Mon.Nov 20, 2017

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Capacity Crunch Factors: What Causes a Capacity Crunch?

GlobalTranz

Unbelievably, the capacity crunch is back the shipping headlines. In April 2017, William B. Cassidy of the Journal of commerce (JOC) noted shippers were expecting a forthcoming slight capacity pinch, but that was before hurricane season arrived. Now, the shipping and transportation industry faces unprecedented capacity problems, and the upcoming ELD implementation deadline will exacerbate the issue.

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Waste Not, Want Not: Thanksgiving and the Food Waste Conundrum

Elementum

For most of us, Thanksgiving is a time to reconnect with family and celebrate abundance. For big grocery chains, it means anxiously overseeing a network of suppliers and shippers as they move vital ingredients across the country (and around the world), all while working in tricky weather that demands solid logistical execution to avoid late - or spoiled - deliveries.

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Towards a Weather-proactive Supply Chain

RELEX Solutions

Towards a Weather-proactive Supply Chain. Insights » Whitepapers. Author: Aki Ali-Vehmas, Data Scientist. Weather is a source of significant fluctuations in consumer demand, and because of the bullwhip effect , it can produce unnecessary high fluctuations on the supply side as well. These fluctuations can quickly turn into costs: prepare too extensively and you’ll end up breaching the capacity limitations at every level of your supply chain and increasing your fresh goods spoilage, but failing t

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Half of Businesses Admit to Paying Suppliers Late

Material Handling & Logistics

Slow internal processes are the biggest challenges when it comes to paying suppliers on time. Slow internal processes and a lack of automation are among the biggest challenges for businesses when it comes to paying their suppliers on time, according to new research released on Nov. 19 by Tungsten Network and the Institute of Finance and Management (IOFM).

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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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Tesla Unveils Electric Semi

Freight Plus

On Thursday, Tesla unveiled the newest edition to their fleet: the coolest semi since Optimus Prime. A hulking futuristic behemoth that promises relatively long hauls at a surprisingly brisk pace. A fortress of tech and ambition encased in shatter proof glass. More. Blade Runner 2049. than. Smokey & The Bandit. , the duel-screened center mounted cockpit screams innovation.

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Enabling Supply Chain Agility

Supply Chain 24/7

Supply chain agility has emerged as a dominant competitive vehicle for organizations operating in such an uncertain and ever-changing business environment. Learn the 4 Key benefits of an agile supply chain with this eBook.

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Supply Chain: Logistics Masterplans

KEPLER Consulting

The industrial footprint of major international companies has continued to grow over the last thirty years without however leading to a streamlined logistical organization. The topics currently dominating the Supply Chain represent as much a takeover of the logistics organizations as a very strong expected potential in terms of expected gains. ?By developing industrial sites around the world to meet the strategic imperatives, companies are obliged to implement a consistent set of processes to sh

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Supply Chain News on Amid Generally Lackluster Results, Old Dominion Blows Away the LTL Field in Q3

Supply Chain Digest

Old Dominion Profits Up 19.6 Percent in Q3, as Its Operating Ratio Falls to 81.

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Thanksgiving, And Carriers Are Thankful. Freight Rate Update W46

Freightos

Carriers May Have Something To Be Thankful For This Thanksgiving. Freight Rate Update Wk 46. By John Edmonds, Research & Marketing, Freightos. Freight Rates Are Down, But Carriers Have Something To Be Thankful For. The annual peak season rush typically sees spiking freight rates well into November. The rush is still there this year. Shipments are up on last year with delays expected in US ports this week.

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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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Logistics Service Providers Customer Billing and Pricing: There’s No One-Size-Fits-All Approach

Talking Logistics

When you think about logistics service providers (LSPs) and the different ways they can differentiate themselves and create value, customer billing and pricing is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. But when you dive deeper into the topic, you realize that enabling and managing customer billing and pricing in smart and efficient ways does indeed create value for both LSPs and their customers.

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Process Automation Poised to Change the Business Environment

Enterra Insights

Process automation is not new. Humans have historically automated processes as fast as they can by developing machines to do … Continued. The post Process Automation Poised to Change the Business Environment appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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ALAN Continues to Provide Logistics Needs

3PL Insights

Businesses have a corporate social responsibility to help in times of crisis—systems must be in place in order to effectively respond, and the response in itself must be authentic. It can be a fine balancing act, between consistency in delivering equal aid to multiple disaster areas, as well as maintaining legitimacy. The humanitarian organization, American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN), has operated as a clearinghouse in delivering supplies and services to natural disaster areas, and has capabil

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3 Prerequisites to a Modern Demand-Driven Supply Chain

synchrono

In 2010, Gartner estimated that manufacturers outsourced about 70% of the products they make to other manufacturers. I haven’t seen a recent statistic, but that still feels about right. So, it only makes sense that, for most manufacturers, implementing modern demand-driven or pull-manufacturing techniques will require collaboration with many partners across the entire supply chain.

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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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JDA and IVADO Partnership Officially Launches at Montreal Office

BlueYonder

JDA Labs launched the official kick-off of Apogee, the data science research initiative in the areas of the logistics, supply chain and retail industries. The program, which is a joint initiative between JDA Labs and IVADO, will enable collaborative research between JDA Labs scientists and their academic counter-parts, and will involve six professors and ten graduate/post-graduate students from across three marquee research institutions in Montreal: Polytechnique Montréal, HEC Montréal and UQAM.

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Tesla Unveils Electric Semi

Freight Plus

On Thursday, Tesla unveiled the newest edition to their fleet: the coolest semi since Optimus Prime. A hulking futuristic behemoth that promises relatively long hauls at a surprisingly brisk pace. A fortress of tech and ambition encased in shatter proof glass.

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Help Yourself!

Tailwind

I remember when I was a hungry teenager – sitting down at the dinner table after a long day of school and activities. On some days, I would have a 6am hockey practice, classes all day, and then for a few months I would have a football practice after school for a couple of hours. And, even beyond that, on occasion I would head out after football practice for my part-time job as an usher in the movie theater.

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DAT's Tami Hart Awarded for Combating Cargo Theft

DAT Solutions

Tami Hart has your back. Just ask Mark Lavender, Special Agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Agent Lavender has worked with Tami since 2012 to stop Comchek scams and other transportation fraud, and he he calls her "an invaluable resource in the fight against this type of crime.". "Tami is an asset to those who spend every day protecting commercial transportation," Lavender said.

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CADDi Receives 2023 Top Tech Startup Award by Food Logistics, Supply & Demand Chain Executive

The 2023 Top Tech Startup Awards by Food Logistics, Supply & Demand Chain Executive spotlights the top software and technology startups in the supply chain and logistics space.