Tue.Jun 08, 2021

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Why a Software Proof of Concept (POC) Is Better than an RFI

ToolsGroup

A proof of concept (POC) is an increasingly common method to select the best supply chain software vendor for your company, yet many supply chain practitioners still lean on the traditional RFI (request for information) tool. Software selection is risky. A poor choice can cost an organization millions of dollars as they limp along on a product that doesn’t fit their business or help them solve their core challenges.

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Retailers Embrace Gig Economy Fulfillment

Logistics Viewpoints

The gig economy and its on-demand armies of drivers have moved people and food for years, but many retailers still hesitate to tap into Uber, Postmates and other companies to quickly move orders from stores to local customers’ doorsteps. Look for this hesitancy to decline as more retailers continue to join the likes of Target and Walgreens in embracing the many advantages of gig economy fulfillment.

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Registration Now Open for Trimble’s New Supply Chain in.sights: Virtual Series + Interactive Community Event

Kuebix

The transportation industry is constantly changing and as a result, technology is critical to the efficiency of supply chain operations. Implementing technology into your logistics processes can feel overwhelming – there are a number of options and it’s difficult to pinpoint where to get started. With Trimble’s Supply Chain in.sights: Virtual Series + Interactive Community […].

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Knowledge May Imply Power, but Action Rules the Day

DELMIA Quintiq

Taking Action. In my last post , I wrote about being an agilist and a new KPI that measures one’s ability to be agile. I explained how one gains access to high-fidelity data that can, in the proper context, be turned into information and ultimately knowledge about a business topic. Okay. You now have information, so what’s next? Nothing happens or changes until an action is taken or occurs with that information.

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How Logistics Companies Are Cutting Labor Costs & Solving Turnover

Logistics companies face relentless challenges, from soaring labor costs to constant turnover. Many are now achieving remarkable results by adopting a groundbreaking staffing strategy that's rapidly transforming the industry. Unlike traditional staffing solutions, this innovative method integrates dedicated professionals directly into logistics operations, functioning as a seamless extension of internal teams.

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5 Ways to Future Proof Your Dock With a Dynamic Dock Scheduling System

C3 Solutions

With the massive global expansion of e-commerce in the last few years, effective dock scheduling is more crucial than ever. A dynamic scheduling system remains critical for the ongoing improvement of the e-commerce market. Scheduling and organizational tools will help secure the future of the transportation market for dock managers, drivers, carriers, and customers.

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Customers Want to Be Treated Royally

Enterra Insights

A line from the pop hit “Royals,” by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde, reads, “We’ll never be royals, it don’t run in our blood.” That’s true for most of us; nevertheless, like Lorde, we are more than happy when companies treat us like a Queen or a King. With more and more consumers taking the digital path to purchase, retailers are learning that it’s easy for customers to leave the path or abandon shopping carts.

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How the Truck Driver Shortage is Affecting the Freight Market

Zipline Logistics

The truck driver shortage has been widely publicized lately as the domestic supply chain still grapples with the post-COVID fallout. As demand for freight services continues to mount, the supply side is having difficulty meeting the needs of shippers. This imbalance has left CPG brands feeling the pinch as more volume enters the freight market than can be reasonably transported.

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EU VAT changes – is your eCommerce business ready?

IT Supply Chain

By James Hyde (pictured). Co-Founder & CEO, James and James Fulfilment. The post EU VAT changes – is your eCommerce business ready? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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5 Innovative Brands Helping Other Businesses!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Target Canada Story and the Brand Impact of the Supply Chain! Innovative brands article and permission to publish here provided by Nikki Gabriel. Many innovative brands love to make names for themselves by helping other businesses grow and become successful. It is a way for companies to come together and share their resources to attract more customers and sales.

