Thu.Aug 20, 2020

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Industry 4.0: Driven by 5G and Cognitive Technologies

Enterra Insights

Some things seem destined to go together; for example, a wink & a smile; bed & breakfast; cookies & milk; and fish & chips. Many pundits assert 5G and cognitive technologies — often referred to as artificial intelligence (AI) — should be added to the list of famous pairs. For example, James Rundle and Angus Loten ( @angusloten ) write, “The convergence of artificial intelligence with internet-connected machines and superfast 5G wireless networks is opening possibilities acr

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The path to recovery from COVID-19 – LogiSYM August 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

e-Commerce delivery overview in Southeast Asia. The first half of 2020 has been a rollercoaster ride for global and regional e-commerce logistics, setting off supply and demand shocks throughout the industry. Parcel Monitor tracks parcels all over Southeast Asia. Data collected from billions of parcels over the last 5 years, allows us to analyze changes in the e-commerce delivery ecosystem.

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What Could a Second Stimulus Mean for Peak Logistics and E-Commerce

GlobalTranz

Earlier this year, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in the hope of stimulating business and easing the disruption caused by COVID-19. According to Morgan Forde of Supply Chain Dive, that act included billions of dollars in resources through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), disaster declaration loans, and direct help.read More.

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10 Huge Benefits of eCommerce Businesses for Retailers & Buyers – LogiSYM August 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Online transactions has become an essential behaviour all over the world these days. From the farthest African town to the streets of London, modern technology are applied to purchase online and businesses strive to respond to the increasing demand for online shopping. With this tremendous increase in online business, companies and brands are developing online presence exponentially.

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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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Five Signs It’s Time to Update Your Supply Chain Technology

Talking Logistics

Does technology hold you back or accelerate your success? Supply chain applications have changed so significantly over the past decade that the use of legacy applications can prevent companies from reaching their full potential. Legacy solutions work fine by the previous standard that was in force — but today it’s not near enough. True modernization.

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What an extra-active hurricane season could mean for freight

DAT Solutions

This season is proving to be very different, with COVID-19 adding another layer of complexity to supply chains. And since many markets are already behaving like they do when hurricanes hit, shippers, brokers and carriers will need to communicate even more than usual. .

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Optimising M&M Spares Supply Chain – LogiSYM August 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

10% increase in both forecast accuracy and revenue. 15% decrease in inventory. 10% increase in service levels. Improved productivity. With Blue Yonder capabilities, Mahindra & Mahindra Spares Business Unit (M&M SBU) now has greater visibility regarding demand, inventory, supply and distribution plans and are able to make more accurate and timely supply chain decisions.

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Have truckload rates reached their peak?

DAT Solutions

With freight markets already upended by COVID-19, supply chains are in a precarious position heading into hurricane season. Further complicating matters: This season is expected to be an especially active one.

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Accelerate Digitisation in the Supply Chain – Leveraging a Data-driven Approach to Optimisation – LogiSYM August 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Founded in 2001, Seamless Distribution Systems (SDS) listed on the NASDAQ First North Premier are renowned for enabling the digitization of sales and distribution processes across more than 50 markets. With a key focus on emerging markets around the world, SDS process over US$14B worth of transactions annually. SDS built its reputation for success and excellence on delivering robust and innovative solutions, enabling them to establish themselves as a trusted partner to the telecommunications, re

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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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Re-valuating The Supply Chain: Transportation Execution Driven By Innovation In Uncertain Times.

PINC

REGISTER HERE. As markets demand not only efficiency but agility and adaptability from supply chains in our current reality, supply chain executives have been heavily investing in automated execution and real-time visibility technologies to continue moving inventory and delivering on customer expectations. The Logistics Industry in the U.S. represents approximately 10% of the GDP or close to 2 trillion dollars.

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Transforming the Shipper, Freight Forwarder Relationship with Sarah Barnes-Humphrey

The Logistics of Logistics

Transforming the Shipper, Freight Forwarder Relationship with Sarah Barnes-Humphrey. Sarah Barnes-Humphrey and Joe Lynch discuss transforming the shipper, freight forwarder relationship. As the founder of a company designed to connect shippers and freight forwarders, Sarah understands the dynamics of the shipper, freight forwarder relationship. About Sarah Barnes-Humphrey.

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After UPS, FedEx and USPS Increase Surcharges

Intelligent Audit

In the last week, two additional major carriers – FedEx and USPS – announced increased peak season surcharges. This continues to the trend we have seen throughout the COVID-19 crises, but also indicates that we aren’t going to be seeing a return to any sort of normalcy in the near future. These announcements follow a similar one made by UPS earlier this month in which the company introduced unprecedented changes that directly impacted the largest shippers.

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The Reverse Logistics Role in Supply Chain Trends!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What Exactly Is Reverse Logistics? Reverse logistics role article and permission to publish here provided by Kevin Jessop at cerasis.com. As customers continue to shop online the demand on reverse logistics—particularly the process of managing returns—will skyrocket. It’s the same story; customers want more and more.

