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COVID-19 recovery: Could the government help to fund your warehouse technology improvements?

IT Supply Chain

By Eric Carter (pictured). Solutions Architect, Indigo Software. The post COVID-19 recovery: Could the government help to fund your warehouse technology improvements? appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Four Steps to Better Demand Forecasting

Logility

Forecasting is an “inexact science” that relies on the data available to you, the math you use, and how you implement the forecast. There are libraries full of algorithms that are relatively easy to implement in software, but the math is only as good as the data it’s applied to. And your forecasting success is fundamentally impacted by your understanding of that data, its strengths and limits.

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Connecting the Supply Chain through the Internet of Things

Enterra Insights

Mandated isolation during the coronavirus pandemic forced many people to work from home. The enormous shift of work from office to home demonstrated the value of connectivity. Since its inception, the Internet has been the primary means of connecting the world — mostly people connections. Today, a larger Internet — the Internet of Things (IoT) — is connecting machines.

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The Vital Role Played by Transport in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Truck Drivers are a Vital Part of the Supply Chain! Vital role article and permission to publish here provided by Amy Fletcher. “Shippers, carriers, wholesale vendors, and others in the supply chain are concerned about the performance of the freight logistics system because highway, rail, and port operations affect their costs and profits,” state experts in the report Measuring the Transportation System from a Supply Chain Pe

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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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The Need for AI in the Retail Supply Chain

Vanguard Software

The swings in the market from the pandemic has left many retail supply chains vulnerable. AI enables retailer to calculate major risks and plan for the unexpected.

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Five Things We Can Do to Get Ready for the Next Pandemic

NC State SCRC

It’s probably too late to already be thinking about how to fix the bungled response to the current pandemic. We can’t really fix it now that it’s set in motion, as much of the damage has already occurred. However we can start to think about what we might want to do to prepare for the next major pandemic, cyberterrorist attack, or disaster that may lie ahead for this country.

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What’s Next for a Bubbling Freight Market?

Zipline Logistics

Despite a pandemic that has disrupted many parts of the global supply chain, the freight market has been on a recent tear. Based on a few reliable indicators, the market is superseding the booming conditions of 2018. Whether those conditions will continue for the remaining months of 2020 remains to be seen. Load volumes have continued to rise at an accelerated pace.

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Podcast | Supply-Chain Survival Strategies: Now and for the Future

Supply Chain Brain

For businesses today, merely surviving the pandemic and economic downturn is tough enough — but not enough.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 8 – 14)

Logistics Viewpoints

It is back to school shopping season again, but things sure have changed. With the future uncertain, coronavirus could push back-to-school shopping to record levels as families make contingency plans for remote learning. The National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Insights & Analytics released their annual survey on back-to-school spending, and consumers tentatively plan to spend record amounts on laptops and computer accessories in anticipation that at least some classes will take plac

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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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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (August 14, 2020)

Talking Logistics

As a child, I remember sitting on my grandmother’s lap in the evenings to watch Walter Mercado. Sometimes I watched with my mother too, the two of us on our plastic-covered sofa waiting for Walter to give us our astrological prediction (I am a Leo, my mother is Aquarius). Who was Walter Mercado? It is. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (August 14, 2020).

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Supply Chain News on Thoughts on MHI Acquiring WERC

Supply Chain Digest

MHI has Ambitions, and May Use WERC to Get There

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6 Challenges Facing Procurement and How to Address Them

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The effects of the Coronavirus pandemic are far from over and a recovery timeframe is anything but certain. Among the strategies that businesses are adopting during this time in order to keep costs in check and reduce the size of layoffs, is to focus on procurement to maintain ongoing supplies of materials and components, and to […]. The post 6 Challenges Facing Procurement and How to Address Them appeared first on SYSPRO US.

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Our Customers And Their Collaboration With Us Defines DELMIAWorks2020

IQMS

The best ideas for how to improve DELMIAworks comes from our customers. Our most recent release, DELMIAWorks 2020, reflects what they’ve asked for along with improvements we’re seeing are needed across our worldwide manufacturing customer base. Every DELMIAWorks customer has the opportunity to be a co-collaborator in creating new features, enhancements, and suggesting improvements on MyIQMS, where they can submit new ideas.

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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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Industry Round-Up: August 14

ITradeNetwork

1. New Amazon Fresh Builds Toward Grocery Retail Launch. Amazon has been growing rapidly in the grocery space, as demonstrated by the company's meteoric second quarter earnings release which showed its online grocery sales have tripled year-over-year. Now, the company plans to launch a new, digitally integrated, brick-and-mortar grocery experience with Amazon Fresh, with at least 15 new stores in the works.

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Supply Chain Weekly Wrap-Up 08/07/20 – 08/13/20

All Things Supply Chain

Walmart and Instacart partner for same-day U.S. delivery Walmart has partnered with Instacart to offer same-day delivery starting in a few U.S. market.

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3 Key Elements to Manufacturing Packaging

Dragon Innovation

Packaging is a constantly evolving industry in the world of manufacturing. As such, the methods for packaging will continue to shift as new innovations and technologies emerge.

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Executive Insight: The Subtle Art of Innovation

Bristlecone

In his Zinnov Confluence 2020 keynote, Dhaval Buch, Group Technology President, Mahindra Group, peeled off the layers of the process of innovation and explained how innovation can be done incrementally and simply enough to engage the entire enterprise. The post Executive Insight: The Subtle Art of Innovation appeared first on Bristlecone.

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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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Amazon’s Cloud Unit to Offer Quantum Computing From 3 Tech Companies – The Wall Street Journal.

Operations and Supply Chain Management

I thought you would be interested in the following story from The Wall Street Journal. Amazon’s Cloud Unit to Offer Quantum Computing From 3 Tech Companies. Download the Wall Street Journal app here: WSJ. – Bob.

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Episode 91 – Wrapping Up the Summer with our Summer Intern Hayley Mason

Freight Plus

In this episode, I will chat with our summer intern here at Aborn & Co., Hayley Mason. . Hayley: I meant to ask a question though, what if I mess up? . Kyle: There is no messing up, you are just talking about yourself. How are you going to mess up talking about yourself? Hayley: What if I fumble words. Kyle: That's fine. . Hayley: Oh okay. . Kyle: Take it easy, it's a conversation don't worry about it.

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7 reasons why you should integrate Order Management System with eCommerce store

Vinculum

A new business with limited orders is easy to handle. But when order increases, you find it difficult to handle manually. As manual entries are not only tedious but also opens a door to numerous errors that can affect your business. This is why the Order Management System is required. What is an Order Management System (OMS)? Order Management System or OMS is any software tool or platform that helps track sales and orders manage inventory and monitor order fulfillment.

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Episode 91 – Wrapping Up the Summer with our Summer Intern Hayley Mason

Freight Plus

In this episode, I will chat with our summer intern here at Aborn & Co., Hayley Mason. . Hayley: I meant to ask a question though, what if I mess up? . Kyle: There is no messing up, you are just talking about yourself. How are you going to mess up talking about yourself? Hayley: What if I fumble words. Kyle: That's fine. . Hayley: Oh okay. . Kyle: Take it easy, it's a conversation don't worry about it.

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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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Occam’s razor and the law of diminishing data returns

3AG Systems

Most people have heard of the law of diminishing returns, but many don’t know what it means. Wikipedia defines diminishing returns as: the decrease in the marginal (incremental) output of a production process as the amount of a single factor of production is incrementally increased, while the amounts of all other factors of production stay constant.

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