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Precision in Motion: Why Process Optimization Is the Future of Manufacturing

Speaker: Jason Chester, Director, Product Management

In today’s manufacturing landscape, staying competitive means moving beyond reactive quality checks and toward real-time, data-driven process control. But what does true manufacturing process optimization look like—and why is it more urgent now than ever? Join Jason Chester in this new, thought-provoking session on how modern manufacturers are rethinking quality operations from the ground up.

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How the Semiconductor Shortage Could Have Been Averted

QAD

Are We Really Learning from Our Mistakes? The Guardian stated : “The technology industry faces a growing shortage of semiconductors and other high-tech components following a failure to invest in new manufacturing facilities during the recession, experts have warned.” Does this sound like a quote you have read over and over again in 2021? This quote is actually from an article published in July 2011.

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Great Career Advice from Industry Leaders!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. We have had the opportunity to publish dozens of interviews with tremendous leaders as a part of our Seasoned Leadership in Action Interview series. With literally a millennium of collective career experience these leaders have selflessly shared their thoughts, expertise and advice, including their career advice, with us.

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SKU Optimization: Work Smart, Not Hard To Optimize Inventory

ThroughPut

SKU Optimization: Work Smart, Not Hard To Optimize Inventory. Are you still spending hours on hours sorting through your inventory list and still getting nowhere? It’s time to make a change! And more than that, it’s time to rethink your inventory strategy for the better. In the digital age, it’s important to work smarter to add value to your business, not harder.

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Peeling Onions in Your Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

Why is peeling an Onion relevant to Supply Chain management? Because it’s all about the layers. Think of each layer as a different Supply Chain function. As and you peel back the layers, you learn more about each functional cost! It’s a great way to reveal opportunities to improve business performance. Best Regards, Rob O’Byrne. Email: robyrne@logisticsbureau.com.

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Reducing Global Lead Times To Improve Customer Experience At Becton Dickinson

Product lead time is crucial in the life sciences industry and represents a key consideration for customers’ purchasing decisions. For this reason, BD Biosciences aimed to optimize its global supply and distribution network to reduce delivery lead time to customers and optimize its global inventory. How was BD Biosciences successful in reducing global distribution lead times between 30% and 60% in addition to: Increasing agility to prioritize urgent and ad-hoc customer requests Increasing global

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How to Ensure Freight Bills Are Correct and Paid Quickly

Supply Chain Brain

There’s good reason that freight payment is considered to be the brown corrugated box of the supply chain industry.

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Business success: building relationships with internal, customers, prospects, and partners

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Manufacturing leadership was under tremendous pressure before the pandemic to provide growth and profitability in a highly competitive market. Then the pandemic upended everything, throwing manufacturing and the supply chain into chaos. One of the keys to regaining is building relationships with key stakeholders: internal people, customers, prospects, and partners.

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Industry Groups Welcome Biden's Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force

Supply Chain Brain

President Biden announced Tuesday a new effort aimed at solving near-term supply chain disruptions to U.S businesses.

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Uncertainty and Volatility Continue: 7 Reasons Container and Storage Prices Are Running Away

American Global Logistics

Rising container rates and storage fees have run amok. They may stabilize, but supply chains must first resolve several issues before rates can return to historical means. Since the beginning of the year there was hope of a return to normal operations. But the unwinding of the pandemic has proven more challenging. That’s why we […]. The post Uncertainty and Volatility Continue: 7 Reasons Container and Storage Prices Are Running Away appeared first on AGL.

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AI-Enabled Robotics Software for Manufacturing Automation: Speeding Time-to-Value

Robots are a cornerstone of a smart factory, automating a wide range of manufacturing tasks that are monotonous, physically straining, or even hazardous. However, real-world robotics deployments have not lived up to the revolutionary potential the industrial sector had originally envisioned. Robot implementations are typically confined to specific applications, carry high costs, and are time-consuming.

