehensive resource — GEP Spend Category Outlook 2024.

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Don’t Get Swine Swiped!

Tailwind

‘When you come to a Pork in the road…… take it! The lines are endless here – I can just piggyback on every joke that’s been delivered on this topic. But when it comes to creating new highways these folks really have their _ _ _ _ together. Well not exactly theirs… more like the pigs’ [link]. This is so exciting to hear. New highways made from pig manure.

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The Growing Fragmentation of Global Trade: Guest Post by Tim Barnes

NC State SCRC

Globalization and supply chains have been tied at the hip over the course of history. Supply chains naturally take advantage of efficiency and cost advantages and over the centuries, as transportation methods, technology and global knowledge improved, there has been a drive to take advantage of each and every step. Trade between countries and continents has been occurring for thousands of years, using the silk road as an example.

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