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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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Dirty Words – a QAD Podcast Mini-Series

QAD

We’ve all heard some dirty words in our time. They can be unpleasant, and they can be controversial. There are dirty words that occur in business too. They are words that are overused, misunderstood or have a bad connotation. . We’re excited to introduce our next QAD podcast mini-series, Dirty Words , which can be accessed here. We will talk about potentially unpleasant areas in industry – the proverbial dirty words – and provide discussion and information on how to navigate them.

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A Purpose-Driven Series: The Line Between What’s “Right” and What’s Profitable

BlueYonder

2020 is the year that lit resilience and agility on fire in supply chain, and for good reason. Supply chain leaders everywhere found themselves asking the same question: what does it take to bounce back from this? As many started digging into their ecosystem and how decisions are made, they are finding alarming gaps in business processes and decision making.

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Watch: The State of Supply-Chain Management Education

Supply Chain Brain

Nehemiah Scott, professor and director of supply-chain management at the University of Illinois' Gies College of Business, describes how the topic is being taught in online courses during physical school closures and the coronavirus pandemic.

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Spotify outage: expired certificates continue to haunt systems

IT Supply Chain

By Tim Callan (pictured). Senior Fellow at Sectigo. The post Spotify outage: expired certificates continue to haunt systems appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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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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The Myths and Benefits of Using a 3PL: Evaluation Criteria to Consider

Turvo

Prior to the onset of the pandemic, the value of a third-party logistics provider (3PL) was increasing. According to Supply & Demand Chain Executive , a new Global Market Insights Inc. report found that the global 3PL market would surpass $1,800 billion by 2026. And the ability of 3PLs to maintain efficiencies and become more collaborative will define this growth period.

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MercuryGate Minutes | Machine Learning And TMS: The Future Of Freight Management Is Self-Optimizing

MercuryGate

[link] a transportation management system (TMS) is an excellent way to centralize controls and increase visibility into supply chain processes. Advancements in technologies have given rise to new functionalities and opportunities for improvement. For example, the combination of machine learning and TMS functionality offers the opportunity for self-optimizing systems, continuously generating more accurate reports and […].

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White Paper: Best Practices for Successful SAP IBP Implementation

Bristlecone

SAP IBP, powered by SAP HANA in-memory technology, is a real-time supply chain planning solution combining capabilities of sales and operations, demand, response and supply planning, and inventory optimization. It is a cloud-based SaaS application that enables companies to better understand, analyze, manage and respond to variability within their supply chains.

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What Advanced Visibility Really Means and How It Can Help Your Supply Chain

MercuryGate

Advanced visibility refers to the ability to go beyond traditional limits of visibility, such as “where’s my freight,” to understanding “what’s causing delays, what’s happening, what should happen, and when will it happen?” Traditionally, gaining access to this level of data was built on manual, outdated check calls and time-delayed updates within EDI-connected systems.

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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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Taking control of the B2B supply chain

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

More and more links in the value chain — especially retailers and wholesalers — are being forced to reposition themselves under pressure from both existing, yet evolving competitors and fast paced challenger brands with innovative approaches to technology and disruptive business models. B2B supply chain approaches now play an important role in future success.

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100% Remote? 100% Success.

C3 Solutions

How to deliver a successful Dock Scheduling Project without the need to travel during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Value Of Public Procurement Modernization

ivalua

The post Value Of Public Procurement Modernization appeared first on Ivalua.

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How a Successful Bank Is Undergoing Digital Transformation

Axway

I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Daniel Le of Germany’s Commerzbank. During the conversation, we covered topics such as: defining success, motivating an organization to get moving, security, what to measure, and choosing partners.

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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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Yamato turns to Doddle to create new nationwide PUDO network

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Japan-based carrier – Yamato Holdings Co., Ltd. (‘Yamato’) – has partnered with UK-based international ecommerce solutions provider, Doddle, to create a proprietary nationwide PUDO network, underpinned by Doddle’s software platform.

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How to Combat Rising Parcel Shipping Rates

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

According to a recent Wall Street Journal story on parcel shipping rates, the big U.S. parcel carriers, especially UPS and FedEx, are firmly in the driver’s seat on pricing and, “have started hitting some large shippers with price increases in the double-digit percent range.”. But if you’re a large B2C shipper, you already knew that, didn’t you? In fact, you’re probably already feeling the financial pain of these rising parcel shipping rates.

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Dry Bulk Carrier Capacity: the Impact of COVID-19

Bulk Connection

Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, dry bulk carrier capacity concerns centered on the driver shortage. While those concerns were still very real heading into this year, the current pandemic brought a new set of capacity challenges to the industry. In this article, we’ll take a look at those challenges, how things currently sit, and how freight brokers can help with the capacity crunch.