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Creating the Smart – and Safe – Workforce in a Collaborative Warehouse

IT Supply Chain

By Jon Divers (pictured). Customer Service Director, Jungheinrich UK. The post Creating the Smart – and Safe – Workforce in a Collaborative Warehouse appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Pandemic Planning: How To Maintain A Smooth Flow

Demand Driven Technologies

The pandemic dealt an unprecedented blow to global supply chains, with virtually all business leaders reporting disruptions to their strategic sourcing and supplier management processes. Yet some companies found ways to mitigate the impact to their operations. In Demand Driven Technologies’ Pandemic Planning series, we take a look at their stories—and how they leveraged DDMRP.

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Data Capture Busters

IT Supply Chain

By Mark Wharton (pictured). IBML’s Business Development Manager. The post Data Capture Busters appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Health and safety considerations for cold chain logistics

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

By Ed Smith, freelance writer When we head to the supermarket to do our shopping, it’s likely that most of us don’t stop to think about where the produce has come from or how it got there. But the food supply chain plays a crucial role in what we eat and when we eat it. Without it, our stores would be empty and so would our cupboards.

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End High Turnover: Discover Stability with Remote-Insourcing

High turnover isn't just inconvenient—it's costly. U.S. logistics businesses lose thousands in training, productivity, and morale every year, with an average quit rate exceeding 27%. Remote-Insourcing changes this reality. Remote-Insourcing seamlessly integrates dedicated, remote professionals into your team, significantly reducing turnover to under 4%.

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The Engineer of the Future

IT Supply Chain

By Eddie Storan (pictured). Head of Global Service, Domino Printing Sciences. The post The Engineer of the Future appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Dynamic discounting vs supply chain finance: Why choose?

Taulia

Liberate working capital Find out more about our supply chain finance solution Learn more So, you’ve decided to support your suppliers using an early payment solution. The benefits are clear: by enabling suppliers to receive payment sooner, you can bolster the health of your supply chain, strengthen supplier relationships and reduce the likelihood of disruption to your own business.

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Paper and Packaging Industry Considerations for Transportation Management

Intelligent Audit

Transportation and logistics managers have a lot jockeying for their attention as many different services and aspects of shipping fight for time and resources. Managing the modern transportation network is no easy task and presents a host of challenges. One important consideration that must not get overlooked is the impact the paper and packaging industry has on various transportation services.

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Pandemic Planning: How To Maintain A Smooth Flow

Demand Driven Technologies

The pandemic dealt an unprecedented blow to global supply chains, with virtually all business leaders reporting disruptions to their strategic sourcing and supplier management processes. Yet some companies found ways to mitigate the impact to their operations. In Demand Driven Technologies’ Pandemic Planning series, we take a look at their stories—and how they leveraged DDMRP.

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Speeding Robotics Automation with AI

The $53 trillion manufacturing economy in the US is undergoing a major automation paradigm shift due to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thanks to new practical frameworks, automation projects that were once impossible or inefficient to implement are now being fast-tracked, and robotics automation is becoming increasingly relevant to a growing number of users and scenarios.

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How Product Teams Contribute to New Product Introduction (NPI) Success

Arena Solutions

Bringing a new product to market is a team effort, and introducing new or revised products that customers truly want requires an organized and thorough new product introduction (NPI) program. While a lot of the big-picture questions like “how much do we expect to make from this product?” are VP or executive-level questions, a successful new product introduction process is something everyone in the organization should help drive.

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SKU Optimization: Work Smart, Not Hard To Optimize Inventory

ThroughPut

SKU Optimization: Work Smart, Not Hard To Optimize Inventory. Are you still spending hours on hours sorting through your inventory list and still getting nowhere? It’s time to make a change! And more than that, it’s time to rethink your inventory strategy for the better. In the digital age, it’s important to work smarter to add value to your business, not harder.

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How Accurate is Your Inventory Visibility? Why Real-Time Visibility Is Vital Across the Supply Chain

EnVista

Inventory has far-reaching implications – impacting margins and profitability, fulfillment timeframes and customer service. Inventory costs have risen every year since 2012 with most retailers and distributors still struggling to have the right SKU in the right place, in the right quantity and at the right time to meet the demands of their customers.