Tue.Jun 07, 2016

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How Gartner Sees the Future of Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

Source: Algorithmic Supply Chain Planning: The Future of SCP , Amber Salley, May 2016. Gartner has taken a look at the future and sees lots of algorithms. The analyst firm says algorithms “are now feasting on the wealth of data becoming available, leveraging the huge computing resources in the cloud and becoming a pivotal source of competitive differentiation.

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Should Companies Have a Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO)?

SCM Research

Supply chain management has certainly become far more strategic in recent years. But does that mean that companies should have a chief supply chain officer (CSCO)? In their new article, titled The Appointment of Chief Supply Chain Officers to Top Management Teams , Roh, Krause & Swink (2016) aim to answer this question. Based on empirical data, they show that “financial leverage, internationalization, and diversification all predict CSCO appointment to the [top management team]”

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Current State of Today’s Supply Chain in 2016

GlobalTranz

The MAPI Foundation recently released predictions for how the supply chain will grow and evolve from 2016 to 2018. While the supply chain fell short of previous expectations for growth in 2015, it continued to have a strong fourth quarter in 2015. However, the supply chain of 2016 is looking different from what economists had expected, and the supply chain is battling many problems.

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Should Companies Have a Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO)?

SCM Research

Supply chain management has certainly become far more strategic in recent years. But does that mean that companies should have a chief supply chain officer (CSCO)? In their new article, titled The Appointment of Chief Supply Chain Officers to Top Management Teams , Roh, Krause & Swink (2016) aim to answer this question. Based on empirical data, they show that “financial leverage, internationalization, and diversification all predict CSCO appointment to the [top management team]”

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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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3PL Market Continues to Shrink

Logistics Viewpoints

The third-party logistics (3PL) market – encompassing non-asset-based transportation, warehousing, and integrated supply chain services – witnessed a decline of 8.9 percent in organic growth. Organic growth is the growth that would occur absent the effect of acquisitions. The analysis compares first quarter 2016 revenues to first quarter 2015 revenues.

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Why Dedicated Fleets Are Beneficial In The Long Run

NFI Industries

Deciding whether to insource or outsource your transportation is a decision that many shippers face. In the CSCMP 2015 State of Logistics report, it was reported that the total cost of U.S. logistics was estimated at $1.449 trillion for 2014 with transportation costs being about 62.6% of that total. Of that proportion, trucking-related costs made. READ MORE.

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Key Takeaways for CEOs from Tesla Model X Delays: Design for Resiliency

Resilinc

Tesla’s crossover Model X sports utility vehicle – characterized by its unique “falcon-wing” doors – was hit with significant delivery delays due to severe component shortages and issues with direct suppliers’ capabilities and cooperation , compromising the company’s initial forecast and resulting in a temporary stock price drop.

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Mastering Store Logistics

BlueYonder

Retail stores are feeling the pain of an evolving marketplace, where consumers have multiple paths to purchase and stores have become fulfillment nodes in the retail supply chain. One of the many challenges this presents is a dramatic shift from linear inventory flows to more complex multi-point flows between DCs, stores and customers. . The effects of this transformation are already being felt.

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Turn Your Perishable LTL from “Necessary Evil” to “Supply Chain Enabler”

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Turn Your Perishable LTL from “Necessary Evil” to “Supply Chain Enabler”.Transportfolio. Every day, we talk to shippers and retailers about shipping produce and other perishable commodities in LTL quantities. Frankly, most see these shipments as a painful, yet necessary, evil in selling their products, but they don’t have to be. I’ve found that customers who shift their perishable LTL thought process from transactional to planned discover eye-opening improvements throughout their supply chain.

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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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Mastering Store Logistics

BlueYonder

Retail stores are feeling the pain of an evolving marketplace, where consumers have multiple paths to purchase and stores have become fulfillment nodes in the retail supply chain. One of the many challenges this presents is a dramatic shift from linear inventory flows to more complex multi-point flows between DCs, stores and customers. . The effects of this transformation are already being felt.

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Supply Chain News on The Confounding DNA of Procurement

Supply Chain Digest

Too Often Procurement Resources Most Heavily Applied where They Add the Least Value, Consultant Says

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Sprouts Farmers Market Partners with Amazon

Techgistics

Evan Hoopfer, writing for the Dallas Business Journal: “ Amazon is expanding its produce delivery services in Dallas.The service is part of Amazon’s “Prime Now,” which delivers goods in hours. ” What do you do when faced with a vastly stronger competitor? You team up. This seems like a no-brainer especially for small to mid-size retailers.

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Supply Chain News on It Is a Buyers Market for Shippers in Truckload Market, but They Might Not Like Result in the End

Supply Chain Digest

Rates Being Pushed Down 10 Percent or More, John Larkin of Stifel Says, but May Drive Out Many Smaller Carriers before End of 2017

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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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Why leading retailers choose RELEX

RELEX Solutions

RELEX has helped over 100 customers in 17 countries to optimize their supply chains and achieve great results. Watch the video to find out why leading retailers choose RELEX, and what it is about our solution, our people, and our work collaborations that make us the partner of choice. Related videos. AO.com: Improved forecasting and automation to support business growth Takealot.com: Optimized stock assortment for extensive product range Europris: Integrated solution improves visibility of suppl

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Did Gartner Get Prescriptive Analytics Wrong?

River Logic

The short answer is yes: Gartner has gotten prescriptive analytics wrong, or at least 50% wrong. However, why do we even care about prescriptive analytics? Let’s start by having a look at the increasing amount of attention the term has gotten over the last 18 months.

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Freight Rates Are Climbing, Especially on These 3 Lanes

DAT Solutions

It's not uncommon for us to see a slump in rates after Memorial Day, but that wasn’t the case last week. Spot market rates continued their upward trend after the holiday, and retail shipments boosted prices on a few lanes. The Sun Belt is still strong, the Midwest continues to improve, and California volumes are holding. On the top 80 highest-volume van lanes, rate increases far outnumbered lanes with falling prices.

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Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SiOP) – Part Three

Arkieva

Last time in Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SiOP) – Part Two I talked about the Demand step of the cross-functional process of SiOP. For this blog we will discuss the Inventory step. Inventory. Where inventory was the ‘buffer’ between the sales trying to maximize service and the operations trying to minimize cost, that inventory ‘buffer’ is now part of the game itself, in that the CFO wants to minimize inventory to free up cash.

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GEP Outlook Report 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders have faced their share of disruption and economic turmoil these past four years. Whether from geopolitical tensions or the havoc caused by the pandemic and its aftershocks, plenty of challenges remain. Despite this, leaders are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel — inflation is decreasing, interest rates are leveling off and supply chain volatility is easing.

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6 Steps to Adding a Brokerage to Your Carrier Business

DAT Solutions

Do you have shipper customers who need to move more freight than you can service with the current size of your fleet? You could buy more trucks to move that extra freight, but adding a brokerage is another option. If you already have relationships with shippers, know their lanes, and know the capacity that they need, then brokering their freight could add another source of revenue for your transportation business.

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3 Ways to Meet the Demand for Product Personalization

ModusLink Corporation

It’s no secret that personalization is the future of consumer products industry. More and more companies are offering consumers the ability to customize and personalize products exactly to the consumer’s liking. In fact, a recent study by Deloitte found that 42% of consumers are interested in technology to customize products and 19% are willing to […].

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4 Ways the New Overtime Rule Hits Carriers

DAT Solutions

Your payroll expenses might take a big hit this December. That’s when a new law will change how overtime pay works. Under the new overtime rules , employers are required to pay overtime (time-and-a-half) to any salaried employee who makes less than $47,476 per year. That’s a little more than double the current minimum of $23,660. If you have any back-office employees who are salaried, there’s a good chance the new law will affect your business.

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Maximize Your TMS Investment with Excellent Customer Support

Talking Logistics

Deciding to buy a transportation management system (TMS) is a big decision and there are a lot of factors to consider. One area of consideration that, at times, can be overlooked is the type of customer support the company will provide after implementation. This is an important question because it can impact the ability to maximize a TMS investment.

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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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Grinders and Grinding

Tailwind

​This is a difficult topic to write about. I am someone who is an optimist, bordering on being an idealist. I served on a volunteer board one time and a few of my fellow board members accused me of being too idealistic.believing the best in people when there was clearly malevolence in their intentions. I get it, but I subscribe to sentiment behind this quote. ‘Hell hath no fury like a good woman scorned’ So if you take advantage of me once - your bad.

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Grinders and Grinding

Tailwind

This is a difficult topic to write about. I am someone who is an optimist, bordering on being an idealist. I served on a volunteer board one time and a few of my fellow board members accused me of being too idealistic…believing the best in people when there was clearly malevolence in their intentions. I get it, but I subscribe to sentiment behind this quote.